My daughter loves to sing! A dear friend prayed over her an infant that she might be a singer and worshiper of Jesus, and I believe the Lord is answering that prayer! Recently, I set out on a mission to find some good solid CD’s of music, especially Scripture verses set to music that we could fill our home with. I decided this was going to be her Christmas present: a Portable CD Player(one that she could carry around the house with her) and a few good CD’s for her enjoyment. Here are some great finds and a fun giveaway!
Songs for Saplings - Songs for Saplings is a ministry of a home school mother (who actually lives in my area), Dana Dirkson. Her vision is to supply families with solid Christian music that would teach children about God. Thus far she has released four CD’s that are simply wonderful! The Songs for Saplings ABC’s puts Scripture verses to music that can be used while you teach your children their ABC’s. It includes a Scripture verse song for every letter of the alphabet, in addition to verses that can be used throughout the year for all the holidays. Very simple verses so great for toddler and preschoolers especially. I did give this CD to Karis already and she absolutely loves it! She can sing many of the songs already and it fills my heart with such delight as she learns simple Bible verses. It is never too early to plant God’s Word in their little hearts. Her other CD’s are a series titled Question & Answers that go through God & Creation, the Fall & Salvation, Christ and His Work, teaching basic doctrine to children in a catechism of sorts. Dana also offers chord charts that are free to download from her site. Highly recommended!
Steve Green’s Hide Em in Your Heart- I loved these CD’s as a child! Steve Green sets Bible verses to music in a fun, entertaining way. I can still sing many of the songs from these CD’s from my childhood. Music is so powerful! This set includes the DVD video that are enjoyable to watch and teach the verses and character qualities more visually. Check out Hide Em in Your Heart Vol 01 & Hide’em in Your Heart Vol. 2.
To Be Like Jesus - by Sovereign Grace Ministries. A fabulous solid collection of worship songs for children. To Be Like Jesus contains twelve worship songs that teach the fruit of the Spirit in a creative and memorable way. Through these songs kids will learn that Jesus is our perfect example of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. They are theologically sound and engaging. We use alot of Sovereign Grace worship music at our church and always enjoy their albums. You can also purchase this album directly from Sovereign Grace here.
Hymns for A Kid’s Heart – by Bobbie Wolgemuth – An excellent series of books and CD’s that will help teach your children the 
beauty of hymns. Hymns are packed full of solid gospel truth and are such a tool to be used in teaching your children the Word of God. Each book in this series includes a story about the history behind each hymn, lyrics, verses to be discussed and prayers. We recently purchased the Christmas Carols for a Kid’s Heart to be included in our preparations for Christmas. I want my little ones to hear and understand the wonderful gospel truths that are proclaimed in some of the traditional carols and the history behind them. Also, check out Passion Hymns for a Kid’s Heart.
Seeds Family Worship - I just stumbled upon these CD’s through recommendations by the readers and after listening the samples, I just had to add these CD’s to the list! Wonderful Scripture based songs for all – adults and children alike! There is a lot of variety in style and voices, including voices of children and adults. I can definitely see myself really enjoying this music as well and learn Scripture together with my little ones. Series includes: Seeds of Courage, Seeds of Faith, Seeds of Purpose, and Seeds of Praise.
Now, for the giveaway!
Dana Dirkson has graciously donated one copy of Songs for Saplings: ABC’s for us to giveaway! You can have the chance to add this awesome CD to your family collection.
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I like the CD ABC Bible Verse Songs by Bekka and the Cane Creek Kids.
http://shop.nogreaterjoy.org/product_info.php/products_id/95
Honestly, just living life is my favorite resource – teaching him about people, going to church, the zoo, etc. Does that count?
We love seeds family worship. All their cds are great!
All three of my kids have loved Cedarmont Kids. My 2 year old likes to sit and watch them on dvd or video.
We love the Storybook Bible for story time and The Memory Bible with cds, narrated by Kirk Cameron for memorizing scripture.
Currently I love teaching my younger children the stories of the bible by reading from Egermeiers Bible Story book. The pictures are beautiful and the stories are the perfect length for their short attention span
This music sounds like it would be a great edition to our homeschooling 
Count me in!
