Tips on Bible Study Teen Worship Activities
Whether you are running a Bible camp for teens, a Christian teen retreat or simply Sunday school classes for teenagers, incorporating activities, games and crafts into the lessons will make them more appealing to the young students. By making the lessons more active, you enable the teens to become more engaged and physically involved in the lessons, helping them to more fully absorb and understand the information.
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Bible Bingo
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Create bingo cards with the answers from Bible trivia questions in the boxes on the cards. Create corresponding flashcards that relay the questions associated with the answers on the Bingo cards. Since teenagers should be beginning to have a more in-depth understanding of the Bible stories, the questions can likewise be more complex. For example, ask for the owner of the tomb that Jesus was buried in for three days prior to the resurrection. The answer on the card would be Joseph of Arimathea. The first teen to create a line on his bingo card with correct answers wins. This will help test the knowledge of the teens and help them to memorize Bible facts and stories.
Collage
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Hang two poster boards on the wall. Label one "Virtues" and the other "Temptations." Provide the teens with stacks of magazines typically popular with their age group. This could include "Cosmopolitan," "Vogue," "Teen People" and "People." Instruct them to go through the magazines and cut out pictures and words that represent Christian virtues as presented in the Bible, as well as temptations. The temptations could include the word "sex," pictures of alcohol and cocktails, pictures of cigarettes and the word "drugs." Virtues could relay images of friends socializing, charity logos, the word "neighbor" and pictures of schools and school supplies. The exercise will help illustrate for the teens the many temptations that are around them in our culture, even as young adults.
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Biblical Life Challenge
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Challenge the teens to live as the people in the Bible did for a period of time such as a weekend or a week. Help them prepare typical meals of the period, establish prayer habits, perform the typical jobs and chores of the era, dress in the style of the times and cut themselves off from technology for the established time period. The activity will help give new life and appreciation to the people and lifestyles depicted in the Bible.
Acting It Out
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Break the teens into groups and assign each a Bible story or chapter, but do not tell the other groups what each group is doing. The group must decide how to act out its scene without using words. The other team must try and guess the scene. Call each group up one at a time to perform its skit. The other groups can call out guesses as the acting is taking place. Invite the students to create props and costumes to coordinate with their scenes, if desired.
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