Leader Guide
Guiding Game
- Sheets of white paper or cotton balls, one per child
- One green towel, pillow case, or cloth
- One blue towel, pillow case, or cloth
- Two blindfolds
- Optional: masking or painter’s tape
- Bible or the Superbook Bible App
Place both towels, pillow cases, or cloths at one end of the room, about 6 feet apart. Mark or tape a starting line about 15–20 feet from the towels. Give each child a piece of paper to wad up in a ball or a cotton ball, representing a sheep. Divide the class into two teams.
For this game, find someone you don’t know very well on your team to be your partner. Have both teams line up in pairs behind the starting line. Let’s shout our SuperTruth together:
“Jesus will guide me and protect me.” That was good, but let’s shout the SuperVerse, John 10:27, even louder:
“My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.”
Psalm 23:2–3 tells us that the shepherd will guide the sheep to green meadows and peaceful streams of water. For each pair, one of you will be the sheep and the other will be the shepherd! The green towel is a green meadow. The blue towel is a peaceful stream. First you will walk to the green meadow and place one of your paper sheep in it to eat some grass. Then you will go to the blue stream and put your other paper sheep in it to drink some water. Don’t worry; it is very shallow so the sheep won’t drown! Now, that doesn’t sound hard does it?
Hold up the blindfolds.
Well, it gets a little harder because the sheep will be blindfolded! The sheep must be guided on the right path by the shepherd’s voice. Hand a blindfold to the first pair on each team. When I say go, the shepherds of each team will guide the blindfolded sheep to the green meadow using only their voices. The sheep puts one of your paper sheep into the meadow without peeking. Then the shepherd will guide the sheep to the blue stream, and you must put the other paper sheep into it without peeking. The sheep must stay in the meadow or stream! If some roll out during the game, the blindfolded sheep must fix them, guided only by the shepherd’s instructions!
The shepherd will then guide the blindfolded sheep back to the line, where you will hand your blindfold to the next pair. The first team to successfully place all of their sheep in the meadow and the stream wins!
Play another round and have the pairs play the opposite role.
That was really fun. Jesus is our Good Shepherd; and He will guide us on the right paths to protect us and provide all that we need! All we have to do is listen and follow!