If you’d like to keep scripture memory as a part of your home, here are a few more ideas to keep the word fresh and fun. Many of these also work well in a classroom or Sunday school setting.
● Memorize with Music
This is one of the most fun and natural ways to help our children memorize. Albums like Steve Green’s, Hide ‘Em in Your Heart or anything from the Seed’s Family Worship Collection are excellent, and will have your kids memorizing scripture while they’re bouncing around the room cleaning up.
● Memorize with Movement
Write each word of a verse on an index card or piece of paper. Scatter the cards around the room. Ask the kids to jump from word to word to in the correct order of the verse. This could also be done outside with chalk.
● Memorize by Removing Words
Write each word from the verse on an index card. Recite the verse out loud together. Remove several words and recite it aloud together again. Keep removing words until the whole verse can be recited without any cards.
● Incorporate Memory into your Dinner (or breakfast or lunch) Routine
Attach 10 popsicle sticks together with tape, accordion style. After the sticks are taped together, write a few words from the verse on each stick with a permanent marker. Place the popsicle stick accordions into a jar on your kitchen table. Take the jar out at mealtime and quiz each other. If someone gets stuck, read a few of the words listed on the first popsicle stick to help. (This could be simplified to be written on paper or index cards and left on the table. Something about the popsicle sticks seemed to make it more fun for our children)
● Memorize with (your own) Songs
If you’re musically inclined, try setting a verse to music. Try to keep it exact.
● Memorize with (your own) Art
If you’re artistically inclined, keep a scripture art journal where you write out verses using different fonts and pictures.
