Author: Patti Loranger

Patti Loranger is a Canadian author, cartoonist and songwriter. She is currently writing children's church curriculum covering the main stories and teachings of the bible. She is also cartooning the bible and those stories can be viewed and purchased at www.cartoonbibleseries.com
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Best Buddies Game

 BEST BUDDIES GAME

This game is similar to the newly weds television game show.  Have the children partner up with someone.  Choose 4 couples.  Partner A of each couple stays in the room and sits on a chair at the front of the room.  Partner B is taken out of the room so that he cannot hear the questions.  Ask 4 questions to each partner A and write their responses on a page of paper.   Then after all 4 questions are answered, bring back into the room the B partners.   They shall stand behind the A partners who are sitting on the chairs.   The same questions are posed to partner B and their responses are recorded on the lines below Partner A’s response.  (Partner A must not help them answer or they shall be disqualified.)  The team with the most same answers are noted to be the winners of  that round.   Choose the next 4 couples and repeat the process with 4 new questions.  At the end have a winners round.   The winning couples compete against each other and then a final winner is determined.  Note:  The object of the game is to give the same answer as your partner, even if it is the wrong answer.  They will be awarded points just because it is the same answer.

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Let’s Make a Deal Game

 LETS MAKE A DEAL Game

Preparation required:   Obtain 5-10 good prizes (ie:   Bags of chips, chocolate bars etc.)  and 5-10 bad prizes  (ie empty chocolate bar wrapper, empty chip bag, old sneeker etc.)    Put these 10 items int o brown bags and put them in random order on a table. Do not let the children see the items or it will ruin the fun.

Divide class into 2 teams (usually boys vs. girls works well).  When a child is asked a question, they are given a small candy to hold.   If they answer correctly their team gets 100 points.     After answering the question the child may trade their small candy for one of the items hidden under the boxes.   If they pick a box that has a good prize, cheer and jump for joy.   If they pick a box that has a useless prize, yell GONG and pretend to cry.  The child then hands over their small candy and receives the useless prize.

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Let’s Make Squares Game

LETS MAKE SQUARES Game

Supplies:      Chalkboard and chalk or dry-erase board and markers

Mark a set of large dots on THE board. Make four rows with five dots each. Have the teams take turns answering review questions.  When a team answers correctly, a player may draw a line by connecting two dots.

The goal of the game is to be the team to complete a square by adding the fourth line. When a square is closed, the team marks it as their own by writing in either “A” or “B.” During that same turn, they may draw additional lines to close any other squares that have three sides. They then add one more line. The other team answers a question, then draws a line, and so on.

If a team answers incorrectly, the other team will have the chance to answer. The team who ends up with the most squares wins.

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Christmas Sale on Children’s Bible

September For As Long As Supplies Last

Hi Friends, since Christmas will be here before you know it, I have decided to put my Cartoon Children’s Bible (Gospel book) on sale until Christmas.   It normally retails for $9.95 on the website but for people who are signed up to our newsletter the price will be $5.00 per book when you purchase a case of 36 books.  (Sorry, can’t do that price on smaller orders.  It is a lot of work for me to re-pack.)

I am not making any price changes to the website, so you will have to contact me by email to let me know you wish to purchase a case of books.  I will need your mailing address to ascertain the postage cost and then I will get back to you with the total cost.

Do speak to your church about it.  I think you will find that giving away or selling 36 books is not that difficult.  Here is the link to the book.
http://www.rocksolidcurriculum.com/product-category/the-gospels/

Sincerely, Patricia Loranger
(Creator of Rocksolid Bible Story Curriculum).

info@rocksolidcurricum.com

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Concentration Game

CONCENTRATION Game

Supplies: Forty 4 x 8 pieces of construction paper or Bristol board, marker, tape

Writing the numbers as large as possible, number 20 of the cards from 1 to 20.  These are the cover up cards.

Take the remaining 20 cards and divide them into two sets of 10.   Pick a topic (ie animals, colours, letters of the alphabet etc) and write 10 of these words on the first set of 10.   Now take the 2nd set of 10 and write the same set of 10 words.   Arrange the Concentration Board as follows:  Tape the topic cards face up on the wall or on some sort of board, in 5 rows of 4 cards each, mixing them up so that pairs are not right next to each other.  Place a numbered card over each topic card, keeping the numbers in order. Tape these into position.

Choose two teams and select a helper from each team. Ask a question, and pick a child to answer it. If the answer is correct, the child who answered the question gets a chance to try to make a match. He calls out two numbers between 1 and 20. The teacher lifts the numbered cards, revealing the topic cards below. If the two cards match, the numbered card is removed and his team gets a point. If the lettered cards don’t match, cover them again with the top cards. Continue until all matches are made.

