Family Dress-up

Game Description
Students will play a game to remind them that family is important.

Game Materials
You'll need a Bible, dress-up clothes, and four paper grocery bags.

Optimal Group Size
Any size group.

Game Venue
Anyplace

Game Preparation
Place dress-up clothes suitable for a young child in one bag, for a teenager in another bag, for a mother in a third bag, and for a father in a fourth bag. Make sure you have the same number of dress-up items in each bag. Set the four bags of clothing at one end of the room.

Game Play

• Have kids count off by fours to form teams. Have each team stand across the room from one of the bags.
• This is a relay. You'll run to the bag, put on all the clothing items you find inside the bag, take the clothing off, and return it to the bag.
• Then run back, and tag the next person on your team.
• Have everyone applaud as each team finishes.

Optional Game debrief
Gather kids in a circle, and read aloud Psalm 127.

Ask:

• What's great about being a member of a loving family?
• What's something about your family that you especially like?
• What makes a happy family?
• Why are father's important in the family?

Game Application
Turn to a partner, and tell one thing you'll do this week to show that you love your family. Close with prayer, asking God's blessing on the families of all the children and especially thanking God for fathers..