We really enjoyed reading Leading Little Ones to God with our 7 and 3 year olds last year, in conjunction with the Bible. This year they have been very excited about the “realistic looking” pictures in the Family-Time Bible in Pictures, again with the same story in the Bible for our now 8 year old.
I really like My ABC Bible Verses by Susan Hunt- http://www.amazon.com/My-ABC-Bible-Verses-Hiding/dp/1581340052/ref=pd_sim_d_3.
One of my all time favorite resources for teaching my children God’s Word is Grapevine Studies. We stick figure our way through the Old and New Testament and my children love it!
Check it out: http://www.grapevinestudies.com
P.S. I am not an affiliate; just a happy mommy!
We have “The Big Picture Story Bible” that I have started reading to my daughter (16 months), and we listen to Christian children’s music. And I enjoy looking at different blogs of Godly women to get some of their ideas.
Our twins are 8 months, so not a ton of resoursec yet…but we LOVE the Jesus Storybook Bible – it’s the best one we’ve found.
Thank you so much for posting some new ideas for Children’s music! I listened to all of the samples and they’re great! They will definitely be going on our Christmas lists for the children!
My favorite resource is called Little Hands to Heaven.. it’s a homeschool preschool curriculum that I love!
The Bible for Little Eyes is awesome !!
Although my daughter is only 8 months old, I sing to her out of a hymnal I bought online. I didn’t grow up learning any hymns, so I’ve been teaching myself in hopes of encouraging my own heart as well as getting those great lysics into her little head.
My favorite resource for alphabet learning is starfall.com, we also love “The Big Picture Story Bible” to teach our 2 year old boy about the story of Jesus and God’s redemptive plan for us.
I write Christian children’s songs and would love to give away a CD as a gift! I can send a few sample songs to you so you can review them.
Just found your site through Simple Mom; looks great. And I’ve been SEARCHING for great CDs for kids. We already have the Hymns for a Kid’s Heart series and I highly recommend it! Thanks for the giveaway!
we LOVE karyn henley!! she has CDs, videos, children’s bibles – even devotionals and sunday school materials. she is gifted at taking a complex spiritual concept and presenting it in a way that children can really latch on to. my kids have all grown up on “miss karyn” songs and still sing them constantly! http://www.karynhenley.com
I love “Slow and Steady, Get Me Ready” and lots of children’s cds.
I’m 14 weeks along with my first child so I don’t have any experience yet from a mom standpoint but I loved hide em in your heart. When I read certain verses, I can’t help but start singing them. We also listened to GT and the halo express tapes. They were stories but had lots of songs and if I remember correctly, the songs were direct scripture. I’m not even sure if they still make them but they were some of our favorite car trip tapes.
My two year old loves Pilgrim’s Progress on tape. It’s the version that is dramatized and we listen in suspense! I know he can’t quite figure out what is going on yet, but he will!! Thankful he will have that in his heart so young.
I have wanted to listen to the Seeds CD. I have also heard that “Songs Jesus Said” is a great CD by the Gettys. We love Hide Em in Your Heart around here!
I believe the Bible is the best resource I have to teach my children. We read God’s word together every morning. In order to hide God’s word in our hearts we participate in AWANA at church, sing Seed’s music, and talk about scripture as often as possible.
I love the Hide Em’ In Your Heart CDs (or “Jesus Songs” as my 3 year old calls them). How fun to learn Scripture through singing!
I’m not able to read through all the other comments, but I have to recommend Colin Buchanan’s CDs!!
My mom is my best resource! She homeschooled all seven of her kids
She saved a lot of stuff, too!
I would love to win the cd. We have another ABC bible verse cd from no greater joy ministries that my kids love and know tons of verses because of it. We also have a childrens devotional called leading little ones to god which is also very good!
I just read “Raising Unselfish Chldren in a Self Absorbed Word and it had a plethora of creative ideas I can’t wait to try with my little one!
My daughter just turned 2, so my favorite resource right now are educational toys and games that teacher her to sort things, help her to learn her colors, counting and letters. For her birthday, my mom just made her a bunch of learning games to use during our learning times. I think children learn to love learning when it’s fun!
Thanks for a great giveaway!
