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1-First Aid Tray: Place many medical first aid items on a tray and pass around for a few minutes. Then take the tray away and ask children to write or draw pictures of all the things that they can remember being on the tray.
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2-Disciples. You will need a plastic or homemade cardboard sword.
Have all the kids stand in a large circle.
Give the sword to any one child to start the game.
Then call out a number between 10 and 20.
The children pass the sword to the right from one child to the next and as they do, they count up to the number you just called out.
The child holding the sword when reaching that number must say the name of one of the twelve disciples.
Repeat until all disciples have been called out. Disciples names can only be used once, except James can be used twice.
If the one with the sword fails to call out an disciples' name, they must leave the circle.
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3-First Aid Supplies: Blindfold children and have them reach into a bag of first aid supplies and hand that item to someone else who is blindfolded and see if they can describe and guess what the item is.
3-Bandaid (Juniors) / Bandages (Seniors) Relay: each one has to run to the "first aid" and get their bandaid or bandage and open it up and place it on their next team member's arm or leg, who will then run to the table and get another bandaid and come back to the team line and place it on the next team member. Continue until the first runner has one on.
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4-Interviews (GETTING TO KNOW YOU) Have the children pair-up, and give them a couple of minutes to interview each other. Have them try to find out as much about each other as time allows. They can ask questions about favourite colours, birthdays, birthplaces, hobbies, etc. When time is up, have the children introduce their partners to the class. See who remembers the most about their classmate. Ask the children if they think they got to know their partners thoroughly. Explain to the class that there is so much more to people than we can find out in a five-minute interview. If we think we know all there is to know about a person, we may be missing the most interesting parts of their lives. We are going to learn about some people who thought they knew Jesus, but they really did not. And because they did not know who He really was, they rejected Him. One of the saddest things that can happen is to reject Jesus based on wrong information. We need to come to Jesus with hearts of wonder and worship.
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5-Bible Jeopardy. Give a shaker for each team. Give each team a Bible name to call out so they can signal when they know the answer to a question. Examples Moses, David, Luke.
Prepare enough questions of varied difficulty for each square and point value. Questions are:
Topics covered this term (100 points).
Topics covered last term (200 points).
Topics covered last year (300 points).
Draw the dot points below on a white board or butcher paper and cross off as they are selected.
The team shaking their shaker first has first try to answer the question.
If correct, they get the number of points associated with that square and then their choice of the next question.
But if they get it wrong, that number of points is deducted from their total thus far, and the other team can try to answer.
If the second team gets the answer correct, they get the points, and choose the next question. However, if this team gets it wrong, no points are deducted.
Category One 100 Points 200 Points 300 Points
Category One 100 Points 200 Points 300 Points
Category One 100 Points 200 Points 300 Points
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5-Bible Books. RESOURCES:
Prepare by singing the Bible song.
Bible
Plastic or homemade cardboard sword
INSTRUCTIONS:
Divide the kids into two equal teams.
The 1st team will name the first book of the Bible. If they are correct, they hand the sword to the other team.
The next team names the second book of the Bible. If they name the book correctly, they hand the sword back to the first team.
This continues until the kids have named all the books of the Bible or until one of the teams cannot name the next book.
If a team cannot name the next book, the opposing team must be able to name it in order to win.
LESSON: Just as knights spend more hours practising, to acquire the skills to become honourable knights, than fighting. We too must spend more time in the Word than fighting the evil one. We sharpen our skills by praying and reading God's Word, the Bible.
5-Learn the books of the bible with cup race
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6-Elephant Stampede. You’ll need a pool noodle cut in half. Choose two kids to be the elephants. The Elephants hold hands and with the other arm they chass everyone and tries to tag them with a noodle. When someone is tagged they hold the persons hand that tagged them and they get to hold the noodle.
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7-God’s Grace. Divide into 2 equal-sized areas with a masking tape line. Give each group an equal amount of newspaper. On your signal, let kids make newspaper “snow” balls and quickly throw them back and forth at the opposing team for two minutes. The object is to get more “snow” on the opponent’s side when time’s up. At the end of the game kids clean hands with wipes. How did your hands look after the snowball fight? Newspaper like sin? Wipes are like God’s grace.
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Other Welcome Activities
Balls
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Musical Instruments
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Play Doh
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Dress Ups
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