lazarus game

Bible: Raising of Lazarus game

For this Raising of Lazarus game all you need are a few energetic kids and some toilet paper rolls. We did this for a Backyard Bible Club, but it could easily be done in a Sunday School class.

raising of Lazarus game
Oh, and a “willing” volunteer or two to be Lazarus.  The teens at our church are such good sports.

Raising of Lazarus game rules

Lazarus relay race

  • Each team starts a certain distance from “Lazarus”
  • Decide on the level of difficulty, for this group of mostly younger kids, they just had to wrap around the whole body, but the older kids had to wrap each arm and leg separately
  • Set a number of times they can wrap the toilet paper around the person.  We set it at 5 times for a nice easy number to say

And at the end you can cry out “Lazarus Come forth,” just like Jesus did and Lazarus can:

Emerge from the grave!
As you can imagine this was wildly popular!
pop on over to Kids in the Word Wednesdays to see more ideas.

 

Of course this game goes with our Mary, Martha, and Lazarus lesson.


Comments

9 responses to “Bible: Raising of Lazarus game”

  1. An Almost Unschooling Mom Avatar
    An Almost Unschooling Mom

    Hmmm…we have teens at our church, and I'm sure there must be a closet full of toilet paper somewhere…”Hey Ferb, I know what we're going to do next Sunday!”

  2. This look like a lot of fun!

  3. MaryAnne K Avatar
    MaryAnne K

    Looks like it was a popular activity!

    Let me know if I'm still no-reply? I changed a setting…

  4. Caroline Varendorff Avatar
    Caroline Varendorff

    Yay! What a perfect idea for my scripture class! I have kids from age 8 to 12 and this will be fun for all of them. Thanks so much

    1. Glad to hear, it’s a huge hit every time we’ve done it.

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