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Zit Face Game

ZIT FACE game

Choose 2 teams with 4 players each.  Choose 2 teachers, 1 to represent each team.   The teachers sit on chairs facing the audience and each teacher holds a bag of marshmallows on their lap.    The first child from each team comes up to the front and takes some marshmallows from their bag.   They break the marshmallow up into pieces and stick  them onto the teacher’s face.   They have 30 seconds to stick as many as they can, then the whistle blows and the next player on each team comes up and has 30 seconds to stick marshmallow pieces unto their teacher’s face.   After the last team member has had their chance to stick pieces, then the pieces are counted on each teachers face.   The team with the most pieces wins.

(author unknown)

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Game Turbulence

Game TURBULENCE

Arrange 8 – 12 chairs into 2 straight lines (equal number of chairs in each line) with an aisle down the middle.  The chairs should all be facing forward in the same direction.    Choose a child to sit in each chair and one child to stand in front of them and act as the airplane pilot.   All the children extend their arms out and pretend that they are flying.  Script for the Pilot:   Welcome to my airplane.   As a safety precaution repeat after me ….. (say the memory verse).  The pilot then shouts “TURBULENCE” at which point all the players must change chairs and the pilot must find a chair to sit in.   The person left without a chair is eliminated.  He must “jump out of the plane”.   If any person does not change chairs, he is eliminate from the game and must “jump out of the airplane”.   Remove one chair each round and that person without the chair becomes the new pilot and repeats the above process.  The last 2 people remaining in the game are the winners.

 

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Toilet Paper Wrap Up Game

TOILET PAPER WRAP UP game

Using masking tape, put 2 X’s at the front of the room at least 8 feet apart from each other.  Pick 2 boys and 2 girls to be partners.   Have one child from each team stand on the X.   Give the other child in each team a fresh roll of toilet paper.  Have everyone say the memory verse at least 3 times, then say “on your mark, get set, go”.   The child with the toilet paper gives one end of the roll to the child on the X, and then runs around and around the standing child until they are completely wrapped in toilet paper and the roll is empty.   When the roll is empty the child on the X, breaks through the toilet paper and runs around the circumference of the room and returns back to their X on the floor.   First child back to their X, that teams wins.    Repeat game with as many teams as you wish, but remember to repeat the memory verse several times.

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Game The Limbo

Game THE LIMBO

Have 2 volunteers hold a pole horizontally.   Play upbeat praise music.   Jewish style praise music works really well.    The children line up single file and pass under the pole.   Then the volunteers holding the pole lower the pole an inch or two.   The children make another pass under the pole. The volunteers again lower the pole and the children pass under it.   As soon as a child cannot pass under the pole they are eliminated.    They must not squat or turn their head to the side.   The same rules apply as in the normal Limbo game.  Before each pass under the pole, the children as a group must recite the memory verse.

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Sowing and Reaping

Sowing and Reaping

“Please don’t blame God for the harvest when you yourself did the sowing.”
(E. C. McKenzie from 1800 Quotable Quotes)

As children’s ministers we have the opportunity to sow the word of God into the children.  We also need to remind the children that they also are doing sowing into their own hearts.  This is something parents and ministers need to constantly remind children that they need to watch what is going into their hearts., because that is what is going to come out.  We can’t blame God for the results.

Even things like sitting too long in front of a computer and hunching over and getting sore backs.  Children need to be reminded to take responsibility for things in their own lives.

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Game Sumo Wrestlers

Game SUMO WRESTLERS

Choose 2 teams of 2 people.  One of the team members from each team puts on either overalls or very large men’s clothing.   The other member has 20 seconds to stuff their partner with as many balloons as they can.   On the last round you may pop each balloon and count as you pop to determine which team had the most balloons stuffed.

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Seeing God’s Signs

Seeing God’s Signs

1 Chronicles 12:32 From the tribe of Issachar, there were 200 leaders of the tribe with their relatives. All these men understood the signs of the times and knew the best course for Israel to take. (New Living Translation)

Recently the kids outreach ministry which I am doing at the local church in my neighbourhood had really dwindled down to a small number of children and I was beginning to think that maybe God was moving me on or that it was the closing of a door or something and yet in my heart I didn’t really feel that way.  Just when I was beginning to think that maybe this was the end, on that very next week a whole bunch of new neighborhood children came and  as a sign, it re-inforced to me that God isn’t done with it yet and I should keep going.

How wonderful it is when God shows us those signs.  As long as we are open to hear what the spirit is saying, like those sons in the bible, and have our eyes open to see the signs of his hand in our lives, that is all that matters isn’t it.  That is all that matters.

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