Christian Gift Guide for Kids-Grow the faith this Season

Tired of Christmas gifts you spent too much time finding, buying, wrapping, and affording? Fed up with them being stepped on, crammed under, forgotten, or thrown-out…all by the time February rolls around? Give differently this year. Or at least give some gifts that will grow your kids’ (or your grandkids’) faith! Check out this Christian gift guide for kids.

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Add some powerful reads to your home library and you’ll find these gifts giving back to your kids all year long. Surrounding your kids with engaging books is not only a literacy strategy to help grow their reading skills, but also a great way to feed their faith.

Plus, these types of resources are not typically found at the library or book stores. And they are hard to find inexpensively at a thrift shop or in a used bookstore. So giving them as gifts is a great way to get them intentionally in the hands of the kids we love.

1. The Ology

After reading different children’s Bibles every night for years with our kids, we decided to start going through this gorgeous book by Marty Machowski. This book is simplified systematic theology for kids. (Get it: The Ology=Theology.) When our son was 4 and our daughter was 6 we would read a few paragraphs a night and talk about the illustrations. This book grows with your kids since it is chock full of Bible verses on every illustration, as your kids get older you can deepen the learning by looking up the Bible verses, turning this into a great family devotional as well. (We plan on doing that our second or third time through.)

2. Cold Case Christianity for Kids

Written by a real cold case detective, J. Warner Wallace was not only a genuine detective who appeared as an expert on such shows as 20/20, he was also a genuine skeptic. When his wife wanted to go back to church after they had kids, he thought he would go too, but only to prove Christianity wrong by using his cold-case detective skills. Instead he became a Christian and eventually a powerful out-spoken defender of the faith.

Last fall, I got to go to a conference where J. Warner Wallace spoke. This guy is the real deal. He’s a renowned apologist who has a huge heart for youth and actually was a youth pastor at one point. In the first five minutes of the conference he had us laughing and then crying as he shared authentically from his own life and how much he desires his family to come to know the Lord.

You can read this book as a standalone, BUT there are also on-line enrichment components of a short video and printables. Check-out the free Case Makers Academy.

If you are a grandparent, buy this book and a three ring binder. Print off Wallace’s companion materials from his website, and send it to those grandkids! Then Zoom in and have detective time with that grandchild. This book helps to teach the thinking skills required when thinking about our faith–logic and reasoning, just like a detective. This gift of TIME and the book, could be a gift not only to the child (and YOU), but also for their parents, who need other people investing in their kids…and might need a break if they are full-time parenting/working/homeschooling. For extra fun, the first time you Zoom with your grandchild during this detective time, come in costume. Use an accent! (Did you know there are people on YouTube that teach you how to have an accent?) Ham it up! Give your kids not only a book, but laughter and memories too!

3. Found

From the author and illustrator of the Jesus Storybook Bible comes a richly illustrated book on Psalms 23. This is a wonderful gift to tuck in a basket of goodies for new parents or for the preschool set. This is a simple straightforward retelling of Psalm 23. My kids often picked it to read before bedtime. I loved the wonderful illustrations that acted as a bridge to talk about the meaning of the words. I also loved how short and meaningful it was–so it made for a great bedtime book.

4. The Bible Infographic

Fun, bright graphic design sparks every page in this volume filled with facts, figures, and illustrations that all help the Bible come alive. (Check out page 40 for insights into the nativity scene.) It even talks about how much the cross might have weighed. Wow.

This book is great for kids that love non-fiction. Or kids who pour over the Guinness Book of World Records (I sure did!). It has a comparison chart showing just how big Noah’s ark was (Hint…it’s a lot of pizzas!). Many of the facts lend insights into the Bible World, but also put that knowledge into today’s terms as well. I’ve caught my kids looking at this book many times. (Usually when they were supposed to be cleaning their room!) But having engaging colorful texts like this around is a great way to help passively build Bible literacy.