Right smack dab in the middle of Christmas -- the Bible

For the final gift that our children open, we always have clues they have to follow to find the gift. This year we are adding a little twist to that game by making all of the clues come from the Bible. Once they have looked up the verse, they will have to go to the appropriate place to find the next clue. I think this will be the best clues ever. If you want to copy these clues for using with your own kids, feel free. The more kids know that Christmas is about Jesus Christ and not about Gameboy, the better the world will be. So if you are interested, the clues follow below:

Thy word is a lamp unto my _______ and a light unto my path. Psalm 119:105

Jesus said, "Let your __________ _________ before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven." Matthew 5:16

God knows the number of _______ on your head. Matthew 10: 28-30

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; Knock and the ______ will be opened to you. Matthew 7:7-8

Peter became afraid and began to ________ into the water. Matthew 14: 22-33

_______ up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

You prepare a ________ before me in the presence of my enemies Psalm 23:5

All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots -- all its lesser vessels, from the ___________ to all the jars. Isaiah 22:24

Likewise every good tree bears good _____, but a bad tree bears bad ______ Matthew 7:17

Enter through the narrow ______. For wide is the _____ and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and may enter through it. But small is the _______ and narrow the road that leads to life and only a few find it. Matthew 7: 13

Let's make a small room on the roof and put in it a bed and a table, a _______ and a lamp for him. Then he can stay there whenever he comes to us." 2nd Kings 4:10

Then he got into the _____ and the disciples followed him. Matthew 8:23

If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever - the Spirit of truth. The ________ cannot accept him because it neither sees him no knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. John 12: 15-17.


I am the vine; you are the _________. John 15:5


"Leave her alone," Jesus replied. "It was intended that she should save this _________ for the day of my burial." John 12: 7


By faith Abraham, even though he was past age -- and Sarah herself was barren -- was enabled to become a _________ because he considered himself faithful. Hebrews 11: 11


They set the tables, they spread the _______, they eat, they drink! Isaiah 21:5


You drench its furrows and level its ridges; you soften it with ________ and bless its crops. Psalm 65:10

I will enter the battle in disguise, but you wear your royal ______. 2nd Chronicles 19: 29

What are you, O mighty mountain? Before Zarubbabel you will become _______ ground. Zachariah 4:7

When someone brings a grain offering to the Lord, his offering is to be of fine ______. Leviticus 2:1

Husbands love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by ___________ ____ _______ through the Word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle. Ephesians 5: 25


The final clue will lead them to the washing machine, where their gift will be waiting!