Blast It! // You ll Need. Activity STAGE GAME LEADER GUIDE MAY // GODLY CHARACTER // WEEK 1

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1 STAGE GAME LEADER GUIDE Blast It! // You ll Need 2 Airzookas 20 Plastic cups Dots (as needed) 1 Player from each team Activity 1. Stack 2 pyramids using 10 cups each. Note: Do this while kids are watching video. 2. Watch Game Intro- Blast-It: 3. Choose 1 player from each team. 4. Give 1 player from each team an Airzooka. 5. Position players on their knees facing their team s pyramid. 6. Count to Players shoot the Airzooka at their pyramid. 8. First player to knock over all the cups wins. 9. Award 1 Dot for each cup knocked over. 10. Award 1 extra Dot to the winning team.

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3 BIBLE KONNECTION LEADER GUIDE Teaching Konnection Before Kids Arrive The Bible tells you to hide God s words in your heart. When you do that, you re spending time getting to know God. And the more you know God, the more your heart will change from loving your old, sinful ways, to loving God and His ways! That s when the fruit of the Spirit grows in your life! Focus on your friendship with God, and remember the fruit that will come from it by remembering Galatians 5:22-23! Let s play some basketball to help us do that! 1. Set buckets against the wall, three feet apart. 2. Make a tape line 5 feet from the buckets. 3. Tightly crumple cards from the Galatians 5:22-23 Verse sets, and place one set in each bag. Activity 1. Review Verse and Point with the whole group. Verse Galatians 5:22-23 NLT the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control 2. Read Teaching Konnection to the whole group. 3. Seat groups of no more than 21 kids behind the tape line, facing the buckets. Note: If you have more than two teams, they may share buckets. A leader makes sure they get the correct card back after they make the shot. Point 4. Give one bag of crumpled cards to the first kid in each team s line. Godly character comes from God s Holy Spirit. 5. Kid takes out 1 crumpled card. 6. Kid throws it into the bucket. If they miss, leader tosses it back to try again. 7. Kid runs to the bucket to retrieve the card. Memory Verse Basketball // You ll Need Galatians 5:22-23 activity supplement (on back) Galatians 5:22-23 Verse sets (1 per team) Large paper bags (1 per team) Buckets (2 per room) Low-tack painter s tape (1 roll) Dots (as needed) 8. Kid uncrumples the card to see a word from the Verse. 9. Kid slaps hand of the next person in line. 10. Next kid begins their turn while first kid runs to the back of the line and places their word where it belongs behind the line. Note: Kids can look at the activity supplement if they need help. 11. The first team to complete the Verse correctly wins 1 Dot per kid. Talk About It Ask: Think about Galatians 5: What happens when you spend time loving God and building your friendship with Him? God s Holy Spirit can produce the fruit of the Spirit in my life, so others can see what Jesus is really like. Bonus 1. Repeat game.

4 MEMORY VERSE BASKETBALL BIBLE KONNECTION SUPPLEMENT Galatians 5:22-23 Activity Supplement Galatians 5:22-23 NLT the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and selfcontrol

5 CRAFT KONNECTION LEADER GUIDE Teaching Konnection Before Kids Arrive When you choose to follow Jesus and start spending time building your friendship with God, your character changes. But how can you tell if you re really acting more like Jesus? Look for the fruit of God s Holy Spirit! If you re getting better at showing love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, your character is growing to be godly! 1. Place markers, bookmarks, and tassels on the tables where kids can easily access them. Activity 1. Review Verse and Point with the whole group. 2. Read Teaching Konnection to the whole group. Say: We re going to create a bookmark to help you remember the Fruit of the Spirit. 3. Kids attach tassel to bookmark. Verse Galatians 5:22-23 NLT the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control Kids write the reference for today s Verse, Galatians 5:22-23 on their bookmark. 5. Give fruit of the Spirit stickers to the leaders at each table. 6. Leaders give one of each fruit of the Spirit sticker to each kid. 7. Kids stick the stickers on their bookmark. Point Godly character comes from God s Holy Spirit. Say: When you go home, put this bookmark somewhere you ll see it often, maybe even in your Bible, so you can learn and remember all the fruit the Holy Spirit can grow in your life! Talk About It Ask: Which fruit is your favorite? Why? Answers will vary. Fruit of the Spirit Bookmark // You ll Need Foam bookmark (1 per child) Bookmark tassel (1 per child) Markers (1 set per table) Fruit of the Spirit stickers (1 of EACH FRUIT per child) Ask: Which fruit of the Spirit is the one you need God to grow in you the most? Answers will vary. Ask: Which fruit of the Spirit do you think has already grown a lot inside of you? Answers will vary. Pray: Thank You, Jesus, for filling us with Your Holy Spirit, and for growing the fruit of the Spirit inside us. Please help us to continue to grow in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and selfcontrol. In Jesus name, amen. Bonus 1. Kids decorate bookmarks with markers provided.

