Directions

1. Give the kids a piece of brown, yellow, green, and red construction paper.
2. Have them trace and cut out their hand on the brown piece.
3. Have them cut leaves and write on each one things they are thankful for.
4. Have them glue them on the fingers of their hands to make turkey feathers as seen in the picture!
5. Let them decorate the turkey's face.

Game 1- Body Balloon Relay

You’ll need:

• six inflated balloons for every pair of kids.

Have kids form pairs and line up at one end of the room. Place half the balloons on one end of the room and the other half on the opposite end of the room. Explain that pairs will race back and forth together between the walls, each time adding a balloon to carry between them until they have all six balloons— in a certain order.

First, they’ll place a balloon between their foreheads.

Second, they’ll add a balloon between one of each of their palms.

Third, they’ll add a balloon between their other palms.

Fourth, they’ll add a balloon between their stomachs.

Fifth, they’ll each add a balloon between their knees for a total of six balloons between them.

Ask:

• What was hardest about working together?

• What was something good about working together?

• When has working with someone helped you in life?

• What did this experience teach you about working with others?

Game 2- Keep in the air

• Put on some music and give the kids tasks to keep their balloons in the air. Some examples of tasks could be:

  • Use your left hand only

  • Do one spin around in between touching the balloon

  • Stand on one foot

  • Etc...

When their balloon touches the floor they are out and the last one standing wins!

Play as many times as you want!

Directions

Teams must quickly line up according to specific criteria given. For example in order of shoe size, with the smallest shoe size in front and the largest shoe size at the back. A great game to help players get to know each other and to teach about salvation and the kingdom of heaven.

How to Play

Divide into teams of equal numbers.

(If you have fewer than 8 players, you can also play together as 1 team.)

For each round, each team races to line up according to the criteria given for that round.

Set an appropriate time limit for each round, depending on the ages of the players and the number of players in each team.

Play as many rounds as you like.

Here are some suggested criteria for each round:

• Smallest to largest shoe sizes

• Shortest to tallest

• Youngest to oldest

• Numerical order of day of birth regardless of year or month (i.e. those born on the 1st day of the month to those born on the 31st day of the month)

• Alphabetical order of players’ first names

• Alphabetical order of players’ last names

• Number of letters in the players’ full names

• Alphabetical order the name of the street where players live

• Alphabetical order the name of the school that players attend

• Smallest to largest hands

• Shortest to longest hair

• Colors of players’ shirts (arrange according to the order of the colors of the rainbow)

• Distance between players’ homes and the venue where you are playing this game

Scoring

Award points to teams that line up in correct order, with quicker teams getting more points.

For example: If you have 4 teams playing, award 40, 30, 20 and 10 points (based on speed) to the teams that correctly form their lines according to the given criteria. No points are awarded to teams that are unable to correctly form their lines within the given time.

The team with the highest score at the end of the game wins.

Variations

To make the game more challenging (and funnier), try these variations:

• Players must form their lines silently

• Players can only use animal sounds to communicate with each other

• Players must form their lines silently and can only use facial gestures to communicate with each other (for instance, by blinking, raising eyebrows, or silently mouthing words)