vbs--day 2 (God is With Us!)

picture for day #2! Elias doing games with the older kids

last night's Bible story was when the Isrealites crossed the Jordan River. So, for games, we had a tarp, and pieces of brown and black paper taped on it for 'stones'. the kids had a box, and they walked across the 'river' with the box, gave the box to the person on the other side, and said "God is with us!!" and the other person replyed with "WAA-HOO!!". i had no idea how the kids would like it, but they seemed to find it fun! the first group was crazy, they wouldn't stay in one place, and were running around, so that game didn't last too long (they were all boys, btw...). so, we just kinda played "tag" (or run randomly around!) until it was time for them to go! the next group had about 10 kids in it, so someone was always somewhere they weren't supposed to be!! the game lasted a little while, and then we played simon says to get a little of their energy out!! lol!! the last group was the best!! there were 4 girls in the group, and they did the game perfectly!! they were really behaved, and they actually said "God is with us!!" and "Waa-Hoo!!" when they were supposed to (all the other kids just kinda went across and handed the box to the next kid! oh well!)!! we played the game for a while, and then we played duck duck goose. that was a lot of fun, too!! preschool games is so much fun!! :)