The class had just finished playing a game, during the course of the game
each of the kids had received an index card with the name of a Bible character.
As the game ended one of the children asked, "May we keep the cards?"
and soon all of the kids wanted to keep their index cards as well. Since
then, I've seen this same scenario replayed many times. Children love to
bring home small tokens that they've acquired through participating in Sunday
school.
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Think about your class structure, are there
places you could weave in some free give-a-ways? Buy or create small ribbons
that can be handed out for class participation, successfully reciting Bible
passages, attendance or a slew of other reasons. You'll be amazed to see
how long the kids will keep the ribbons and how they will use them to decorate
their Bible book covers. Make the ribbons unique and the kids will want
to collect all of them. Kid's are competitive by nature and will want to
see who can collect the most ribbons.
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| Ribbons are almost as good as trophies,
the kids love them and like to show their prizes to others. Ribbons are
an amazingly effective way to keep children interested in coming back to
Sunday school and also encourages them to participate in class. |
