Category:Bible Games and Learning Tools

This category has media that enables students, parents, teachers, catechists, missionaries, and pastors to challenge the learning of the Bible, while making it fun and exciting. It can be suitable for use in groups with multiple languages, multiple intelligence levels, mixed age groups, and diverse cultural backgrounds. These materials can be used in religion classes, Sunday school classes, or Bible studies and taken home to share with family members.

Some of the ways these materials can be used is for coloring, mix and match the pictures / words (Bible verse or Bible verse numbers), fill in the blank, etc. Keep it fun, encourage often, and everyone will learn faster. Keep competition out and build on teamwork. Find ways to include everyone, even if it means someone else may have to help with the answer. The kind, cooperative, and encouraging atmosphere will help everyone build the right team for God. It will be more productive than a competitive atmosphere.

Noncompetitive activities that can be used for teaching: Actions for in between obstacle course stations; 1. jump on 2 feet 2. Hop on 1 foot (in a square, triangle, circle - have the shape taped onto floor or carpet) 3. Skip (in a circle or other shape next station) 4. Crawl 5. Crab walk 6. Dribble ball to next station and throw it back to previous station 7. Clap hands (over head, in front of you, behind your back) 8. Have a tea party with warm apple juice, hot chocolate, etc. 9. Wave bye-bye or hi to friends 10. Pretend going to sleep 11. Sing a song 12. Bark like a dog or imitate other sounds of God's creation 13. Sit on a chair 14. Throw bean bag into air and catch it 15. Create a geometric design with blocks / pieces of material, cardboard 16. Build a structure out of ceral boxes (or stack 7 boxes) 17. Do origami puzzles or make origmi figures out of paper or cloth napkins 18. Toss bean bag into bowl, target, ice cream container 19. Make a maze 20. Make a marblework with pipes, tubes, small balls 21. Pull on rope to get to next station 22. Tape rope to rug/floor and walk tightrope 23. 2x4 Balance beam on floor 24. Answer 3 math questions 25. Spell your name / name of your friend 26. Jump rope 27. Run through tire obstacles (could use bike tires, hula hoops, rope circles, or taped circles or other shapes on the floor) 28. March for twenty steps 29. Wiggle fingers over head while running to next station 30. Make a bunny with fingers and have him / her hop to next station 31. Pick up vegetables / flowers / alphabet letters / envelopes (mail) and put it in a basket 32. Stack and unstack 10 plastic donuts / blocks / boxes 33. Sort food, transportation, animals, colors, clothing, numbers, letters, etc. and put on felt board / magnetic board, etc. 34. Toss bean bags into different shaped holes 35. Hopscotch 36. Parachute - use light blanket, sheet or parachute and all try to make it rise, lower, make waves, toss a toy, most everyone run under when it is up, etc. 37. Egg and spoon race (can use papier mache egg and spoon) 38. 3 or 4 legged races - for 2 or 3 people 39. Make a structure out of straws - 400-500 straws, connectors also 40 Make a tent out of 2 tables and cover with a sheer curtain, colored transparent table cloth or vinyl 41 Rope ball station 42. Bowling with pop bottles 43. Foam Horsehoe set 44. Ring Toss game 45. Checkers game / tic-tac-toe 46. Arm circles 47. March 48. Jog 49. Jumping jacks 50. Long jump 51. Toe touch or knee touches 52. Kitchen play area 53. Car road play area 54, Put pieces into Shape block 55. Saint Costumes 56. Pull a scarf out of a box, etc. 57. Fishing with a magnet and paper clips on fish shapes or pizza, phone, van, etc, 58. Count and play / magnetic book or board