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Photos of BIBLE SKILLS & GAMES Workshops and game equipment.

Learn more about the Bible Skills and Games Workshop in the Rotation Model.

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Adapting board games to stories and playing them in large format is a
popular technique in the Bible Skills and Games Workshop.
Note the over-sized die!

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Golf Course Road Church of Christ, Midland TXGames Bible Study Tools 2

Notice the Books of the Bible on the above shelf and the Bible study resources in the bookrack. Study tools and discussion skills/techniques are especially emphasized in this workshop.

 

The above pictures were an early game board at FUMC, Ann Arbor, MI. It was made by sewing different colors of fabric squares onto a king-sized sheet. (Okay for a small group of kids but as the program grew the number of kids grew!)

Later the folks at FUMC in Ann Arbor made one by painting on a canvas drop-cloth.  
Here the kids are playing a Cranium-like game and one team has to create something out of Play-doh that represents the story.

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Notice the MAP in the background. Many Bible Skills and Games Workshops feature Bible maps which are out where the children can absorb content even after the lesson is over.

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Here's our "Paul's Journey" maze table in our Bible Skills and Games Workshop at Peace Presbyterian, Bradenton FL.

It's a re-usable game piece. As you can see, the kids labeled the pitfalls/holes and bumpers to fit the lesson understanding of "what it takes" and what the challenges are when following God. 

We are balancing the board on a box and tilting it. We did a lot of modifying as part of the lesson, changing the labels, changing how we worked, or didn't work together, changing the ball, etc. Requires a quick thinking teacher!

The obstacles/rails on the board were taped in place and could be moved/added to as our discussion unfolded. For example, we added more "prayer and faith" near one difficult spot!  Each addition became a point of comment. Kids suggested many of them and loved modifying the game. The labels were post-it notes that the kids dictated. Ball rolled over them easily.

Such a board, pitfalls, teamwork, someone working against, guards, unhelpful traps, --these could all be re-purposed for many different discussions and ages.

The board is a thin piece of plywood with 1x1 railing screwed to the edge for rigidity.

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Game Wheels...

Add photos of your game wheel by using the "Post Reply" button below. Have some construction details to share? Do so over here.

A game wheel

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Spinning in action...

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Bible Skills and Games Workshops sometimes take on a "Bible tent" motif.

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Notice at the top of the picture below you can see the top of a folding tent/awning in another church's Rotation Model Sunday School. The tent/awning has been permanently set up INSIDE a traditional classroom space to lower the ceiling and give the kids a cozy "tent" feeling.  Fabric has then been stretched between the legs of the folding tent to close it in.  Does wonders in reducing that lovely "concrete pill box" appearance so many classrooms (and kids) suffer with in churches.

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Sometimes they are used for music and storytelling too!

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Can you figure out what lesson they were teaching in this photo?  Answer below.

The Kingdom of God is like a treasure, bread, pearls...!

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Neil MacQueen posted:

Here's our "Paul's Journey" maze table in our Bible Skills and Games Workshop at Peace Presbyterian, Bradenton FL.

It's a re-usable game piece. As you can see, the kids labeled the pitfalls/holes and bumpers to fit the lesson understanding of "what it takes" and what the challenges are when following God.  

We are balancing the board on a box and tilting it. We did a lot of modifying as part of the lesson, changing the labels, changing how we worked, or didn't work together, changing the ball, etc. Requires a quick thinking teacher! 

The obstacles/rails on the board were taped in place and could be moved/added to as our discussion unfolded. For example, we added more "prayer and faith" near one difficult spot!  Each addition became a point of comment. Kids suggested many of them and loved modifying the game. The labels were post-it notes that the kids dictated. Ball rolled over them easily.

Such a board, pitfalls, teamwork, someone working against, guards, unhelpful traps, --these could all be re-purposed for many different discussions and ages.

The board is a thin piece of plywood with 1x1 railing screwed to the edge for rigidity. 

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I found this YouTube video of a BLUE TARP "team building game" version of the tilting board game. 

As seen, their tarp "board" requires more hands to hold, but I suppose you could also simply attach 1"x1" wood strips to the four edges of the tarp (using a staple gun) so that one student could control each side of the tarp by themselves.  The tarp would be easy to label.  

  • Wilderness Journey Tilting Tarp? 
  • Avoid Sin Tarp?
  • Church working together to solve problems tarp? (what 'holes' do we need to fill, or get the ball to drop in to accomplish a goal?)
  • Or how about simply labeling ten holes with a different commandment (or Bible verse) and seeing if you can "tilt" the table-tarp to get the ball to roll into the commandments (or Bible verse) "in the correct order."

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Bible Games Workshop and "Museum of the Bible" Workshop (Bible Skills and Knowledge) 
at the Golf Course Road Church of Christ, Midland TX

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Here's an example of a "Game Show" Set-up

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We cobbled this Game Show Set-Up for an old VBS "Studio Go" back in 2011. We used music stands (to hold any notes or scripts) for the contestants (black and two striped) and host (host's stand is on the far left - with bow tied to it).

In front of music stands I placed 3-sided boxes (large boxes I cut) draped over them were a piece of black and two different striped pieces of material I had in my drama supplies) for added effect.

The brightly coloured squares paper, on the back wall, is just rolls of wrapping paper we hung in strips for a fun background. I still have the Studio Go cardboard standup, the spinner on it can actually be spun.

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