First Grade - 1 John 3:1 - February - Hide the Word

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God. 1 John 3:1


Here is the one page of ideas for this verse.

The headband with heart ears is explained here. The headband here also has a cut up sentence on it for the children to sequence. Make sure you take lots of pictures of the children with their headbands on!!

Be sure you see heart things on sale, you stock up on all things hearts for use with this verse and other verses about love.

First Grade - 1 John 3:11 - October - Hide the Word

This is the message you heard from the beginning, we should love one another. 1 John 3:11



Here is the one page of ideas for 1 John 3:11.

The instructions and photos of the photo sequence memory verse game are here.

The instructions for the plaster hearts magnet are here. Be sure to NOT double the recipe, as for whatever reason it doesn't work well.

Here are the shrinky dink instructions.

First Grade - 1 John 4:4 - June - Hide the Word

You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.  1 John 4:4


This is the one page of ideas for this verse.

See the sample here of the glow in the dark paint project. The verse is different, but the idea is the same. Please be sure you don't have the children paint every single word. That doesn't work well and will make everyone frustrated!

This is the photo of the mat with shapes for the children to match.

Here is a photo of the toilet paper tubes, also called the cylinder shuffle.

1st Grade - October - Hide the Word - 1 John 3:11 - photo sequence

"This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another." 1 John 3:11

This is our mail-out game for October. The first year we trimmed the photos and mounted them on card stock (see sample above).  However, all the other years we have simply printed the photos and the kids love it just as much!

This game does take a little bit of planning.  About 3 weeks before the new month, bring your verse phrase cards and camera to class.  On the back write the name of the child who will hold each card.  Some years we even take a photo of Daesha and I holding a card! :)

The verse phrase cards are 8.5x11 sheets of paper with the verse phrases printed in a really large font.  Have the kids hold the verse phrase card in front of their belly and take their photo!

 Mail each child a complete set of everyone holding a verse phrase card.  Then they will put these photos in order.

1st Grade - February - Hide the Word - 1 John 3:1 - Headband

"How great is the love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God." 

1 John 3:1

Here's another headband!!! And this is one of my all-time favorite headbands to make with the kids!!!

Before class, make a cut-up sentence of the verse.  To make a cut-up sentence, either hand-write or print the verse off your computer.  Cut the verse into 2 word chunks.  Place one verse set in a baggie for each child.  Also, gather one sentence strip for each child.  Also make the antennae! To make the antennae, gather two pipe cleaners for each child.  Also cut-out 4 hearts for each child.  Tape the end of one pipe cleaner to one heart.  Then glue another heart on top of the pipe cleaner that is taped to the heart.

In class, give the kids their baggie of the cut-up verse.  Have them glue the words in order on the sentence strip.  A tip... fit and stapele the sentence strip to fit the child's head BEFORE sequencing the words.  Draw a pencil line at the temples after stapling it.  Have the kids glue the word cards inside the pencil lines... that way no words will be covered when the sentence strip is on their heads.  Once all the words are glued on, the teacher tapes the antennae at the temples on the inside of the sentence strip.

Make sure to bring your camera to class!  Take a photo of each child and a class photo to display on a bulletin board in the hall.  Make sure to hang a verse poster with your photos!