Looking for ideas

Rebekah - posted on 05/22/2010

Make flash cards, each flash card has a different book of the Bible on it. Then play random games each week...

Scatter all the cards over the floor and have all the kids try to put them in order together as a team.

Scatter all the cards over the floor and call out a book of the Bible for one person or a team to find and when they do, they have to tell who wrote the book or something...

Another game you can do is make 2 poster boards, one that says NEW and the other that says OLD. Hang them on opposite walls. Have the kids stand in the center of the room and then call out a book of the Bible, the kids run to the wall they think the book of the Bible is found in (New Testament or Old Testament).


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Julie - posted on 05/22/2010

I don't know the books of the Bible. I know basically where they are, but I usually look them up if I get stuck. In Awana at our church, many times kids were doing fine with Bible verses, but got stuck on the books of the Bible and couldn't get past them. My daughter did memorize them, but she forgot now. But it sounds like you are making it fun.

Mandi - posted on 05/22/2010

When I was in youth, one of our favorite things to do was Bible drills where the teacher called out a verse and the first one who found it got to read it. There were no prizes involved...just the thrill of finding it first. You could adapt it to include as many or as few books as you have gone over. I think we did 8-10 verses and we used the whole Bible, but we were older than 5th grade when we started.



When I taught kids in a class, they liked the "Who am I" game where I wrote out names of people or events in the Bible, books of Bible, or places mentioned in it and put them on index cards. Each child chose an index card (they couldn't see what they drew) and then we taped it on their forehead. They had to ask yes/no questions to see if they could figure it out. The number of questions they could ask was determined by the number of kids in the class that day.



We also had the kids act out scenes in the Bible and sometimes we wrote them and other times we divided the kids in a couple groups and just told them the story they were to act out and then they had to come up with something. They loved it when we acted out different feasts or events where they learned about the food they ate back then, clothing they wore, etc although some of that may take a little research on your part (I think we were doing a Beth Moore study for children that we just took stuff from so we weren't doing all the research).

Jennifer - posted on 05/04/2010

Heather, I know it is amazing to be able to teach your own children and I am doing this with my two.

Denise, thank you so much for the suggestions. I agree it becomes a challenge to teach them and with the group that I have (20+) it is hard to get them all on the same page. But most of the times when we do our lessons we are acting it out because I have learned that they "get" it better, plus like you said, I don't want them to just sit there and be bored and listening to me teach them. But I like the puzzle idea, really like that! Thank you so much!

Denise - posted on 05/02/2010

Perhaps you have already thought of this but I will not assume you have. Since there are so many books I would break them up into say groups of six. (It's said we remember things easier in groups of six. (?)) Take each group and make the names of the book into a puzzle piece that can only connect to the next book. Maybe repeat a color pattern with the pieces. I would also use a song to sing the books or find a beat the kids like and let them sing to it.
Whatever you do I would use each of the senses to teach them. Hearing, seeing, touching. When I taught Sunday school I always tried to appeal to those senses everytime because all children learn differently.
God bless you for what you are doing and for searching out creative ways to do it. Kids are in school all week long and that becomes a challenge for teaching them on Sunday.
I learned more teaching them than they probably learned from me. God is good that way. :)

Heather - posted on 04/30/2010

I am working on this with my boys too! We have a song on CD like you said... but I don't really have much else... I am looking forward to hearing others suggestions!