Free Sunday School Curriculum

Just like any other long-term learning plan, Sunday school lessons require a well thought out curriculum that allows children to apply previously learned knowledge to the new things brought up each week. Feel free to use the following free Sunday school curriculum with your students. This free Sunday school curriculum outline introduces characters from both the Old and New Testaments; however, neither is presented chronologically. Feel free to adjust and adapt to make it work for you!

When beginning a new year, I always start off with the story of Creation, followed by lessons on Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and their fall from grace. While these stories are likely to be familiar ones to the children, they are a great way to explore some of the many recurring themes from this free Sunday school curriculum such as God as Creator of the world and how He treats those who break their promises to Him.

The next series of lessons from my Sunday school curriculum focus on the importance of prayer as a means of speaking to God. Use the story of Abraham and Sarah to illustrate this theme.

After a few lessons on prayer it is time for the introduction of Jesus to your Sunday school lesson plans focusing on his miracles. Select one miracle each week for three or four weeks and use that as the center of the lesson. Make sure to include relevant arts and crafts activities or songs and games to make the lessons more fun and engaging.

Once we’ve spent a few weeks discussing Jesus and his miracles, I like to introduce the Moses’ story, which will also take a few weeks to cover. After Moses, I devote one week apiece to others from the Old Testament such as Ruth, Elijah, Samson and Joseph. By now it should be getting close to Christmas time, which is the prime time for discussing the story of Jesus’ birth in the manger.

After Christmas, I proceed to the story of Noah and his ark, focusing on how Noah was saved because of his obedience to God and how God fulfills the promises he makes. Noah’s ark is one of the children’s favorite stories because there are so many fun crafts to be made and songs to be sung during these few weeks.

Once Noah’s story is completed, we move on to a few the parables. While I like to devote a week each to the parables of the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan feel free to use whichever parables you prefer most. By now it should be getting close to Easter, where I spend one week on Palm Sunday, one week on the Last Supper, and another on Jesus’ death and resurrection. Feel free to either lengthen or shorten the Easter lesson based on scheduling and your own thoughts on the matter.

After Easter, I split the children into groups of four or five, making sure each group has children of various ages and I assign each group a story or person from the Old Testament whose story has yet to be covered, such as Jonah, David, Samson and Delilah, or Ruth and Naomi. I give each group two weeks to plan a 5-minute presentation of the story and a craft for the class to make relating to their story. Then each group is given a chance to present their story to the rest of the class, rounding out the year.