Category: Creative Teaching Resources

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Creative teaching resources can be hard to find and expensive too. If you are a homeschooling parent, a teacher, or a children’s church worker, you’ve come to the right place. Dawn Stephens is an award-winning children’s author and illustrator. In addition, she shares blogs, books, and products with Christian teachers and parents. These creative teaching resources help young children learn to read while gaining a deeper understanding of their world and its creator. Through the correspondence of a potter, clay vessels, Mother Nature, and the Mother Goose characters, children learn science. Moreover, they discover the miracles that exist every day within God’s amazing creation. Above all, they learn what it is to have a personal relationship with the one who created the world.

Dawn has been creating resources for children and schools since 1988. In her blogs, books, and products, Dawn shares how her own unique story sprouted alongside Jesus. Therefore, you will partake in the wisdom and experiences she gained as a public school teacher, principal, mother, and grandma! If your goal is to share the love of Jesus in a direct or an indirect way with children, follow this website and stay connected. Each and every child is truly special and is sprouting their own unique life story.  If their story includes Jesus, they can grow the fruit of the Spirit. These resources will give you the tools you need to creatively teach children about God and how to know Him more.

8 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day for Pre-K with Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes

8 ways to celebrate EArth Day for Pre-K with Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes

Looking for some fun and educational ways to celebrate Earth Day with your pre-K kids? Look no further! In this article, we’ve rounded up 8 exciting activities that will not only entertain your little ones but also help them develop a love and appreciation for our planet. Alongside Mother Goose, these activities are designed to […]

Show Your Gratitude: 4 Thoughtful and Creative Appreciation Gifts for Teachers

Show your appreciation with four thoughtful and creative Appreciation gifts for teachers from Dawn Stephens Books.

Are you looking for new, thoughtful, and creative appreciation gifts for the teachers in your child’s life? Finding the perfect gift can be a challenge. You want something no one has thought of before that will genuinely express your gratitude. Well, look no further! As a former school teacher and elementary principal, I have your […]

What was I Made For? A Sobering Question for Barbie, Little Pot, and You!

What was I Made For? A Sobering Question for Barbie, Little Pot, and You.

What was I made for? It’s a sobering question that Barbie asks in the song by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell. This question is not unique to Barbie, however. The song’s success illustrates how much the question resonates with each of us in different contexts. For Barbie, it’s about her unrealistic portrayal of beauty and […]

What is the Easter Bunny’s Purpose? A Heartfelt Tale Revealed.

What is the Easter Bunny's purpose? A Little Pot Blog post that shares a children's book "An Easter Bunny's Tale"

What is the purpose of the Easter Bunny? In the enchanting world of Easter celebrations, a large fuzzy rabbit takes center stage, leaving baskets of treats and hiding colored eggs. But have you ever wondered what the Easter Bunny’s true purpose is? Prepare yourself for a heartfelt tale that uncovers the deeper meaning behind this […]

Ideas to Celebrate Easter with Scriptures for Resurrection Sunday

ideas to celebrate easter with scriptures for resurrection sunday. Each day of the week contains an activity to do with kids.

Ideas to celebrate easter with scriptures for resurrection Sunday. A lot takes place in the week between Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey while people are shouting Hosanna to the day he is risen. This week tells us so much about Jesus and His love for us. Therefore, I’ve provided some scriptures to read each day followed by an activity.

Discover the 4 Reasons We Forget that Little Things Mean a Lot.

Little Pot explains 4 reasons that we forget that little things mean a lot.

In this fast-paced world filled with big dreams and grand ambitions, it’s easy to overlook the little things. We often believe that God-sized means something big! We incorrectly conclude that for things to matter and be significant, they should be bigger. The world says success is about MORE customers, MORE sales, MORE influence, and MORE […]

How to Raise Kids to Follow Christ and grow the fruit of the Spirit.

how to raise kids to follow Christ and grow the fruit of the Spirit

Want to raise kids to follow Christ? Children are gifts from God that bear His image and, therefore, arrive in our arms as eternal treasures. As stewards of these divine gifts, we have a duty to equip ourselves for their proper care. Tools steeped in scripture and spiritual wisdom can empower us to guide our […]

Get Inspired with a Fruitful and Biblical Word of the Year.

get inspired with a Fruitful and Biblical word of the year from Dawn Stephens Books

Are you looking for a way to add purpose and meaning to your life this year? Discover the power of a “Word of the Year” inspired by The Little Pot (a fruit-bearing vessel created by a potter) and the other vessels. They want your word to be both fruitful and biblical. By choosing a word […]