Divide children into teams of three to four. Each team needs to have one to two builders and two guards. Give the builders a pile of blocks (empty shoe boxes, cardboard bricks, medium-sized shipping boxes, etc.). Explain that the goal is to be the team with the most blocks stacked after 1 minute, with teams going one at a time. The builders will work together to build a wall using the blocks, while the guards protect the builders and the wall. Everyone else is an “enemy” and tries to knock down the wall with soft balls without entering the building area. The builders start building when the teacher says “Go” and begins the 1-minute timer. After 1 minute, everyone must stop. The teacher will count the number of blocks that are stacked and record it. Then the next team goes. Once all the teams have gone, celebrate the winning team!

Divide children into pairs. Give each pair a balloon. The leader calls out a body part, and the children in each pair must carry the balloon around the room while both are touching that specific body part to the balloon. (Some ideas of body parts to call include elbow, hand, knee, shoulder, and head.) If a group’s balloon falls to the ground, the children in that pair should sit down out of the play area. If you touch the balloon with anything other than the designated body part, you are also out. Play continues until only one pair remains. Remind the children that the Israelites worked as a team to build the wall.

Divide children into teams of three to four. Each team needs to have one to two builders and two guards. Give the builders a pile of blocks (empty shoe boxes, cardboard bricks, medium-sized shipping boxes, etc.). Explain that the goal is to be the team with the most blocks stacked after 1 minute, with teams going one at a time. The builders will work together to build a wall using the blocks, while the guards protect the builders and the wall. Everyone else is an “enemy” and tries to knock down the wall with soft balls without entering the building area. The builders start building when the teacher says “Go” and begins the 1-minute timer. After 1 minute, everyone must stop. The teacher will count the number of blocks that are stacked and record it. Then the next team goes. Once all the teams have gone, celebrate the winning team!

Divide the children into two teams. Give each team a cookie sheet and six wooden blocks. Say “Go!” The first person on each team builds a wall on the cookie sheet (two stacks of three blocks, touching each other), carefully carries—using only one hand—the pan down and around the chair, and returns to their team. If the wall topples while carrying it, the child must stop, rebuild the wall, and continue. The next person in line fixes the wall (if necessary) and then continues in the same manner. The first team to get all their members to complete the race is the winner.