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The current study examines the effects of puppet plays based on the Bible stories that are applied to actual situation for forming concept of God in children. Forty-two 4-year old children at a kindergarten in Seoul were divided into experimental and control groups, and a total of 8 classes utilizing puppet plays based on the Bible stories were conducted over 4 weeks. The CGCQ questionnaire, used also by Dickie, translated and edited by Young Joo Lee (2007), was divided into Loving God, Almighty God, God of Authority, and God Afar, and was used to do both pretests and posttests, which were analyzed with t-tests. The results show that first, children’s scores on general concept of God were significantly higher for the experimental group than the control group, under which children only listened to Bible stories. Second, children in the experimental group with the puppet plays based on the Bible stories applied to actual situation showed statistically significant improvement in their concept of Loving God and Almighty God, and significant decrease in their concept of God of Authority and God afar. This shows that utilization of puppet plays applying the Bible stories to actual situation is effective in improving the concept of God in children.