Free kids Bible lessons
Mixed-age Sunday school lessons
When preschoolers and preteens share a room, the lesson has to reach both. Each Heart Turn Kids lesson has one story for everyone and age tips to stretch it up or down.
Each of these free lessons comes with an animated story film told word for word from the King James Version, a coloring page, a class sheet, a teacher guide with a 45-minute plan, questions with answers and a game, so one teacher can lead the whole class.
- Lessons
- 8
- Passages
- Genesis 2:4–25, Exodus 1:1–2:10, Exodus 13:17–14:31, Ruth 1:1–22, Jonah 1:1–2:10, John 6:1–14, and more
- Ages
- Preschool to preteen (3 to 12), with tips for each age
- Each lesson
- Story film (KJV), coloring page, class sheet, teacher guide, questions and answers, a game
- Cost
- Free: no subscription, no cost per child, no sign-up to teach
One story, every age
Everyone watches the same story film and hears the same big idea.
Two activities
Younger children color the coloring page while older children do the class sheet: memory-verse fill-in, word search and questions.
Older kids help
Give preteens a job: reading a verse aloud, leading the game, or helping a younger buddy.
Questions with answers
Start with simple “who and what” questions, then let older children answer the “why.”
Lessons to start with
The Garden of Eden
Genesis 2:4–25 · story film
God planted a garden eastward in Eden, with every tree that is pleasant to see and good for food, and a river to water it. He put Adam there to dress it and keep it, and made Eve to be his helper.
Big idea: God gives us good gifts and good work to do.
Memory verse:
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Genesis 2:15 (KJV)Ask: Which two special trees grew in the midst of the garden? The tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Game: Name the Animals (about 10 minutes)
Baby Moses in the Basket
Exodus 1:1–2:10 · story film
Pharaoh ordered that every Hebrew baby boy be thrown into the river. Moses’ mother hid him and then laid him in an ark of bulrushes among the flags by the river. Pharaoh’s daughter found him, and his own mother nursed him.
Big idea: God watches over His people, even in dangerous times.
Memory verse:
And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
Exodus 2:10 (KJV)Ask: What was the basket made of? Bulrushes, daubed with slime and pitch.
Game: Down the River (about 10 minutes)
Crossing the Red Sea
Exodus 13:17–14:31 · story film
God led His people with a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night. At the Red Sea, with Pharaoh’s army behind them, Moses stretched out his hand and the waters stood as a wall on the right and the left. Israel walked through on dry ground.
Big idea: God makes a way where there is no way.
Memory verse:
The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Exodus 14:14 (KJV)Ask: How did God lead the people? With a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
Game: Dry Ground Dash (about 10 minutes)
Ruth and Naomi
Ruth 1:1–22 · story film
When there was a famine, Naomi’s family went to live in Moab, and there her husband and her two sons died. Naomi decided to go home to Bethlehem and told her daughters-in-law to return to their own mothers’ houses. Orpah kissed her goodbye, but Ruth clave unto her and said, “Whither thou goest, I will go… thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God,” and the two came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.
Big idea: Real love stays loyal, and Ruth chose to follow Naomi’s God.
Memory verse:
And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
Ruth 1:16 (KJV)Ask: Why did Naomi’s family go to Moab? There was a famine in the land (Ruth 1:1).
Game: Step in My Steps (about 10 minutes)
Jonah Runs from God
Jonah 1:1–2:10 · story film
God told Jonah to go and preach to the great city of Nineveh, but Jonah ran the other way and took a ship to Tarshish. The LORD sent a mighty storm, the mariners cast Jonah into the sea, and God prepared a great fish to swallow him. Inside the fish Jonah prayed, and after three days and three nights the LORD brought him out on dry land, a sign Jesus pointed to when He spoke of His own rising (Matthew 12:40).
Big idea: We cannot run away from God, and He hears us when we call to Him.
Memory verse:
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
Psalm 139:7 (KJV)Ask: Where did God tell Jonah to go? To Nineveh, that great city (Jonah 1:2).
Game: Through the Big Fish (about 10 minutes)
Feeding the Five Thousand
John 6:1–14 · Matthew 14:13–21 · Mark 6:30–44 · Luke 9:10–17 · story film
A great crowd was hungry. A boy had five barley loaves and two small fishes. Jesus gave thanks, and everyone ate and was filled, with twelve baskets left over.
Big idea: Jesus gives more than enough, for He is the bread of life.
Memory verse:
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
John 6:35 (KJV)Ask: What did the boy have? Five barley loaves and two small fishes.
Game: Twelve Baskets Full (about 10 minutes)
Zacchaeus
Luke 19:1–10 · story film
Zacchaeus, a rich chief tax collector, was too short to see over the crowd, so he climbed a sycamore tree. Jesus stopped, called him by name and came to his house. Zacchaeus said he would give half his goods to the poor and pay back four times anything he had taken wrongly.
Big idea: Jesus came to seek and to save the lost.
Memory verse:
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Luke 19:10 (KJV)Ask: Why did Zacchaeus climb a tree? He was little of stature and could not see Jesus for the crowd.
Game: Come Down, Zacchaeus! (about 10 minutes)
The Day of Pentecost
Acts 2:1–41 · story film
The disciples were together when a sound like a rushing mighty wind filled the house and tongues like fire sat on each of them. They were filled with the Holy Ghost, Peter preached, and about three thousand believed.
Big idea: God gives His Spirit to help us tell about Jesus.
Memory verse:
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Acts 2:21 (KJV)Ask: What did they hear from heaven? A sound as of a rushing mighty wind.
Game: Rushing Wind Race (about 10 minutes)
Questions people ask
How do I teach one lesson to ages 3 to 12?
Tell one story to everyone with the film or a read-aloud, ask the simple questions first, then split into two activities: the coloring page for younger children and the class sheet for older ones.
How can older kids help in a mixed class?
Give them real jobs: reading the verse aloud, leading the game, or helping a younger buddy with the coloring page.
What memory verse works for every age?
Every lesson has one memory verse from the King James Version. Younger children say it with motions; older children find it in their Bibles and explain it.
Are these lessons free?
Yes. Every lesson, film, coloring page, class sheet and game is free for churches, families and schools, with no subscription, no cost per child and no sign-up needed to teach.
Which Bible translation is used?
The films and memory verses show the King James Version word for word. In the lessons you can switch the verses to the Berean Standard Bible, the ESV or dozens of other English Bibles, every verse is labelled with its translation, and tapping a verse on the film opens its whole chapter.
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