Memory Match Game

With just over a week 'til Good News Club starts, I am getting games ready.

 Review games and Bible verse memorization games.
I've been looking for books to make a large memory match game and finally found some suitable at $ Tree.

So here are my 2 Bible Readers and 2 packages of plastic plates. 

The bottom of the pkg. says 8 plates so I decided to make 8 matches for my game.

Tore out the desired pages.

Used a funnel to get a perfect circle.

                                               Cut them out. 

(My kids are offended by the lame depiction of the ark 

God had Noah build but it'll work for the game-lol)

And what do ya know, I got ripped off by 2 plates!
I'll just have 7 matches!
I laminated each picture, cut them out again and 

used double stick tape to fasten them to the plates.

Now to play, I'll just mix them all up and

lay them out upside-down on the floor.

When a review question is answered correctly, 

students will be able to try finding a match!

Verse Token holders for backpacks

At Good News Club training,
I was introduced to a great idea for 

backpack clip to hold verse tokens.

At the end of club, kids can slide their verse token into it 

and they will have it

 on the packs all week to work on, and NOT lose. 

I wanted to make it as cheap as possible since 
our budget for club is pretty much whatever

 we come up with from our own coffers.

So I used old clearview sheets which were surplus to our needs, 

duct tape from my girls' crafty supplies 

and some book rings I purchased at Wal*Mart, 8 for $1.88.
 

One could use old transparency sheets or the 

by-the-yard plastic table cover, 

whatever can be salvaged to make this affordable. 

The following shows how I made them, 
a bit overdone for a simple project 
but hopefully enough detail to cover 
all learning styles if you'd like to make them for your club. 

Measure  5 inches over from the edge

 that does not have holes punched.

And 9 inches up.

Cut out and fold up.

Measure and cut just over 5 inches of fun duct tape. 

If you have to purchase this, Wal*Mart has it $3 a roll.
My girls have rolls 'n' rolls of the stuff, so I asked 

them to donate to the cause. 

Cut the strip in half lengthwise.

Carefully fold each strip over each end...

...like this.

 Trim excess tape on edges.

Cut another strip, this time just over 4 1/2 inches.

Fold over each side.

Trim excess taking care to not slice into the plastic.

(warning from experience)

Punch a hole in the corner.

Voila!!
A nifty verse token holder for clipping on a backpack!

32 waiting their turn on a backpack!

A way of doing this in even greater economy would be to use rubber bands.

Just slip a band through the hole and pull it through itself.

Then pull the holder through the band wrapped around the strap of backpack or to a clip on pack.

Works for Calloway!

I like the clips better!

And I especially like my lovely models Cassia and Cherish!

~All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness...~

2 Timothy 3:16