Sword drills are
used by many Sunday Schools as a way of training children to look up
references in their bible. The basic idea is that the children start
with their bibles closed, a reference is given to them and, when the
signal to start is given, they look up the verse. The first one to find
it is the winner. However there are several ways to make the exercise
more fun, and more visual, and some of those we have used are explained
below.
Note on Bible versions:
If the children in your Sunday school use different versions of the
bible, you should make sure beforehand that the key word (animal, object
number etc.) is the same in each version.
Visuals: As
well as reading out the bible reference, it should be written out for
the children to see. In the past this might have been done on a
blackboard. But in these days of computers it is very easy to print out
the references in large letters on sheets of brightly colored paper.
These can then be put in the correct order in a ring binder (see photo)
and held up for the children to refer to while they are looking up the
verse. They can Also be put on Power Point.
