One of my favorite things to do is to help kids by putting Scripture to music! Memorizing the Bible is super easy if you sing the verses. Think about all the songs you were taught as a child that you can still sing. After all these years, that information has never really gone out of your mind. You need to learn the alphabet and it's fun to be able to sing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," but you may really want your child to learn biblical stories too.
One of my favorite things to do is putting Scripture to music for kids. Memorizing the Bible is super easy if you sing the verses. Consider the number of tunes you remember that you picked up when you were very young. You have that information stored in your mind. You need to learn the alphabet and it's fun to be able to sing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," but you may really want your child to learn biblical stories too.
A scripture song just needs a verse from the Bible set to a melody to turn into Bible action songs. How do you go through the process of matching music to Scripture?
I use the following 5 tips when writing my own Scripture music:
Find rhyming words. Verses in the Bible do not necessarily have words that rhyme, but quite often they do seem to fit with this form of poetry. When coming up with a melody line, you can then use this rhyming pattern to your advantage.
Bible verses have main words so determine which are the main words. Since the word "gave" was the main one for me from John 3:16, I emphasized this word when I turned the verse into a song. Repeating the verse made it stand out as i wished when set to the melody. My children really like making the movements it helped me come up with to accompany the music too.
You should repeat the melody line if there aren't any words that rhyme. rhyming is not often done in Bible verses. Therefore what can be done is to divide the verses lineage, which fits well inside a melodic line, as it repeats. So really it's the melody that is "rhyming," not the words.
Be certain the melodic content causes the emotion you wish to convey. Would you prefer a soft melody or an upbeat, fast tune? What feelings do you want to convey with your verse? The melody and the emotion created both work to make the words stick in your mind.
And last of all, make sure that you mention the verse in your song. I think it's essential that the Scripture song should contain the Bible verse's address. Now you can make your creative juices flow. At the end of the song, don't feel like you have to put the reference. You can place it in the middle or beginning if you would like.
