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Kids' Games for Children's Church

Fun object lessons and educational games aren't just for school during the week. Youth leaders and Sunday school teachers can also use them during children's church. Children's church games entertain your students while teaching them basic lessons about morality and Biblical ideas. These games also get your students up and moving around, releasing some of their pent-up energy so that they are ready to sit, listen and discuss when the time comes. You can use these games with students of any age, from first grade to college-age youth.

River Crossing
- This game from Children's Church Games teaches students how working together and showing kindness to others helps everyone. Split your group into two teams and give each team one or two flat wooden scooters, similar to rolling boards that mechanics use. Each scooter should have a rope attached.
  
  Place two lines of tape on the floor about eight feet apart. The goal is for each team to get all of their team members across the "river" between the pieces of tape without falling into the river. The first person can get across by sitting on the scooter and letting his or her teammates push it across. He or she can then roll the scooter back across the river for the next person. The team that rescues their members the fastest wins.
Temptation Hockey
- This game, modified from Kids' Sunday School, provides a valuable object lesson. Give each student a plastic indoor hockey stick and split the room in two with a long piece of tape. Split the class into two teams and pull out a basket of plastic Wiffle balls, plastic hockey pucks or tennis balls. Give each student several balls or pucks and ask them to write one sin or temptation that they see or have trouble with on each one. Put the objects back in the basket and then turn them out so they scatter all over the floor. Give the teams five minutes to battle and try to push the objects on their side over the line. The lesson is that sin and temptation are constantly coming at you but God has given you weapons (the hockey stick) to fight them off. You must use your weapons wisely so that you don't hurt those around you.
Bible Jeopardy
- This game, modified from Kids' Sunday School, is helpful for getting students to memorize Biblical lessons or memory verses. Draw a grid on your board or make one on the floor with tape and number each square. Make yourself a key with questions and answers that correspond to each number. These can be related to Biblical facts, story characters and their actions, special verses and anything else that you teach. Get several dozen bean bags in two different colors. Split your students into two teams and give each team a color. The players take turns tossing the bean bags toward the grid. Ask them the question corresponding to the number they hit. If they can't answer in 30 seconds, the other team has a chance to steal. Keep points for a grid on the board and leave the bean bags in place for a grid on the ground. The team with the most correctly answered questions wins.

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