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Can clothespins and a hanger help you memorize the books of the Bible? Absolutely!!!

Old Testament

New Testament
To help my daughter memorize the books of the Bible I wrote all of the books of the Bible on clothespins. On the back of them they are numbered and say OT or NT for Old Testament and New Testament. 

Close up of names on the clothespins.
Now she can sing the song she learned to memorize the books and find the right clothespins to clip them all in order.  Once she has them all clipped she can turn it over and see if all the numbers are in order.  So it's self checking!  She can also use the pins to test her knowledge of which books are in the Old and which are in the New Testament.  I will probably hang a string somewhere in the schoolroom when we get it all set up so she can work on them their too.

After I got the Books of the Bible ones done my 4 year old asked if I could make him some clothespins.  So I did his as the ABC's!
I put upper case at the top and lower case at the bottom.

On the back I numbered them 1-26 so he can use them to work on his numbers too!

The kids love them!  Huhmmmm, what else can I teach them with clothespins???

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Posted by Dana @ School For Us

Wow! What a great idea. I've never heard of clothespin learning. :-) Looks like you could use it for anything sequential. How about the months of the year? Skip counting? (on the back you could still number it 1-2-3-...) Have fun!
Dana, www.alexml.blogspot.com

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Posted by Peggy from CatholicNotebook.blogspot.com

Brilliant! I love this idea and the simplicity of the whole design.
So glad I found your blog.

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Posted by redaredding

Another great idea! I used your mummy idea already. I posted a link to your blog. I hope you don't mind.
My youngest son has several chapters of the Bible memorized but has had more trouble with the Apostles and the N.T. so I might give this one a try.
We also play the clothespin game to see who can drop the most into the jar.

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Posted by http://fourlittlepenguins.blogspot.com

Too cool. I think clothes pins just might be my next educational investment. :)

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Posted by 4littletreasures

What a fantastic idea! I do enjoy your site. Thank you for sharing all your wonderful teaching ideas with us. Keep up the great work. Grace and blessings,
Amanda.

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Posted by wannabegodly

I love this idea and am definitely going to do this and share it with a friend. Thank you for inspiring us to creative studying!

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Posted by kaenhu

and a big 72 pack of clothespins costs $1.27 here too. LOL Thanks!!!

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Posted by Anonymous

love, love this idea! i am looking to buy clothespins in bulk now :) to see what we can use these with. i'm starting with your idea of the books of the bible since that is how i found your blog-doing a search on some creative ways to teach them in order. thanks! think i'll be back to check out your other posts.

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Posted by mrsadept

That is very novel. A great idea that I would like to try out one day. Thanks for sharing.

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