Great Commission Publications, which is a joint Christian Education endeavor between the PCA and the OPC, puts out a curriculum that teaches the First Catechism. It is called Kid's Quest Catechism Club.  I have used this curriculum and it is very helpful, however it covers large portions of catechism at one time.  So be aware.  It is memory-intensive.


You can find more information, as well as sample curriculum here. 

Children's Ministry International out of Tucker, GA has put together a very comprehensive catechism curriculum.  They even have a CD of their own memory songs.  Just a note, though, the children's catechism is a little different than the First Catechism.  It has 145 questions instead of 150, so just be aware that, though many of the questions are similar the two catechisms are not interchangeable.  Be advised of this when you are buying supplemental materials.  If you are going to go with their curriculum, then make sure you buy their supplemental materials as well.  You can find out more information at their website here.  

Great Commission Publications has a comprehensive Sunday School program.  For children's ministry they cover anywhere from 2 years old all the way through 5th grade.  They also have a youth curriculum.  It is your typical Sunday School program with songs, games, activities/crafts.  The older kids have fill-in-the-blank worksheets. It is all full color, so it can get a bit pricey when you are ordering the extra curriculum packages for a lot of children.  You can learn more here at GCP's site. 

David C. Cooke has a competing curriculum called "Reformation Press".  I'm looked through some of this curriculum and as for as cost, it is comparable to GCP's Show Me Jesus curriculum.  However, there is something about this curriculum that, I believe, sets it apart from GCP, its scope and sequence is amazing.  Reformation Press has a study for 2 year olds all the way through adults!  Check out their scope and sequence here.  It is a Christian Education pastor's dream. Only problem is, how much money do you really have alloted for CE?  And most churches tend to do a la carte studies and not programmed studies like this. The other downside is that I'm not familiar with the writers of this curriculum.  I know the people who work on GCP and their commitment to Covenant Theology and the Reformed Faith, but I'm not sure who is writing this stuff.  If you look at David C. Cooke, they are the ones that gave us Boz.  So, you have to be the judge.  Check out the sample materials before you buy and try to talk to others who have used the materials. The benefit, however, is that they've covered the learning sequence from 2 years old to adulthood.  I can't tell you how impressive that is, but I'll leave it up to you to do your investigating.  You can find their site here. 

Talk about impressive.  The people at Piper's Desiring God Ministries have given us some great Reformed and Evangelical resources for our kids.  This curriculum is less expensive than the two companies above, but what is more appealing is the format.  Both of the above have a more traditional Sunday School format, whereas the Children Desiring God curriculum is comprised of 1) Worship  2) Teaching 3) Small Group Application.  They give craft ideas and game ideas, but they are less about crafts and more about learning.  The lessons I've read are both well-written and fun.  The model also breaks from the static, old-style Sunday School classroom that, let's face it, can feel like school 2.0 to most kids.  The small group integration is very appealing and the format can be applied to churches both large and small. Another plus to this group is that they have created intergenerational studies. The downside, if you are a Presbyterian you have to watch for some minor points of disagreement with our Reformed Baptist brothers.  All in all, this is a great curriculum resource.  They have resources for children and youth, but you can also click on their resources for adults over at Desiring God Ministries.  Click here for their site. 

Constance Dever, the wife of Reformed Baptist pastor Mark Dever has churned out this curriculum for kids that is FREE.  Yes, free for non-commercial, educational use.  There is a suggested donation of $150.  That's a good suggestion.  


Praise Factory is billed as systematic theology for children.  It is not "technically" a catechism, although it uses a series of questions and answers.  But it is from a Reformed point of view.  I had three problems with this curriculum and two had nothing to do with Dever's curriculum at all.  The first was that we found it hard to adapt to our structure, but that was the nature of our CE time, not the curriculum.  The second was that we, at the time, did not own a color copier.  If you use this curriculum, you will burn through a lot of colored ink printing out the materials.  The third is that she isn't complete with the whole program.  So she's still in the process of writing and we were a little too fast for her and got finished quickly.  There is one more quirky thing, but we found it was helpful in the end.  She asks you to repeat the same lesson three times with the smaller children, arguing that the repetition breeds learning.  There is a lot of repetition even in the words used in the curriculum and it really does make it easier for children to latch onto.  


To check out her work go to her site here.