Bible Games Using Sports Cones
Bible Verse and Bible Lesson Review Games Using Sports Cones
Sports cones can be used in an endless variety of games and learning activities. The cones we used are soft and bendable so they can be used with any age group without having to worry about children getting hurt. They are also small enough for preschool children to pick up and carry around, yet big enough to play an endless variety of games with older children.
You can purchase them in all one color or buy a variety pack. Each type is useful in different games. We used Orange Sports Cones from PP Sports
Use Liquid Chalk Markers
"Find the Prize Cone" Bible Lesson Review Game
Preparation:
1. Before class buy some small treats such a candy, toys or snacks.
3. Write up a bunch of questions about your lesson or previous lessons.
How to Play:
1. In class display the sports cone in front of the room. Place a small treat under one or several of the cones.
2. Take turns asking your children questions from your lesson. If a child answers correctly, he gets to go to the front of the room and pick up one of the cones to see if their is something underneath. If there is, he gets to keep the prize.
3. Place something under another cone while your children are looking the opposite direction and keep playing until all the children have a prize or your children know the answers to all the questions.
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Cone Ring Toss Bible Lesson Review Game
Preparation
1. Before class write up a bunch of questions with answers of either yes or no in a circle around the edge of paper plates. Cut out the center of the paper plates making a ring. Make at least one set of questions for every two to three students.
2. Write "Yes" on one sports cone and "No" on another sports cone with a liquid paint marker. Make at least one set of cones for every two to three students.
3. Place a piece of painter's tape across your room for a starting line. Place the sets of cones about four feet from the starting line.
How to Play:
1. In class break your children up into teams of two or three. Give each team a set of paper plate ring questions. On the word "go" the teams should read the questions on the paper plates, decide the answers and then try to get the paper plate ring on the cone with the corresponding answer. If the rings land on the ground, the children may pick up the rings, stand behind the line and try again and again until they get the rings on the cones. When a team gets all their rings on the two cones the game is over.
Count up the amount of rings that were correctly thrown onto the cones for each team. The team that has the most correct rings on the cones wins.
Discuss any wrong answers.
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"Pass the Word" Sport Cone Bible Verse Review Game
Preparation:
1. Before class write the words of the Bible verse on small objects that will fit inside the cones. You can use balls, cups, index cards, bean bags, etc. Write one word on each object.
How to Play:
1. In class have your children stand in a row and give each student a cone.
2. Place the object with the first word of the verse in the cone of the first player in line and tell him what the word is.
Have the player repeat the word out loud to the next player in line as he tries to drop the object into the players cone. That player should then do exactly the same thing to the next player in line. When the object gets to the end of the line, the player at the end of the line should bring it to the teacher at the front of the line and place the object in the teachers hand while reading the word on the object. The last play in line then becomes the first player in line and the teacher should give that player the next object saying the word on the object as the he places the object in the players cone. The teacher doesn't have to wait until the object gets to the end of the line. He or she can put more than one object into play so that all the players are passing objects during the game. Keep playing until the students know the verse.
If the object drops on the ground during play the player that passed the object should pick it up and try again until he is successful.
You can also make this a relay race by making two sets of objects and breaking your students up into teams. The team that finishes first and can say the entire verse without help wins.
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Cone Shell Game Bible Lesson Review Game
Preparation:
1. Before class print or write your questions about the Bible lesson on pieces of paper that are the same color as your cones. (If you don't have cones, you can use paper cups or opaque drinking cups.
2. After mixing up the cones ask a child to come up, pick a cone, pick it up and look inside to see if it has the piece of paper. If the cone has the paper, take it out and read the question.
If the child that picked the cone doesn't know the answer, ask the rest of the class if they can answer the questions. If the child picked the wrong cone, tell them to try again until they find the correct cone, and then ask the question.
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"Grab the Cone" Bible Lesson Review Game
Preparation:
1. Before class prepare questions from your lesson. Write the answers on pieces of tape or paper and tape them to the cones. (If you have children that can't read, you can use pictures)
How to Play:
1. Place the cones at the front of the room or in the middle of a circle of children.
2. Ask a question from the Bible lesson. The first child to grab the cone with the correct answer gets to keep the cone. (If you have a lot of children, you can pick two or three children to answer the question at a time so that you don't have too many children fighting over the cones.)
3. The child with the most cones at the end of the game wins.
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"Order the Cones" Bible Verse Game
Preparation:
1. Before class write the words of the Bible verse on the cones with a liquid chalk marker or dry erase marker, one word on each cone. (You could also use a Sharpie marker on a piece of tape and stick it to the cone or tape a piece of paper to the cone.) If you have younger children, shorten the verse.
2. Tape a piece of paper with a note about a treat inside the last cone.
How to Play:
1. In class place the cones in the front of the room in random order.
2. On the word "Go" have the children work together to try and place the cones in order to make the Bible verse. Tell them that if they can put them all in order they get to read the note in the last cone to find out what their treat will be.
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"Follow the Cones" Bible Verse Memory Game
Preparation:
1. Before class write the words of the Bible verse on the cones with a liquid chalk marker or dry erase marker, one word on each cone. (You could also use a Sharpie marker on a piece of tape and stick it to the cone or tape a piece of paper to the cone.) If you have younger children, shorten the verse.
2. Place the cones on the floor making a meandering trail throughout the room so that the cones are in order of the verse.
3. Before playing go over the verse with your children a couple of times.
How to Play:
1. Have your children line up at the beginning of your trail and tell them to follow the cones while reading the words on the cone. Tell them to keep following and reading the cones until they think they have memorized the Bible verse. They should come to you or another teacher and say the verse. If they get the verse correct, they can sit down. If they get it wrong, have them follow the cones again until they have it memorized.
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