Sunday School Lesson Plans on a Budget

Rosa Hayes
Every Sunday we go down to our church and listen to the pastor tell us about God. Once Sunday school is out we sit patiently and wait for the children to come and tell us all that they learned about God. Creating a Sunday school lesson plan isn't as hard as what you might think. I am sure that you have looked through catalogs and online for different materials to use or different lesson plans and found them rather expensive. Most churches have a budget that they are on and this includes the Sunday school material and guides that the Sunday school teachers can use.

If you are looking for a cheaper alternative to activities that you can do in your Sunday school class then this article is for you. I am always looking for cheaper alternatives for everything that I do and not because I am a tight wad but because gas is high and so it the cost of food and therefore finding cheaper alternatives can save money. Going a cheaper route does not mean that you have to sacrifice good material for bad since there is always different ways around getting good stuff for a cheaper price. Let's go ahead and get started with this lesson plan on creating cheaper Sunday school lesson plans.

Everything around you is a lesson

The Bible has taught many that everything around us was created by one maker and therefore everything is a lesson on its own. I usually look for things such as the earth to do lessons about what God created and how we use these in our everyday life. There are many places that you can find cheaper Sunday school things such as the internet. The internet provides free printable Sunday school material that you can use to color or do lesson plans on.

5 places to find cheaper Sunday school lesson plans that are printable

These five places that I am going to list are free for you to use and they are all printable. There are many places that you can find free printable lesson plans for Sunday school and this list will get you started.

Children's Ministry Online

This website offers a wonderful solution to a lot of problems with not being able to afford to give your students a great Sunday school lesson. There are many different downloads that are used by Sunday school teachers and they are all free.

Christian Preschool Printable

With the activities that you do you are probably going to want a few worksheets or coloring pages for your students to do. This website has a lot of resources for you to print off and hand out. I love this website and everything is free.

Kid's Sunday School Place

I adore this website and they offer many different printables and lesson plans for grade school children. Take a gander and what all is there and have fun with it.

Sunday School Printables

There are many different printable worksheets out there but this one is one of the best that I have found for free printables on Sunday school.

Sunday School Sites

This website list different websites that are Sunday school themed so that you can have a lot of them at your finger tips. I haven't' taken the time to go through all of the websites that are listed but the ones that I did go through seemed to be promising.

Themes and activities

There are many themes that you can use and even use the weather or season as a lesson plan for your Sunday school lesson plan. If it is raining you can do a theme on Noah's Ark or if it is during the season around Easter you can do something on the resurrection of Jesus. There are many different things that you can do that are around the season and holidays. Use your imagination and the imagination of the children to decide what you should do to create a fun and adventurous Sunday school lesson plan.

Published by Rosa Hayes

Rosa is a full time student at OCCC with a major in political science. She is currently the author of many articles on parenting, life skills, family, and careers as well as many other things.  View profile

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  • Lynn Felts11/26/2008

    Thanks for the tips, Rosa!

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