Establish teams

• Introduce yourself

• Pick a team name

• Pick a ninja name

• Decorate your shirt/bandana

Team Run

Items needed: water balloons

Directions:

• Team run(each person runs to pick up a balloon and puts in between elbows). Every person on team has to go. Team w all team balloons back wins.

• If we need to fill extra time... elbow balloon hold challenge to see who can hold the balloon the longest between their elbows.

God Gives Us Fruits of the Spirit to Help Us Endure

Items needed: template printed, fruit loop cereal, markers, glue.

Directions:

• Give each child a template.

• As a GROUP (This is working towards points for your team) stay together while you color one fruit, talk about what it means while they color the ONE fruit.

• Now, pour some glue on a paper plate and give each child some fruit loops.

• Tell the kids to pick the color they desire fruit loop, dip it in the plate of glue, and paste it to the fruit that they just colored. WHILE they are doing this, ask each child what this fruit may look like in their own lives.

• After everyone is done with the ONE FRUIT, select another fruit and repeat the same process.

Early Finishers:

Color the coloring sheet (even if they finish during the actual lesson they can color the word of the fruit they are one while others finish.

Tug of War Challenge!

Items needed: water balloons

Directions:

• Teams take turns facing each other in the tug of war challenge!

• If we need to fill extra time... either have two teams join together for a face off OR have the ninja captains face each other in a 3 vs. 3 match.

God Gives Strength

Items needed: Construction paper, tape, scissors.

Philippians 4:13

I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.

Directions:

• Make super hero cuff links, because with God’s strength we can do anything!

• Cut strips of paper about 1-1/2” wide.

• Decorate the paper (stickers, color, paper hearts/crosses, today’s scripture).

• Wrap the cuffs around your child’s wrist and secure with tape.

Early Finishers: Head down to where we are going to worship

Egg Race Challenge!

Items needed: eggs, spoons

Directions:

• Egg relay race!

• If we need to fill extra time... Have them get team circles and toss the egg to each other. Once you get the egg around the circle one time everyone takes a step back making the circle bigger.

Focus on God

Items needed: contact paper (sticky back plastic), elastic, collage pieces (tissue paper, stickers, hole punch

Directions: (here is a link with step by step directions with pictures in case these don't make sense!)

• Cut two rectangles out of contact paper (sticky back plastic) just bigger than the mask you want to make.

• Draw a mask shape on the paper side of one piece. You can use a pair of kids sunglasses to help get the right size and shape.

• Cut out the mask shape

• Peel the paper backing off the contact paper and stick collage items to the sticky side.

• Stick the other rectangle of contact paper on top, sticky side to sticky side.

• Trim round the mask shape.

• Fold over each half of the mask and cut half an eye hole on each fold. Open up to get your finished mask shape.

• Use a hole punch to make a hole in each side and tie on elastic.

Early Finishers: Make a list of ways we can put God first in our lives and focus on Him in good times and in bad.

Obstacle Course Team Challenge!

Items needed: hurdles, cones, etc...

Directions:

• Obstacle Course Relay!

• If we need to fill extra time... Go on up to start the activity.

The Great Commission!

Items needed: construction paper, tape, scissors, markers

Directions:

• Choose a large, square piece of construction paper or poster board in your favorite color to create your megaphone. Lightly draw a fan shape on your paper.

• Cut out the fan shape with scissors.

• Lightly mark where you’d like your message to go on your megaphone. Write or draw your message!

• Roll your megaphone into a cone shape to put it together. Use tape or a stapler to secure the overlapping side of your megaphone.

• Take a small strip of card stock paper and fold the edges in. Glue or tape these edges to create a handle for your megaphone.

• Speak your truth! Tell the world all about God!

Early Finishers: Talk about all the ways you can be a witness to people in your life.