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Please feel free to copy and share all of our materialsFirst Grade to Preteen, Versatile activities for many situations and topics |
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MEMORY WITH A TWIST,This game is best for grades 3-6 and can be used with many different lessons and themes, i.e., Bible People, Bible Events, etc.. Make up 5x3 index cards in matching pairs and play just like any memory game. The twist is that the cards are not identical. The kids must figure out which two cards go together. (If they have a match and do not know it, I help them.)
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| 2. | Bible Jeopardy starts with a poster board that is divided into five columns and 3 rows.
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Have the children sit in a circle. Give the children a bean bag to pass around. The teacher/instructor turns and looks away from circle and after a minute or so, says, "Stop."
Whoever is caught with the bean bag must recite one of the Ten Commandments (This can vary, for younger children ask a question such as what was the name of Jesus' mother, etc.)
The teacher/instructor then writes the Ten Commandments on the board as they are recited. We had a lot of fun with this game. Hope you enjoy it too |
| 4. | We played a game I called “Who wants to be a Kingdom Heir”. It was a real great way to get kids to listen to our Bible story because they wanted to know the answer if they got to the hot seat! At the end of class, I would hand out a paper that would have a question on it and four answers that they would put in order. For example, I would name four books of the Bible. They would have to put them in the correct order, and whoever answered the fastest correctly would get the hot seat. I would have prepared about 10 questions relating to the Bible story we just read. They would have an option to ask the audience, ask a friend or do the 50/50. I had levels they got to where they would win something after answering 3 questions correctly like a piece of candy then if all ten were answered correctly a big candy bar. You can also have a lot of fun making up the questions. They looked forward each week to playing and another good thing about this game is it lasted quite a few weeks because each week a different child would get to play. I would let all participate in the fast finger question but if they already got to the hot seat once, I would take the second fastest so all had a chance to play. They really loved this game it was a lot of preparation though on the questions but well worth it they all learned because even if they weren't in the hot seat they knew they might be called on to help a friend in trouble. |
| 5. | Bible Jeopardy, I made up a game called "Bible Jeopardy". After the Bible story we play this game, and I find that it makes the kids want to listen and learn the story so that they can earn the points (we play kids against teachers - that really gets them excited ! ) Here's how you make it: Think of the jeopardy game on TV. I took a poster board, wrote Bible Jeopardy on top, under it I cut squares of paper a little bigger than the sticky note pads, and I wrote the number of points that question would be worth (10 for the easiest questions - 40 for the harder ones ), and I decorated the board (any way you want ), place them in five rows of four, or more if you are able to, then write down your questions from your Bible story on the sticky note pads, and place them under your pieces of paper that have your points written on them, and then you are ready to play ! I hope you all enjoy it as much as we have. These are some of the questions that she used in a class called "Angels told about Gods Son": |
| 1. What is the name of the Angel who told Mary that she was going to have a baby? |
| 2. Are Angels human? |
| 3. What is the Job of an Angel? |
| 4. Why did God choose Mary to have this special baby? |
| 5. Where was Mary believed to have been from? |
| 6. What was the name of Mary's baby? |
| 6. | Learning new Verses; Christian word scramble: Each of the words in a verse are written on a separate piece of paper. Each piece of paper is given to a kid. The kids with the papers can stand anywhere in the room, in any order. The kids with the papers hold them up so everyone else can see what is written on them. The rest of the kids have to figure out what the verse is, and put all of the kids with the papers in the correct order. |
| 7. | Learning Bible Stories; Bible Story Concentration: Make up duplicate flash cards, two of each picture. They can be on various bible stories or related to one topic of study. The flash cards are lined up in rows, face down, in a random order. The child can then pick one card and turn it face up. They then pick a second card trying to match the first. If they successfully match the duplicate card, they remove both from the playing surface and earn a point. With older elementary children, the child can be required to answer a question related to the card chosen in order for the match to be considered complete. |
| 8. | God wants to have an active part in your life; The Gospel Tree: There are several versions of this game. Start by drawing a large tree with no leaves on a large piece of paper.
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| 9. | Bible, the Disappearing Angel: I have a little twist on the traditional "hangman" game we all resort to . . . . I felt that the hangman image was not really appropriate for my religious education classes. Instead, we play "Disappearing Angel". The game is played the same as hangman, except that if the guess is wrong, a part of an angel I've drawn on the chalkboard is erased. I try to put as many parts on the angel as I can: halo, wings, hair, 2 hands in prayer, little feet, etc. . . . I've never seen the entire angel disappear....and the kids really love it.
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| 10. | Bible Hangman: Draw a figure for hanging the man. A platform (an E without the short center line.) with a short line from the
top to represent a rope. You make dashes for the word that is being guessed,
such as "Genesis" __ __ __ __ __ __ __. One child guesses a letter, if
incorrect you draw a circle at the bottom of the rope to represent a head
and write the missed letter below the dashed lines. When a correct letter
is guessed it is written on the appropriate dashed line. For each incorrect
letter you add another part of the man's body (arms, legs, nose, etc.)
until he is hanged. Each time you guess a correct letter you get another
turn. the idea is to save the man by guessing the word before he is hanged.
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| 11. | Learning the Word with Tic TAC Toe: make two teams. Ask each team a Bible question when they answer correctly. They get to place their mark on the Tic Tac Toe board. The winning team gets a prize. |
| 12. | Learning new verses with The Bible verse puzzle: Each word of a verse is placed on a small piece of paper. Make one set of verse pieces for each team, so that all of the teams have the same verse. The team that figures out the verse first wins a prize. |