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Bible: Raising of Lazarus game

July 31, 2012 Ticia 9 Comments

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.

Bible gospels, New Testament

Comments

  1. An Almost Unschooling Mom says

    July 31, 2012 at 12:23 pm

    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!”

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  2. Raising a Happy Child says

    July 31, 2012 at 1:31 pm

    This look like a lot of fun!

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  3. MaryAnne K says

    July 31, 2012 at 4:38 pm

    Looks like it was a popular activity!

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

    Reply
  4. Caroline Varendorff says

    August 28, 2017 at 3:36 am

    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

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      August 29, 2017 at 8:21 am

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

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