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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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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.

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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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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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Game Snow Ball Push

Game SNOW BALL PUSH

Preparation:   Using waste paper crumple the paper into hundreds of  paper wads.   You should have enough paper wads to fill a large garbage bag (the kind you rake leaves into).    Using masking tape, put a line into the center of the floor and dump the bag of paper wads directly on the line so that the wads fall approximately 50% on each side of the line.  Choose 2 people who will be opponents.  On the signal the 2 people have to push the wads over the opponents side of the line.   At 30 seconds the whistle is blown and the person who has pushed the most wads over the other side of the line is the winner.  Recite memory verse between rounds.

A less messy alternative to this game is to make a square on the floor with chalk or masking tape.  Draw a line in the center.  Place one person in each half of the square.  Give each person 15 or 20 paper wads.  Each person should have different coloured paper wads.  When you say “go” they must toss their paper wads unto the other person’s side.  At the end of 20 seconds with person with the least number of paper wads is the winner.

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Game Smelly Business

Game SMELLY BUSINESS

Take several disposable plates and place on each one a sample of various items from your fridge.  Suggestions would be peanut butter, jam, onion slices, ground garlic, used coffee grounds, pickles etc.  Now blindfold your friends and bring them into the room one by one to test their powers of smell as you pass each plate under their noses.  For humour you could have a teacher take off their shoes and put a shoe or smelly sock on a platter.

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Attitude

Attitude

“Ability is what you are capable of doing.  Motivation determines what you do.  Attitude determines how well you do it.”
Lou Holtz

I saw this saying on a wall plaque in a home I visited and I thought this is true.

I am always telling my kids the importance of doing your best at whatever you do.   The bible says that whatever we do we should do it with all of our might.  If we have this attitude in all we do, we bring Glory to Christ.

In my life I have discovered that even if I was not the most talented at what I was endeavouring to do, with disciplined practice I could accomplish a lot and make works of beauty.

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Feed the Lambs

Feed the Lambs

“When you feel like criticizing the younger generation, just remember who raised them.”
(E. C. McKenzie from 1800 Quotable Quotes)

You know, if as children’s ministers we have the mindset that we are raising the next generation of believers and ministers, we would take our work much more seriously.  I have been in children’s ministries where the workers were truly just babysitting, filling in time so that the adults can enjoy their service.  They did not “feed the lambs”.

We need to feed the lambs the word of God.  You can find free cartoon bible stories at our web site www.rocksolidcurriculum.com  God promises that his word will NOT return VOID.  It will accomplish what he pleases.

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