More Than Cookies & Punch: 50+ Bible Story Snacks and Lessons

What kid doesn't look forward to snack time in Sunday School? 120 pages of more than 50 fun and educational activities that use food to illustrate stories from the Bible. Once the story has been told kids can eat the ''lesson.'' 

Sunday School
We have our children for such a short amount of time, and there is so much to teach them—why not give them what they are wanting and teach them at the same time? If the curriculum you use doesn’t have a snack suggestion, check the story index or the scripture index in the back of this book and insert a snack that goes along with your lesson for the day. Integrate the Whatcha Think? questions and discussion as the children participate in making their own snack—a portion of class time that had no objective now becomes time with purpose and results. Give yourself more real learning time by incorporating Bible-based snacks in your lesson.

Family Devotions

Make one night a week a special time when the before-bedtime snack is one that the family makes together. Ask the children to look up the Bible verse where the story is found. The Main Thing is written at a third-grade level so children can read the story to the family.

Homeschool

What a fun way to add practical lessons in measuring, reading, comprehension and following directions while encouraging cooperationa nd creativity. Use these snack activities in your homeschool lesson plans!

Service Projects

-Make extra snacks and take them to someone as a gift of apprecition

-Prepare a snack that reinforces last week's Sunday School lesson and let your child take it to his or her teacher to show that the lesson really stuck.

-Take multiples of a snack to a retirement complex and encourage children to tell about the snack's significance.

Tina Houser has spent over 30 incredible years in children’s ministry. She thrives on training those who share her passion for reaching kids for the kingdom. She has authored 18 books, one of which is used as a textbook in select universities. Tina loves spending time with her three grandkids, who give her tons of ideas to use in children’s ministry and refer to her as “silly Grandma.”

Kevin is a writer and artist who combines creativity with technology. 

He spent the first half of his career as a designer for a computer book publisher and a Christian nonprofit publisher. Kevin has had a hand in writing, illustrating, and designing dozens of books. 

After attaining his MBA, Kevin became interested in using content marketing to promote businesses in print and digital campaigns. Today, he is the Content Creator and Storyteller for OneHope, a Pompano Beach, Florida nonprofit ministry.

Kevin has served with his wife in the children’s ministries in Indiana, Arizona, Ohio, and Florida. They have a son in Phoenix and a daughter in West Palm Beach, Florida.