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Review GamesReview games are probably one of my favorite things about children's church! The kids think they're really fun, too. I can't think of a thing to reinforce the Bible lesson and memory verse that is quite as effective as our games. We have collected quite a repertoire of review games in our tote of children's church ministry paraphernalia. I make most of them myself (come to think of it, I've made all of them myself). I've gotten a lot of game ideas from Ed Dunlop's books, which we hope to someday provide through our site. But I've thought of many of them myself just while thinking and praying on the main teaching for our children's church. I also get many great ideas for games while roaming around in the teachers' store. I look at all the cut-outs and bulletin board sets and try to think of ways to incorporate them into a game. In our children's church room we have three huge boards on stands with wheels. They are two-sided with a marker board on one side and cork on the other. I think that a man in our church built them, and they are terrific. The boards themselves are probably about three feet tall and six feet wide (my guess). So I have a lot of space to fill, but I really love the huge boards. I use one of them for the review game, one for the memory verse, and one as a mobile bulletin board or to post our score chart if we're in a campaign (I surround the chart with bulletin board-type cutouts). I'm sure that it would not be common for other children's church ministries to have a board such as this, so you will have to have something on which to play your review games. If you are handy, perhaps you can built such a board. You could use a flannel board if you have one, a normal bulletin board mounted on the wall or sitting on an easel, or just a piece of plywood if that's all you can come up with. Cover it with some dark fabric or marlite (the stuff white marker boards are made of), and you're ready to play a review game (well, almost)! My games consist of a title page, which I usually stick right in the middle, and the game pieces, which are scattered around (sometimes symetrically, sometimes not). My plans are to provide detailed instructions for making the games, how to play them, and photos of what they look like in action. However, I have so much work to do on this website that I'm not sure I can get this going right away. I just wanted to give you a heads up of what's to come, so stay tuned!
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