Review Games

Review 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. I've gotten a lot of game ideas from Ed Dunlop's books and Scripture Lady, 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 also play many of our games using a pocket chart:

My games consist of a title page, which I usually stick right in the middle (or in the top pocket of a pocket chart), and the game pieces, which are scattered around (sometimes symetrically, sometimes not). If you subscribe to Scripture Lady's Scripture Lady's free newsletter, she will send 6 awesome games right to your inbox!

If you have PowerPoint, Bro. Dunlop has an excellent resource: