Need a good, easy, and most of all FREE bible study curriculum for your elementary aged student? We have it. Plus we have an animal study that ties into the bible learning–so you get two classes in one!
For our bible study for the elementary aged children, we are using the Illustrated Family Bible from DK as our main source. It is easy to read and I felt it covered the main stories we wanted to learn. We read a new story 4 times per week. After each story, we have bible trivia on the stories we have already learned. Each week, we memorize a bible verse that the child practices writing each day.
We also are using Character Sketches books from Institute in Basic Life Principles. These well made books have a vast wealth of information. The books take an animal and give you an in depth account of how it functions in nature. It then goes on to relate it to a character trait of a person in the bible. Very neat. We enjoy these books for teaching animals study as well as biblical study. I chose 2 animals from the books each week. Usually it pertains to what we are learning in the bible that week.
I then did a search for my own printable images of each of the animals—I included a list at the end for you to do a search yourself for and printed them off for each child. As I am reading about the animal, the child will copy down some interesting facts about the animal as well as color the image in. We will then put them together in a book to have an animal study.
I have also included printable bible trivia questions from all of the lessons taught.
These are another great FREE resource for bible and animal curriculum choices this year.
You do have to purchase the following books to make it happen, but still an inexpensive route to homeschooling:
I bought the Illustrated Family Bible DK and Character Sketches Vol 1,2,3 from Institute in Basic Life Principles.
I found these books relatively cheap online. The character sketches are a little more, but they are big and heavy and nicely made books. Don’t worry about getting a newer version, we use the old version and the bible and animal information is still the same—it doesn’t change. They are a good in depth animal study as well as biblical person study, we don’t absolutely love that many books but these have stayed on my shelves for many years.
Click here for FREE printable elementary bible curriculum
Click here for FREE printable bible trivia to go with the curriculum
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Could you link to the Bible you used please? I did an amazon search for the title you put in the post, and several came up! Lol
Also did you find the character books on eBay?
Yes I just linked them. I saw that you can get some copies used on Amazon for the Character Sketches. Check ebay they may be cheaper. Good luck finding them!
Do you think this Bible study would work well for 4th and 6th grade combined and then the following year move into the Old Testament Bible study with them?
Yes completely, we did this one first last year and then this past year I had my middle schoolers and high schoolers do the old testament. We enjoyed reading through it together:)
Love this curriculum thank you!
I noticed the answers are next to the question. How do intend for this to be used? Just one master copy for mom? Is there a PDF without the answers Im not seeing!?
No this is just for Mom:) Thanks for using it.
Hello, looking forward to using this resource in the upcoming academic year. I’m just wondering if you know if there is a difference in any of the DK Illustrated Bibles? The one you have listed is over $90 on eBay, however, there are others that do not have the ark on the front and are much more affordable. I just don’t want to purchase one that won’t work with this curriculum. Thanks for all your time and hard work, it is very appreciated.
Merry Christmas!
I don’t know that…check your library …that is where I use mine from:)
I found the copy you have listed, used, on Amazon very inexpensively!! 🙌🏻 I am so thankful that I did!! It is incredible!! Thank you, Amy!
so i have a question i can not afford buying the Character Sketches they are to expensive what would you recommend? i did buy the illustrated family bible dk verson
You can just get different books or videos about various animals:) They are expensive…keep an eye on amazon used and ebay for used copies.
I love this so much! Is there anything you could substitute for Character Sketches. I am going to look for them at the Goodwill, just don’t want to pay too much. Just curious if there might be another study similiar that I could use. I believe I have seen the DK Illustrated Family Bible at the thrift stores often. Thank you for all that you do! I am planning to use 3rd and possibly 7th this year!
You are so welcome. You can definitely just use any type of animal study books as well:) Google could be a good use too:)