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Religious Games That Are Entertaining for Kids

Religious games played individually, at home, in Sunday school or outdoors in large groups create fun and entertainment for children. The object of each game is to teach a lesson that kids learn without trying. Making religious games entertaining will help kids to remember what they have learned and they can pass that knowledge to others.

Memory Games
- Use paper plates to have fun with a Bible verse game. The instructor picks a verse and writes each word on a single plate. Hand all the plates to the students. Instruct students to stand in a line in the order of the verse. Each student raises her plate above her head and reads the word starting at the beginning of the line. The verse should read correctly. For example, each plate contains a word from the verse, "You shall love your neighbors as yourself."
Group Games
- Try a game of encouragement by filling in the blanks of the following saying, "You are really good at (blank) and I see God using you to be a (blank)." The one filling in the blank passes the ball to the person he spoke to. The next child repeats the saying filling the blanks about another child and passes the ball to that person. For instance; "You are really good at drawing and I see God using you to be an artist."
  
  Bible trivia is fun and an opportunity for learning. Play the game between two teams using a store-bought version or create one of your own. Teams build points by the correct answers. Each team uses a bell to answer a question and one team member plays for one question.
Action Games
- Gather objects and hide them outdoors like an Easter egg hunt. Try using toys from Sunday school like Noah's ark. Prepare a list of the objects grouped by three or four, depending on the number of children. Give each team a list and call a scavenger hunt together. The first team to find all of their objects wins.
  
  Separate the group into two teams and have them form a line. Explain that a question will be asked about a Bible character to the first person in both lines. Correct answers earn one point. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.
Preschool
- "Noah Says" is played similar to the game of "Simon Says." Divide the class into three groups. One group will imitate dogs, another will imitate cats and the third group will imitate ducks. When you give the command "Noah Says," all of the kids participate, but when the command is given without "Noah Says," just the group that was commanded responds. If "Noah says all dogs bark," the response is all of the children bark. For "All cats meow," the response is just the cats meow.

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