Let the games begin!

This morning was the first day of Holiday Bible Club. At 8.45, we had four kids – our two included. By 9 am we had about six kids, but they slowly trickled in until we had a goodly number when we were ready to actually start at 9.15. Once all the kids had been registered, we had 29. (Today has been a public holiday though, so we think there will be more children tomorrow). We kicked off with a time of welcome, prayer, singing, explanation of what the week entails etc, memory verse learning, then a ‘warm-up’ before the lesson. I will be doing the warm-ups. This morning I baked a cake with imaginary ingredients, mixing everything together, and produced…nothing! The point was that only God can create something out of nothing, and then we broke off into our various groups. The lesson for the day was creation. We had the groups divided into 5-6 year olds with Enid, 7-9 year olds with me, and 10-12 year olds with Nick. But, when we saw that the bulk of the kids were in the middle group (my group) and mostly rowdy boys, Nick and I did a quick last-minute swap, so I have ended up with the older group who are all girls. This is the pyjama party group of girls plus one or two others, and so we already have a good rapport. The various age groups went off to do their craft, or bible story, or activity, then we all had a cup of juice and biscuit, then off to the next thing, so that each group does one craft, has a story, and plays a game. After the three sessions, we came back together for a quiz and then a final time of singing and wind-up.