Divide children into teams and have them line up on one side of the room. When the leader says “Go!” the first child from each team will run to the opposite side of the room, put on a sweatshirt, and place one balloon under the sleeve of each of his arms like big bicep muscles. Then he must run back to his team without the balloons falling out of the shirt. If the balloons fall out, he must stop and replace them before continuing. When he gets to his team, he should take off the sweatshirt and balloons and pass them to the next person. (Note: the sweatshirt will alternate the side of the room where it is put on and taken off.) The next team member should put the shirt and balloons on and run to the opposite side of the room, where she takes it off and runs back to the start. Each member will run one length of the room with the sweatshirt on and one without. The first team to get all their members to complete the race wins.

Have children sit in a circle. Give one child the cold item and another child the hot item. Start the music. As the music plays, children pass the items around the circle to the person on their right. When the music stops, the person holding the hot item is out, but the person holding the cold item can continue to play. Play continues until one player remains. Remind children that Samson was a strong and heroic man in many ways, but he was not perfect. Sometimes he was out of control and his choices had serious consequences. We honor God when we demonstrate self-control even when we feel hot and angry.

Have children sit in a circle. Give them a minute to think of two true things and one lie about themselves. Go around the circle allowing each child to share his or her three statements (e.g., “I have a pet turtle. I sing in the shower. I went to Iceland for my birthday.”). Other children raise their hands and guess which statement the child shared is a lie. Remind the children that three times Samson lied to Delilah about what the source of his strength was, but the fourth time she begged and he finally gave up his secret.

Divide children into two teams, with each team sitting at a table together. To begin, the first person from each team goes to the teacher and looks at the word on the paper at the same time. Then the players run back to their team’s table and draw a picture of the word. The first team to guess the word correctly gets a point. Continue to play with a different child from each team viewing the word and drawing the picture each time. The team with the most points after all the words have been completed wins.