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Bible Verse Fun With Kids: 200+ Ideas & Activities That Help Children Learn & Live Scripture
Bible Verse Fun with Kids offers children's teachers over 200 activities that help children learn and remember the Biblical story. In addition, service projects are included that help children live what they learn. Bible Verse Fun with Kids is designed for use with children ages 6-11. Each featured verse includes a program that can be used as a complete teaching session that focuses on a particular text, or specific activities related to the verse can be selected and incorporated into an existing lesson. Key 25 Bible verses with 6-10 activities per lesson; Hundreds of crafts, puzzles, stories, art and service projects, bulletin board ideas, etc.; High energy games and musical activities.
152 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2004
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January 23, 2016
We did this activity book with the kids three summers in a row, because the games and activities take a little longer than an usual school night would allow. This book is a good way to get a Bible verse in mind in a variety of ways, before moving on to the next verse. We chose this study because of the fun activities.
I still remember the game Stepping Stones from our first summer of this study about the solid support of the Word of God. We did The Words of My Mouth project during a family vacation, as a way to encourage us all to speak more positively of each other, and it helped during a time when can usually get a little snappish. I asked the kids what their favorite activities were last summer. My 8 year old liked making the love cookies to give away. My 11 year old liked the Keys to God's Heart (which I changed, as I'll tell below,) and making the Seek the Lord scroll of Matt. 7:7. My 14 year old also liked the Keys, the heart puzzle, and the lost sheep. My husband and I both liked that the Matt. 22:37 chapter coincided to reinforce the Vacation Bible School theme. I enjoyed doing the prep time for the activity Behind Closed Doors, but I researched Bible verses of concrete promises God made, along with things we are to search for. (Matt. 7:7) I also thought the Flashlight game turned out well, although the 14 year old decided it was too juvenile. The book is geared towards kids aged 6-11, and the 14 year old was good to go along with so much of it.
One downside of this book is the activity prep time, which is why we relegate it to summers. The activities themselves don't take that long, but on a homework-stressed night, may still be too long.
Another downside was the single chapter, Keys to the Kingdom. It seemed to me that the discussion and activities took this verse out of context to mean something that it didn't. Read the entire context of the verse, Matt 16:19, if you choose to do these activities. We left most of them out, but did do the Key to God's Heart, with alterations. The Key to God's Heart is Jesus, not any other positive attribute that He develops in us when He comes to live in us. There's nothing we can do to make Him love us any more than He already does, with His vast, unending love.
When we began the study with the kids, only the oldest was too old for it, but was a good sport about it. By the time we ended the study, the two older kids were outside the suggested age range on the back, but were good sports and seemed to enjoy some of it. The youngest child, now 9, has loved the study and is sad to see it go.
I still remember the game Stepping Stones from our first summer of this study about the solid support of the Word of God. We did The Words of My Mouth project during a family vacation, as a way to encourage us all to speak more positively of each other, and it helped during a time when can usually get a little snappish. I asked the kids what their favorite activities were last summer. My 8 year old liked making the love cookies to give away. My 11 year old liked the Keys to God's Heart (which I changed, as I'll tell below,) and making the Seek the Lord scroll of Matt. 7:7. My 14 year old also liked the Keys, the heart puzzle, and the lost sheep. My husband and I both liked that the Matt. 22:37 chapter coincided to reinforce the Vacation Bible School theme. I enjoyed doing the prep time for the activity Behind Closed Doors, but I researched Bible verses of concrete promises God made, along with things we are to search for. (Matt. 7:7) I also thought the Flashlight game turned out well, although the 14 year old decided it was too juvenile. The book is geared towards kids aged 6-11, and the 14 year old was good to go along with so much of it.
One downside of this book is the activity prep time, which is why we relegate it to summers. The activities themselves don't take that long, but on a homework-stressed night, may still be too long.
Another downside was the single chapter, Keys to the Kingdom. It seemed to me that the discussion and activities took this verse out of context to mean something that it didn't. Read the entire context of the verse, Matt 16:19, if you choose to do these activities. We left most of them out, but did do the Key to God's Heart, with alterations. The Key to God's Heart is Jesus, not any other positive attribute that He develops in us when He comes to live in us. There's nothing we can do to make Him love us any more than He already does, with His vast, unending love.
When we began the study with the kids, only the oldest was too old for it, but was a good sport about it. By the time we ended the study, the two older kids were outside the suggested age range on the back, but were good sports and seemed to enjoy some of it. The youngest child, now 9, has loved the study and is sad to see it go.
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