Children & youth ministry

PowerPoint Picture Scramble

Separate everyone into groups. Take picture of various body parts (be careful!) and scramble them and see which group can find the most the fastest.

6 Games

Circle Relays

Form teams of 4-6 kids. Tell the group to link arms forming a circle and facing outward. Set up an obstacle course. The object is to run the course without breaking the circle.

Body Parts

Make two body part sets out of construction paper. No repeats ,but you can get as detailed as you want (i.e. eyebrows, fingernails). Form two teams & give a set to each. At one end of the room have the kids in lines with their teams. At the other end have newsprint on the wall with masking tape near it (two columns of newsprint for each team). At your signal let them go run to the newsprint and “make a person”. The first team to do it wins.

People of God

Beforehand, write out on 3x5 cards question and answers that go along with the lesson. Stand by a chalkboard an read a question. Choose someone to answer the question. They come up and read the next question and draw a body part on the board (be careful!). Continue until you have completed a whole “person of God”.

Toe Tag

The same ideas as the old game, but you have to try to get people’s toes. When that happens the person is not out but must continue to play by hopping on one foot. If the other foot is tagged then they are out.

Rainbow Weavers

Cut 5-foot piece of crepe paper for each person of varied colors. Provide some type of pole and tape the crepe paper to the pole, having the group hold onto the non-taped end. Number the group in ones or twos. Have the ones take one step forward and pass the neighbor on the left and then take one step back to rejoin the group. Have them continue to alternate positions until the crepe paper makes the pole beautifully colored.

Build a Person

Have three teams of three people. Provide props such as clothes, wigs ,accessories, hats, etc and have the group stand/sit on each other shoulders and “build a person” with props. Let the audience vote for the best person.

Lesson- Body of Christ

I Corintians 12:12-27 (read it)

In this passage we see that every one plays a part to make the whole thing the best that it could be. It’s like in our games- we all had to work together to make sure that it was successful. If someone didn’t work with us or didn’t do their part the whole team suffered. In the body of Christ everyone has a job to do. You were created with the gifts and talents and abilities that you have for the job God has made you for. That job is the job that is ging to make the whole body not only function, but be the very best. Think about it- if you don’t do what God has called you to everything else, great as it may be, is still lacking without YOU!! Whatever that job is you’re great at it because you were made for it! At the same time you need to remember that you can’t do it by yourself because there is someone else with a job that will compliment the talents you do not have and this why we all have to work together. This is why Paul says, “ The eye can’t say to the hand ‘I don’t need you’ or the head to the feet ‘I don’t need you’ “. We all need each other- this helps remember that we aren’t anything without each other and Christ as the head. Also, don’t be discouraged if someone has a job you wanted. Let’s say that love to sing, but can’t carry a tune. However, you use your word to build up those around you. Remember, while somebody can sing like nobody’s business, you might be the one to lift up your brother or sister whose struggling by just letting them know you see the good in them or vice versa. The point is that God made just perfect- just how He wanted you. What he has set for you to do He has had planned since before time began and crafted it into the whole plan of the advancement of the kingdom of God because he believes in you!!

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Rowland, Beth. Quick Games for Children’s Ministry.

Group Publishing, Loveland,CO; 1992.
Roehlkepatain, Jolene. 101 Creative Worship Ideas for

Children’s Church. Group Publishing, Loveland CO;

1995.
Robertson, Baileigh. 2003.

(Build a Person, Shoe Switch/Link Up, Human Pyramid)
Nelson, Thomas. Compact Text Bible. Thomas Nelson Bibles,

Nashville, TN; 1980.

Melissa Sickel

Paper Roll
Sent in by AEHendricks

Don't tell anybody what is going to happen, but get a roll of toilet paper and tell all those playing not to take to much but to take however much they want. One all the players have taken the number of sheets they want each has to tell one reason they want to go to Hawaii. {Fun and games.org}

What am I? (Traditional)

Prepare a card for each of your guests and write on it something from Hawaii, an animal, an event, a person, etc.…. On arrival, pin a card on the back of each guest who must then ask questions of each other in order to find out their identity. When they succeed, the card is pinned on the front of them. {Fun and games.org}

Improv- each group acts out a skit with different themes. (i.e. luau, hula dancer, flame thrower) {http://www.bbyo.org/bbg/ideas/mixers.html}
Long DistanceTelephone-Decide on a phrase (ex: lets go to a luau on Thursday). Tell it to youth #1, who will go and whisper it in the ear of whomever's name you called out and sit in that youth's (#2) spot.  Call another name and youth #2 will pass the message on to them.   
Object is to not garble the message.  A good variation of this is to have a youth do the calling, if they make an error, a new youth is chosen to call. {http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/erachi/page9.html}

My name is _____, and if I could go to 1 tropic place I'd go to _____ because....

I demonstrate for my youth: "My name is Mr. H., and if I could go to 1 tropic place, I'd go to Hawaii," I say, "because I've heard it beautiful."

{http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson019.shtml}

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