Bible book memorization games

What are the names of these parts? What are some differences between the Old Testament and the New Testament? How are the 39 books of the Old Testament organized?

What are the 5 sections of the Old Testament called? How would you describe each of these 5 sections? How are the 27 books of the New Testament organized? What are these 5 sections called? How important is it for us to know the organization of the Bible into the various sections that we have just discussed? Conclude Being familiar with the 66 books of the Bible and how they are organized helps us more quickly locate specific passages in the Bible.

More importantly, knowing which section of the Bible a passage is taken from gives us an idea of its genre and helps us understand the passage better. Great ideas. I plan to use this for my virtual Sunday school lesson tomorrow, for ages 6 years. Your email address will not be published. Books of the Bible Memory Game.

Preparation Download, print and cut up 2 sets of the Books of the Bible Cards. Books of the Bible Chart Sections of the Bible Overview How to Play You may want to play this game on the floor as a fairly large playing area is required. Shuffle both sets of Books of the Bible Cards together and place them all facing down. Continue playing until all the cards have been collected.

The player with the most matching pairs wins. Variation 1: Play with Fewer Cards Playing with the full 2 sets of 66 cards can be challenging and perhaps discouraging for some players.

Variation 2: Play with Even Fewer Cards For younger children, you may like to play with even fewer cards. Thank you for your word that will guide me as to how I should live my remaining days. Please grant me the wisdom to discern correctly and motivation to grow my faith, obiendience, understanding, appreciation, and love for you. Thank you for your Grace and mercy that I do not deserve. Thank you that my salvation is not based on my level of performance in my short life but in my receiving what your victory on the cross did pay for.

Thank you that I can receive by my faith alone, your glorious gift of salvation. A great activity for family or ministry events. Bible Catch It Say It. Players stand in a circle and toss a ball among themselves. Whoever catches the ball must say the name of the next book of the Bible before tossing it to another player.

Play this quick game to see if players can recall the names of all 66 books in the correct order. Sections of the Bible Memory Game. Use this game to introduce and familiarize players with the various sections of the Bible. Download the beautiful, printable cards here. Bible Slot and Sort. Use this cooperative game to help players collectively recall the order of the 66 books of the Bible.

Name the Book. A verse is read out and players have to guess which book of the Bible that verse is taken from. Each of the 66 Name the Book Cards contains a carefully selected verse from a different book of the Bible. Bible Look It Up. Players must quickly locate various verses in a hardcopy Bible and write down their respective page numbers. The first team to find all 66 Bible verses wins. You can use this game to introduce the different books and sections of the Bible. Bible Keep It Up.

Teams try to recall the 66 Books of the Bible in the correct order while keeping their balloon up in the air. Bible Pass the Basket. With players sitting in a circle, 3 baskets containing Books of the Bible Cards are passed around. If the book called is from the Old Testament, students take a step toward their left; if it is from the New Testament, they take a step toward their right since, as they are facing the books of the Bible Demonstration Board, the Old Testament is on their left and the New on their right.

Let the student-caller draw and call several cards; then choose a new caller. Continue in this manner as you have time or until you have gone through all the Bible book cards.

Form two teams. Have a member of each team come to the front of the class. Randomly chose a card from the deck and call out the name of the book. Continue, having a new player from each team come to the front. Sing the books of the Old and New Testaments. There are also links to audio files of the two songs excuse quality, for informational purposes only :. NOTE: You can have a student point to the names of the books of the Bible on the demonstration board as the group sings.

My students love leading and using the pointer. We have a telescoping pointer that retracts to the size of a pen when not in use, and we've also used a plastic sword God's Word is a sword!

Giving several different students an opportunity to lead and use the pointer maintains interest while you repeat the songs multiple times. Books of the Old Testament set to "Yankee Doodle" audio. Books of the New Testament Song lyrics. Books of the New Testament Song audio. Here is a video of one of our 5-year-old students singing the books of the Old Testament:.

Old Testament Song Video. Call out books e. Then call out the next books and have them repeat those. Choose consecutive books of the Bible cards equal to the number of students playing the game. Have the kids sit in a circle and tell them which books will be in play. Mix up the cards and distribute one per student.