What Is Wonder Ink Curriculum?
Wonder Ink is a customizable digital children’s ministry curriculum from David C Cook. It can be used for Sunday school, children’s church, or midweek programming.
Its main age levels are Early Childhood and Elementary, with additional resources for babies, toddlers, younger elementary children, and preteens.
All age groups study the same Bible story each week, with materials adapted to their stage of development. That gives ministry teams a shared teaching plan while allowing individual classrooms to use different activities and discussion questions.
Explore the options for Early Childhood and Elementary and Preteen.
What Comes With Wonder Ink?
Wonder Ink includes lesson content, Bible story videos, memory verse videos, games, activities, music resources, and take-home materials.
Early Childhood lessons include hands-on activities and memory verse motion videos. Elementary materials include call-and-response memory verse videos, with activities for younger elementary children and preteens.
Wonder Ink provides separate Bible story videos for Early Childhood and Elementary. The age groups explore the same story, with scripting and context suited to each audience.
For your team, the preparation starts with reviewing the lesson and choosing the resources you will use. Volunteers receive the teaching material, while videos and graphics support what happens on the classroom screen. Explore Wonder Ink’s resources and FAQs.
Lessons That Fit Your Service Length
Wonder Ink offers ready-to-go lesson options for 30, 60, or 75 minutes. Teams can also customize the lesson and select activities to fit their classrooms.
That provides a starting point for churches with different schedules. A shorter session might use fewer activities, while a longer program can allow more time for discussion and participation.
The curriculum supports both age-graded classrooms and large group/small group settings. Your team can decide which parts happen together and which work better in smaller groups.
Before introducing a lesson, walk through the sequence with a volunteer. Check that the activities, media, and transitions fit the time you actually have.
Resources for Families
Wonder Ink’s family resources are called Wonder@Home.
They include series overviews, weekly lesson resources, videos, and a family portal with activities and bonus digital content. Communication templates help churches share information through email, text, or social media.
These materials give families a way to revisit what children explored at church. Your team can choose a consistent way to share them so parents know where to find each week’s resources.
Wonder Ink also includes four family ministry events each year, with materials to help churches plan shared experiences. Learn about Wonder@Home and family events.
Support for Planning and Volunteers
Wonder Ink follows a three-year teaching plan with 52 weeks of content per year. Lessons are grouped into four- to six-week series, including dedicated Christmas and Easter series.
That gives teams a view of what is coming so they can prepare supplies, review media, and communicate with volunteers ahead of time.
Within the platform, teams can customize lessons and export them as Word documents or PDFs. Wonder Academy provides videos to help leaders learn the platform and its preparation tools.
For churches already using Wonder Ink, preparing several lessons together can make it easier to establish a consistent rhythm for reviewing content and sharing leader materials. Explore the platform’s planning and export tools.
Try a Series With Your Team
Wonder Ink offers a free four-week series with access to its online features. No credit card is required.
Use that opportunity to review both the content and the preparation process. Ask volunteers to walk through a lesson, watch the videos, and identify anything they would adjust for their room.
You can also explore the family resources to see how they would fit your existing communication routine. Try Wonder Ink.
The Playlister Advantage
Once you have prepared the lesson, Playlister can help organize its downloadable videos and slide images for your classroom TVs.
Your team can build playlists that combine Wonder Ink media with your church’s welcome slides, announcements, and worship content. Prepare those playlists centrally, then make them available in the appropriate rooms.
Volunteers can use a familiar presentation process as they move between media, teaching, and activities.
How It Works
Step 1 — Upload Your Wonder Ink Media
Download the videos and slide images you want to use from Wonder Ink’s Resource Library, then upload the supported media files to Playlister.
Step 2 — Build and Schedule Your Playlist
Arrange the media in presentation order, send the playlist to the appropriate screens, and set when it should appear.
Step 3 — Point and Click to Present
Volunteers use the Apple TV remote to move through the playlist. Once the media has fully downloaded to the Apple TV, those files can play without WiFi.
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Whether your church already uses Wonder Ink or is considering it for the future, set up a call with our team to walk through what using Wonder Ink with Playlister could look like in your rooms.