Leader Guide
Seek and Find
- Seek and Find pictures
- Scissors
- Four envelopes
- Bibles or Superbook Bible App
- Optional: stop watch, clock with a second hand, or timer app
Make two copies of the Seek and Find pictures. If you have a very small class, you need only one copy.
Cut the pictures apart.
Fold both copies of the first picture, place them together in an envelope, then seal it. Repeat with the other pictures and envelopes.
Today, we are going to play a game about seeking the Lord with all our heart. As we learned, when we make Jesus Lord of our life, we must seek and find Him and then include Him in everything we do—not half-heartedly, but whole-heartedly! If I told you there was a special surprise hidden in this room for you, would you look for it with all your heart, or would you just casually look under a chair or two and then give up?
Right! You would give it all you had! Now, let’s play a game called Seek and Find.
Divide the class into two teams and alternate between the teams as you ask the questions below. You may have the children on that team race to see who can look up the verse first, read it aloud, then answer the question. However, if Bibles are not available, or if some children are not strong readers, you may simply have them answer the question from memory.
After a child answers correctly, he or she becomes the seeker. Ask the seeker to leave the room briefly — accompanied by a helper — while the rest of the class watches you hide a sealed envelope. The seeker then returns and looks around the room for the envelope. The seeker’s teammates help by calling out “temperatures”—freezing, cold, cool, warm, hot, or burning — warmer means closer!—to describe how close the seeker is to the envelope. To make the game more competitive, time how long it takes for the seeker to find the envelope. The seeker then gives you the unopened envelope. Repeat the process by asking these questions, alternating between teams, to determine who the seekers will be.
Team 1, here is your first question. Whoever answers this question first gets to be your team’s first seeker. According to Luke 2:1, who decreed there would be a census? The Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus.
Team 2, here is your first question. According to Luke 2:12, what was the sign the shepherds would find? A baby wrapped snugly in strips of cloth, lying in a manger.
Team 1, here is your second question. According to Matthew 2:2, what did the Wise Men ask Herod? “Where is the newborn King of the Jews?”
Team 2, here is your second question. According to Matthew 2:8, what did Herod tell the Wise Men to do once they found the child they were seeking? “Come back and tell me so that I can go and worship Him, too!”
Once all four envelopes have been found, open them and give each team one of the two pictures in each envelope—face down. Each team should have a set of four different pictures.
Now let’s turn the papers over and race to see which team can put the pictures in the correct order!
You did a great job of seek and find!
Read Jeremiah 29:13:
If you look for Me wholeheartedly, you will find Me.
When you seek Jesus with all your heart, you will find Him! When we seek Jesus in all areas of our lives and obey Him, we truly make Him Lord of our lives! Let’s say the SuperTruth: “I want Jesus to be Lord of my life.”