Use this Bible game, Don’t Spill the Beans, to help encourage older elementary students to have an attitude of patience toward one another.

Older Elementary Bible Game: Don’t Spill the Beans

You’ll Need

• 2 tongue depressors
• 2 small plastic cups (plastic communion cups or Dixie paper cups work best)
• hot glue gun and glue sticks
• bag of dried beans

Easy Prep

Glue one cup in the middle of each tongue depressor with the cup in an upright position.

Lead the Older Elementary Bible Game

Form two teams. Have teams form two lines facing each other. Give the first child in each team a tongue depressor with the cup glued to it.

Fill each cup with beans and explain to the kids that they’re to hold one hand behind their back while holding one end of the tongue depressor in the other hand.

Then have the first child in line pass the other end of the tongue depressor to the next child in line without spilling any of the beans and using only one hand. Continue all the way down the line to the last person.

If any beans are spilled, that team has to refill and start over. The first team to pass the cup successfully to the end of the line is the winner.

After the game, read aloud Hebrews 6:11-15.

Then ask:

• What did you like, or not, about this game?
• How important was it to be patient in this game?
• Explain. How do you think Abraham felt when he had to wait for God’s promises?
• What’s one thing you can do to patiently trust God, like Abraham did?

Sylvia Stevens

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Check out The Encyclopedia of Bible Games for Children’s Ministry for even more games for your upper elementary kids.

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