Girl Power
Today is about a prophet, Deborah, we started by discussing
if anybody knew about Deborah (and one of the kids said “is she the one that
stabbed a tent peg in someone”, which of course is right, but not the focus of
today!
Spoke about women in the bible.. led on to “Girl Power”,
which led on to the Spice Girls (!)
For a bit of fun we all made simple masks of a spice girl,
and (attempted to) danced to a Spice Girl Video (have to say, all but one of
the children were boys, so this was a bit of fun!)
& some of the masks:
Origami
Spoke about Deborah being a prophet and making decisions so
built a quick origami “choose”, some of the pictures used to guide the kids are
below.
Word Association Brainstorm/Leadership
What is a judge, prophet, leader – that describes Deborah.
Played a quick game of “word association”, in groups of
around 3, the kids wrote words that were associated with an initial word in 15+
seconds… words given are:
- TV,
- elephant,
- car,
- judge,
- prophet,
- leader
Video – decisions
Showed a fun video about how to chose breakfast, discussed how
we should make decisions and how Deborah did in her role.
Prediction Games
“it’s hard to make predictions”, so we played a few games,
with the kids guessing who would win:
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Running race (where only one person ran)
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Running race (for all)
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Throwing a die
Showed a card trick that amazed
some of the kids, can’t write what I did here, will need to use it again! In short..
three piles of 3 cards, kids chose a pile, the
bottom card is shown to them, cards are shuffled, based on random things
(eg kids name), and hey presto… the chosen card appears.
This led on to a discussion about prophesy and messages
people receive from God, how do they get them, do they happen now, some
examples of messages received were given….
.. then we ran out of time, so final
prayer and close..
However, a great Lego star wars
version of the Deborah story (Judges 4) was planned to play, but timed out..
and is here….
(the day before was May the 4th,
Star Wars day, so this is so appropriate)
