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Games and Demonstrations for New Years, Rosh Hashanah

Many fun children's party games can be re-purposed or re-themed for New Year lessons.

A Different Kind of Jenga Tower
Things you should not remove. Things you need to remove. Things you should put into the tower!
After discussion, write on several blocks the "things we need/shouldn't remove," "things we need to get rid of to be better disciples," and "things we need to add into the table for the New Year."  Roll dice or use spinner to determine which of the three types of blocks the player must manipulate in their turn.

Balloon stomp, Sit on a Balloon games
Write your confession on a balloon with a permanent marker, then play various games to burst those balloons.  Balloon stomp (balloon tied to ankle). Relay -run to sit on your balloon until it pops.  Confessions can be of various types, such as, "things I didn't do well this past year," "a person I offended," etc.

Guess the confession, Guess the change
Write on slips and toss into a hat. See if group can guess who is making the public confession or thing they want to change in the coming year.

Hot Potato
Illustrate the need to take sin seriously and not keep passing it off. If you don't deal with sin, it will eventually hurt you, your relationships, and your relationship with God. 

What's the Missing Ingredient that will change our lives in the New Year?
Demonstration that make a fizzy point by adding the missing ingredient. See the Mentos and Diet Coke experiment.  Also, alka-seltzer experiment that blows up the balloon. Build discussion about the ingredient we need to change our lives then add the ingredient to the liquid and stand back. What could each mentos or fizz tablet represent? Need for God, need to be more helpful, more truthful, more will power, more considerate, etc.

Meaningful Memory Concentration Card Game
cardsThrough discussion, create a set of matching cards that you can play "concentration" with. Create pairs of cards with themes, such as, things to change about myself in the New Year, things to give up, things to do more of, something about my attitude I will change, a person I will spend more time with, etc etc. As kids match those cards, they must provide an answer to the cards they have matched.

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