Everyone, Learn the Word has a great new product for helping kids memorize their Bible verses. He is called Joyful Joe Hippo (and His Bible Buddies). The little stuffed character has a recordable Bible for parents or teachers to record whatever verse they want. Kids just squeeze the Bible and practice their verse. If you email them at learntheword@joyfuljoehippo.com and tell them you are with a sunday school or VBS program, they will send you a sample or two for free!
Look at their little video clip on godtube.com.
http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=8bd706394855032940a1

Feel free to write me also with any questions...my email is jeffp@austin.rr.com. I work with a few families at Learn the Word and we want to help everyone involved with VBS. We hope to have a comprehensive program in the following years, but for now we have an awesome toy to help kids memorize their bible verses and have fun doing it. We can provide a few for free and any others at cost for the summer.