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Option 1: Exchange Dirty for Clean Relay
cotton balls (two per child), painter’s tape, garbage bags, straws
Gather supplies. Make dirty cotton balls by coloring them with marker (one per child). Using wide painter’s tape, make 10-foot lines perpendicular to the start line (one per team). Place dirty cotton balls at the start of each line, and place garbage bags and clean cotton balls at the far end of each line.
Divide children into teams and assign each team a line of tape. Give each child a straw. The first person on each team blows a dirty cotton ball to the end of her tape, puts the dirty cotton ball into the garbage, picks up a clean cotton ball, and blows it back to the start. If the child blows the cotton ball off the tape, she must stop and put it back before continuing. The first team to have all its players finish wins. Remind children that through Jesus, God has made us clean.
Option 2: Dirty Swamp
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Have children stand on one end of the room. Have one child be the crocodile and stand in the middle of the room. The children say, “Crocodile, crocodile, may we cross your dirty swamp?” The crocodile replies, “Only if you are wearing the color ______.” Any children wearing that color can pass freely to the other side. Then the crocodile says, “I’m hungry! Try to cross my swamp!” The remaining children try to cross the room without being tagged by the crocodile. If tagged, that child becomes a crocodile and helps tag children in the next round. Continue play until one child remains. Remind children that we make ourselves dirty with sins (not swamps!), but God wipes us clean through Jesus.
Option 1: Dirty Laundry Relay
laundry baskets, robes, sashes, hats
Gather supplies. Fill each laundry basket with a robe, sash, and hat (one per team). Place baskets on the far end of the room.
Divide children into teams. The first person on each team must run to the team’s basket, put on the items inside, pick up the empty basket, run back to the team, take off the items, and put them back into the basket. The second child then carries the filled basket down to the other side and repeats the process. The first team to have all its players finish wins. Explain that God gave Joshua new clothes to show that God makes us clean.
Option 2: Exchange Dirty for Clean Relay
cotton balls (two per child), painter’s tape, garbage bags, straws
Gather supplies. Make dirty cotton balls by coloring them with marker (one per child). Using wide painter’s tape, make 10-foot lines perpendicular to the start line (one per team). Place dirty cotton balls at the start of each line, and place garbage bags and clean cotton balls at the far end of each line.
Divide children into teams and assign each team a line of tape. Give each child a straw. The first person on each team blows a dirty cotton ball to the end of her tape, puts the dirty cotton ball into the garbage, picks up a clean cotton ball, and blows it back to the start. If the child blows the cotton ball off the tape, she must stop and put it back before continuing. The first team to have all its players finish wins. Remind children that through Jesus, God has made us clean.
