Review: Zonderkidz–Faith Builders Bible (TOS Review) #HSReview #FaithBuilding #Bible #NIrV

My kids had a blast using the Faith Builders Bible from Zonderkidz for this review.  God and Legos, how can you go wrong?

The Faith Builders Bible is written in New International Reader’s Version.  So it’s written in a language that allows kids to more easily understand it. The book includes many photographs, in Lego style, for kids to duplicate or create on their own.

This is a FULL bible, Genesis to Revelations with 1144pages, 24 of which are illustrated building pages.   

How We Used it

Here are some of the scenes my kids recreated:

Moses and the 10 Commandments, built by C (9 yo)


Last Supper and The Sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham, built by Z (6 yo)

My kids preferred to just flip through the Bible and pick out scenes to recreate, we would then read the stories and discuss them.  So, this is how we used it. 

There are lots of ways one could use this Bible.  Incorporate it into your daily Bible study, each building scene has a building block verse that would be great for memorization and/or copy work, Memorize the books of the Bible by making Lego stacking blocks (this is illustrated in the beginning of the book). 

As you see, some builds are simple and others are more involved.  My kids liked to retell the stories that they built.  This provided even further learning. 

My Thoughts

I wish that there would have been more Lego build pages in the book, that was slightly disappointing.  It’s a big book, 1144 pages, and only 24 build pages.   In true Bible fashion, the pages are also really thin, which lead to several tears as my kids flipped through the pages.  (The build pages are thicker).  Thicker pages would have been nice, since this is a kid’s Bible and is being used by kids. 

As a family, we prefer the King James Version of the Bible, but for Bible story purposes, other versions are fine.   The chapters and verses of the books do not correlate from this version to the KJV.   For instance, Leviticus 18, is chapter 20 in the KJV.  Speaking of Leviticus 18, in the Faith Builders Bible, it directly states “Do Not Commit Sexual Sins”, and goes on for 24 verses repeating the word ‘sex’ in each verse.  Just a warning, while I know these things are commandments, you may not be quite ready to discuss the meaning of ‘sex’ with your younger children, just yet. 

Overall, I was really hoping for more.  While I think this is a great option for a children’s Bible, I think it would appeal more to older children because of the lack of illustrations and the thin pages.  I would love to see more of a picture Bible for younger children, less words,in a story format with more pictures.

I would recommend this book more around age 10-12 years of age.

This book is available for $24.99 from Zondervan.

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Mike Mulligan Unit with Printables

We had a blast recently reviewing Maestro Classics – Mike Mulligan CD (review to follow shortly).
I wanted to share with you some of the fun stuff that we did to go along with this awesome CD, including a printable pack I made for ages 2-7yo.

Packet includes roll-a-graph, spelling page, counting cards, 3 part cards, writing page, finding area and perimeter.  Packet was made using My Memories Software using  Graphics by4 my Babies Scraps, Construction Zone and acreatn Little Digger. This printable is now available at my Teachers Pay Teachers store 

In addition to the great activity suggestions on their website; We Built our own excavators from Legos, we had a fun sensory bin with beans and construction vehicles, we experimented with steam, and explored the 3 states of water.

3 part cards from paper pack are designed to go with this vehicle pack or they can be used alone.


We also watched this video available on Amazon Streaming – HBO Storybook Musicals Season 1, Episode 3
and on Netflix – Mighty Machines, Season 1, Episode 1 – At the Demolition Site and Episode 9 – At the Construction Site.
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Lego Club at CurrClick

My 6yo LOVES Legos!! The other day I stumbled upon a lego club advertisement in a CurrClick email I received.....so I looked into it more...and guess what??? It's FREE!!! So of course, I signed him up!!!

It was a little confusing and overwhelming at first, but it didn't take me long to figure it all out. The same class is held every Monday, you need only attend one....and if you can't attend any, have no fear, each class is recorded and available for you to watch at your leisure. When you join you also have access to the archives, which are fun to look through; last week we did a build from the archives because it went with our theme. We have found we prefer watching the recordings because we can pause and rewind when needed. Plus my 6yo isn't old enough to participate in the online chat associated with the live class.

A list of Legos needed for the build is provided several weeks ahead of time. For me the most difficult part was sorting through my sons Legos to find what we needed.....but I solved that with a tackle box. I then sorted all his Legos out by size....when I got the next list, finding the pieces was a breeze!! (Now if only it would stay that organized!).

Don't have all the Legos listed?? There are two fairly easy options....the instructor just started offering full kits for sale, save time digging and just buy them altogether (and color coordinated!), or you can buy individual pieces through bricklink.com. They are fairly reasonably priced, and shipping is only a couple of dollars.

This month (October) the build was a tree.....each club meeting has an educational presentation in relation to the build and then the instruction portion. She allows time for show-n-tell as well (you just need to notify her in advance).

My son really looks forward to club, although he has only been to two thus far. We already have his Legos set aside for next month!!

Here he is at club building his tree

The builds he has made so far



If you have a Lego lover, definitely check this out!

Other free clubs available are American Girl, Magic Tree House and Chess Club!!

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