Baby Bible Study Ideas that Have Worked for our Wild 2, 3 and 4 Year Old.

I'm still editing this list and probably need to split it up and delete a bunch or I'll just come back and keep adding, but these conversations come up in real life all the time so here are a few of our favorites. Book lists down lower, see the bold and collage images 

Here's a bit of of what our Bible routines in daily life look like. It ebbs and flows and as I'm editing this in April 2026, we just came out of a month off after some medical adventures (original post was June 2025)

Evening Family Study - Every night if all home before 8. 3-5 nights a week.

Kids Bible - we have read through a couple so it changes

Scripture memory verse - either the one for church, Awana, or a catechism question 

Be Though My Vision Liturgy - we have really loved this one

We are reading the New Testament letters in the scripture section, not the recommended one.

End with family prayer 

Liturgy 

We switched to Be Thou My Vision Maybe more appropriate for age 5. But it's been working 

The introduction in this book explains the structure of Liturgy and how they chose what text for each section and frequency of repetition. A benefit of Liturgy is structure for contemplation, repetition for memorization, sand variation to avoid boredom.

We also use a Catechism. Currently we are working through the New City Catechism, and the two questions our church does through the Gospel Project. but Be Thou My Vision has two famous older Catechisms as a part of the liturgy. They are the Heidelberg and Westminster from the 15 and 16 hundreds. We only made through about question 7 in New City (just sharing bc it's ok to switch things up)

We do a catechism question each week, and will work on the question and Bible verse for a month. 

Morning Bible Study - daily when we do school.  think this would be similar to what a lot of families call morning basket in the homeschool worls. Monday - Friday (2-3 days a week)

We do a variety of different morning Bible Studies from this list and what you see below 

I will often pick one story per week, and 3 total per month 

- 8 months - 

1 year old ABC Jesus Loves Me Interactive Bible Studies. We did one a week for around 30 weeks with some breaks. But there's so much for free. The $10 set was worth it for weekly activities that I had dad do with the little guy at night. 

- ? - We read Genesis in the Action Bible and he followed the people incredibly well. But to avoid burn out with the more complex Bible. He went through a period of "resting" when he dropped his morning naps and would sit on a lap being read to for 15-45min

- ? - Sometime in here we attempted to do scripture memory inspired by Charlotte Mason Morning Time. It never really stuck. 

- 2 years - We repeated the same stories skipping Genesis and adding in some and in the order of their 3 year old curriculum. 

- 3 Years + 4 years - We followed seasons and the church year for some time (October - April) using the True Way Kids studies doing one story for a week and about 3 stories a month. I'll share my monthly themes in a future post but 

Old Testament in Fall

Fruits of the Spirit in November

Advent in December

Life of Jesus until Lent

Holy Week through Lent

Sin, Death, Resurrection sequence inspired by Young Life over Holy week

New life and Acts in April 

🌈 Noah's Art and Creation in June 

- 3.5 Years - Now we are doing the Life of Jesus. Currently he is choosing the Action Bible but I have children's Parable stories as an option every morning. Largely because of age, we have not used the Action Bible too much but I'm excited for it as he gets older.

4 years - We have read through the Jesus Picture Storybook Bible. It's extremely common but not my favorite. I have found some small inaccuracies (not significant, but some of the facts about the alabaster jar are inaccurate) and things added. This one is beautiful and I love how each story brings everything back to Jesus. 

We are almost through The Biggest Story Bible and I LOVE this one. The illustrations are gorgeous! There are videos for each story online, free worksheets and coloring pages.

Our little one's favorite storybook Bible is the old one we thrifted, the Children's Discovery Bible from 1996. Purple in the photo. My husband really likes this one too.

4.5 years (spring and plan for summer) - we are doing less "school" these days and doing more relaxed reading and family Bible study at night 

Bible Studies with Friends 

CEF - We have only done a couple but we host an annual Backyard VBS through Children Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) which has been so fun

ABC Jesus Loves Me - Sensory bin or activity set up while kids play and answer questions. Our favorite was a Baby Moses water activity. We also have done flame sensory bins for Pentecost. And an Easter themed bin as well.

TruWay Kids - has so many free Bible studies, probably 70+ lessons as the base set and then many scaffold up or down and many also have other languages. Lessons are 10-20 pages printed of activities and teaching notes

VBS - Our son attended a day at my parent's church for Vacation Bible School. He was able to pet sheep and learn about shepherds. We read the parable of the lost sheep that week at home. 

Weekly Family Traditions 

Eating out - Ok this one is not particularly easy but we have developed the habit of asking our waiter or waitress their prayer requests to pray with them when our food comes. The little guy has starting asking their requests and asking if waitresses know Jesus. He as also asked people outside restaurants and people at the table next to us. 

