![]() ![]() Write one memory verse word on each bowl (if it’s a long verse write a few words) so that there is two sets of bowls with the complete memory verse in each set. Get 2 disposable paper bowls for each word of the memory verse. Have the group place the memory verse in order and say out lout together. Repeat till all layers are unravelled and all words have been revealed. With music playing, pass the parcel around the group till the music stops and then unravel a layer of the parcel. Hide a word of the memory verse in each layer of the parcel (with or without prizes). 79 Creative Christian Ideas by Ken Moser) The team that pieces the memory verse together first is the winner. Split everyone into groups and give one jigsaw puzzle to each group. Write the memory verse on cardboard and then cut it up to form a jigsaw puzzle. 75 Creative Christian Ideas by Ken Moser) You will need to prepare at least 26 questions for the game and they can include bible questions, youth group questions, celebrity questions, etc. Have special rounds where contestants are allowed to choose vowels or solve the memory verse. When a contestant gets a question right they are allowed to select 1 letter of the alphabet (apart from vowels) to be uncovered on the board. The game is played in rounds so that the each person in the team has an opportunity to be the buzzer or contestant. The ‘buzzer sits on a chair out the front while the contestant stands behind them with their hands on the head of the buzzer, when they want to answer a question the lightly press the buzzer to make the sound for that team. ![]() Each group elects someone to be the buzzer and another to be the contestant. Using a white board, put underscore dashes on the board for every letter in each word of the memory verse eg. This is a good game for introducing a new memory verse. Players work in teams and compete against each other to solve the memory verse first, and when they have solved it, run up to the white board and write it out in full. If there are 3 sections to the memory verse then make 3 rounds to the game, and when a team has solved the first section, give them the second, and so on til they solve the whole verse). If it’s a large memory verse split it into sections (ie. “Iron hot ash aimed off day goes bell” = I am not ashamed of the gospel). Write up the memory verse in Mad Gab style (eg. Say the words “Day Leo Fur Rings” a few times and you’ll find you’re saying. It’s a game of words and phrases, it’s not what you say, it’s what you hear. Just like the card game ‘Mad Gab’ from Mattel©. Otherwise the winner can be whoever is first to decode it and write it out correctly. Split the group into however many teams needed and if there is a person on each team who has credit and is willing to spend it, then you could say whoever is first to text the memory verse to the leader’s mobile wins. They can use their mobile phones for this game to help them work it out. Obviously there will be a number of words that will correspond to a pattern of numbers but that’s all part of the fun for the kids to work out the memory verse. the numbers that correspond to the letters on the keypad. Write the memory verse out on a piece of paper using only the numbers used to write the words in an sms message, ie. ![]() Want even more youth group activities at your fingertips? Download your free PDF copy of Fervr's 39 awesome youth group games, icebreakers and activities now! 1. SMS Memory Verse ![]() Below are a whole stack of ideas that you might be able to use at your youth group or camp, to help people memorise parts of scripture, and have fun doing it! ![]()
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