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Game Ping Pong Ball Races

Game PING PONG BALL RACES

Using masking tape put a start line and a finish line on the floor.  Choose 2 or 3 children who will line up at the starting line.  They must recite the memory verse.    After the teacher says “1,2,3,go!”, the children must get down on their hands and knees and blow their ping pong ball to the finish line.   They must not at any point touch the ball with their hands.   First person to get their ball across the finish line is the winner.Repeat the race with new children as often as you wish.   Recite memory verse between each round.  For added fun divide the class into 2 or 3 teams and assign a teacher to each team to be their team leader.    Have the team leaders race with each other.  Award 5,000 points for each win.   Team with the most points at the end wins.

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Game Pass the Orange

Game PASS THE ORANGE

You can either play this pass the orange game in two teams or stand around together in one circle. The object is simply to pass an orange from one person to another, using only the chins and the shoulders. If you are using two teams, you can make it a race, but it is always very funny whichever way you play.  Repeat the memory verse between rounds.

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Game Object Game

Object Game

The game leader will name an item that a child might have in their possession, i.e. a certain colour of sock, a shoe lace, a hair ribbon, a watch, a necklace, a running shoe, even a hair (kids are so enthusiastic they pull some hairs out of their head and laugh about it!)  .  If the group is small you might have a race and the first child who brings you that item, wins that round.  If the group is bigger, each team should have an appointed runner who brings the item up.  Recite memory verse between each round.  Award points for each item.  For a real humourous twist, that the kids really get into, ask for a nice crusty booger (green nose mucus).

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Game Shoe Scramble

Game SHOE SCRAMBLE

Props required:    Bring a dozen or more pairs of shoes from your home.

Choose 6 or 8 children.   Put all the shoes that you brought in a pile in the front centre of the room.   Tell the children that are picked to remove their shoes and add their shoes to the pile.   Mix up the pile of shoes. Line the children up at the back of the room.   Have everyone say the memory verse, then say “1, 2, 3, go!”  All the children run to the pile and pull out their shoes.   Then they run back to the start line.  The last 1 or 2 people are eliminated from the game, but are awarded with a small prize or a ticket for participating.   The remaining children go back and throw their shoes on the pile again.  Someone scrambles the shoe pile, and the race is run again.   Children are eliminated each round until there are only 2 children left.   The winner is the last person left in the game.

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Christ is the Foundation

Christ is the Foundation

“A happy home is more than a roof over your head, it is a foundation under your feet.”
(E. C. McKenzie from 1800 Quotable Quotes)

This saying I believe, also goes for your church home.

Churches are meant to be nurturing places, encouraging the discouraged, equipping the saints to do the work of the ministry.  Most times this is the case, but there are times when churches go through great troubles.   Some are financial troubles, leadership who fall into sin, control situations etc.

In my years as a children’s minister, I have seen young people go through traumatic times in their relationship with the church because their parents have gone through traumatic times with the church.   Maybe they hear lots of “pastor stew” at home.  Remind the kids that people are not perfect and if we put our eyes on people, we will be disappointed.  But ,Jesus never changes and his word never changes.  He never disappoints.

I have noticed that when churches run into troubles there are some people who fall by the wayside. But, those whose foundation was firmly on Christ and his teaching, rebound with wisdom and vigor.

We want the kids in our children’s church to be rebounders.

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Game Labyrinth

Game – Labyrinth

 

This is a really fun game if you have a room with enough space to play.

Divide class into two teams.  One team spreads out evenly unto the floor area.  The other team lines up against the wall.  This team gets to be the runners first.

 

One at a time each player from the team against the wall, leaves the wall and has to try to last 20 seconds running around in between the players out on the floor area.  The kids on the floor area throw a soft ball to each other and try to hit the runner with the ball.  If the runner lasts for 20 seconds without being hit then he/she has earned their team a point.

 

After each player on the running team has had a chance to run, then the teams are reversed and the runners become the players on the floor area.  The other team lines up against the wall and becomes the runners.

 

Team with most points at the end wins.

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Conscience – A Gift from God

Conscience – A Gift from God

“The most painful wound in the world is the stab on conscience.”
(E. C. McKenzie from 1800 Quotable Quotes)

Our conscience is a gift from God, the first way to tell us right from wrong.  It is meant to keep us living the “good life”.

Encourage the kids to never ignore their conscience.  It is their first defense against evil and it is there to protect.  The bible says that when people’s consciences become seared, and past feeling, they become capable of doing great evil.  This in turn leads to judgment and destruction.

Keeping a tender heart starts with heeding the voice of your conscience.  Remind the kids constantly that there is forgiveness with God when we confess our sins.

If our lives were a castle, our conscience is definitely the moat.

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Game Knee Relays

Game – KNEE RELAYS

Play this as a team knee relay game.   The first player from each team puts a book between his knees and rushes off around the room (one clockwise, one counterclockwise).  A dropped book means going back to the start.   Hands may be used only during a changeover from one player to another within a team. The team that finishes first wins.  Recite the memory verse before and between each round.

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Game Hot Stinky Sneaker

Game – HOT STINKY SNEAKER

This game is similar to “hot potato”.    Have the children form a line across the front of the class.   Pick a child wearing running shoes and ask for one of their shoes.  When the music starts the children pass the running shoe down the line and back again until the music stops.   When the music stops, the child who is at that moment holding the shoe becomes eliminated from the game.   Music starts again and a child is eliminated each time until there remains only one child left – the winner.  Remember to have the children recite the memory verse between each round of play.

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Game Donut Dangle

Game – Donut Dangle

In the donut dangle game we attach 3 or 4 strings from a broom stick which will be held by 2 people.  Attach a donut to each string.   Choose a child for each donut.  Put plastic on the floor and garbage bags with a slit for the head over the heads and bodies of the children to protect their clothes.  Each child kneels down in front of a donut.  When you say on your mark, get set, go, the children race to see who can eat their donut off the string first.   When the donut falls to the plastic the race continues.   First one to totally eat their donut is the winner.

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Game Dino’s Disgusting Deli

Game – DINO’S DISGUSTING DELI

 Two tables are set at the front and on each are several slices of bread and 5 (disgusting) sandwich ingredients. When the game leader says, “Go”, the teams (in relay fashion) run to the table, lay down a slice of bread, choose one ingredient and put it on the bread, then run back to tag the next player. When all players have contributed to the sandwiches, the game leader will blow the whistle. The game leader chooses two leaders to come to the front and taste the sandwiches. Judging from the leader’s reactions, the game leader chooses which of the two sandwiches is the most disgusting. The team that created the most disgusting sandwich wins the game.

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Game Clean Your Face

Game – CLEAN YOUR FACE! 

Supplies:  1 can of whipped cream and 2 water guns.   Pick 2 teams of 2 people.   One person from each team will have whipped cream sprayed on their face and the other person from the team must stand behind a designated line and spray off the whipped cream with a water gun.   The first team to have a cleaned off face is the winner!

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