If you see a balloon that color on the ground, grab it and run all around with it. Then when I name another color, everyone is to drop their balloons and grab the color balloon I named. Start by naming yellow. Then after a minute or so name a different color. Repeat the activity five or six times. End by naming all the colors.
Then say: Orange! Grab your orange balloon and hold it high. Say: Now follow me as we go back to our lesson! Give each child a paper plate, then have the children skip around the room while holding onto their plates.
Repeat the activity three or four times. Have children take their plates back to your lesson area to place neatly on the floor or table before you continue with the lesson. Place a jelly bean in front of each child. Allow kids several minutes to roll their jelly beans. You can always browse our latest worksheets. Just be sure to choose which pages you want to print because the document is 59 pages long!
Here are a few of our favorite Sunday School games for younger kids. Almost all the ideas listed above can be lots of fun for older students, they love revisiting their childhood favorites. Here are a few options we suggest if you need something special.
You can teach children how to encourage others. Kids need to be encouraged and encourage others! Kids need to see how God has given them talents and skills — to glorify Him. But in the process I thought it would be cool to have them do this by focusing on others. Perfect for a icebreaker of sorts for your next ministry event?
Try these ideas to get the students engaged and excited. These are guaranteed to ramp up excitement. The only supplies are accessible household items, so they are easy to prepare and of no cost to your ministry. You also want the crowd to heap encouragement on the player, so lead the students likewise. If you sense a child is not going to make it in the designated time period, help them out.
More challenging matches can be interspersed for adults to win or lose the sillier the better. Have fun! Make the most of your summer ministry opportunities. Send some advanced notice for parents to bring clothes that can get wet. These are the special events the kids will be talking about for years to come. Print this list for VBS, church camp, or school field days. Most are easy to plan with only a few supplies from the dollar store and of course water.
You can divide the room into two sides and have students group according to their answers. A fun list of Christian Would You Rather questions includes these head-scratchers: Would you rather have seen the Red Sea being parted or Jesus walking on water? Would you rather have dinner with Moses or Paul? Play Switch Sides If to get your group moving and building relationships with each other.
All you need is a ball of rainbow-colored yarn to play The String Game. Kids work together to line up in a certain order, for example, oldest to youngest or by birth month. This game makes a great Bible connection with the story of Zechariah in Luke 1 or any other story where someone has lost the power of speech.
Laugh out loud Sometimes nothing beats a good old fashioned board game. Get started with these ideas. You can find dozens of Bible-based trivia and card games your group will love. Try out the classic game Pass the Pigs — the Bible connection with the story of the Prodigal Son is irresistible! Do you have some Star Wars fans in your group? You can buy this online , or create one yourself from a list of Yoda quotes and verses from Proverbs.
This game makes a great Bible Connection with Proverbs, but it can also be a discussion starter on the difference between Christianity and other belief systems. All you need are some colored cotton balls. Sunday School Crafts Get colorful Decorate the cover of a blank notebook to use as a prayer journal. Make bookmarks for Bibles. Start out with blank paper or use one of these free templates. Have a variety of ribbons kids can choose from to personalize their bookmarks.
Who am I? While they are gone, the rest of the kids decide on a character for that player to be. The player is brought back into the group and asks questions to find out who they are using only yes or no questions. Categories — Give the kids a category and a letter eg women of the Bible starting with J , give the kids a minute to make a list. Silence — Partway through the lesson, turn off the mic and have kids try to guess what you are saying.
Would You Rather — Ahead of time, write out a shortlist of questions with 2 scenarios related to the lesson ie Would you rather be Elijah or the widow woman of Zarapheth? Leave the photo up for the group for 30 seconds while the kids study the image. Once the photo is gone, give the kids a time limit to list every detail they can remember from the photo.
You can also use this activity with lists of words. Have the kids guess what the object is. This can be used to introduce the lesson, or in the middle of a lesson to break things up.
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