Materials
paper or Styrofoam cups and a rubber / foam dart gun. A ladder with steps at different heights. In place of Nerf darts you can use pink pong balls, small rubber balls or even wads of paper.
What to do
- Give each youth a cup and allow them to write their name on the cup.
- Line the cups up for target practice from across the room.
- If a youth’s cup has been knocked off, they must shoot down another cup in order to place their cup back up.
- Each time they shoot another cup down they can raise their cup up one level (step) on the ladder.
- When a cup is knocked off, it begins all the way at the bottom again.
- Continue for a specified amount of time and then reward the victor(s) at the top of the ladder
Take it to the Next Level
- How is this activity similar to life and being at the top of the ladder?
- What are some ways we knock others down in order to raise ourselves up?
- Is this part of life and acceptable for Christian behavior? Explain.
- How did you feel at the top? When knocked down?
- Is it the proper Christian response to knock others down in order to be lifted up, or to simply lift others up?
Scripture
Ephesians 4:29
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