Sunday School - Our church does Sunday School and is very intentional about the curriculum. Attending church, church worship, and praying for friends are all things that could happen on a specific day or driving to or from a weekly event. Our church has used The Gospel Project and Foundation Worldview. We've been to other churches 

Book recommendations 

The Beginners Bible - super short and easy. You can read through it quickly with older kids or younger. It's not one we reread over and over but if you want a quick overview, this is great one, not much text and picture heavy. We read through this one in a week just like a chapter book.

My Awesome God - more for kids study or devotion with a big idea, gods character and questions for kids. We don't use this one often as it is definitely for younger kids.

Tiny Theologians - these board books are absolutely stunning, sweet, and well written. There are a lot of other resources from this company too.

Baby Believer - another series where every book I've seen is beautiful and enjoyable to adults too 

My Little Library boxes - several little books in one pack. We got these as a gift and I carried one of them in my backpack or diaper bag for the little one almost all the time for quite a couple years.

The Children's Discovery Bible is older but it has been a great fit. It doesn't add a bunch of fluff or try to make any specific post and just shares the stories. A couple of them are written in a bit of a funny way (as poems that seem a bit random) but otherwise it has been spot on. 

I AM the little one has LOVED this storybook Bible. And it's been fun for me to learn and focus on the names. We have only had this one for a couple months and are almost done with the second time through. The summaries between stories and the explanations are fantastic as we work on understanding the entire Biblical narrative. 

The Ology, The Lord's Prayer and Apostle's Creed books are ones I'm considering adding into the regular study but we do not own them. I have watched flip throughs of them and they seem fantastic!

The Toddler Bible 

This Bible has fantastic activity ideas. Activities have been a great resource for me to prepare for my husband to do with the little guy as they get ready for bed. 

We have a different one in the Times of Jesus series. I really like it but it doesn't have as much content as would be nice. But the flaps are great and we do use it to understand context better.

Fat Cat Lord's Prayer or Apostles Creed - these two books have been an absolute joy. Reviews say they are for younger kids than I would say. I feel like we will get a good amount out of both of these for years to come. We only read a tiny bit of these at a time with our 4 year old. 

The 4 above we have not read through all the way but I've been very pleasantly surprised with the ones we have read. Three were gifted and one I thrifted for $0.50 but it is lovely! 

Old schedules

June 2025

Psalm 

Sunday School memory verse 

Kid's Bible story

Adult Bible - short section

Prayer based kid's story 

More details 

Liturgical Reading of the Psalms - we do about 5 verses from a book we have. We don't actually recommend the book but you could start at Psalms 1 and reading the short 7 or 8 verse Psalms and splitting others up.

Church Bible Verse memory recitation - after 3 months of working on monthly Scripture that lines up with his Sunday School classes we have started having him stand up to recite his verses. Not every night.

Read a story or two from a Kids Bible - we have read through the Toddler Bible and are going through the Discovery Bible. We have made it all the way through and on the second reading. It's so fun as our 3 year old knows a lot of the stories now 

Our Bibles - Mom and dad read about a half chapter while toddler climbs on climber but listens 

Nap Time Bible Study 

Only lasted a couple months 

After he picks a book or story from a Treasury I'll read a couple chapters from I Am. 

Since he is transitioning out of naps, I kinda just read a couple until he falls asleep or it's clear he isn't going to nap and will be quiet time instead 

I don't recommend and Why list

Common Prayer - this book got us started and early on I did really enjoy it but I would not consider it Christian worship. There are some interesting historical and religion stories. The block prints are beautiful!! 

Finding a Liturgy -  

We currently use the Common Prayer book but we don't really recommend it. If you have not done the call and response type of reading the highlights in here are helpful. There is a lot of personal thoughts and history but and not much Bible. But there are several hyms and the monthly block prints are beautiful. 

Orange church curriculum - this Sunday school curriculum is very shallow and often misses the point or has a positive attitude or a moral value as the main point, rather than something that is biblical. 

Juneteenth (Or Black History Month) Freedom Unit Study + Henry Box Brown Unit

A beautiful story about the Underground Railroad. Our 3 year old asks for it over and over.

North Star to Freedom 

https://www.nps.gov/articles/drinkinggourd.htm

Maggie Lena Walker 

This incredinble home in Richmond Virginia is National Park with the National Forest Service 

https://www.nps.gov/mawa/learn/historyculture/maggie-lena-walker.htm

Women's History Museum 

https://share.google/MfSQZ3q79RR2lrbVG

Henry Box Brown 

Harriet Tubman 

Playlist 

Follow the Drinking Gourd - song 

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7V3TBUKfqgBVfxzj5Tm_8DF_CahzyxOL&si=QHaRGHDxaT3g3kly 

Sunflower Unit Study + Van Gogh Unit

Sunflowers are everywhere and so beautiful as we get closer to fall. 

