Show the long length of string, and explain that it represents Jesus’s forgiveness of sins. Tell the class that you have hidden strings all around the room. On “Go” have children collect as many as they can. Once all the strings have been found, have each child line up the strings he or she found to form one long string. The child with the longest string wins. Show children the string that represents Jesus’s forgiveness. (This string should be much longer than any of theirs.) Remind children that we need to forgive like Jesus—way more than we think we should.

Divide children into two teams and assign one team to each side of the tape. Distribute an equal number of pieces of paper to each team, and instruct children to crumple the paper into balls. Explain that the paper represents sins committed against us and that we don’t want to hold onto unforgiveness. We need to let go of hurts and trust God. On “Go” have teams try to keep crumpled paper balls off their side by continually tossing them to the other side. Continue play for 3 to 5 minutes. When the time is up, the team with the least number of paper balls on their side wins. Remind children that when we are unforgiving, we lose. Instead, we should keep on forgiving others, like Jesus forgives us.

Tie a balloon around each child’s ankle. Have children spread out around the playing area. On “Go” have children try to stomp on and pop other children’s balloons while protecting their own from being popped. The last child with an unpopped balloon wins. Remind children that in the parable, the servant only looked out for himself.

Have children stand in a circle with their feet slightly more than shoulder width apart and with the edges of their feet touching their neighbors’. The object of the game is for players to use their hands to hit the ball between other players’ legs while blocking balls from coming through their own legs. If a ball passes through a child’s leg, he gets a “one.” If it passes through a second time, he gets a “two.” This continues up to “seven.” Once a child gets to seven, the game restarts. Jesus taught that we should forgive someone not seven times but seventy-seven times.