Sunday school refers to classes run after Sunday church services in a variety of Christian denominations. Sunday school gives children who attend public schools the chance to access religious education and learn about their faith. Sunday school can be taught by church volunteers or local priests and pastors. While older kids will follow an actual age appropriate curriculum in Sunday school and use textbooks, many parishes offer a more simplified version of Sunday school for younger kids and toddlers.
Since toddlers love bright colors and pictures, it is important to keep the Sunday school classroom decorated with bulletin boards. One way to keep bulletin boards updated is to change them by religious holiday season. Around Christmas, teachers can put up a picture of the three Wise Men. The teacher can cut out several stars to represent the star of Bethlehem that the three Wise Men followed and write the name of each child on an individual star. The toddlers can then color the stars and the teacher or adult volunteers can hang them on the bulletin board. Near Easter, the class can do the same concept, replacing the stars with lambs. During an off season, such as the summer, where less religious holidays fall, the teacher can cut out a picture of Noah's Ark and make a variety of animals for the children to color.
Teachers can send the toddlers home with a sheet where the parents can fill in something that their child is thankful for. During Sunday school class, the toddlers can decorate the paper and then the teacher can turn the creations into a bulletin board. A similar lesson can be done by giving the toddler a sheet where a parent or older sibling can fill in a favorite prayer.
One big lesson that children are taught in Sunday school is that even though people may be different ages, colors, heights and religions, God loves them all equally. Teachers can purchase bright colored construction paper and have each parent bring in a picture of their family and put them all up on a bulletin board that says "God Loves Us All." A different approach to this project can be to cut out magazine clippings of different types of people and glue those images to the construction paper. If a centerpiece is needed for the bulletin board, consider using a globe or a large picture of three children of different nationalities holding hands.