tNCC Family Camp 2012: Count on His Love

Session 2: Count on His love

1. Icebreaker: Musical statues  

 2. Hook: Tallest, longest, fastest

• Have a simple multiple-choice quiz where kids get to guess which is the tallest mountain, longest river and fastest animal etc. Fun and educational. 
• In life, we are always trying compare things. How tall we are. How much money we have. How many As we get. The one thing that is bigger and greater than everything is else is Jesus’ love for us.

tNCC Family Camp 2012: God Counts Us — We Matter to God

Session 1: God Counts Us — We Matter to God

1. Icebreaker: Numbers games

• Separate kids into 2 teams. Prepare post-its or sticker labels with numbers on them. Paste randomly on the back of each kid. At the word “Go!”, each team need to arrange themself accordingly to numbers 1 to 20. The team that arranges themselves fastest wins!

2. Hook: Count the number of …

• Show various slides of objects for kids to count, e.g. sheep, jellybeans, coins etc.
• For older kids, you may want to add in trickier counting puzzles, e.g. number of Fs in a sentence etc 
• Counting may seem easy at times. And not so easy other times. Some things are seemingly uncountable. 
• Like the sands on the seashore … or in this pail. How many grains of sands are there?
• Or the stars in the heavens
• The human eye can see about 3,000 stars on a clear sky
• A small telescope can see about 100,000 stars
• The Milky Way Galaxy has about 100 billion stars
• There are about 100 billion galaxies out there
• Estimate of about 10 billion trillion stars (10 with 21 zeroes!)