Leader Guide

Match Game

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  • 22"x28" Poster Board
  • Six Match Card Sheets
  • Tape
  • Pencil
  • Marker
  • Scissors
  • Six sheets of Cardstock
  • Bibles or Superbook Bible App

Make one copy of each of the six Match Card Sheets, double sided if possible.

Carefully cut apart the 24 individual cards.

If using single-sided copies: write a different number from 1–24 on the back of each card in random order. The numbers should be upside-down to the words on reverse so when the card is flipped up along its top edge, the word will be right-side-up.

Use a pencil to write THE INVISIBLE GOD in large letters on the poster board (see illustration). 

Trace over the penciled letters with the marker.

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

 

We are going to play a match game. In this game are twelve different pairs of cards. Each pair is something that God created. A phrase is hidden underneath all of the cards. It will be revealed as cards are matched and removed.


Divide the children into two teams. Teams will alternate turns. A team’s turn consists of one child choosing two cards. Flip each card up as it is guessed to show the children and read it aloud. If the cards do not match, put the cards back down on the board. If the cards match, remove them from the board and give them to the player who matched them. On any turn, the player may also attempt to guess the hidden phrase to win a bonus point. Play until all pairs are removed from the board. The team with the most pairs (points) wins.


Optional: After each match, read the Scripture associated with each match. Some Scriptures apply to more than one match. 


  • Animals—Genesis 1:25: 


God made all sorts of wild animals, livestock, and small animals, each able to produce offspring of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.


  • Sun, Moon and Stars—Genesis 1:14–18:


14Then God said, “Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. Let them be signs to mark the seasons, days, and years. 15Let these lights in the sky shine down on the earth.” And that is what happened. 16God made two great lights—the larger one to govern the day, and the smaller one to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17God set these lights in the sky to light the earth, 18to govern the day and night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.


  • Man and Woman—Genesis 1:27:  


So God created human beings in His own image. In the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.

 

  • Wind and Mountains—Amos 4:13 (NKJV):  


For behold, He who forms mountains, And creates the wind, Who declares to man what his thought is, And makes the morning darkness, Who treads the high places of the earth—The LORD God of hosts is His name.


  • Plants—Genesis 1:12: 


The land produced vegetation—all sorts of seed-bearing plants, and trees with seed-bearing fruit. Their seeds produced plants and trees of the same kind. And God saw that it was good. 


  • Universe (Earth)—Genesis 1:1: 


In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.


  • Birds, fish—Genesis 1:21:  


So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that scurries and swarms in the water, and every sort of bird—each producing offspring of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.


  • The Sea—Psalm 146:6: 


He made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He keeps every promise forever.

 

Let’s say the SuperTruth together: “Creation is evidence of the invisible God.”   


In our game, creation was evidence of or revealed the Invisible God!    





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