Scripture Study Word Game

With three children five and under, family scripture study can get a bit crazy. We figured that the best way to help our children be better behaved is to involve them more in the actual process. That is when we started incorporating this idea into our scripture study.

First, we scan through the section we are reading and find a word that appears multiple times throughout the section. Sometimes we use one word, other times we assign each child a word, or have everyone say two words. The following would all be great options most of the time: and, the, we, it, behold. We used the same word for a while when we first started using this method and switch it up almost daily now.

We have played this game two different ways. One way is to tell the children to raise their hand or do some other action each time they hear the chosen word or words. One night we decided to have the action be a somersault. As you can imagine things got a bit crazy but the children loved it! 

The other way we play is to have the children say the chosen word when we raise our hand or finger. This is the version of the game we have found works best for our children. Even our almost two year old has started to say the word with the other children, which I must say it beyond cute.

Just adapt the game based on what will work best that day for your family depending on attention spans and your patience. We have loved this method and would love to hear how it works for your family.