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Lay out 10 to 25 SM reference cards, face up in a circlethis becomes the game board. Inside the circle, lay out the matching keyword cards, upside down. Place a penny (to use as a moving marker) on any of the reference cards. All the students sit around in a circle so they can all see the cards. The first player rolls a die and moves the penny (in either…
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Move One

Make 2 game cards per SMone with the reference and one with the keywords. (Ken Alford suggests using magnetic business cards that you can purchase at an office supply storeif you have a blackboard or whiteboard that is magnetic, of course.) Place all of the game cards on the board in pairs (either one above the other or side-by-side). (The written side in view). None of the card pairs should…
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Human Tic Tac Toe

Set up – 9 chairs in the center of the class in a tic tac toe formation. XXX XXX XXX Divide into two teams (x’s and o’s). Everyone on each team gets a number (We had 8 on each team so numbered them from 1-8) Object – your team makes a tic tac toe before the other team. The teams stand to the sides, x’s on one side of the…
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Darts (can be used with magic squares)

(This is a good one to play the first few weeks when you are first learning the magic square). I play this game using a Nerf dart gun (the kind with a suction cups at the end of the darts. You could also use one of those balls covered in suction cups.) To prepare, draw the magic square grid on the white board as large as possible. Fill in only…
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Hot Potato

Students stand in circle. One student steps out of circle and faces away from the others. He begins reading (or reciting from memory) one of the SM, while everyone else tosses the bean bag back and forth. The reader stops mid way and turns to face the group. Who ever is holding the bean bag must now become the reader and pick up where reader #1 left off. Continue repeating…
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Phrase Hunt

Enlarge SM and cut into strips. Hide around the room before students arrive. On go the each hunt for a piece and then must assemble themselves into the correct order and recited the SM to you.

Tear it Up

Print out the SM (in 90 pts, landscape), then cut and tape into one long line. (Roll it up.) (Or have the students write out the SM on a piece of adding machine tapewhich you can buy at Walmart.) Do this 3 more times so you have 4 copies. Divide the room into 4 squares (with masking tape) and place a SM roll into each section. Divide the students into…
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Puzzle

Enlarge the SM (or use the large poster once you are finished with it) and cut it into puzzle pieces.

Cup Tower

You need 12 styrofoam cups per team, each marked with a colored stripe so the teams know their color. On the board write out the SM so that the entire scripture is divided into four equal lines, and number the lines 1-4. Have all the cups separated and grouped in colors. All students begin sitting down in a line. When you say go, who ever is first in line, stands…
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Switcheroo

Divide the class into teams of 3 students. Each team has two dice, a pie tin, a set of scriptures, a pencil and paper. Open scriptures to the SM. When teacher says go, the first student on each team begins to read the scripture while the second student writes down exactly what the first student is reading. At the same time, the third student is rolling the dice into the…
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Next Word Up

Enlarge a SM card and cut it up into each individual word. (Or cut up the large poster if you are done with it). Place the individual words of a SM on a table. Everyone surrounds the table. Teacher reads the SM stopping suddenly mid-sentence. The students try to be the 1st person to grab the piece of paper with the next consecutive word of the scripture. If they guess…
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Musical Paper Plates

Game is like musical chairs, but played with paper plates. Written on each plate is part of a scripture mastery. Divide the scripture up so only parts of the scripture is on each plate. (Let students write their part on the plates). Play music while the students exchange their plates with each other, (no order is necessary). When the music stops the one who has the first line of the…
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