Religious Education

Religious Education is something many home school families incorporate into their day.

I will not presume to educate your children in religion for you.

However, there are many resources available to families who do want to incorporate religion into their days (as we do). We are LDS, so the resources listed here will be inclined that direction (because that is what I know). Feel free to post additional religious resources in the comments. Again, I hesitate to publish links to for-pay resources, so keep that in mind as you comment.

There is good advice out there about how to incorporate religious instruction into your day.

Teaching the Gospel in the Home covers a less formal approach to gospel education.

Behold Your Little Ones: This includes lessons on religious topics that are ideal for preschool and kindergarten. It also has FANTASTIC tips in the introduction about teaching small children in general, including a "potential problems and solutions" section that every teacher should read.

Teaching, No Greater Call: This is a manual for teaching in the church, but it has fantastic sections on teaching religion in the home, as well as different methods for teaching religion.

Specific ideas for lessons and activities can be found in the previous resources. You might also look in The Family Home Evening Resource Book.

Other resources available to help you teach religion in the home:
Gospel-themed artwork
Other Religious Artwork (historic places, etc)
Scriptures and study helps (Bible Dictionary, maps of biblical places, etc)
Music, including children's songs, mp3s, and units on how to teach music to children
Answers to Religious Questions, listed by topic
The Children's Friend Site-- this has some fantastic games, puzzles, music, coloring pages, and stories.
Scripture Stories for Kids From this site, these stories can be read to your children as videos, read by the children as .pdfs, and downloaded.
Religious Internet Radio, including children's programming
Mormon Messages on YouTube

As I find more resources, I will add to this list.