If you've ever volunteered with kids' ministry, you know the Saturday-night ritual. The lesson's at 10am. It's now 9pm. You're three browser tabs deep, copying clues out of a free word-search generator. The spacing on the memory-verse worksheet won't behave. Somewhere there's a colouring-page pin on Pinterest that probably doesn't violate seven copyrights. By the time you've printed it, you wish you'd just bought Twinkl.

Kids Hub is the way out. It's a small library of printable-resource generators built into ChurchLinker, designed for the volunteer Sunday-school teacher who's got thirty minutes and a topic. We launched it with eight generators. We're now up to thirteen, plus a Curriculum Builder for term and year plans, plus a Teaching Planner that links each lesson to the upcoming rota slot. Same pricing. Same per-group enablement.

Thirteen generators, one screen

Open your group's Kids Hub and you get the tile grid. Word Search. Crossword. Memory Verse activities (fill-in-the-blank, rearrange, handwriting practice, all from one verse). Certificate (attendance, Bible memorisation, star student). AI Lesson Plan. Bible Quiz (multiple choice, true or false, or fill-in-the-blank). Parent Take-Home Sheet. Colouring Page (a vivid AI-drafted scene with a generous drawing area). Story Simplifier. Sermon to Children's Lesson. Escape Room Bible Game. Bible Timeline. Story Order cards.

Each one's a tight form. The Word Search asks for a topic and a list of words. The Crossword asks for clues and answers. The Lesson Plan asks for a topic, an age group, a duration and an optional Bible passage. Twenty to forty seconds of typing and you're ready to generate.

No AI? Five of the thirteen still work

Word Search, Crossword, Memory Verse activities, Certificate and Story Order cards are pure algorithm. Deterministic, free, instant. The Word Search uses a placement algorithm seeded from your inputs, so the same topic and word list always give the same grid. That's useful if you need to re-print and you don't want to confuse the kids with a new layout. The Crossword interlocks letters greedily and tells you honestly when a clue couldn't be placed, so you can swap it for a shorter answer. The Story Order generator shuffles N story-moment cards for the puzzle and gives you the canonical sequence as the answer key.

These five work for every church on every plan, with or without AI features enabled. No credit cost, no API key, no toggle to flip.

Want AI? Turn it on with one toggle

Lesson Plan, Bible Quiz, Parent Take-Home Sheet, Colouring Page, Story Simplifier, Sermon to Children's Lesson, Escape Room and Bible Timeline are AI-driven. The lesson plan generator asks the AI for a structured plan: lesson objective, opening prayer, ice-breaker, Bible reading, three to five discussion questions, a fitting memory verse, two to four practical activities, closing prayer. British English by default, warm tone, age-appropriate, theologically careful without being preachy.

The Story Simplifier is the one that gets a lot of love. Six reading levels, including an Adult ESL mode for English-as-additional-language adults in your church. Same Bible passage, six different reading levels, one click each. The Sermon to Children's Lesson generator takes Sunday's pastor notes and turns them out as a kid-friendly lesson pack, with a summary, a memory verse, an activity and a colouring scene. The Escape Room generator builds a multi-station printable pack with an intro story and three to six stations, each with a puzzle, an answer and a reward. The Bible Timeline produces a wall-poster timeline of N events along a topic or era.

Crucially, Kids Hub AI is held behind its own toggle, separate from the church's general AI setting. A church that doesn't want AI in their giving reports or sermon transcripts can still turn on Kids Hub AI for the Sunday-school team. The other way round works too.

The Curriculum Builder: a term or year of weeks in one place

Most Sunday-school teams plan in terms. Spring term, autumn term, sometimes the full year. The Curriculum Builder is where that plan lives. Pick a name ('Spring Term 2026'), an arc theme ('The Story of God'), an age group and a week count. Each week gets a row with the topic, scripture, big idea, learning objective and any notes. If you've already saved a Kids Hub resource for that week, you can pin it to the row and it shows up in the planner and the rota too.

There's an AI draft button for the whole curriculum. Tell it the theme and the term length, it'll draft topics, scriptures and big ideas across the weeks. Edit any row, regenerate any row. The leader stays in control, the AI gives them a starting point.

The Teaching Planner: link each lesson to a rota slot

The Teaching Planner is the calendar view. It pulls in every kids' rota slot for the coming weeks and lets you attach a saved Kids Hub resource to each one. The teacher serving on the rota that Sunday sees the linked lesson on their slot in their member app. No more 'who's got the file?' on the church WhatsApp at 8pm on Saturday.

Save to the group's shared library

Every generation is cheap. One AI credit for the heavier ones, free for the algorithmic ones. You can regenerate variants without guilt. When you've got one you like, click Save to library. The resource lands in the group's shared library, and next term's teacher can pick it up rather than starting again. The library's per-group. The Kids Team's library and the Youth Team's library are independent.

Print it, or email it to yourself

Each saved resource has a print-friendly page. Server-rendered, clean A4 layout, the church's name in the footer. Tap Print, choose Save as PDF, you've got the file. Or hit Email me and we'll send a link to your own logged-in email. That's handy when you generate on your phone and want to print at home later.

Per-group enablement keeps it tidy

Not every group needs Kids Hub. The Worship Team doesn't need a word-search generator. So enablement's a two-step opt-in. The church admin enables Kids Hub at the church level in Settings, and then per-group on each group's edit page. The Kids Team gets it. The choir doesn't.

Available now

Kids Hub is on every plan. The AI generators are gated by the standard AI credit system and behind the Kids Hub AI toggle. If you've been printing Sunday-school worksheets at 10pm on a Saturday, set aside thirty minutes one weeknight and prep the next four weeks in one sitting. Your future Saturday self will thank you.

Sunday school resources in 30 seconds: meet ChurchLinker Kids Hub