11 Things You Can Do To Make A Kid’s Day

When children walk into your ministry area, you should be the most exciting, most encouraging, most “want-to-be-around” person they encounter!

Here are a few things you can do to make a child’s day in your KidMin:

• Smile at them and let your eyes light up when you see them
• Look them in the eyes when you talk with them
• Talk TO and WITH them… Not DOWN at them
• Be super interested in any news they share with you (remember: it’s a big deal to have a loose or missing tooth, a new haircut, new shoes, a new stuffed animal, etc).
• Notice and point out their shoes – trust me on this one
• Shake their hand – they think this is very grown-up
• Engage in any activity they are doing and have fun while doing it
• Publicly “Catch” them behaving during class and compliment them
• Always call any prizes you are going to give away: “Mine” and “My” as in: who is going to win “my candy bar?”
• If they tell you sad news, pray with them… right then and there
• Offer to thumb-wrestle any of them for a best 2 out of 3

The list is incomplete… obviously!

What would you add to it?