Back in black tab pdf. My children love playing Mary Memory. (I'm sorry I can't find a link. It is a Matching Game, using various images and titles of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was given to Twinkle Toes by her Godparents.) Since March is dedicated to St. Joseph, I decided to make a set of St. Joseph Cards for my children as well! Since he doesn't have nearly as many titles as Our Lady, I wasn't sure how many cards I'd be able to make.
I ended up with 18 different cards, which is plenty for playing Memory Match and Go Fish. I'm Jessica, a Roman Catholic wife and home educating mother to our eight children. I was home educated myself, along with my eleven younger siblings.
I have a special devotion to St. Therese, through whom I have been given much help and many blessings-the beautiful 'Shower of Roses' that she has sent my way! Here I will record a few of the blessings I treasure. Please remember that what you see here is just a little glimpse at our lives, so please say a prayer for us, as we continue to strive for holiness.
Father in heaven, grant me the grace to appreciate the dignity which you have conferred on me. Let me realize that not even the Angels have been blessed with such a privilege—to share in your creative miracle and bring new Saints to heaven.
Make me a good mother to all my children after the example of Mary, the Mother of your Son. Through the intercession of Jesus and Mary I ask your continued blessings on my family. Let us all be dedicated to your service on earth and attain the eternal happiness of your kingdom in heaven.
Here are some memory activities that you can use for prayers or scripture. (These activities used to be online, but thankfully I made I copy of them before it was removed.) Apple Tree Make a poster with a large tree (like an apple tree). Make apples with one word of the verse on each apple. Make a way to attach the apples to the tree (like Velcro, buttons, or tape). Play one of two ways: 1) Scramble the apples and have children come up and put the apples in order and everyone read the verse together or 2) Place the apples on the tree in order and have each child come up and remove one apple. Then have everyone say the verse together.
You may want to attach a small piece of apple candy (like sour apple Jolly Ranchers) to each apple for each child to keep. Ball Pass While the teacher says, 'Pass, pass, pass,' the kids, who are in a circle, pass a ball to their right. When the teacher says, 'Stop,' the child holding the ball, and the persons to his right and left say the verse together. Bible Verse Olympics Have the children do different exercises as they say their verse. For example, touch your toes as you say the verse; do sit-ups as you say the verse; stand on one foot as you say the verse, etc. You could have contests to see who could do an activity the longest or most times, or you could give awards that state how many times/how long a child did a given activity!
Cakewalk Use paper plates for this activity. Write one or more words of the memory verse on each paper plate. Arrange the plates in a circle- like a cakewalk- with the words in order. While music plays, the children walk around the circle of plates. When the music stops, the person behind the first word starts.
Each child reads the word he/she is standing behind until together they have said the memory verse! Continue playing several times. Copy Cat Have the children stand in a circle. Have one child say the memory verse with the teacher. He then tags another child, who says it together with the first child and the teacher. THAT child tags another child, and so on until everyone in the circle is saying the verse together.
Correct Me If I'm Wrong Divide the class into two teams. Each team sits in a circle around a bell.
The teacher says the memory verse and the kids wait for her to purposely make a mistake. When they think they've heard a mistake, they try to be the first one to ring their team's bell. They must then say the verse correctly and point out the teacher's mistake. Award points for most corrections, if you like!
Driving it Home Divide into two teams and have each team decorate a large box to look like a car. When the cars are completed, attach balloons to the cars. Balloons should have slips of paper inside containing the words of the memory verse (one set per car). Children line up in teams, and, one at a time, get in their car and 'drive' it, Flintstones-style, to the other end of the room, where they get out, take a balloon off their car, pop it and retrieve the word. They use tape to attach the word to the side of a paper cup, then get back into their car and drive back to their team where the next team member is waiting to make the same road trip. Each child places his/her cup in order to make the verse slowly appear! The winning team is the one who has its verse in the correct order and all its drivers safely home first!
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Ice, Ice, Baby Have children form a line. Hand the first child a square piece of ice. The child must hold the ice in his hand until he says the verse. He then passes the ice to the next child who must say the verse while holding the ice, etc. Jack-In-The-Box Line kids up. Have each child jump and say the next word of the verse. First child says first word, second child says second word, etc.
The children should get quicker and quicker at this after they've said the verse a couple times. Kitty, Kitty Explain that kittens often like to play with a ball of yarn. Have your little 'kittens' sit in a circle. Toss a yarn ball to one child, who says the verse, then passes the ball to another child. Play continues and children keep hold of the yarn each time so that they create a giant web.
At the end, toss a balloon into the 'web' and have children try to bounce the balloon with the web by moving the yarn together as they say the verse. Lunch Box (This one's a little messy!) Pack a lunch for each team.
Place a word from the memory verse in each item. (Words should be written on index cards.) Children must unpack their team's lunch, one item at a time, find a word, and place it on a tray, in order. The catch is this: the word may be in the middle of pastrami on rye or inside a thermos of juice. (To protect the words, you may want to place each one in a Ziploc bag). First team to have all their word cards in order and say the verse out loud wins! Memory Verse Knight Scotch tape a needle to the end of a plastic or cardboard sword so that it isn't visible to the children. Write each word of the memory verse on a different balloon and hang them from a clothesline using clothespins, in order.
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Have the children say the verse by reading the balloons together, then use the sword to pop a balloon! Repeat the verse with one word missing. Continue on until the children are saying the verse without any balloon words left! Name that Verse Play like 'Name That Tune'. Have two teams challenge each other to say a verse in so many words. For example, if the verse is John 3:16, team one says, 'We can say that verse in 10 words'.
Team two says, 'We can say that verse in 8 words'. Team one says, 'We can say that verse in 6 words'.
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Team two says, 'We dare you to say that verse!” Team one must say the verse, word perfect, after hearing only the first 6 words: 'For God so loved the world' O Taste and See that the Lord is Good Have a food/drink item for each player. Have two teams and give each team the same items to eat/drink. Each player must eat or drink the item you give them in the manner you instruct them to, and then to say the verse before the next person gets a turn. The winning team is the one to have all its players eat/drink items and say the verse. All activities, games, information, etc.
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