This Unit Study was inspired by a project the library set up. We absolutely love the cut shapes and ideas they lead to. Ms. Kelly is our absolute favorite! 

Shapes cut out at our local library for a Story Time project. We usually take the pieces and glue them down or color them at home. You could also make individual petals, paper snowflakes, or look up a Chinese lantern pattern and edit it

We talked about Vincent Van Gogh a bit. We will focus on him and his art for several weeks. Once a week we go to the local art gallery after music class. We will look at some Van Gogh books during that time. 

Poem 

Ah! Sun-flower - Wikipedia https://share.google/6neglT008MuyayZfk

Books

We absolutely LOVE both of these book series.

The Bad Seed is a lovely book that shows the story of how this sunflower became bad and how he wants to be good. 

Garden Time takes the reader through planting seeds, insects, pollination, and all the way to the market or table. 

Garden Time from the Hello, World! Series is one of our favorite books! It is a board book but is fantastic and interesting to me as an adult. There's a lot of little extras in it as well. 

Little Sunflower 

Read Aloud on YouTube 

This cute and sweet story goes through the lifecycle of a sunflower at the end for a bit of science.

Counting to Tar Beach is a board book featuring numbers 1-10. The original book Tar Beach by Faith Ringold does not have the much to do with this unit but the board book has an absolutely beautiful sunflower quilt in the end. It's definitely worth a look. It makes me think of the quilts of Gees Bend. 

Here is a book list about children's books about Vincent Van Gogh  from a lovely art box subscription website 

Color Theory Introduction For Toddler Through Middle School

Honestly, I don't too often ask kids to do too much with color theory but a friend asked and my three year old and I do actually do some, though I hadn't ever considered articulating it.... So here goes. 

Lots of books and seeing colors 

My favorite color theory books for little little kids are 

Blue Goose 

Blue Goose is for younger kids but is sooo well done. 

There is a 3rd book I'll come back and add if I can find a link. I think it's out of print but it has overlays and mixes colors 

The Little Engine That Could 

This version specifically mixes the yellow sunset with the blue train. My three year old asked why the train is green so we spent a good amount of time with this one and memorizing basic color mixing. 

Color Schemes 

If you want kids to play with a color you can pick a color scheme for them to play with. 

Primary colors - red, blue and yellow. Giving kids two to play with is a fantastic place to start 

Analogous - colors next to each other on the color wheel.

Warm or cool colors - think the sun (yellow, red, orange) or ocean (purple, blue, green)

*Note*

The color schemes can get tricky. Red paints often have yellow pigment in them so purple is hard to mix. Purples can actually be warm. But for the younger kids this isn't super important. I typically teach the standard and don't bring up the debated primarys or other such things unless I'm with older kids or doing a one-on-one

Artist Study

Study what colors artists use. 

Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers are full of warm colors and his Stary Night is mostly cool colors. 

You can cut tissue paper to match a color scheme or only include certain colors. 

But Most of The Time 

I do let kids pick their colors and we get a lot of browns. As kids get older or if they want to improve their skills, I will often tell them to stop mixing early on. 

Apple Pie 4th of July - Toddler Activity

We read this book a couple different times over the past week. 

Some words to let the little ones sound out or "squish" where they hear you say the individual phonics sounds and they put the word together are the signs and title.

I have my little one sound out the title on the covers. But also signs inside the book. Also since he has memorized the title and doesn't read it I have him pick out individual sounds or in this case the word "of" since we focused on the vowel O this week. 

RE read the book again on the 4th and the little one sorted out pom poms to create apple pie filling. 

He wanted me to put the pie in the oven and take it out after a while. 

I made to oven from a cereal box a while back specifically for some cookie making activities a while back. This box is also a tomb for Easter and I want to make a car wash front part as well. 

The bottom pie crust is a pancake from another activity. It is is felt and I used crimping shears for the crust tops. You could also cut half circles and full circles to use as pepperonis, and apple pieces in other projects. 

He may have gotten a little wild but he needs lots of full body movement and we got to practice fine motor and sorting skills putting them away.

Sensory Bin Hack

I then put the pom poms in my winter bin for Christmas and Valentine's Day. 

We didn't talk much about the main character being a Chinese immigrant but this could be a discussion as well. This conversation could pair well with I hate English for a slightly older kid 

Toddler and Elementary Devotion Book

Here's a little lovely book I found recently at the local libraries used book store for fifty centes. It is great for 3-7 year olds.

You can listen to some chapters on You Tube as well. It is available used and new online as well. 

I have not began it with the little one yet but this summer our morning Bible studies have been him picking what he wants to read from a few different books so it has made it's way into that stack. 

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