How to use
your Growing Box

Creation to Revelation’s goal is to create visual aids and teaching tools for every single Bible story, no matter how niche. We want to equip Moms, siblings, and teachers to more easily integrate Bible stories into your home Bible study, Bible class at church, or personal study! Our "Growing Box" is full of resources for you and your students to use and enjoy as you learn God’s Word!

Like CTR, the Growing Box is not a set-in-stone curriculum, but rather a flexible resource, easily implemented into any curriculum! Our flash cards are created as accurate snapshots of what is described in Scripture, but with a simplistic illustration style that doesn’t limit a child’s imagination.

Don’t be overwhelmed by all of these cards—we only want to be an encouragement and offer ways these can be used practically and simply! Below are some initial suggestions on how you can use CTR’s Growing Box.

Build Your Foundation!

  • Memorize the 17 Time Periods to help cement the timeline of the Bible. This timeline will put people and events into their contexts! Keep it simple—learn the list first with the cards, and then build off of that knowledge ... one person and story at a time. Check the index below where we have compiled a list of the time periods and which books of the Bible they cover!

  • Use the Drills & Themes to help memorize “Bible basics.” Once kids have internalized these concepts as lists, you can begin to make spiritual applications from what you have learned! Most of our Drills & Themes flash cards have corresponding songs, which will help you memorize each topical list—you can find demonstrations of those songs on our Instagram stories highlights! Follow us @creationtorevelation to keep up with tips, tricks, songs and more.

  • Other ideas for Drills & Themes: pick one set to learn each week. Memorize the drills starting with the Divisions of the Bible, so that kids can begin learning to find scriptures in their own Bibles. Go deeper in your conversations by talking about the moral applications of each theme as you memorize. (For example: with the “Fruit of the Spirit” set, talk about people of the Bible who showed or didn’t show those character traits.)

Add To Your Knowledge

  • Begin making your way through the Bible with the Review Pack! Each card has a scripture reference—it’s as easy as opening your Bible and reading the story with your kids, while they look at the card and see what is happening! If you have littles, read the story beforehand so you can put it in your own words. Move through chronologically or pick out well-known stories you are more familiar with, gradually moving to less familiar stories as you discover and learn along with your students.

  • Cycle 2 are the contents/main events of the 17 Time Periods. It’s the second part of Bob Waldron’s 3 Cycle Approach for organizing your Bible knowledge. These are the events and people we learn about that help tell God’s big story, and now you can organize them under a memorable timeline so that you and your family can tell others!

  • History Packs fill in details of the chapters in each book, which is ideal for older students who are able to absorb more details and make connections on their own. Have your older students read the story and retell it in their own words using the History Pack cards!

  • Our Generations mini flashcards (500) are a fantastic resource to learn more about the people of the Bible, memorize in which Time Periods they lived, where in scripture to find them, and whether they are in the lineage of Christ. Take one card a day to test your knowledge, do a quick character study, place them in the right Time Periods, or make a genealogy tree for the Lineage of Christ (the green star helps you find them all!)

Test Your Knowledge

  • Can your students recite all the Drills & Themes or 17 Time Periods?

  • Next, memorize which stories and people fit within each Time Period using the Cycle 2 flashcards. Make a game of matching the Cycle 2, Review Pack, or History Packs under the right time period or book of the Bible.

  • Match Review and History Packs cards under the Drills & Themes cards—kids can determine if the story or the character’s choices show the Armor of God, exhibit the Fruit of the Spirit, break the Ten Commandments, etc. This can lead to personal application and discussion about ways to internalize these traits!

  • Put Review Pack and/or History Packs in order chronologically.

  • Start memorizing in which book of the Bible each person and event took place.

Deepen Your Faith!

  • The Story of the Cross is meant to teach the importance and the story behind Jesus’ sacrifice and the meaning behind the last supper He shared with His disciples.

  • The illustrations connect God’s story of redemption from the fall in the Old Testament to the culmination of grace in the New Testament, which is vital to our faith and understanding of scripture.

  • Read through the Story of the Cross with your students at home, so that when the church takes the communion in worship, children can follow along and understand the value and meaning of memorializing the Lord’s death and resurrection.

How to keep it organized …

  • Keep the quarter-size contents card inside your Growing Box to refer to.

  • When you pull a card out, turn the card before or after it in the opposite direction so it’s easy to put your cards back in order.

  • The Generations mini-flashcards are organized by our 3 CTR divisions:

A) The Nation

B) The Kingdom

C) The Church

  • Keep them alphabetically organized within each division.

 
 
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