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Do you need a quick and easy activity for your ocean or adventure themed VBS? This word search puzzle is a good way to keep everyone busy while gathering or to fill some unexpected free time.
Download the printable word search puzzle and key below. You are free to use the printed version “as is” with your youth group, VBS, or other youth ministry.
Today’s activity is a printable puzzle of the Ten Commandments. Use is as a supplement to teaching the Ten Commandments
This is a cryptogram type puzzle. Each commandment is given but is missing one word. The clue for the word is a cryptogram. Each letter in the cryptogram needs to be translated to another letter. For example, in this puzzle, each G should be decrypted as a L. By decrypting all of the letters, you can know the missing words.
A key is also provided, in case you are not an expert in cryptography. 🙂
Ten Commandments Cryptogram – Download the printable PDF puzzle
Ten Commandments Cryptogram – Download the printable PDF key
This worksheet introduces the Gifts of the Holy Spirit and the Fruits of the Holy Spirit. A definition of each gift or fruit is given along with the encrypted answer. Each letter actually represents a different letter. So every time a youth decrypts a word, they get more clues for how to decrypt the remaining word.
Use this as a confirmation exercise or for any lesson related to the Gifts of the Holy Spirit or the Fruits of the Holy Spirit.
The puzzle is below. A key is also given with the answers.
This printable cryptogram is a fun way to introduce youth to the vocabulary for Lent and Triduum. Each word is encrypted and definitions are given. Youth must consider the definition and then decrypt the word. Each time they decrypt a word they learn a little more of the key, so it gets easier with each word. This makes it possible for them to figure out some of the “more difficult” words.
These are the words included in this puzzle:
Abstinence
Almsgiving
Ash Wednesday
Baptism
Chrism Mass
Contrition
Conversion
Cross
Desert
Dust
Elect
Fasting
Forgiveness
Forty
Good Friday
Holy Saturday
Holy Thursday
Hosanna
Palm Sunday
Palms
Passion
Penance
Prayer
Purple
Sacrifice
Scrutiny
Sin
Stations of the Cross
Tomb
Triduum
Download the printable cryptogram puzzle and key below. You are free to use the printed version “as is” with your youth group, VBS, or other youth ministry.
This word search puzzle includes words typically associated with baptism. It is suitable for use with your Children’s Liturgy of the Word, Vacation Bible School (VBS), or Youth Ministry.
The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord commemorates when Joseph and Mary took Jesus to Jerusalem to be consecrated. There they met Simeon and Anna who blessed the child and prophesied about him.
Use this crossword puzzle to reinforce the main characters and ideas in the gospel for this day. The printable crossword can be used with youth ministry or children’s Liturgy of the Word or a Sunday School lesson.
There are two versions of the crossword puzzle. Both include the puzzle and the clues.
