Weekly Fun Plan: The Bible is our Ultimate Tool!

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Welcome to this week’s Weekly Fun Plan: The Bible is our Ultimate Tool! If you haven’t already I highly recommend you read my introductory blog post “Faith-filled Fun: What Is It? And Why I Started It”. That post will give you some background into this blog and a little more in-depth explanation of my Weekly Fun Plans and how to use them.

This Week’s Theme: The Bible is our Ultimate Tool

This week our theme is all about the Bible and the various symbols and word pictures the Bible uses to describe itself. Our Bible lesson will focus on answering the question “What’s the Bible all about?”. And all our craft, snack, and activity ideas are going to focus on different “tools” that we may use or that remind us of the Bible and all it teaches. If you try anything in this week’s plan don’t forget to share your experiences on social media! Tag us @faithfilledfun on Instagram or use the hashtag #faithfilledfun. New Weekly Fun Plans drop each Monday so stay up to date with the blog each week by subscribing to my email list!

Bible Lesson: What to Read or Watch this week

If you have younger children and haven’t already, I highly recommend downloading the “Bible for Kids” app from the App Store. This is a FREE app for children that uses fun moving graphics and sounds to tell them stories in the Bible. Read the stories yourself or use the audio to have them read aloud to you.

Since this week we are focusing on learning what the Bible is all about and how we can use it, here are some great resources to read/watch:

If you have young children (ages 0-8):

Read or listen to the “God’s Good News” story on the Bible for Kids app OR

Watch the “God’s Good News” Bible Adventure episode on YouTube. Bible Adventure is a kids-based YouTube show created by LifeKids and LifeChurch. These are the creators of the popular “YouVersion Bible” app for adults and the “Bible for Kids” app I mentioned earlier, so the episodes coordinate perfectly.

If you’re looking for an amazing children’s book that gives a quick and easy-to-read summary of the entire Bible, with beautiful illustrations, I recommend looking into purchasing The Big God Story by Michelle Anthony. This book covers all the major stories while ultimately showing your child how they fit into God’s big story and would be a great book to read through this week!

The Big God Story by Michelle Anthony children's book

If you have older children/teens (ages 9-18):

Practice looking up and reading through these various verses the Bible uses to describe itself or encourage your older children to read them during their own personal study time.
- 2 Timothy 3:16
- Psalm 119:105
- Hebrews 4:12
- Hebrews 6:19
- James 1:23-25
- Ephesians 6:17
- Jeremiah 23:29

Bible Lesson: Questions to Ask Your Kids/Discuss this week

If you watched the “God’s Good News” Bible Adventure episode, you’ll see the question they focus on is:

“What’s the Bible all about” And the answer is “The Bible is God’s true story.”

If you have little ones (ages 0-8):

I would focus on that one question this week, and work on having them memorize the answer. Ask them that same question every morning or evening and see if they can answer it.

If you have older children (ages 9-18):

Here are some additional questions you can discuss with them throughout the week:

When should you read your Bible?
Why do you think God gave us the Bible?
How does the Bible help/teach us?
What are some words/symbols the Bible uses to describe itself?
- Tip: it may help to have them answer this question while they read through this week’s suggested verses
- Examples: sword, lamp, light in the darkness, anchor, seed, mirror, fire, solid food, milk, honey, gold.

Bible Lesson: Memory Verse

Memorizing scripture is such a vital skill to teach our children at a young age. Being able to recall and recite scripture that they’ve memorized with help them as they grow and go through trials in life. It will also encourage them, equip them to go out and be little disciples of Jesus, and it will strengthen their own faith as they get older. However, memorizing scripture can be hard for adults to do so we often neglect to teach our kids to do it or assume they’re too young. BUT if your toddler can memorize the theme song to their favorite show or the steps to navigate a smartphone they absolutely have the mental capacity to memorize simple Bible verses.

