Review Games

Tape a numbered sign in each corner of the room. In a tiny room, use four spots along the walls instead.

Choose a Counter (spin the Name Spinner on your phone or tablet to keep it fair). The Counter sits in the middle, closes their eyes and slowly counts down from 10.

Everyone else tiptoes to a corner before the Counter reaches 1.

With eyes still closed, the Counter calls a corner number. The kids in that corner answer a review question together.

Right answer? That corner picks the next Counter. Nobody is ever out. Play until everyone has had a turn in a called corner.

Write review questions on slips of paper, fold them and put them in the box. Add a few surprise slips: “Do 5 jumping jacks!” or “Say something kind to the person on your left.”

Sit in a circle or a row. Start Hot Potato on your phone or tablet (or play music) and pass the box hand to hand.

When it buzzes, whoever is holding the box pulls out a slip and reads it. Help new readers.

Answer the question. Friends can help if you’re stuck. Then start the music again.

Keep going until the box is empty.

Read the key verse together twice, pointing to each word.

Start Hot Potato on your phone or tablet and pass the ball around quickly.

When it buzzes, whoever holds the ball says the next word or phrase of the verse. The class claps if it’s right.

After each round, cover one word of the written verse with a sticky note or erase it, until kids are saying it from memory.

Final round: the whole class says the verse together with every word covered.

Read the sentences one at a time. After each one, pat your legs for a drumroll and reveal the answer.

When a sentence is false, ask a kid to fix it so it’s true.

Finish with a few personal ones: “Stand up if you prayed this week.” “Stand up if you can help someone at home tomorrow.”

Everyone stays in their seats. The teacher starts: say one thing you remember from the lesson, then gently toss the ball to someone.

The catcher says something new: a person, a part of the story, or how they can live it this week.

Then they toss to someone who hasn’t had a turn. After your turn, cross your arms so everyone knows you’ve gone.

The last toss comes back to the teacher, who shares a quick testimony of the lesson.

Before class, write a question, a word or a quick drawing from the lesson on each sticky note. Hide them around the room: under chairs, behind the door, under the table.

Kids walk (never run) and find exactly one note each.

Go around the class. Each kid reads their note and answers it or tells how it fits the lesson.

If the notes are story events, stick them on the wall in order together.

Before class, stick a sticker under one chair. Set the chairs in a circle facing out.

Kids walk slowly around the circle while Freeze Dance plays on your phone or tablet.

When the music stops, everyone sits in the nearest chair. Nobody is out because there’s a chair for everyone.

Everyone checks under their seat. Whoever has the sticker answers a review question.

Move the sticker (or hide two) and play again.

Play like Simon Says, but only follow directions that start with “The prophet says…”

Use actions from the lesson: “The prophet says build an ark.” “The prophet says part the sea.” “Roar like a lion!” (Don’t move!)

If someone moves by mistake, nobody is out. They take one deep breath and keep playing.

Every few commands, pause for “The prophet says whisper one thing we learned today to your neighbor.”

End with “The prophet says sit down and fold your arms.” Talk about why it matters to listen to the prophet, and sing “Follow the Prophet” (Children’s Songbook, 110) if you have time.

Write people, animals, objects and actions from the lesson on slips, or use the “Act It Out!” deck in the app.

One kid draws a slip and acts it out with no talking and no sounds.

The class raises hands to guess, and the actor chooses who answers.

Whoever guesses right tells where that fits in the story, then acts next.

No time to prep? Launch Forehead Guess on your phone or tablet and have the class act out the word instead of giving clues.

Everyone finds a partner and plays one round of rock-paper-scissors.

The winner draws a question card and reads it to their partner.

If the partner answers right, the pair earns a point for the whole class. Add a tally mark.

The teacher calls “Switch!” and everyone finds a new partner.

Play 4–5 rounds and count the class total. Can you beat it next week?

Before class, put colored stickers on the ends of about half the blocks. Red = review question. Blue = act it out. Green = “How can I live this?” Yellow = say something kind to the person on your right.

Kids take turns pulling one block with one hand and setting it on top of the tower.

If the block has a sticker, do what the color says. A plain block means you just pass.

If the tower falls, everyone whisper-shouts “Timber!” and helps rebuild. Nobody loses.

Play until everyone has had at least two turns.

Each kid writes or draws one thing they learned today on a sheet of paper.

Help everyone fold a simple paper airplane. Short on time? Crumple the paper into a ball instead.

