Life Assembled Health and Wellness Blog with Devin Almonte

Christmas Scripture Matching Game

12/20/2015

It’s so easy to let Christ be the last piece to the puzzle in all of your Christmas planning, especially on Christmas Day. Christ is often the guest we leave at the door rather than inviting Him in!

At our house, we love to host Christmas for the family. Over the past few years, we have started a new tradition that seeks to invite Him in.

We came up with a fun way to present the gospel in the form of a Scripture Verse Matching Game. The goal of the game is to match the correct scripture verse to the correct ornament.

Here’s what you need:

10 gift tags
Pen/pencil
Ribbon
10 Ornaments

Prep:

Choose 10 verses from the Bible and 10 ornaments to correspond with each verse. You can make this as difficult or as easy as you want. We chose to make this on the easier side, as we have many young kids in the family.

Once you have picked your verses and ornaments, write the verses on each of the gift tags.

Instructions:

Divide the children into teams of three and give each team a name. For instance, “The Three Wise Men”, “The Shepherds, or “Bethlehem Bells”. It’s also helpful to mix up the ages of each team so older kids can help the younger ones. If you do not have enough players for multiple teams, you can just play as one team.

Place the ornaments on the floor in a vertical line. Place the scripture gift tags in a vertical line to the right of each ornament in a mixed up order so that the scripture verse gift tags do not match the ornament they are next to.
Have each team pick a number from 1 -10 to decide which teams goes first.
Each team takes a turn (make sure that the other teams are not watching them during their turn). Each team needs to match the scripture verse gift tag to the ornament that best describes the scripture verse. For example, the Proverbs 4:23 gift tag says, “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” This scripture verse matches best to our heart ornament.
Give each team a set amount of time to complete their matches. We allowed 2-3 minutes for each team. Then, take a picture of their results so you can remember what matches they picked.
When all teams have taken a turn, refer back to your picture results for each team. Have one person from each team show and describe what their matches were and why they chose the matches they did.

End Game:

After each team has taken their turn, tell them the correct answers and which team had the most right answers.

The team that wins gets to each keep an ornament and it’s corresponding scripture verse that is to be attached to the ornament with ribbon. Encourage them to memorize the scripture verse they chose to keep. Then, the remaining ornaments and corresponding scripture verses can be hung on the tree by all teams.

The kids will have a blast playing this together. They will look forward to it year after year with new verses and new ornaments. Not only will you have a tree full of new ornaments and Bible verses, but your children will remember these verses year after year!

Some ideas to get you started: