Water Balloon Toss (Preschool Version)

Tuesday:	Water Balloon Toss
Bible Lesson:	The Centurion's Servant: Jesus is God

Age Groups:

• preschool

Equipment Needed:

• balloons
• water
• bubble stuff and wands

Instructions:

Pair off the children and provide each pair with a water balloon. (If there's an odd number, grab an adult to fill out the pairs. For preschool, don't overfill the balloons, so that they are less likely to pop easily.) Have them stand opposite their teammates in two parallel lines, very close to one another. Each time you blow the whistle, they must throw the balloon to their partner, and then take a small step backward. When a pair's balloon pops, they're done and must sit where they are and wait for the others. Go until there's only one balloon left (or none). If there's time, play again, or get out the bubble stuff and let the kids blow bubbles.

Orders for Sealed Envelopes Game

Envelope Number	Team A (Red)	Team B (Blue)
1	Each team member get a Styrofoam cup. Form a single-file line from your water bucket to the tree. Your goal is to move the water from the bucket to water the tree, without picking up the bucket. Each team member can pour water from your cup into the next person's cup down the line. Save your cups for later.	Each team member gets a styrofoam cup. Half of you fill your Styrofoam cups with sand. The other half, get some water in your cup from the team bucket, and pair off with the team members with sand. Pour the water into the sand to get it wet so it will hold together. Now, take your cups of wet sand and build a sand castle on the tarp. Save your cups for later.
2	Keep your army in shape! Each team member do ten jumping jacks and ten situps.	Keep your army in shape! Run around the church building two times.
3	Half of your team members, fill your Styrofoam cups with sand. The other half, get some water in your cup from the team bucket, and pair off with the team members with sand. Pour the water into the sand to get it wet so it will hold together. Now, take your cups of wet sand and build a sand castle on the tarp.	Line up the hula hoops in a straight line. Line up your team, and each person in turn jumps into the first hoop, then as they jump on to the next hoop, the next person jumps into the one they just left. In this way, all of you jump through all the hoops. Pick up the hoops when you're done and hang them over the back of the chair.
4	Keep your army in shape! Run around the church building two times.	Keep your army in shape! Each team member do ten jumping jacks and ten situps.
5	Line up the hula hoops in a straight line. Line up your team, and each person in turn jumps into the first hoop, then as they jump on to the next hoop, the next person jumps into the one they just left. In this way, all of you jump through all the hoops. Pick up the hoops when you're done and hang them over the back of the chair.	Take your cups and form a single-file line from your water bucket to the tree. Your goal is to move the water from the bucket to water the tree, without picking up the bucket. Each team member can pour water from your cup into the next person's cup down the line.

Sealed Orders

Tuesday:	Sealed Orders
Bible Lesson:	Our Commanding Officer (the Centurion's Servant)
Memory Verse:	1st John 5:3-4.
See Also:	The Orders

Age Groups:

• elementary
• teens

Equipment Needed:

• plastic or Styrofoam cups
• hula hoops
• two buckets, identical except for color
• two larger buckets
• water
• sand
• a tarp
• ten envelopes
• the orders

Instructions:

Prepare ahead by setting up the matching red and blue buckets, filled with water, about twenty-five feet from a tree (or similar landmark, to which the instructions in the envelopes will refer); a bucket of sand in another part of the yard; a tarp or sheet in another part of the yard (away from the first two), and a chair in a fourth location with hula hoops hanging over the back of it.

Divide the children (or teens) into two roughly equal teams. Explain that each team will receive orders in a sealed envelope, five different sets of orders in five sealed envelopes, and they must complete each set of orders in order to receive the next envelope. Each team's envelopes are numbered. When you are ready to begin, hand out one disposable cup to each person, then hand out the first envelope to each team. When they finish each set of orders, hand them the next. First team to complete all five sets of orders wins. Each team's water bucket will need to be refilled by an adult after the first set of orders (while they are doing the second set).

Marching Around the Wall

Monday:	Marching Around the Wall
Preschool Lesson:	Joshua and the Walls: We should obey God.

Age Groups:

• preschool

Equipment Needed:

• cardboard boxes

Instructions:

Tell the children that you're going to pretend to be the Israelites conquering Jericho. Set up a wall of boxes. Ask the children how many times the Israelites walked around Jericho. Have the children march around the wall of boxes seven times. The last time they should shout and pretend to blow their trumpets, then you (the game leader or teacher) knock down the wall. Remind the children that God knocked down the walls of Jericho. Repeat the game until they get tired of it, then let the kids play with the boxes.