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Children’s Ministry Outreach Ideas: 21 Ways Kids Can Reach Kids

7. Kite Day

Fly high in the spring! After morning worship, supply kite-making materials. Serve families pizza or hot dogs for lunch. After everyone has eaten and made a kite, enjoy flying the kites.

8. Celebrate Friend Day

Encourage each child to bring a friend to Sunday school. Honor friends by having children give their guests a special nametag and a helium balloon.

9. Cookie BakeOff

With plenty of adult supervision, have children bake cookies. Use simple, pictorial recipes, and premeasure all ingredients. After the party, have kids seal the extra cookies in plastic bags. Take children to give the cookies to a shut-in, nursing home resident, or sick child.

10. Animal Crackers

How about a petting zoo or a parade of your favorite stuffed animals? Maybe a live pet show? Kids can pretend to be animals in the zoo. Or you can reenact Noah’s collection of animals. Set up in a neighborhood on Saturday morning, and watch kids flock to you.

11. Children’s Day

Use this special day to recognize children. Focus all the music and events around kids. Decorate with helium balloon bouquets. Have children assist adult ushers and lead in prayer. Invite parents so they can be ministered to as they see how much your church values their children.

12. S.O.K. (Summer Outing for Kids)

This is a special day in the summer. Charge a nominal fee and encourage kids to invite friends. You can do any of the following:

  • Go to the zoo, a children’s museum, or a farm.
  • Have a cooking day where kids prepare and cook their own lunch.
  • Hold a day camp with planned activities such as crafts, cooking, games, and stories.

13. Kinder Kamp

Get an address list of unchurched preschoolers by asking mothers for names of unchurched mothers of preschoolers they know. On the Saturday before preschoolers are promoted to their new Sunday school class, invite churched and unchurched preschoolers and their parents to Kinder Kamp. Have them come to their new Sunday school departments, meet their new teachers, and see what they’ll be doing.

Serve refreshments and give each child a school box and pencil. After Kinder Kamp, children and parents will be more excited about Sunday school.