Bible Story Workpages Activities
Children listen to the Bible stories told and the principles taught with those stories during the lesson. Workpages help the children understand the lesson in a deeper way. Workpages engage the children in ways other than simply listening. Depending upon the activity planned for the lesson, the workpages involve mental skills, artistic ability and fun.
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Color the Page
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Coloring pages engage children from the time they begin holding crayons. Coloring pages illustrates the Bible lesson, but you can do more than simply color. Color with crayons. Soak a cotton ball in baby oil and go over the colored page. Place on paper towels to dry. Add a dowel rod to hang in a window for a stained glass look. Use cotton balls to add texture to a coloring page by gluing to clouds or sheep. Color with markers and glitter pens as well as crayons.
Make a Maze
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Using the Bible story or the memory verse, create a maze. Among other words, hide the memorization Bible verse. You can design the maze as a square or circle. The children go through the maze of words, circling the words from the verse. You can hide the words in order or out of order to add another challenge to the worksheet. If the words are out of order, add a place at the bottom where the children write the words in order. If the words are in order in the maze, instead of circling the words, have children mark out every word that doesn't apply.
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Puzzle Put Together
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Print copies of a picture about the Bible story. If the lesson is about Daniel in the lion's den, find and print out a picture of Daniel with the lions. Let the children color the picture, then cut into puzzle shapes. Once the puzzles are cut, have the children switch and put together the Bible story puzzles. Have children cut the picture into six to eight square pieces and mix up the pieces. The children are to move the pieces around until they are in the correct location.
Match it Up
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Match different parts of the Bible lesson using the left and right side of the page. On the left side of the page list items like Moses and basket. On the right side add the words, in mixed up order, baby and Nile river. For children who do not yet read, use pictures instead of words. The children draw a line from the item on one side to its match on the other.
Unscramble
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Make a list of keywords or phrases from the Bible lesson. List them on a page with room to write the unscrambled words. List the Bible reference or references and ask the children to look up the passage if they have trouble unscrambling the words or phrase. Scramble a key phrase such as "Jesus loves me," which becomes "Sujes sevlo em." Pair the children and let them work together to unscramble the phrase.
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