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Option 1: Find the Scroll
paper, string
Gather supplies. Make a scroll by rolling a piece of paper and tying a piece of string around the middle.
Tell the children that when Hilkiah the priest found God’s word, it was like finding a great treasure. Show children the scroll, which represents God’s word. Instruct children to close their eyes while you hide the scroll. Have them open their eyes and try to find the scroll. The first child to find the scroll can be the next person to hide the scroll while the children again close their eyes. Continue to play as time allows.
Option 2: God Not Idols Game
masking tape, music
Gather supplies. Mark a line down the middle of the room with masking tape.
Have children stand on the line. Explain that one side represents worshiping God and the other side represents worshiping idols. When the music starts, the children must hop back and forth over the line. When the music stops, they must freeze. If they are on the idol side, they are out. Play continues until only one child remains. Explain that Josiah chose to follow God and destroy the idols as God commanded.
Option 1: Scroll Tic-Tac-Toe
index cards, picture of scroll, scissors, tape, whiteboard/poster board
Gather supplies. Make twenty index cards, where ten cards have pictures of scrolls taped to them and ten are blank. Spread out all index cards face down on one end of the room. Make a large tic-tac-toe board on a whiteboard or large piece of paper on the opposite side of the room.
Divide the children into two teams. Identify one team as the Xs and one as the Os. When you say “Go!” the first child on each team should crab walk down to the end of the room where the cards are, take one card without looking at it, and crab walk back to her team. When both players have made it back to their teams, they turn over their cards at the same time. If the card they chose has a scroll on it, they can put an X or O on a tic-tac-toe board in the space of their choosing. If there is no scroll on the card, they do not get to put their team’s mark on the board. The player who gets to mark the board first is the one who arrived back to her team first. The next player from each team then crab walks down and takes her turn. The first team that gets three of their markers in a row wins.
Option 2: Get the Scroll Relay Race
paper, string, plastic toy hoops
Gather supplies. Write “Worship the right God in the right way” with each word on its own separate piece of paper. Roll each paper into a scroll and tie with a string (one set of these per team).
Divide the children into two teams. Give each team a plastic toy hoop. The first two children on each team step into the hoop and must work together to race down to the other side of the room, pick up a scroll, and carry it back to the start. The next two children will do the same until the team has collected all their scrolls. When a team has all their scrolls, they must open them, put the words in order, and read them aloud. The first team to read the scrolls correctly wins.
