Leader Guide

Match Game

Tags:
  • Six Match Card Pages
  • Six sheets of cardstock
  • Scissors
  • Masking tape or painter's tape
  • Optional: marker
  • Bible or the Superbook Bible App

Make one copy of each of the Six Match Card Pages, double-sided if possible.

Cut apart the twenty-four individual cards.

If using single-sided copies: write a different number from one through twenty-four on the back of each card in random order. The numbers should be upside-down to the words on the reverse, so when the card is flipped up along its top edge, the word will be right-side-up.

Tape the top edge of each card on the wall with the numbered sides showing in four rows of six cards.  

Symbol Match: Play a game about God’s Word and the Bible story.

Let’s say the SuperTruth together. “I want God to transform me.”

God’s Word is powerful and can transform lives. In the Bible story, God compared His Word to two things. Can you name them? 1. Fire 2. Hammer.

The Bible also has other symbols that represent God’s Word. We are going to play a match game with these symbols and some important images from the Bible story. The game will also include three symbols from our Bible story that God used to reveal His message to His people.

Divide the children into two teams. They do not need to be even. Have teams sit together so everyone can see the cards on display. On each team’s turn, a player gets two guesses. The player chooses a card number, and the leader will flip that card up along its taped edge to reveal the image. The same player will then select a second card number to try to match the first card. If the cards don’t match, they are flipped back down again. If the two cards match, the leader carefully peels the cards from the board and gives them to the team. If time permits, read the associated verse for each symbol. For each of the three objects from the lesson (jar, ox yoke, and rope), ask why the object is important in the story. Whether the cards match or not, play continues with a different player on the other team taking a turn. Play until all pairs are removed from the board. The team with the most pairs wins.

Optional Scripture Discussion:

For each match, read the verse on the list. Briefly discuss how the symbol represents God’s Word and how we might freely give what we have received to others.

1. Sword   Hebrews 4:12:

For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.

2. Fire   Jeremiah 23:29a:

“Does not My word burn like fire?” says the LORD.

3. Hammer   Jeremiah 23:29b: 

“Is it not like a mighty hammer that smashes a rock to pieces?”

4. Lamp and Light   Psalm 119:105:

Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.

5. Mirror   James 1:22–23:

22 But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. 23 For if you listen to the word and don’t obey, it is like glancing at your face in a mirror. 

6. Water   Ephesians 5:26:

To make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word.

(Christ made the church holy and clean by the Word.)

7. Milk 1 Peter 2:2:

Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment.

8. Seed   Luke 8:11:

“This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is God’s word.”

9. Bread   Matthew 4:4:

But Jesus told him, “No! The Scriptures say, ‘People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

10. Clay jar: Jeremiah spoke of how God wanted to break, form, and reshape them.    

11. Ox yoke: Jeremiah wore it to represent how Israel would become slaves of Babylon.

12. Rope: Ebed and the guards used ropes to rescue Jeremiah from the cistern.      

Conclusion: God’s Word is alive and can shape us and mold us to transform our lives into whom He created us to be.        


◄ Previous: Prayer Next: Coloring Activity ►