Games & Activities

Tried boring holiday lessons for years. Kids zoned out during Christmas story. Fell asleep during Easter message. Started adding games. Everything changed. Christmas Ornament Relay Teams race carry ornament on spoon across room. Drop it start over. Plastic ornaments obviously. Learned that hard way when kid dropped glass one. Shattered

Showed up church last week. Realized left all supplies at home. Had twenty kids staring at me. No crafts. No materials. Nothing. Had improvise with what was in room. Turned out fine. Actually better than planned lesson. Heads Up Seven Up Remember this from elementary school? Still works. Seven kids

Kids don't naturally understand worship. They think it's just singing songs at church. Need to help them see worship is bigger than that. Also need to keep them engaged during music time because half them zone out. Games help make worship active instead of passive. Freeze

My 8-year-old told me I talk too much. Ouch, but fair enough. I do tend to go on and on when I'm trying to teach her something important. By sentence three, the eye rolls start. So I started stealing ideas from people who actually know how to keep

Emma raises her hand middle of my Daniel lion's den story and goes "Can we BE the lions instead of just sitting here?" I'm about to say no like always because dramas are chaos and take forever and someone ends up crying. But then

So missions week comes around and I'm scrambling trying figure out how teach kids about missions without just lecturing them about far away places they've never heard of. Last year was disaster. Found these worksheets online about different countries. Kids colored flags learned couple facts. Emma

New kid showed up last week and just stood by door looking terrified while my regular kids completely ignored him. Felt horrible watching him stand there invisible while everyone played like he didn't exist. Tried saying "everyone include Jake" but that made it worse somehow. Kids

My kids hate Bible time. Like really hate it. Last week Emma asked if we could skip it and do math homework instead. When a kid prefers math over Bible stories you know you're doing something wrong. So I started trying games. Some work. Most don't.

Last Christmas I made huge mistake. Planned this elaborate party with all these activities I found on Pinterest. Looked amazing online. Took me hours to prep everything. Kids show up and they're basically bored out of their minds within fifteen minutes. Games were too complicated. Instructions took forever.