Category: Creative Teaching Resources

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.

Thanksgiving Real Story? Truth, bias, and one old nursery rhyme.

If you’re an American celebrating Thanksgiving, you will probably sit down for a big meal with family and friends. You will be celebrating a holiday known as Thanksgiving. Each of us has an idea about the real story of Thanksgiving. However, is what we’ve been taught the real story? Whenever we are presented with a […]

The Best Nursery Rhyme Ever Written

A nursery rhyme with lyrics that teach something good would be great. You see, nursery rhymes have been around for centuries. In addition, their history can be a fascinating study. We worry today about putting our children in front of violent movies and video games. However, some nursery rhyme lyrics might be just as unhealthy. […]

Is Candy Chocolate? Ways to do a Favorite Candy Sort

Is candy chocolate? What proof can you give for your answer? Questions, graphing, and sorting activities are fun this time of year. Kids are likely collecting a lot of candy around October 31st. Therefore, why not use candy as an educational tool? Begin your lessons by reading The Little Pot, and then use clay flower […]

How the fruit of the Spirit ripens beyond the vessel

The fruit of the Spirit ripens after harvest. Bananas go from green to yellow as they sit in the grocery store. Avocados are not ready to eat until they have darkened. Likewise, strawberries grow sweeter after picking. These thoughts resonated with me this week as I thought about the fruit of the Spirit that still […]

Avoiding temptation. 3 temptations of Satan that fruit-bearers must avoid

Avoiding temptation is not easy. We all face temptation. Jesus was tempted too (Mark 1:12-13, Matthew 4:1). Therefore, the temptation itself is unavoidable. However, giving in to it is what we must never do. Likewise, Little Pot (a vessel created by the potter to grow fruit) faces temptations. Let’s look at the three temptations of […]

Ants Bible Lesson. 3 ways ants can help us grow the fruit of the Spirit

Looking for an Ants Bible lesson? Did you know ants can help us learn about God? They can also help us understand how God can grow the fruit of His Spirit through us. If you are familiar with Little Pot’s fruit-bearing steps, you know that God uses our physical, spiritual, social, and academic growth to […]

Body Coverings of Animals, How to Help Children Learn About Them in Fantastic and New Ways

Body coverings of animals are a fascinating topic for young children. Moreover, this is an important concept that will help children understand an animal’s ability to survive in its habitat. A creative teaching resource that uses the traditional Mother Goose Rhyme of Mary and Her Little Lamb is a great way to introduce this concept. […]

Pentateuch meaning. How to help kids cherish the first five books of the Bible

What is the meaning of the Pentateuch? I was recently asked to write a review for the fruitful book, Pentawhadda by Lynn Calvin Plater. From Westbow Press and CYLS-KIDS comes a book designed to teach children about the first five books of the Bible. In the tradition of Pilgrims’ Progress, the characters’ names have symbolic […]

The Little Pot – What is it? How a Compassionate Potter uses it.

The elements of the story can be easily remembered if you compare them to how a plant grows. If you follow these steps and include the elements, you’ll write great stories that grow in the hearts of your readers.