Frequently Asked Questions

Wonder Ink is fully customizable to work for any children’s ministry. Toddler Time is suitable for your littlest kids (1- and-2-year-olds, and young 3-year-olds). Early Childhood lessons can work for 3-year-olds up to 6-year-olds. Elementary lessons are appropriate for kindergarten through 5^th or 6^th grade.

Elementary lessons provide small group discussion questions for younger and older kids. Depending on how you structure your children’s ministry, you might choose a single set to use or even combine them to make it work for your kids.

If you subscribe to both age levels and there is an activity in the Early Childhood lesson that you think would work well with your Elementary kids, you can easily copy that activity to the Elementary lesson. The flexibility and customizability of Wonder Ink makes it work for any children’s ministry—regardless of the number of students or structure of your ministry.

Small groups are an important part of children’s ministry! We’ve included activities in the Curiosity, Faith, and Identity section of every lesson that can be used for small groups. The Elementary lessons include small group options for older and younger elementary kids.

There are separate, age-appropriate videos for Early Childhood and Elementary. Sometimes the concept/style and casting of the videos is the same for both age groups, but the scripting and content in the videos is an age-appropriate retelling of the same story. We omit certain details from the Early Childhood videos and give more context in the Elementary videos.

Yes. There are many activities in each lesson that don’t require a screen.

For example, if you’re not able to play the worship videos on a screen, you can play the worship music from the Spotify Playlist provided. For the Belief section, we recommend that you read the Bible story and use the Experience It! Script with your kids. This will give kids the opportunity to hear and experience the Bible story, connect the Wonder Truth, and participate in small group discussions.

Plus, you can point your families to the Family portal, so that kids can still watch the God’s Big Story Lesson Video at home! And while families are in the portal, challenge them to complete one of the Wonder@Home activities during the week!

Wonder Ink Family Events are customizable experiences to engage families in discipleship and fun. These events are highly adaptable and can be church-wide, family-focused, or kids-only. Each event is developed as part of a Wonder Ink lesson series and can either be used when you teach that series or whenever the event best fits your church calendar! These family events create opportunities for groups of all ages to engage in fun activities, build deeper relationships, and grow in faith together. Each event contains games, snack ideas, worship, teaching, and interactive activities. Everything you need to plan and execute a Wonder Ink event is included, such as supply lists, decorating ideas, promotional resources, planning timelines, teaching scripts, a video, music playlists, and more. Wonder Ink offers four events per year (one each quarter). For more information about which series include events and the theme of the events, check out our Scope and Sequence.

Wonder@Home is a family resource that engages families to experience God’s Big Story together by sparking wonder and reinforcing the Wonder Truth of each lesson. This resource includes:

• Series Wonder@Home—an editable Word document that gives families a glimpse of the whole series. It also includes two Family Spiritual Practices and a Breath prayer for families to focus on for the series.
• Lesson Wonder@Home—a weekly PDF that helps families dive deeper into the weekly lesson. This includes:
  • God’s Big Story—a weekly video that presents the Bible story and the Wonder Truth from the lesson.
  • Word of Wonder—a prompt for families to memorize Scripture together.
  • Worship@Home—a Spotify worship playlist and YouTube video worship playlist for each series.
  • Family Conversations—questions families can use to explore the themes of God’s big story as a family.
  • Hands-On Activities—two simple, interactive activities for families to do together to reinforce the Bible story and Wonder Truth.
• The Wonder@Home Family Portal—a digital platform that families can access and do activities at home. The platform includes:
  • Editable weekly Wonder@Home lessons
  • Bonus digital content, like digital games, puzzles and videos for families to enjoy together

Family communication templates are included to help you communicate key information for each series and lesson via email, text, or social media (such as Wonder Truths and Bible passages, links to videos, and Wonder@Home activities for families). These aren’t designed as a traditional newsletter, but you can attach the PDF to a newsletter or copy. You can also paste the content into a newsletter, as we provide series graphics that could be used for this purpose.

Wonder Ink can be extended or broken up to accommodate any special programming needs you have. We provide 75 minutes’ worth of material in each lesson. To extend the lesson, you could utilize the bonus activities and materials provided in the Elementary lesson. You can also add any items that are specific to your church, such as worship videos, personal church videos, or other activities. These could all be loaded into the lesson in the portal to make the teaching time and worship service seamless. We also provide a Facebook User Group to connect with other users to discuss and share ideas with other creative church leaders.

We typically release a series at least 90 days prior to when we recommend you use it.

Some series only have 4 lessons, and others have more than 4 in order to line up with the holidays. A Wonder Ink subscriber doesn’t have to use the lessons on the recommended timeline, but if they do, every lesson lines up with the holidays on the calendar.

Yes, there is a coloring page for each lesson. There are also illustrations included for the Bible story time in many of the lessons.

Due to the legal parameters of royalties and copyrights, we require the total number of Wonder Ink Printable Resources be kept within the number of kids you selected for your pricing tier. For example, if the tier is 26-75 students, we ask you not to print more than 75 copies of the student resources for the lesson.

Downloaded lessons and resources from the Wonder Ink platform may be used by current Wonder Ink subscribers only. Your license to the Wonder Ink lessons and resources expires when your Wonder Ink subscription expires. The Wonder Ink Platform Terms of Use for Churches that are agreed to upon subscribing require you to delete any Wonder Ink files you have downloaded if you cancel your subscription.