We are developing a game for our Gideon lesson, inspired by the book "Interactive Bible Story Bulletin Boards." We have enlarged the pattern and the characters are ready for coloring! The game pieces, featuring review questions about Gideon's story, are already completed.  We will use this game alongside our existing "Judges" interactive bulletin board, attaching magnets to the pieces for use on the magnetic board.  Watch for upcoming posts to see this game in action.

Nancy, our resource room coordinator, has a wealth of visuals that she and her friends have created. This project for our Gideon lesson was incredibly easy to assemble because the coloring was already done. We simply printed the colored photos and mounted them onto gray cardstock. Once laminated, we intend to add magnets to the back of each piece, allowing us to build a large shield on the magnetic dry-erase board as we learn the story of Gideon.

This colorful display is the first thing children will see as they enter our classroom for the initial Sunday of our Judges unit. As we delve into the stories of each judge, we will unveil their identities by removing the gavel cover-ups, adding an element of excitement and anticipation to our learning journey!

This visual aid was created to illustrate the cyclical and repetitive pattern of how the Israelites abandoned God and how God punished them. The Israelites would cry out for help and God would raise up a judge. The Israelites would repent and fall back into sin with the cycle repeating. This was completed during a collaborative effort during a teacher’s church worknight. The judge graphic (source unknown), was enlarged on poster board and enhanced with chalk, visually representing the various “judges” on the “cycle”. The accompanying text, was mounted on patterned scrapbook paper, provides additional information about the Israelites. This visual tool hangs on our wall during the study of the book of Judges.