THE WELCOME
To spark anticipation, encourage arriving children to meet and greet one another with today’s question.
Meet & Greet Question: What was the best party you have ever attended?
GAME: THE GREAT GRAPE RELAY
Purpose: Children will compete in a relay race to help them learn the story of Jesus’ first miracle.
Supplies: Grapes, spoons, four bowls
Ask: What is a miracle? (An amazing surprise only God can do.)
In a few minutes, we will discover what Jesus did as His first miracle. First, let’s play a game that will give us a hint about that miracle.
Directions:
1. Form two teams; each with an equal number of children.
2. For each team, place one bowl at each end of the play area. Have each team spread out between their bowls; forming a line between the bowls.
3. In the bowl on the right side of each line, place an equal number of grapes.
4. Give each child a spoon.
5. On your signal, the child next to the grapes picks up one grape and places it on his or her spoon. The child then transfers the grape to the next child’ spoon (not using hands but “pouring” the grape from one spoon to the other) and picks up the next grape to repeat the process. Each grape is passed in this manner down the line of children and then dropped into the bowl at the end of the line.
6. If a child drops a grape, the child who was passing it must pick it up and return it to his or her spoon and attempt the transfer again.
7. The goal is to be the first team to transfer all of the grapes from the bowl at the beginning of the line to the one at the end of the line.
Meet & Greet Question: What was the best party you have ever attended?
GAME: THE GREAT GRAPE RELAY
Purpose: Children will compete in a relay race to help them learn the story of Jesus’ first miracle.
Supplies: Grapes, spoons, four bowls
Ask: What is a miracle? (An amazing surprise only God can do.)
In a few minutes, we will discover what Jesus did as His first miracle. First, let’s play a game that will give us a hint about that miracle.
Directions:
1. Form two teams; each with an equal number of children.
2. For each team, place one bowl at each end of the play area. Have each team spread out between their bowls; forming a line between the bowls.
3. In the bowl on the right side of each line, place an equal number of grapes.
4. Give each child a spoon.
5. On your signal, the child next to the grapes picks up one grape and places it on his or her spoon. The child then transfers the grape to the next child’ spoon (not using hands but “pouring” the grape from one spoon to the other) and picks up the next grape to repeat the process. Each grape is passed in this manner down the line of children and then dropped into the bowl at the end of the line.
6. If a child drops a grape, the child who was passing it must pick it up and return it to his or her spoon and attempt the transfer again.
7. The goal is to be the first team to transfer all of the grapes from the bowl at the beginning of the line to the one at the end of the line.