Play: About My Father’s Business

Forehead Guess and Scripture Showdown with words and questions from the Youth 11–14 lesson “About My Father’s Business”.

Forehead Guess

One player holds the screen up to their forehead, facing the class. Everyone else gives clues. Tap “Got it!” or “Pass” (or tip the screen down or up) before the timer runs out.

Scripture Showdown

9 questions from the lesson on one screen. Teams take turns, tap an answer and see why.

The words (18)

  • 🍞 Bethlehem: City of David; its name means “house of bread”
  • 🐄 Manger: Feeding trough where baby Jesus was laid
  • 🐑 Shepherds: First visitors; came with haste
  • 👴 Simeon: Promised he’d see the Messiah before he died
  • 👵 Anna: Eighty-four and served in the temple night and day
  • 🐪 Wise men: Came from the east following a star
  • ⭐ Star: Seen in the east; led the way
  • 🤴 King Herod: Jealous king who said he wanted to worship too
  • 🪙 Gold: A gift for a king
  • 💨 Frankincense: Sweet-smelling gift burned in worship
  • 🏺 Myrrh: Third gift of the wise men
  • 🏜️ Egypt: Where Joseph took the family to be safe
  • 🏛️ Temple: Where Jesus was found after three days
  • 🐑 Passover: The feast the family went to Jerusalem for
  • 📜 Doctors: KJV word for the teachers in the temple
  • 🧒 Father’s business: What twelve-year-old Jesus said He must be about
  • 💪 Stature: Growing physically, one of the four ways
  • 👶 Swaddling clothes: Cloth the baby was wrapped in

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