The hour, in the order it runs

Sunday School Lesson Plan Templates

A children's ministry plan in the order the hour happens: the passage, the big idea and the memory verse across the top, supplies, then welcome, worship, Bible story, small-group discussion, application, prayer and the take-home as timed rows, with a gospel-connection box. The VBS schedule is the week as a grid — eight rotations down, five days across, and the groups, leaders and rooms.

Sunday morning, and the VBS week

2 church lesson plan templates

Portrait Sunday school plan with passage, big-idea and memory-verse boxes, a supplies box, a seven-row timed segment table from welcome to take-home, and gospel connection and notes boxes

Word Google Docs

Sunday School Lesson Plan — Word & Google Docs

Passage, big idea and memory verse across the top, supplies, then the hour as seven timed rows from welcome to take-home, with a gospel-connection box and notes for next time.

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PDF

Sunday School Lesson Plan — fillable PDF

One page, portrait. Type into the fields or print it blank and handwrite.

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Landscape vacation Bible school schedule with eight rotation rows from opening rally to closing rally, a time column and five day columns, and two boxes for groups and supplies

Word Google Docs

VBS Rotation Schedule — Word & Google Docs

Eight rotations down, five days across, a time column, and boxes for groups, leaders, rooms and the supplies and volunteers each day needs.

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PDF

VBS Rotation Schedule — fillable PDF

One page, landscape. Type into the fields or print it blank and handwrite.

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Specifications: US Letter, 8.5 × 11 inches. Word files are editable .docx that open in Word 2007 through Microsoft 365, including Word for Mac; the Google Docs link makes a copy in your own Drive; the PDF has real form fields and prints as plain hairline boxes when blank. Free to use in as many classes as you like, no account, no watermark.

Why it is laid out this way

About the sunday school templates

The published children's curricula differ in their labels and agree on the shape: an opening activity while children arrive, worship, the Bible story told to the large group, small groups to review and talk, something to do with it, prayer, and a piece that goes home to parents. The plan uses plain names for those seven segments so it fits whichever curriculum your church bought, or none. The big idea box is the one-sentence truth of the lesson — bottom line, big picture question, whatever your curriculum calls it — and the gospel-connection box is for churches that want every story to reach Christ.

Vacation Bible School is a different document: not a lesson but a timetable. Groups rotate through stations every twenty minutes for five days, and what the director needs on the wall is a grid of rotation by day with who is leading each and in which room. The VBS schedule is that grid, with a time column and boxes for the groups, leaders and rooms and for the supplies and volunteers each day needs.

Questions teachers ask

Sunday School lesson plans, answered

Does this fit our curriculum?

Almost certainly. The seven segments are the common structure under the major children's curricula; where yours uses different names, the Word and Docs versions are easy to relabel. The sheet is deliberately unbranded so volunteers from any background can read it.

How long should each segment be?

For a 60-minute hour: ten for welcome, ten for worship, fifteen for the story, fifteen for small groups, five each for application and prayer, and the take-home at the door. Younger classes shorten the story and lengthen the activity. The minutes column is blank so you can set your own.

Is there an adult Bible study version?

Not as a separate sheet; adult study is closer to the simple lesson plan in this section — passage, central truth, discussion questions, application, prayer — and that four-box sheet works well for it with the labels changed.