Learning the value of being patient and working as a team is very important. Teamwork isn’t always easy. But if we can learn to work together without getting impatient, we are pleasing the Lord. And we can make it really fun, too! Let’s try with this Bible game!
The disciples were great men of God, but truth be told, they started out a little klutzy. In Matthew 17, they tried to cast out demons, but were unable to. They were probably embarrassed when Jesus had to come and finish what they started.
In Mark 10, James and John ask to sit on either side of Jesus in heaven, which made the other disciples mad and started a huge grumble fest.
But one of the reasons they became Jesus’ most beloved followers is that these men learned to work together as a team. Your children can practive teamwork and patience with this great Bible game.
Bible Game: TEAMWORK MAKES DREAM WORK
Materials Needed: Pillowcases (enough so that two children can share one)
Object: Each pair of students will have to race to the other side of the room and back, but with one leg in a pillowcase.
Instruction:
Split the class up so that each child has a partner. (If class is uneven, play yourself!) Give each pair a pillowcase and instruct the students to each put one leg in the pillowcase. Then tell them to link arms with their partner and grab hold of an end to their pillowcase. When each pair is situated, tell them that they have to run to the other side of the room and back. The first team back wins.
In order to win, both children need to pass the finish line. For example, if one partner’s leg passes the finish line first, then they will have to wait until their partner’s leg passes the finish line in order to win.
Closing:
When we put our heads on our pillowcases tonight, let’s remember that teamwork makes dreamwork! Let’s be thinking of ways to cooperate in school projects and with friends, and to not lose patience or gossip when somebody can’t do things as smoothly as we can. If we help a partner, we can think of the disciples and know we are honoring them!
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I love looking at all the things on this site it really inspire me to go above and beyond for my students at church. I love my little babies.
You really should quit filling your “little babies” head with lies. The Indoctrination of today’s youth is really quite sickening. Has it ever occurred to any of you “faithful” that it should be the right of the child to make their own choice of which religion, or lack there of, they wish to follow? By shoving the belief system that you subscribe to, or any belief system for that matter, into the face of a child from their time of first comprehension, through their formative adolescent years, all up until they are able to form their own views, and maybe even up through becoming young adults or until you deem they are following YOUR beliefs. This kind forced acquisition and adherence to a faith the child had no choice but to follow, or not undoubtedly suffer loss of love or alienation, is demonstrably unjust! I say until you deem them to be following YOUR faith because it is, just that, YOUR faith and not theirs! I’m sure you will feel compelled to badger them throughout their lives if they choose not to follow want you want(“God” forbid they choose atheism,” right?) It not only, more than likely, removes any chance of having an open mind, but you do so without even considering what impact this will have on the rest of the world’s population. Or maybe you don’t even care. Worst yet you probably want these little impressionable minds to become full-fledged choice removers themselves.
It always strikes me a little odd when I see adults spouting religious dribble, because they are old enough to know better. Choosing to practice in a faith that was GIVEN to them. Following a more than 2000 yr. old book that was written by bastardizing and plagiarizing most of the preceding religions. Written in Arabic, more specifically Hebrew(those same Hebrew who killed “Christ”), in a region of the world, and in a time that most modern people can not relate, Written solely by men. It’s misogynistic, homophobic, and hate-filled. It promotes violence against women and those in the LGBT community. It’s a collection of stories that sound more like fairy tales that cannot be validated. It preys upon human gullibility and asks you to believe in something that goes against common sense. You’re led to believe in Santa Claus and then you come to find out he’s not real and in a way that was a lie told to you by most likely one’s parents. Yet, you still believe “God” parted the sea for Moses, turned water into wine, and a river to blood? The logic is flawed and you know it! If you truly want to do what’s good for them “little babies” you would not teach such a one-sided method. Read Dawkins, Hitchens, and Harris, and have an open mind! I’ll end this with a passage from one of my favorite books. It’s called “The Bible Unearthed” by Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman.
“The world in which the Bible was created was not a mythic realm of great cities and saintly heroes, but a tiny, down-to-earth kingdom where people struggled for their future against the all-too-human fears of war, poverty, injustice, disease, famine, and drought. The historical saga contained in the Bible—from Abraham’s encounter with God and his journey to Canaan, to Moses’ deliverance of the children of Israel from bondage, to the rise and fall of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah—was not a miraculous revelations, but a brilliant product of the human imagination.”