I really like the Seeds Family Worship cds. We have the Seeds of Faith and Praise!
We love the Hide Em In Your Heart CD’s Vol. 1 & 2 by Steve Green as well. We also have his kids Praise and Worship CD. It blesses my heart to hear my 4 and 2 year old sing all of these verses and praises at such a young age. I am so thankful for these CD’s. Thanks for the other suggestions. Some variety will be nice too!
My daughter (4) also loves her Jesus Storybook Bible and we read it every night before bed. It is a blessing to us all.
We really like the Hide Em In Your Heart cd’s by Steve Green and wish he would have made more. We also like Music Machine which teaches the fruit of the Spirit.
We love the big picture bible!
“The Sign, Sing, and Play Kit” has been a huge blessing for us… Our son is 2 and started signing at just a few months, making our lives much easier and giving us a much deeper communicative level.
I have just recently started using the Hearts of Dakota, Little Hands to Heaven Preschool Unit study curriculum. Although we are using this with our first daughter, it has been so rewarding to see her enjoy and learn different Bible stories and people. It has been so great to be able to do fun little Bible focused activities with my daughter throughout our daily routine! I’d love a copy of the Songs for Saplings CD also!
My son is still very young, so we haven’t invested in a lot of resources yet. However, we have gotten a story bible that we read to our son every night. It stories the entire bible. Oh and we LOVE Praise Baby videos, they can calm him down wonderfully. The music is great, so I enjoy it too.
Friends who have already done what I am trying to do
I love the board books in this series, David and Goliath is the only one we’ve purchased so far, the other ones came from the library. http://www.amazon.com/David-Goliath-Based-Samuel-Children/dp/0824965701/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258929694&sr=1-4
I like ZonderKids, especially the book, I Love You This Much. It teaches about God’s love and comes with the music to accompany the book.
Though my little one is only 5 weeks old, I’ve already begun his music collection. I have found great buys of Children’s Christian music at the Goodwill and other Thrift stores. It has been a great resource without having to spend alot of money.
Awesome! We have the Seeds of Courage CD, and I have enjoyed learning bible verses myself this way!
We have been using The Story of the World history, it is great, so far we have made cunieform tablets and are getting ready to have an African feast, it is a good history lesson as well as hands on activities that reinforce what we have learned.
My kids love the Steve Green CDs. I love them, too. I love that I will often pull out an appropriate Bible verse for a behavior situation, and realize there is a Steve Green song set to the verse! Recently, Elisa memorized “Do not be overcome by evil,” as a way to remind her of how to respond when others are unkind. Thanks for doing another fun giveaway!
I like to mix & match my resources to reflect our family, myself, and the traits that I am attempting to encourage within my children. I find that my oldest is best taught through music and visually, so I have to combine the two for maximum effect. One of the resources I like for this is one that I create–I find teaching songs online (like a song about the Books of the Bible, etc.), and then create my own felt board characters out of stiff, white backing used for sewing. I made a felt board at home with old, blue, flannel bed sheets. He LOVES this and can manipulate the pieces himself for hours. My biggest challenge, however, is finding fresh music!
My favourite resources for teaching God’s Word to our children are our vintage editions of Arthur Maxwell’s The Bible Story set and Uncle Arthur’s Bedtime Stories. They were published by the 7th day Adventist. and while we do have to make an occasional correction, there is not much SDA doctrine in them, and the illustrations are very reverent. I also love how Maxwell makes each story relevant to children.
Claire
I love the Big Picture Story Bible for our 2.5 year old son. We also appreciate the resources from his sunday school classes and try to take advantage of his coloring sheet by reviewing it each week!
My mother-in-law is my best resource.
She homeschooled all 4 of her kids through graduation, and is such a refreshing source of information. My current favorite purchased item is “Mommy Teach Me to Read” – I’ve been using the pre-reading activities with both my nearly 4yo and my 2yo. They are learning phonics in a fun way and are excited to learn more.
I love the seeds albums someone has given me 4 of them and I also love teaching my children right from the bible.
The Jesus Storybook Bible is an excellent Bible for little ones. I also recently added My First Hymnal to my daughter’s devotional time and she absolutely loves it.