Tough Questions (Matthew 22) | Games

 

The Pharisees and Sadducees, two groups we love to paint as the bad guys, but amongst the bad apples were men seeking God, even if they were misguided. These games don’t play them as the bad guys, but rather as questioners, inquisitive about Jesus, even if their motivation wasn’t in the right place.
 

Riddles – Tough questions naturally link into riddles, if the kids have any of their own get them to share, if not then try this list https://www.kidspot.com.au/things-to-do/activities/10-easy-riddles-for-kids of 10 easy riddles for children.
 

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Too many rules – For this game you’ll probably need a whiteboard or a big sheet of paper to write the rules. tell the children they can help you make the rules for the game. start with these 3 rules. 1. each child must take it in turns to say a nursery rhyme or equivalent. 2. each child must try and follow as many rules as possible. 3. if the child completes the task they may add another rule.(example, first child recites “Hickory dickory dock” then adds the rule you must hold your thumb to your nose, second child recites “Incey Wincey Spider” then adds that you must use a squeaky voice …etc)
 

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Tough Questions (Matthew 22) | Craft 1

This passage includes lots of questions, but this one is probably the most important of them all – Jesus condensing the books of law into 2 simple commandments. This craft is uses a simple box mechanism to rise the question and then in turn the answer given.

Must mention Hattifant’s dinosaur craft that introduced me to this mechanism!
 Tough Questions craft

 
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Tough Questions (Matthew 22) | Character Images

 

Here are the images you need for the hero’s attributes linked to Tough Questions (Matthew 22).
Each hero set contains a high quality graphic of the character, a take home bible card and a colouring page.

The images are displayed small here, click on the image you wish to have, then save the image that loads.
(Please note : these images have no watermark but are not copyright free, they are only intended for classroom use.)

 

English

 

66-Card66-Card
66-Tough-Questions66-Tough-Questions
66-Colouring-page66-Colouring-page

 

Extra’s

 

66-Pharisee66-Pharisee
66-Sadducee66-Sadducee
66-Colouring-page-Pharisee66-Colouring-page-Pharisee
66-Colouring-page-Sadducee66-Colouring-page-Sadducee

 

Tough Questions (Matthew 22) | Story

Tough Questions 
If you want the teachers page then please click on the image for the pdf.

Today’s heroes are the Pharisee and Sadducee because they show us the gift of Questions

Essential Teachers notes:
Children are far too familiar with questions, they can be good or bad, they can hold promises or expectations or traps. It’s both encouraging and reassuring therefore to teach this lesson about Jesus being faced with tough questions and to look into his answers. Be sure to follow up with some open questions that may have a right answer and a wrong answer as well as a best answer.

Main Passage : Matthew 22
Additional passages : Exodus 3.
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Feeding 5000 (John 6) | Games

 

Jacob-Ladder-Play

 

The boy with the picnic in the story of the feeding of the 5000 is just one seemingly insignificant character in a sea of people, but his courage to offer what he could fed everyone. These games link to the story, the idea of sharing and the significance of one.
 

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Falling Dominoes – grab a set of dominoes or jenga blocks or anything you can make a domino tumble line with and give the kids 3 minutes to set out as long a domino tumble as they can make. Split it into teams if you want to make a competition.
 

Divide and share – Sit the children in a circle or round a table and give each child a piece of paper. Ask them to fold it in half as many times as they can. 8 is the limit. Talk about how small we managed to make the piece of paper by keeping it together. Now get them to open their piece of paper up and tear it in half, placing one half in the middle of the circle. Repeat this until you have just a tiny piece of paper. How many times did they tear their paper when they give it away?
 

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