Christian Word Games for Kids

Games are one of the most effective ways to teach children about the things of God. Games create a fun, non-threatening environment that encourage the children to interact and learn at the same time. Word games can provide the teacher with the ability to teach children more difficult to learn words within in Christianity such as incarnation, eschatology and Leviticus. Because games are interactive, the children will naturally remember the words which will make it easier to teach and educate the children about the meanings of the words.

Wheel of Fortune

Using the TV game show, "Wheel of Fortune," as a game will help the students work together and provide them with a fun way to guess Christian words. Have the classroom separate into three separate teams. A leader can be assigned to each team to provide some order and structure. Wheel of Fortune hides a word or phrase behind pieces of paper. Each team can spin a wheel with different point values. The team guesses a letter. For each letter unveiled, the team receives the point value they received when spinning. If the team can guess the word or phrase, they win that round and a new word of phrase is placed on the board. If the letter guessed is a part of the phrase, the team looses that turn and is passed to the next team.

Word Find

A word find game is a game played on paper where you take a certain number of words and place them throughout the paper, written forwards, backwards and diagonal. Then you add random letters throughout the paper to hide the words. Before the class, decide on the words you will be teaching on and include those as the hidden words. Make photo copies of the word find and then give it to each of your students. They can race against each other to see who can find the number of words you've hidden. The first person to find all the words is the winner.

Jeopardy

Jeopardy is a great game to teach and challenge the students with the words they learned over the last few weeks. Jeopardy uses Christian trivia from your lessons, except instead of asking a question, you give the answer to the contestants. For example, if the subject is Biblical books, the answer to the question could be, "the book where God delivered his people form Egypt." The correct answer, or question would be "what is the book of Exodus." You can use this approach to teach and challenge the words your class has recently learned. This game can be played in whatever format you wish and doesn't have to follow the TV show's approach.

References

• Kids Sunday School: Games
• Bible Word Games