Elementary and Preteen Outdoor Bible Game: Raindrop Relay

Use this elementary and preteen 0utdoor Bible game, Raindrop Relay, to help kids imagine the great flood in Genesis 7–9:17. 

You’ll need:

• 4 buckets
• a plastic cup for each child
• a permanent marker
• water
• a sharp-tipped object such as scissors or a letter opener

Elementary and Preteen Outdoor Bible Game: Raindrop Relay

Get Ready

Before the game, poke holes on the bottoms and sides of the plastic cups.

Draw a line with a permanent marker to indicate the halfway point on both the outside and inside of two buckets. (Tip: These lines can be removed later with paper towels and rubbing alcohol.) Fill the other two buckets with water.

Let’s Play

Invite kids to briefly tell the Bible story of Noah and the flood that covered the world, imagining what it must have been like. As needed, fill in details such as:

• it rained for 40 days and nights
• underground waters came out of the ground
• Earth’s highest mountain peaks were covered with water
• after the water receded, God put a rainbow in the sky as a promise to never again destroy the world in a flood

Say: Let’s explore Noah’s story some more by experiencing our own “rainstorm!”

Form two teams, and have kids sit on the ground in straight lines. Place one bucket filled with water at the front of each line. Place a lined bucket at the back of each line. Then give each child a leaky cup.

On “go,” have the first child in line fill his or her cup and carry it over the heads of the other kids sitting in line before dumping the remaining water into the bucket at the end of the line. Then kids rotate forward in the line so the most recent cup carrier goes to the opposite end of the line. The game continues until teams fill their back buckets to the halfway marker.

Raindrop Relay Wrap Up

Ask:

• How did it feel to be constantly rained on during the game?
• How does this game remind you of what Noah and his family experienced when it rained for 40 days and nights?
• What do you think Noah and his family felt when they saw God’s rainbow in the sky?

Psst…you might like this article: Sunday School Games: 10 Active Indoor Games That Help Kids Grow Their Faith. You can also check out The Giant Book of Games for Children’s Ministry, which contains over 200 games!

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