Seven Games to try that link into
studies on the Holy Spirit!
BLINDFOLD MAZE
SIGNATURE HUNT
TEAM SHOES
BIBLE VERSE JAR
MAKE A MATCH
BLINDFOLD
FRUITY BITS
SIGNATURE HUNT
BLINDFOLD
MAZE
Aim: The Holy Spirit
guides
us though life. We like to think that we are in control and that our
physical
senses are correct. However God knows more than we do, just as a person
with sight can pick things better than people without sight.
Needs: String,
blindfolds,
items of your choice. (eg baked beans, rocks, spaghetti, jelly, corn
flakes,
etc)
Setting up: Create a maze by
using
string which has a number of branches that lead to items
How to play: People are blindfolded
and
set off at thirty second intervals to crawl through the maze. (Each
person
to have a minder) As they go through the maze they are to feel each
item
and guess what it is.
SIGNATURE
HUNT
Aim:
To show the diversity within the body of Christ and lead into the
material
on spiritual gifts.
Needs: Pen and
photocopies
of the signature hunt list
Setting Up:
None.
How to play: Hand out the sheet and
the
people must get a signature beside each question.
TEAM
SHOES
Aim: To encourage team
work
and that the body of Christ must work together. To show unity in the
life
of the believer and spiritual gifts are for the good of the whole
church.
Needs: One shoe per pair
Setting Up: None
How to play: People are to pair up
and
compete in races where they are to carry a shoe between them and run
over
a short course. To make it exciting the leaders are to say how they are
to hold the shoe up eg. between hips, or backs, heads, neck elbows.
knees
etc.
BIBLE
VERSE JAR
Aim: To encourage
sharing
of a spiritual nature.
Needs: Pen, paper strips, a
large
jar
Setting Up: None
How to play: People are to write a
Bible
verse and what it means to them and put it in the jar. People can
‘visit'
the jar and read different papers at anytime.
MAKE
A MATCH
Aim: To help people see
what
they share in common (Body of Christ)
Needs: None.
Setting Up: None
How to play: People are to mingle
and
the leader will call out a body feature and people are to get into
pairs
with a ‘matched' person. Eye colour, hair colour, gender, age, birth
month,
shoe size, etc.
After a couple of
rounds,
the last pair to form, is out, till only one pair
is left.
Spiritual Fruit Cards
Aim: Discover more about
the
fruit of the Spirit
Needs: A pack of cards per
four
people.
Setting Up: None
How to play: People are to get into
groups
of four. Each person is to have 9 cards ace to nine of one suit. A
person
will pick up one card and give a facial expression that equals that
card.
The others then put a card down in front of them to say which fruit
they
think the person is doing. One point for every right answer.
Ace = love, two = joy, three
= peace, four
= patience, five = kindness, six = goodness, seven = faithfulness,
eight
= gentleness, nine = self-control
BLINDFOLD
FRUITY BITS
Aim: Fruit of the Spirit
Needs: Nine different types of
fruit,
blind folds
Setting Up: Fruit into nine
bowls
cut up.
How to play: Blindfold each person
and
then give them a piece of each fruit and the person has to guess what
it
is.
SIGNATURE
HUNT
Find people who have
1. Teaches Sunday
School
_______________________
2. Preached in
Church
_______________________
3. Been in the forty hour
famine.
_______________________
4. Gone
overseas
_______________________
5. Have parents who are
missionaries
_______________________
6. Have blue
eyes
_______________________
7. Were born
overseas
_______________________
8. Have helped a person to
Christ
_______________________
9. Can speak three
languages
_______________________
10. Have been given a present
this
week _______________________
