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1. Be sure children understand what prayer is. Prayer is talking to God in an ordinary manner, out of the depth of your heart. Talking to God is Just like chatting with a friend. 2. Keep prayer a priority in your classroom each week, not just when you have lessons on prayer. Knowing about prayer,…

  Teaching children to pray is not so much “how” to pray, but “what” to pray for. Provide children with ideas of things for which they can pray for on a regular basis, such as the following: Church Members Make a list of people in your church who are home bound, ill, or bereaved. After…

Assign each child a number, by writing it on the palm of their hand. Have children stand in a circle. Call out 3 numbers. They go to the center of the circle and quote the Bible verse.

Have the children stand in a circle. Choose one to be “It.” “It” and the pupil on his right and left say the verse together. “It” throws the ball to a class member. That person becomes “It” and the verse is quoted in the same manner.

Use official Speed Stack cups or large paper cups will also work.Print one word of the Bible verse on each cup. Place cups on a table in random order and have the children stack the cups up vertically as in Speed Stack in the right order. Say the verse together in unison. Another Game: Play…

Have each child write his/name on a 3″ x 5″ card and put it into a container. Choose a student to pick out two names from the box. These two pupils stand and say the verse together. Pick another child to pull out two more name cards; they read the verse. Continue until all of…

    Make a segmented worm from construction paper, by drawing circles (tracing around the bottom of a glass works great!). Put an eye and a smile on one for the head. Write the verse, one word per segment, on the worm. Hand out segments of the worm to class members and have them put…

 Seat the children in a circle and give one child a Bible.Start music playing. Children pass the Bible until the music stops. Whoever is holding the Bible and the child on his/her right and left say the verse together. Continue until the verse has been repeated several times.

Blow up long balloons and write the day’s memory verse on slips of paper. Insert into the balloons. Child # 1 pops a balloon and reads the verse. Child # 2 pops a balloon and reads the verse with Child # 1. Child # 3 pops a balloon and all three read the verse together.…

Preparation: Find a picture of Goliath in your files or on-line. Cut out the face and paste on a wall 9 feet up, if your room is that big! (Another option for showing the children how tall Goliath was — use long wrapping paper cardboard tube to show the size of Goliath up against a…