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Game: Throwing your sins away! 

 

Material needed:

Paper, pencils, masking tape or fixed rope.

Preparation:

Cut in half regular sheets of paper (8.5" x 11"), one half sheet for each child.

In a large enough room tape a dividing line with masking tape or rope or any kind of band.

 

The game:

Ask the children to write on one piece of paper their sins (explain to them that a sin is something you sometime do or have done to make God sad.  Examples: disobey mom or dad, calling someone bad name, hurting little brother or sister, ect.) Ask them to write as many as possible.

After writing the sins, ask them to make a ball with that paper and come to the room where you will play the game.

Before you explain how to play the game, ask a child if you can read what he wrote on the paper. Ask the child if he want to throw away his sins or keep them. 

"Of course you want to throw far away those sins and never see them again!. So you and your team will make sure that we get rid of those sins as much as possible."

Divided in two teams make them stand couple feet from the dividing line. Then at your signal make each team has to throw away their balls and all the balls they received from the other team.

After exactly 60 secondes give them a signal to stop (count the last 5 seconds; 5-4-3-2-1 stop!). Count the numbers of balls each team has, the one with the lest balls is the winner.