Flash Cards
 

Good for preschoolers. Make cards with an image from the lesson or verse on one side and the memory work on the other. The children will identify the image with the verse, and will have better recall in later weeks.

Print Old Testament Flash Cards .pdf
Print New Testament Flash Cards .pdf
These cards are designed to fit on pre-perforated business card sheets. Use to play "concentration", attach to magnets to use on whiteboards or cookie sheets. For more ideas, see the Books of the Bible FlashCards page.

Hide that Word

Good for juniors. Takes time, but good when they don't study at home. Print each word of the memory verse/list on a 3x5 or 4x6 card. Thumb tack the cards to a bulletin board in order, facing-out. Have the class read it aloud together. Turn one card over, and have a student read the verse, filling in the missing word. That student then turns over whatever word they choose. Repeat with the next student, until all the cards are turned over. Variation includes writing the words on balloons and popping them one at a time.

Variation
Reverse the process. Write the verse, short ones are easiest, on a pasteboard. Cover each letter individually with a post-it note. Have the students guess letters, and reveal them when they are right. The first student to guess the verse correctly wins.

Hopscotch

Use drafting tape or chalk to draw a hopscotch grid on the floor. Tape the Bible verse words into the grids. Have students jump through the hopscotch in order while saying the verse.

OR

Order a hopscotch board like this one from Highlights for Children and put words from the memory verse on each block.

Jigsaw Puzzle

Juniors. Write out the verse on a large piece of paper, or more than one if the class is large. Cut the paper into a jigsaw puzzle. Divide the class into groups and have them compete to put the puzzle together first.

Mix-up

Print the verse or list on 3x5 cards, one word per card. Make more than one set for large groups. Divide class into teams, and have the teams put the cards in order.

Variation: Tape the 3x5 cards onto cans. Have the students puts the cans in order on a table.

Round Robin

Larger groups. Print a verse or list on cards. Hand each student one card. Have the students line up in a circle in order.

• Replace the bean bag with a ball of yarn. Have students wrap the yarn around their finger when they catch it to create a huge spider web.
• Point to students randomly, breaking rhythm by repeating students, etc.
• Get an arrow spinner from a game or draw one on a bottle. Spin the arrow to see who says the verse next.

  Get cozy in a bean bag chair or other foam furniture. Great for kids rooms or to add to your living room furniture.

• Pass a Bible around the room while singing a song. When the song stops, the person with the Bible says the verse.
• Have students recite the verse to a puppet. Have the puppet repeat back the verse. Occasionally have the puppet repeat it incorrectly to have the student correct him.
• Call on groups of children to say the verse together. (e.g. everyone who has blue eyes, everyone who had cereal for breakfast, everyone who has a sister.)
• Blindfold one child. Other students stand in a circle around them, passing around a bell and each ringing it once. when the blindfolded student calls stop, the student with the bell says the verse. The blindfolded student tries to guess who said the verse. (students can disguise their voices). Then the child with the bell replaces the one in the circle.
• Play outside. Name one child 'it'. That person tags another, who must say the verse. The two of them hold hands and tag a third, and so on until the last student has said the verse.  

Scramble/Cryptic

Puzzlemaker.com will create puzzles for you from verses!

For readers. Done as a group, in little groups, or individually.

• Take all the vowels and spaces out and have the students recreate the verse.

• Assign a symbol for each letter and have the student break the code.

• Put the words in a word search or crossword puzzle. Try a crossword without any clues.