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Treasure Hunt by Helen from New England A fun game that can be used for many different lessons. What you will do: Before class obtain pictures that relate to your lesson. You can print pictures at home, using software designed to make greeting cards. You can also find pictures in magazines or hand draw the pictures. Hide these pictures around the room before the children arrive. It's a good idea to count the pictures first, to make sure that all of them are found. This game is a good icebreaker for children who don't know each other. What you will say: Today our lesson is on the topic of _____________. Today we will be going on a treasure hunt. I have hidden _______ number of pictures through out the room, it's your job to find them all. These pictures all relate to our lesson. On the count of three, find the pictures! Once the children find all the pictures, you can explain how each picture relates to the lesson. You should also mention that the greatest treasure hunt of all is putting God's word into our hearts. This would be the prefect way to transition to scripture reading or memory work

Tower of Babel by Lei Ann A challenging game that teaches children how to speak other languages. Preparation: Prepare the Game Cube. Print out one game marker for each child. Ensure you have plenty of building blocks or Legos on hand. Print out a copy of the three game board pieces and tape them together. Depending on the size of your class you may need to print out more than one game board & game cube and divide the children up into groups to play the game. Before starting the game have the children print their name on their game marker. What you will do: Begin by asking who knows how to speak another language? Say "Today we're going to learn to say hello in lots of different languages. We are also going to pretend we're building a tower, just like the people did in the bible story located in Genesis 11:1-9 - The Tower of Babel. But we're going to be nice when we build our tower and say hello to everyone! The object of the game is to see who builds the biggest tower by the time a classmate reaches the finish line. You will take turns rolling the game cube and then moving that many spaces on the board. You must follow the directions on each space you land on. As you get blocks you can use them to build your own tower or work as a group. After the game, ask the children to say their favorite new word for hello.

Throw Away Your Sins Idea by Jonathan Miller A different spin on an old children’s game with a Christian life application Preparation: Crumple the sheets of paper into balls according to the number of children in the room. Then divide the children in to two teams, and have them stand at opposite sides of the room. Mark the center of the floor with masking tape to separate each team. Then have each child pick up one paper ball. What you will do: In this game, the paper balls represent sin, and the kids will pretend to throw these sins away. However, as they throw them away, the kids on the other side of the room are throwing more back. Each team will throw the balls (sins) to the opposite side and keep throwing any that come back. After about 30 seconds of throwing, the team that has the least number of balls on their side will be the winner. Then switch the teams around and play again. What you will say: When we accept Jesus in our lives, he gives us the strength and help we need to get rid of all our sins. However, being a Christian does not mean we are completely free of sins. Sometimes there are temptations, such as envy, anger, disobedience, and other garbage of which we need to be aware. These come in different forms and ways, to turn our eyes away from Jesus. We know what these sins are and when they come our way, we need to throw them away.

The Price is Right? by Craig Children guess the price of several items and discover the real price for Heaven. Preparation: Purchase 8 items, or find inexpensive items from around the house, like a bottle of lotion, mirror, sponge, candy bar, box of soap, etc. Give each item a value (price) close to the actual cost and write it down in black ink on one side of a large index card. On the other side in red ink, write down an estimated amount that is either slightly higher or slightly lower than the actual price. Try to have about half of the estimated amounts higher, and half lower. Fold the index cards into tents so the red estimated amounts are showing. Make a card for the Bible also, with the actual value being what the Bible may have actually cost, and the estimated amount slightly higher. Then make a card for the heaven poster, with the actual value being $0 and the estimated amount $10,000. Display all 10 items in a row on a table with the Bible in the 9th spot and Heaven in the 10th spot as shown in the following example: What you will do: Pair up the kids, or make small teams and give each team a tally sheet. (You can also do this individually, but the kids will have more fun working together) As you point to the first item, have the kids decide if the price shown is higher or lower than the actual price. Have them check the box accordingly on their tally sheet. Once they have made their choice, turn over the card to show the actual price and see if they got it right. Do the same for the rest of the items, one by one, as the kids keep score. Ham it up as a game show host might do, describing each item, etc. Have the kids guess if the actual price of the Bible is higher or lower, but before revealing the actual price, stop to see how well the kids are doing so far. Ask if any team got eight correct, seven, six, etc. Then turn over the Bible price. Whether the kids said the actual price is higher or lower doesn’t really matter. Explain that even a Bible has a price, and can be bought. Last, have them guess if the actual price for Heaven is higher or lower than $10,000. The price of Heaven is important. Tell the children not to consider only the poster, but Heaven being the real thing. Most likely, some of the teams will guess that the price of heaven is higher, much higher than $10,000. Some adults may too. As you turn over the card to reveal the actual price of $0, explain how Heaven is absolutely free. Not even one hundred thousand million dollars can buy heaven. Did anyone get that right? Give a special treat to anyone who did.

The Missing Commandment by Len This memory challenge will test the children's skills by having them identify a missing commandment.When they finally do, it will be a real treat. Preparation: Before class, print out the Ten Commandments Sheet and make enough copies for each child in the class. Cut these copies into strips with one commandment on each strip and put the sets into separate envelops. Then remove one of the strips from each envelope and glue or fasten one end to a piece of candy or a treat. This is the Missing Commandment. What you will do: At the end of the day's lesson, show the children all the treats. Tell them the only way to get their treat is to complete a little challenge. Give each child an envelope with the nine remaining commandments, a piece of colored construction paper and a glue stick. Instruct them to glue the commandments down in order on the construction paper, but to make sure and leave a space for the missing commandments. After they have glued on the nine commandments, they can come to you and identify the missing commandment. If they can find this missing commandment among the treats, which they will, then the treat is theirs. They can take the treat, and glue the missing commandment on to their project. This challenge can be completed with or without referring to their Bibles, depending on their knowledge of the Ten Commandments.