You have no idea how excited I am to be reviewing The Picture Smart Bible.
The primary goal of the Picture-Smart Bible is to draw [pun intended?] people into the inspired, dynamic, life-changing Word of God, so that His Word can be implanted into their hearts.
I just got finished taking a rather lengthy browse through the CD (hundreds and hundreds of pages of pdf’s)and I am very impressed.
The Picture Smart Bible has way more to it than I anticipated. Please bear with me as I describe to you what The Picture Smart Bible is all about – you’ll be wanting your own – which is perfect because I’m giving two copies away (details at the end).
Works for All Families
Whether you are looking for a full-blown curriculum, or a lightweight supplement, you won’t be disappointed.
Reading through the Bible? This is an excellent fit.
Want something to jazz up your family devotional time? Look no further.
Homeschooling? This will work alongside your current curriculum, or you can use it as a stand-alone.
Anyone, young or old, can use The Picture Smart Bible as a tool to retain what they learn.
What *is* The Picture Smart Bible?
I am so glad you asked.
The Picture Smart Bible is comprised of three main sections:
MASTER DRAWINGS: A complete Bible overview emphasizing key concepts, events, and people in each book of the Bible – all on one sheet. Even your preschoolers can take part by coloring on these sheets.
STUDENT SHEETS: Best for the 4th grade and up crowd (yes, even adults!). These sheets are a light outline meant to be traced and filled in for better retention. No artistic ability needed! The finished Student Sheet will look like the Master Drawing when completed.
CURRICULUM ELEMENTS: This is where you can use this as a full-blown curriculum. You can even use it to teach Sunday school or lead a Bible study. What you get:
- Orientation Paragraph – “the thread that helps fit the Bible together and helps students connect with the previous book.”
- Commentary - this was so well-thought out! Includes step-by-step directions for when and what to write, draw, or trace along with suggestions for Scriptures to be read aloud. To make it easy for you to follow along, there are thumbnail drawings which makes it super easy for you, the teacher, to know what the drawing should look like as progress is made.
- Applications for Life – recommended discussion topics to apply to our lives today
- Implant the Word – suggestions for
memorization - Good News Starburst – every book contains the good news of Jesus Christ which is emphasized, even throughout the OT. I found 100 references to “Jesus” when searching in the OT section.
- Power Symbols - these are common symbols used throughout the drawings. For instance the Word of God is depicted as a Bible; the law as tablets; perfection as a circle; and God as a cloud.
FAMILY TIME PREP: Involve the whole family! This is a great multi-level tool for all family members to use to enjoy God’s Word and participate in together.
CLASSROOM SET-UP FOR TEACHERS: If you are teaching Sunday School, or using this is a group, you will benefit from this section.
RESOURCES: At the end is included various maps, timelines, journeys of Abraham (OT), Paul’s missionary journey’s (NT), the Tabernacle set-up, Solomon’s Temple, and more.
Also included:
- Table of Contents
- Goals
- FAQ’s
- Teaching Tips – spiritual, emotional, physical
- Notes, for your personal use
- Bonus “Bridge” that covers the 400 “missing” years between the OT and NT books, as well as an overview sheet of the entire Bible.
Click here for a sample for the book of John (pdf).
Please Note
The creators of The Picture-Smart Bible want to you know, “there is NO substitute for independent Bible study.” Igniting a new joy in learning God’s Word is the goal here -not as a replacement!
Where Can I Buy The Picture Smart Bible?
www.picturesmartbible.com
Heart’s at Home (on sale now – 20% off!) this links to the OT & NT CD version that I have. Other formats are available.
What is the Give-Away?
So now that you are all itching to get your hands on a copy – the creator’s of The Picture Smart Bible have agreed to let me give away two things:
1. An instant download of The Picture Smart Bible Old Testament
and
2. An instant download of The Picture Smart Bible New Testament
There will be two blessed winners!
How to Enter the Give-Away
I am going to make this really easy. All you have to do is leave a comment telling me how you will use this in your home (or maybe to teach others outside of your home?). I will be using Random.org to choose the winners.
Be sure that you “like” Virtuous Foundations on Facebook or follow @VirtuousFndtns on Twitter so you will know when we announce the winners.
Please share this with your friends by using the “share” tool below!
Give-away ends Sunday, August 28th, at midnight and winner will be announced Monday, August 29th by noon.
Please note: I received The Picture Smart Bible in exchange for an honest review. No money changed hands. I do not make any money off any sales that are made from my review. I am just very happy with this resource!
| Lea Harris founded Virtuous Foundations in 2006. A homeschool graduate (high school), she now teaches her own children at home using various methods and curriculum. Some of her favorites are Heart of Wisdom, The Picture Smart Bible, Math U See, and Excellence in Writing. Follow Virtuous Foundations on Facebook, @VirtuousFndtns on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter. |
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I am really excited about this!! I have a 4th grader who LOVES to draw, so this will be so wonderful for him. My husband and I have decided to send our children to public school this year, and I would really like to do a bible study with my little ones before they leave for school. This product sounds like it will be so much more fun that just flipping through a bible study with no pictures.
This year we have had to re-think our approach to homeschooling. I have been blessed by purchasing Heart Of Wisdom Teaching Approach and how important it is to appraoch our learning by putting God at the centre. My kids love to learn interactively with lots of activities. I believe this book would “suit us to a tea”
Hoping to win…..Bless you
Lyn
I homeschool our 4 children and would love to add this to our day.
