- Create pictures to represent the words of the verse.
- Put the verse to music.
- Give the verse a title: The Good News Verse, The Heaven Verse: The Beginning Verse …
- Use your camera phone to video your child saying the verse.
- Write out the verse. Cut into pieces (a word to each piece) and have the child put the pieces back together.
- Give each clubber a different word of the Scripture (on a piece of paper) and have them get into order. You could do this with teams and see which team can get into order the quickest.
- Give each child a card with each day of the week marked on the card. Each day that the clubber studies his/her verses for 10 minutes or more, the parent signs the card. Completed cards (at the next club meeting) earn a prize or extra points.
- Write out (or enter into the computer) the verses every day for a week.
- Say the verse and skip a word – clubbers must tell you which word is missing.
- Make dry-erase boards (old frames with glass work well). Clubbers can make the background picture and use the front of the glass as a dry-erase board.
- Encourage the clubbers to enter their verses on their phones and look at them once an hour or at 4:00 or when a train goes through town or a plane flies overhead.
- Read the verse, emphasizing different words. This works especially with younger children – they will actually memorize your tone of voice and your word emphasis which makes it easier for them to memorize.
- Assign a different word to each clubber. Go around the room with each clubber saying her word. Do it faster and faster. Change starting points so clubbers have different words.
- Sit in a circle. Throw a bean bag to a child, who will say the first word of the verse; that child will then throw the bean bag to someone else who says the second word, etc.
- Challenge each child to teach the verse to an adult.
