Memorizing Bible Verses With Your Kids
- May 2
- 2 min read
Updated: May 11
One of the most powerful efforts you can make as a mom is helping your children learn Scripture. But this doesn't have to be boring or legalistic. First, make learning verses fun-set Scripture to song or act them out in creative ways! Then, when you or your child is facing a hardship or needed correction, apply verses to your family need. Some educators say that the verses kids learn before age 5 will stick with them all their lives. Let's get those seeds planted early!
Ideas for Memorizing Scripture
Write them out—on paper, index cards, paper strips to make a chain.
Set them to a tune—use instruments and sing your song loud and soft.
Hide and seek—hide the individual words and hunt for them.
Hopscotch—use painter’s tape to mark a hopscotch board on your floor; write words or phrases of the verse on painter’s tape pieces and place them mixed up in the squares; have kids jump back and forth in word order.
Ball toss—be creative! Write each word or phrase of the Bible verse inside box tops and have kids toss tennis, wiffle, or even quarters into the boxes in the correct order. Or write the words/phrases onto ping pong balls and toss them around the circle until someone says, “Stop!” Have players read the words/phrases in order, at first slowly, then quicker and quicker.
Swipe it—as they say it, have kids wipe one word at a time from the verse written on a white board.
Collage art—let kids cut words of the verse from magazines and newspapers and glue them onto colorful paper.
Make a bookmark—provide a heavy cardstock strip and help your child write the book, chapter, verse number, and first word of the verse you are working on; add to the bookmark as the year goes on.
Display a verse banner—cut strips of muslin or colorful cardstock triangles. Write the verse on the end of the muslin strip or write it on one side of the paper triangles and tie (strips) or fold over and tape (triangles) to a cord secured to your mantle or window frame. Add to your banner all year.
Don’t topple the tower—write words of the verse on small strips of paper. Tape them onto Jenga® or dominoes blocks and set up a tower or line with the words in order but separated by other blocks/dominoes. Try to pull out the words as you say them without knocking the tower down.
Sticky fingers—write words of the verse on self-adhesive note papers; put one or more on each family member’s back; work together to locate the next word in the verse, pull it off, and place it in order.
Hot seat—tape words or phrases of the verse under some chairs (or couch cushions). Have kids find words and work to put the verse together.
Some of these ideas are based on these blog posts:
Foundational Bible Verses
Genesis 1:1
Deuteronomy 6:4
Revelation 4:8b
Habakkuk 1:13a
Lamentations 3:22
1 John 1:5
Genesis 1:27
Psalm 139:13-14
Luke 12:7
Romans 3:23
Isaiah 59:2a
Isaiah 53:6
Colossians 2:9
Romans 8:34b
Hebrews 13:8
Acts 4:12
1 John 1:9
Psalm 103:12
Romans 10:17
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