This week let’s have your kids work on memorizing Psalm 119:105. If they watched the Bible Adventure episode for this week then they have also learned a paraphrased version of 2 Timothy 3:16 and learned some fun motions to help them remember it. I recommend practicing reciting one or both of these verses this week. Practice each morning over breakfast or before they leave for school and maybe even again before bed. Make it a part of your routine and you’ll be amazed at how fast they will begin to pick it up.

Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.

Supplies needed for this week’s activities

Here is a quick list of all the supplies that you will need in order to complete all the suggested crafts, activities, and snacks for this week’s plan. For a list of my most used craft supplies, and things I will be utilizing often in future Weekly Fun Plans be sure to check out my Links page.

Snack: Dirt Cups

After practicing your memory verse or going over the discussion questions, have some fun digging into these delicious Dirt Cups made easily with pudding, Oreos, & gummy worms. This one is definitely more of a dessert snack but it’s easy to make, tastes amazing, and your kids will love using their spoons like shovels to dig in.

This is also a great time to talk to your kids and explain to them that when they listen to, look at, and learn from the Bible it’s like they’re feeding God’s truth into their hearts.

Crafts:

For this week’s crafts, we are making Bible Bookmarks and Lantern Suncatchers. Both crafts illustrate different symbols used to describe the Bible and the bookmarks are perfect for use in their Bibles!

Bible Bookmarks:

Our first craft requires very few supplies, is easy for all ages, and focuses on different ways the Bible describes itself. Click the link to download and print off my Bible Bookmark Coloring Sheet. Once printed, have your child color and decorate the bookmarks however they like, cut them out, and if you wish to take it one step further laminate them with contact paper or packing tape to keep them from bending and to help them to last longer.

Lantern Suncatchers:

For our second craft this week, we’re focusing on our memory verse Psalm 119:105 and how the word is like a lamp to our feet and a light to our path with these Lantern Suncatchers. Follow the link for an easy step-by-step guide.

Activities:

With our theme this week “The Bible is our Ultimate Tool” here are a few extra ideas for activities to do with your children. Feel free to come up with your own ideas too:

Make swords out of sticks in the yard, extra cardboard you may have around the house, or even pool noodles, and have some fun sword fights.
Play in the dark with some glow sticks or lanterns outside in the evening hours or in a dark room in the house.
If you have multiple kids that are old enough: Do sword drills for prizes or snacks.
- Sword drills explained: The caller (parent) yells “swords up” and has all participants (kids) hold their Bibles by the binding above their heads. The caller yells out a book in the Bible or a specific Bible verse you want the participants to locate in their Bibles. Then when the caller yells “go” all the participants race to see who can look up the reference first. The first person to successfully locate the reference and yell “got it” wins a prize. You can do as many rounds of this as you’d like.

Parenting Tip of the Week:

One easy way we can help our children build a strong foundation of faith is through the music we listen to in our homes and in the car. It can be such a passive activity having music on in the background while we cook dinner, while they play with their toys, or while we drive them to school or practice, but it can make such an impact. Fill your home with praise and worship music whenever possible. You’ll see the greatest effects of this when you suddenly hear your children singing along to the words of your favorite worship song. Check out my Spotify for playlists I’ve created specifically with Christian Songs for Kids and My Current Worship Favs to play in our home!

Prayers:

Lastly, I like to end each Weekly Fun Plan with some example prayers for your week. One is to pray with your kids, maybe before they get on the bus in the morning, before a meal, or before bed, and the other prayer is for you, the parent, to pray over your kids throughout the week.

Prayer to say with your kids this week:

Dear God, thank You for giving me the ultimate tool of Your Word. Help me to read it, believe it, and follow it every day. Amen.

Prayer to pray over your kids this week:

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for Your Word. Thank you that it is living and breathing and easily accessible to me and my child/children. I pray for (child’s name) that he/she would know, love, and use the Bible, hiding Your Word in his/her heart and shining your light everywhere he/she goes this week. Amen.

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