Memory Verse games can be used as time fillers, break up monotony, and the most important-teach the word of God.

YOU’RE IT

Choose one person to be ‘it’; play the game of freeze tag, whoever ‘it’ chooses must say the memory verse. If they correctly answer the memory verse, they may continue to play, but if they can’t then they are out, the last person in the game wins.

LINE IT UP

Write the memory verse on a name tag; give each child a name tag, use two sets of name tags that are different if your group is large. When you say go, have the children line up in order to complete the memory verse.

HOT POTATOE

Sit the children in a circle; pass a potato or beanbag around the circle while playing music. Stop the music and let whoever is holding the object say the memory verse, if it is difficult, allow the child to ask whoever is on their right to help them.

Ball
Divide your group into two teams. Have the teams go to opposite sides of the rom. Assign one child on the first team a key word from the bible lesson. Then assign one child from the second team that same word. Do these with all the children, making sure each time you assign a word to a child on one team you assign the same word to a child on the other team. Place the ball on the floor between the two teams, call out one of the key words. The two children assigned that word should race to get the ball. The child who grabs the ball should run back to his team while the other player tries to tag him. If the player with the ball gets back to his team without being tagged, his team gets that point. If he is tagged, the other team gets a point. Whichever player gets the point can gain an extra point if he can explain the word that was called out and tell how it relates to the bible lesson.

MEMORY VERSE FISHING

Fishing poles with magnets attached

Write memory verse on cardstock cut into fish shapes, use two different colors of cardstock. Attach a large paper clip to the fish. Take a stick with string and place a magnet on the end of the string. Have the children take turns to catch a fish, if they the wrong fish (color) have them throw the fish back. When the team has collected all their fish, have them hang the fish on a clothesline in proper order. First team to complete the task wins.

ALWAYS HERE
Ask a child to be the volunteer, line up five kids holding a part of the memory verse. Give the volunteer 30 seconds to look at each of the children. Then blindfold the volunteer, and then call out a word in the memory verse that each child on the line is holding. If the volunteer can guess the identity of the child on the line, he wins. We couldn’t see the children on the line, but we did know facts about them and knew they were there. Just as we can’t see Jesus, but we know him and know he is standing with us always