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7 PLAY KONNECTION LEADER GUIDE Teaching Konnection Before Kids Arrive Without God, our character is sinful. We are all born that way. But when we choose to follow Jesus, we can live by the Holy Spirit s power and build godly character! Look at the choices you make, the thoughts you think, and the way your heart feels. When you notice those things don t show God s good fruit, pray for God s power to say, No! to sin and Yes! to letting God s Holy Spirit change you. 1. Tape a line on the floor down the middle of the room. Activity 1. Review Verse and Point with the whole group. 2. Read Teaching Konnection to the whole group. 3. Kids stand on one side of the tape line. Say: The side you re standing on right now is the GOOD fruit side. I ll say a fruit of the Spirit, and you show it, without touching anyone else. Let s practice. Show: LOVE! Verse 4. Kids make loving faces, hug themselves, etc. Galatians 5:22-23 NLT the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control... Say: Perfect! I see a lot of love! But here s the bad news. The OTHER side of the room is the BAD fruit side. When you run to that side, show the opposite of love, without touching anyone else! Ready? Go! 5. Kids run to other side and show mean faces, etc. Point Godly character comes from God s Holy Spirit. Show the Fruit // You ll Need Low-tack painter s tape (1 roll per room) 6. Repeat for each fruit of the Spirit, having kids show the fruit, first, then its opposite. 7. Help kids if they re not sure what to do: Joy: Dancing, laughing, Opposite: Grumpy face, crying Peace: Deep breaths, prayer hands Opposite: Stomping feet, fearful face Patience: Smiling and tapping invisible watch on wrist Opposite: Throwing a fit on the floor Kindness: Hands out, like giving Opposite: Grabbing and taking Goodness: Using hands to make halo over head Opposite: Making claw hands and looking mean Faithfulness: Two thumbs up, pointing up to God Opposite: Shifty eyes and plotting fingers Gentleness: Holding an invisible baby carefully Opposite: Pretending to throw and break things Self-control: Stand super still, tap finger on temple Opposite: Spinning, acting crazy Talk About It Ask: Which fruit is most important? Why do you think that? Answers will vary. Ask: Which bad fruit do you think is the worst to show? Why do you think that? Answers will vary. Bonus 1. Repeat game.

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9 SNACK KONNECTION LEADER GUIDE Teaching Konnection Can you list all of the fruit of the Spirit without looking at a list? Try it! Once you have them memorized, you can start noticing them in your own character and in others. If you ask Him to, God will give you ways, each day, to show the fruit of the Spirit He s growing inside of you. Before Kids Arrive 1. Set a plate for each child with 9 chunks of fruit. 2. Place a napkin and cup of water by each plate. Activity 1. Review Verse and Point with the whole group. 2. Read Teaching Konnection to the whole group. Verse Say: Look at your fruit! Let s name each piece with a fruit of the Spirit! Like this: Galatians 5:22-23 NLT the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control Say, Love! and poke a skewer through one piece of fruit. Note: Show kids how to poke the skewer through the fruit while it s still ON the plate. 4. Give each kid a wooden skewer so they can name and skewer each fruit with you. Point Godly character comes from God s Holy Spirit. Say: Look at your fruit kebabs! They re beautiful to see and sweet to eat. Let s pray that we ll always let the Holy Spirit s fruit fill up our lives. 5. Kids pray and eat. 6. Kids share ways they can show each fruit of the Spirit while they eat. 7. Collect all the wooden skewers before kids leave. Fruit of the Spirit Kebabs // You ll Need Talk About It Wooden skewer (1 per child) Ask: What s your favorite fruit to eat? Answers will vary. Assorted chunks of fruit (9 chunks per child) Plate (1 per child) Cup (1 per child) Ask: If the fruit of the Spirit were fruit you could taste and eat, would they be sweet and juicy or bitter and yucky? Sweet and juicy Pitcher of water (1 per table) Napkin (1 per child) Ask: How can the fruit of the Spirit grow in your life? Through spending time with God, praising Him, praying, reading the Bible, etc. Wet wipes (as needed) Bonus 1. Kids share ways they can show each fruit of the Spirit.

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