How to Use KidSpring Curriculum

Schedule:
Our materials are created to run on the following schedule, but feel free to
adjust things to make them work best for your ministry:

Activity Stations 25 minutes

Clean Up & Potty 5 minutes
Small Group: Get Their Attention 5 minutes
Large Group 20 minutes
Small Group: Make It Matter 15 minutes
Small Group: Wrap It Up 10 minutes
Wrap Up 10 minutes
TOTAL 1 hour & 30 minutes

Small Group Lessons

Small Group Lessons are created with a specific age-group in mind. Here is the
breakdown of the lessons provided for each age group:

Preschool
Toddlersages 14-23 months
Twostwo year olds
Preschoolthree, four & five year olds who have not yet entered
Kindergarten
Special Needssame as the Preschool lesson, but modified to be
done with a child one-on-one

Elementary School
K-1Kindergarten & first grade
2-3second & third grade
4-5fourth & fifth grade; sometimes these lessons are broken into
individual grade levels and/or genders
Special Needssame as the K-1 lesson, but modified to be done
with a child one-on-one

Small Group activities are designed to be done in small groups with the following
volunteer to kid ratios:

Nursery (Toddlers)1:3
Preschool1:5
Elementary School1:10
Crafts (Preschool only)
Crafts are designed to be an activity station that helps introduce children to the
series theme and/or what kids will be learning that day. The Craft Instructions &
Samples document is meant to be printed each week and displayed at the
Craft Activity Station.

Training Documents
These documents are created to help you train volunteers prior to the start of
each series. They are also a good resource for your volunteers to take home
and reference throughout the series.

Italicized Words in Documents

Some words in our small group lessons and large group scripts are italicized, and
some are not. Here is why:

Small Group
Italicized words are meant to be said
Non-italicized words are actions, notes or instructions for the small
group leader and are not necessarily meant to be read aloud

Large Group
Italicized words are cues, and are NOT mean to be said
Non-italicized words are meant to be said

Pre-Reel Music
We have found that playing music in our environments is a great way to create
an inviting and engaging atmosphere that fits the theme & teaching of the
series. We call this music our Pre-Reel. For all ages, Song #1 on our pre-reel
playlists is always a Clean Up Song. On the Nursery Pre-reel, Song #2 is the
song listed in the lesson.
Large Group Scripts

We offer a variety of scripts to suit the differing needs of our campuses & other
churches:

Elementary School
Scriptwritten for TWO live actors, ONE worship leader & ONE
Game Director (worship leader & game director can be one
person)
Scaled Down Scriptwritten for ONE live actor & ONE worship
leader
Additional Characters are sometimes needed for several weeks, but
not an entire series.

Preschool:
Two Actor Scriptswritten for TWO live actors on stage.
Two Actor + Puppet Scripts (not available every series)written for
TWO live actors on stage and ONE person for the puppet. We write
our puppet roles with minimal lines to make this a great entry role for
a large group volunteer.
Scaled Down Scriptswritten for ONE live actor on stage.
Twos Scripts shortened versions of our TWO actor scripts made
specifically for the shorter attention spans of two year olds.

Large Group Script Outline (Preschool Only)

This document gives you a quick glance of an entire script. It also gives you
recommendations for what to cut if your service length is short one week.
Performing the entire script is ideal, but these would be the best things to trim
while still ensuring that kids are gaining vital teaching and truth from Gods
Word.

Song Videos
We cannot always give away song videos for each song in a seriesespecially
for songs that we have not written/created. If we have obtained proper
licensing for giving away a song video, it will download with the weekly media
pieces. If we cannot give you a song video, we will provide a link to purchase
the song itself (for example, on iTunes) within the songs Lyrics & Motions
document.