How to Make Biblical Paper Puzzles for Kids

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Linda Leon with Expert Village. I've been working with children for a very long time. On today's lesson we're going to talk about how to get your children to learn practically any thing in a very easy format. Whether it's a scripture you want them to read, or a particular text in the bible that you are trying to get them to absorb. You can use something as simple as a sheet of paper. Turn it into a game and get your children all excited. What I've done here is just given a very simple example. On one side of the paper, you will put a figure of an object. I've happened to draw a world on this one. This particular one has a world. On the back of my paper, I put a portion of a bible verse, "For God so loved the World", and then I put the scripture verse down, 'John 3:16'. Now, what you would do is get your children to turn this, this simple sheet of paper in to a puzzle. You tear the paper up according to how developed the child is. If it's a small child, two, three years old and you're just trying to get them to put things back together. You might want to just put one tear in the paper. If it's a child of say six, seven, or eight, you might divid it in to four. If you are working with a child that's ten years or older, you just tear it up as if it were a jumbo puzzle. What the object is, you get the child to see the World and you're talking about the object of 'For God so loved the World'. So you give them an image of the world. Then when you tear the pieces up. You have them put it back together so, they'll get the scripture on the back. But the easiest way for them to put it back together, is to put the world together. When they piece the world together, then the scripture is going to be identified on the back. So what I would do with my kids when we played and tried to study the word of God. I would draw whatever I think I wanted, whether it was a world or a picture of a cross or whether it was a bible. I actually drew a bible on the page. Whatever object that I drew, I would tear that up and then I would say, "now you go and put it back together, again. And let's find out what the scripture". And the way that they knew that they had the picture put back together correctly, was because the scripture on the back or the text on the back was always put in exactly order. So that's another easy way to pass your positive faith along to your children. I'm Linda Leon with Expert Village."