![]() ![]() If so, run it again to see if teams can improve their times. Run the first heat of the relay for two minutes (keep track on your watch) and see if any team has completed the course. (Fewer than six kids? Work together as a single team!) The catch: if the balloon hits the floor, the entire team starts over. Help children bend their hangers for the job of carrying the balloons.Įxplain that the goal of the game is for each relay member to carry a balloon on a hanger to the far wall of the room and back. Place the balloons out of sight.Īnnounce that since the book relay went so well, you’ll try another relay (mix up the two teams)-but this time with wire clothes hangers and balloons. GAME FOR A BAD DAY Perfect Relay Suppliesīefore children arrive, inflate two balloons and tie them off. And so did Jonah! We’ll find out why today. Say: Most of us don’t have perfect posture-or perfect anything else! That’s why we need God’s forgiveness. What do you do in life absolutely perfectly? You had to keep perfect posture to keep the books in place. ![]() After this experience, how would you rate your usual posture?.What made it so hard to keep the books from falling?.When the relay is finished, collect the books and ask children to be seated on the floor to discuss: If (when!) books fall, children can simply pick them up, balance them, and keep moving forward.Įncourage kids to cheer one another on. Then form kids into two teams for a relay race.Īsk the first person in each team to walk to a specific spot and then back again without the books falling. Help the volunteer walk without dropping the books. 4 hardcover books (that won’t be damaged if they fall)Īnnounce that you’ve decided to bring back an activity that helped their great-grandparents have perfect posture.ĭemonstrate with a volunteer how to stand with two books balanced on one’s head.Kids will begin to express themselves more over time-and hearing their stories will help you adapt this lesson to make it relevant to your kids’ lives. ![]() Be sure to include your own initials and explain your placement on the line. That’s because there’s no such thing as a week that’s exactly half good and half bad!Īfter kids have signed in, give them 30 seconds each to explain why they placed their initials where they did. Place your initials anywhere on the line that shows how you feel about this past week-except exactly on the 5. If it was a great week you wish you could repeat, put your initials by the 10. Say: If this past week was so awful you wish you’d slept through it, place your initials by the 1. As kids arrive, ask them to pencil in their initials on the line. Place a 1 on the left end of the line, a 10 on the right, and a 5 in the middle. OPENING ACTIVITY Option 1: Howzitgoing’ Suppliesīefore kids arrive, draw a line on a poster. Today you’ll discover an important lesson: God forgives us. But without those, Jonah would have ended up fish food. Jonah meets big fish, big fish eats him, Jonah decides if he gets out of fish alive he’ll do what God says, fish throws up, and out comes a very stinky Jonah. Jonah’s story is familiar to most children who’ve been in Sunday school. Jonah was willfully disobedient-and God didn’t let him get away with it. Jonah’s problem was that he didn’t want to go, so he ran away in the opposite direction, believing that hiding from God would take care of the problem. God even told Jonah what to say when he got there. “I’m willing to follow, but I just don’t know which direction to go.” “If he’d just tell me what to do, I’d do it,” they say. Many Christians wish they had specific instructions from God. ![]()
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