This is our first year homeschooling our teo girls and would love to utilize as many highly recommended resources such as this. I think our church could really benefit from this as well.
Thank you for offering this giveaway. If I won, I would use this resource for the training of our boys (that we homeschool) in God’s Word and righteous living.
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what a splendid giveaway. I am a grandmother of 5 but I also homeschool our two youngest girls. I would love to use this as our Bible curriculum to further the children’s learning of God. Bless you for such a wonderful giveaway~
Wow I would love to win this. I have been looking for a Bible curriculum to add to our current curriculum and this sounds like the perfect thing for both my 4th grader and the whole family. What an awesome giveaway.
Not trying for the free prize, but to tell you that having known the two developers of this wonderful product since we were all very young married, that no finer, deeper believing, devote people ever lived on this earth, bar none. With all Sincerity, Norma
Oh what a fabulous giveaway!!! I would love to have this! We would definitely use this as our Bible Curriculum for HS. It would be so awesome! This is the one area I have a hard time deciding what to use. I want to make sure that whatever we use, that it is easy for the boys to understand, but also accurate
I homeschool my son and this Bible would be very beneficial to our curriculum!
I will use it to supplement my homeschool curriculum and for my own Bible Study
I am a home school mom to 5 boys I would love to add this to our curriculum. and a study for myself.
I am a homeschool stay at home mom. I have four children! I really think this is neat and would like to use this for Bible in our school learning.
I saw this at a Homeschool conference & LOVED IT!!! I really think my 3 boys (along with Hubby & myself) would really enjoy it!!
I would love to include this in our day. I’ve got a very artistic daughter and would love to get creative using the Bible! I am not creative, so this would help guide me to help her!
This looks wonderful! My children are very visual learners and would really benefit from a Bible curriculum like this. Thanks for the giveaway.
I would use it to learn and teach the Bible!!! Of course! What could be better? nothin’.
My children, 10 and 6, love to color and draw and we have been looking at using this as our family bible study time. I think it is also something I could use to teach some of the kids at church with!
My kids would love something like this for Bible class.
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What a wonderful resource for our boys that we homeschool, I think this will be the perfect way to get my 6 year old more into drawing, he LOVES bible stories!! Thank you for the opportunity!
We school at home and I would love to add this in to our day. What a wonderful resource!!!
looks like a great addition to homeschooling and missions !!
We are starting over with a 7 year old adopted girl/former niece. We were just about empty nesters and so it would be used at home and shared with her junior church class at church to teach her more of God’s word.
I would love to try this to get my youngest kid (she is
to understand her bible study better everyday. She learns better by doing and I think being able to color her way thru the lesson would be great for her.
I just want to use it in children’s fellowship
I would use this during our family devotion time after dinner. I know my children would enjoy it!
We homeschool our 8 y.o. son. The Picture Smart Bible looks like a great resource to enhance our understanding of the history of the Bible.
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As a homeschooling Mom, I would love to win this to use with our 3 kids. I love the whole concept and how it is laid out for the kids to enjoy.
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When my husband and I attended the THSC Convention and Family Conference at the end of July we took a look at The Picture Smart Bible. We were impressed, but couldn’t squeeze any more money out of the budget.
I can see that this would be a very beneficial tool, not only to our homeschooling, but also to our evening family worship time and a great Sabbath afternoon activity.
Thanks for the great review – I learned a lot!
Sara
I homeschool three special needs boys. I believe that this artistic approach would be a wonderful way to further incorporate their understand and memory of Bible stories.
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This is awesome! I homeschool my four kids and have been looking for something to use for our Bible study. We had been doing the Our Daily Bread daily devotionals. Which are great, but are often over the kids’ heads. This would be awesome!
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What a great resource! My family would benefit from this in so many ways. I would use it for my children and make it available to other families as well. Thank you for making this giveaway.
I think the kids at my church might like this. Great to get them interacting with the Scriptures. Thank you!
I would love to win this and hope I can enter in the UK. I LOVE the outline drawings that even my younger children would be able to use. An across the board tool for learning God’s Word – brilliant!
I think would be an excellent way to get my daughter engaged in Bible study. She has HF Autism with visual and auditory processing disorders so she can’t read or write yet but wow can she draw! She needs to learn everything hands on. This is my first FULL year of homeschooling and things have been pretty stressful trying to fit lessons into my daughter’s learning needs. I haven’t looked to see how much this costs but God willing I’ll get the free one or I’ll get the money to buy it. What a GREAT idea!
I had seen The Picture Smart Bible somewhere before and thought it looked like a great way to enhance our devotional time in the morning (my kids are doodlers!). But, like many things that cross a homeschool Mom’s computer screen, this was forgotten. Would love the opportunity to use this with my kiddos, thanks for the entry! :O)
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I want to use it in our homeschool day and there are plenty of ways to do it.
This sounds so amazing…I have a very artistic daughter who struggles with reading so I’ve been looking for non-reading supplements but everything is either too crafty or just coloring pages. This looks like something that would really work for her. Our goal is to memorize 12 books of the bible by the time she graduates high school, starting with the gospel of Luke.
I would use this for my children and maybe look into a co-op opportunity so that I can share with other families! Thank you!
I just recently heard about this program from another homeschooling mom. I then researched it myself and fell in love! This is such a fantastic program. My kids love to draw. We would use this as our bible program. This will be a product that even if we didn’t win it, at somepoint when I can afford it, we will buy it.
I would love this!! I would use it for home school and Sunday School to start with!
Chara