He is more awesome than all who surround Him. Psalm 89:7
I’ve discovered something that applies to me when memorizing Bible verses – “out of sight, out of mind.” It applies to so many things in my life, but when I’m trying to memorize a verse, if it’s not in front of me, I’m not thinking about it. And I’m finding the same is true for Elias. When he sees the verse, he can repeat it, but if I ask him about the verse when it’s not in front of him, he cannot. So until he can, I’m putting it all over the place!
It’s already in our den, so I wrote it on our little chalkboard sign in the living room, right above where the boys park their ride-on cars for the night.
I also wrote it on a notecard and put it on my bathroom mirror, and then we started on a poster to put the verse in Elias’s room.
First, I wrote out the verse on some butcher paper and left plenty of room above each word… and I wrote out each word of the verse on different colored construction paper.
Then, as I held up each construction paper word, Elias matched it up with the word on the big poster (this works on pre-reading skills, too!).
Elias practiced “a little dot will do ya!” with his gluing skills – and for a glue-crazy 3 year old, he did rather well!
We hung up his poster in his map room on his new art gallery wires (curtain wires from Ikea that I’ve had for years, but just hung up along one wall to make an art gallery for the kids’ art projects!).
And now we are surrounded by our memory verse! As I hung the new poster up in Elias’s room, he repeated the verse to me, and said, “Do you know what that means, Momma? It means that God is awesome! and do you know who is the coolest? God!” Praise the Lord that this is sinking in!!!
How do you and your kids work on memory verses? I’m looking for more ideas for verses to come!
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I do a memory verse each week with my childre. Thanks for the great tips!!!
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By Monica on 09.09.09 3:56 am | Permalink
I LOVE the idea of decorating with a memory verse! We’re in the midst of making our home that we bought last year our own and this idea is inspiring me!! Also, I have a son who just turned four and I’m always looking for new ways to hide scripture in his heart–we’ll be trying this matching and glueing idea very soon! Thanks for sharing!!!
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By heather g on 09.09.09 8:27 am | Permalink
OK, seriously, this is an AWESOME idea. No pun intended! We’re FINALLY starting our new Fruit of the Spirit today. I might do this today!
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By ohamanda on 09.09.09 8:37 am | Permalink
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By Friday Favorites September 11, 2009 — Daily Dwelling on 09.10.09 7:08 pm | Permalink
LOVE this idea of matching the words! I’ll use this for sure when Ladybug is older.
I love having our Bible verses hung up in the kitchen. When we are at the table, it’s a guaranteed review time!
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By Heather @ Not a DIY Life on 09.12.09 2:24 pm | Permalink
I love how you had your son match the words to the verse by gluing them above the words you had written out–what a clever way to make memorization more tactile! I think I will have to try it with my daughter.
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By vanessa on 09.16.09 11:50 pm | Permalink
We just did this project today–my little one LOVED it and asked if we could do other verses like this too!
Thanks for the great idea.
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By heather g on 09.21.09 3:33 pm | Permalink
oops! I thought it would post the link, but it didn’t. Here it is:
http://heatherandthegrossboys.blogspot.com/2009/09/jons-memory-verse-project.html
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By heather g on 09.21.09 3:34 pm | Permalink
Here is an online Bible Memory Verse tool your kids and you could use to help make it more memorable and fun.
http://www.mapawproject.com
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By Geoff on 09.28.09 10:35 pm | Permalink
I think I am going to print some out and laminate them to use as placemats.
We have a devotional book in the little basket in the middle of our dining table. My daughter started spontaneously reading the verse from the back cover out loud every time we sat down at the table, and she had it memorized probably within a week. It just was right there where she saw it at her seat. So I’m thinking placemats could be a good thing.
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By Rachel R. on 10.15.09 5:10 pm | Permalink
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