Everyone stands behind a tape line and flies their plane at the target together on “3, 2, 1, fly!”

Everyone picks up one plane that isn’t theirs, sits down and reads it out loud.

Each plane that landed in the target earns the class a cheer (or a marble in the Goal Jar).

Split into two teams and name them after something from the lesson. Each team starts with one Tapper.

Ask each team a question in turn. Every right answer adds one more Tapper to that team (up to four).

Final Pull: Tappers gather at their side of Tug of War on your phone or tablet and tap as fast as they can while everyone else cheers.

No phone or tablet? Draw a rope on a long paper strip with a line in the middle, and move a clothespin one step toward a team for each right answer.

The winners shake hands with the other team and say, “Good game!”

Split into two teams. Open Draw & Guess on your phone or tablet. It picks a word from this week’s lesson.

One kid comes up, peeks at the word and draws it. No letters or numbers allowed!

Their team guesses. A right answer before time runs out earns a point.

Switch teams. Use the Name Spinner to choose each artist so everyone gets a turn.

After each word, ask: “Where was that in our story?”

Open Mystery Picture. A picture from the lesson hides behind tiles.

Ask a review question. Whoever answers right removes one tile.

After each tile, anyone can raise a hand and guess the picture. One guess per person per tile.

Whoever guesses it tells how the picture connects to the lesson.

No phone or tablet? Peel one sticky note off a printed picture for each right answer.

Set one special chair at the front. That’s the Hot Seat.

Spin the Name Spinner. That kid sits in the Hot Seat.

Ask a review question. They can answer, or “phone a friend” by picking a classmate to help.

The class gives a silent cheer (hands waving, no sound) for every answer.

Spin again. Keep going until everyone has had a turn or time runs out.

Everyone stands beside their chair. Start Freeze Dance on your phone or tablet.

Dance in place while the music plays. When it stops, FREEZE!

While everyone is frozen, say one statue’s name. That statue unfreezes and answers a review question.

Right answer? The music starts again.

Last round: freeze in a reverent pose, then sit down and fold your arms.

Think of a person, place or thing from the lesson.

Give clues one at a time, starting hard and getting easier: “I was on a boat…” “I ran away…” “I was inside something big…”

Kids who think they know put a thumb on their chest. No shouting.

After three clues, choose a thumb to guess. If they’re right, that kid whispers a new pick to you and gives the clues next.

Write or draw one story event on each paper. Mix them up.

Hand one paper to each kid (or to pairs).

When they think they’re done, the class reads the papers in order and fixes any mistakes together.

Shuffle the papers to new kids and time it with the Big Timer. Can you beat your time?

Sit in a row or circle. Whisper a short sentence from the lesson (the key verse works well) to the first kid.

Each kid whispers it once to the next person. No repeats!

The last kid says it out loud. Compare it to the real sentence. It’s usually hilarious.

Try a new sentence and see if the class can pass it perfectly.

Split into two or three teams, each with a stack of cups at their spot.

Ask one team a question. A right answer lets them add one cup to their tower.

Rotate through the teams. The tallest standing tower at the end wins.

Near the end, read Matthew 7:24–25 about the wise man who built his house on a rock. Ask: “What makes our lives strong, like a good foundation?”

Sing “The Wise Man and the Foolish Man” (Children’s Songbook, 281) while everyone knocks the towers down together.

Before class, pick a 3-digit code (like 7-4-2). Tape the box shut and write “CODE?” on top, or lock it with a combination lock.

Ask review questions. After every two right answers, write the next digit on the whiteboard.

When all three digits are showing, the Treasure Keeper “enters the code” and opens the box.

Share what’s inside: a treat, a picture from the lesson, or a note with this week’s challenge.

Choose a seeker to face the wall with eyes covered while another kid hides the sheep somewhere in the room.

The seeker walks slowly to search. The class hums softly when the seeker is far away and louder as they get closer.

When the seeker finds the sheep, they answer a review question and choose the next hider.

End by talking about how Jesus looks for each one of us.

Make pairs of cards: a word from the lesson on one card and a matching picture or clue on the other (like “Noah” and a drawing of the ark).

Mix them up and lay them face down on a table or the floor.

Kids take turns flipping two cards. If they match, the kid tells how that pair fits the lesson and keeps it.

No match? Flip them back over. Everyone watches closely to remember where things are.

The whole class wins when every pair is found, two by two.