Life is full of ups and downs, mountains and valleys, depressions and mountaintop experiences, difficulties and triumphs.

1. Object Lesson
for Kids: Yo-Yo’s
Life is full of ups and
downs, mountains and
valleys, depressions and
mountaintop experiences,
difficulties and triumphs.
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Materials
2 or 3 yo-yos
Objective
Life is full of ups and downs,
mountains and valleys,
depressions and mountaintop
experiences, difficulties and
triumphs.

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Activity
• Invite someone skilled with
a yo-yo to give a
demonstration.
• And/ Or have a yo-yo
competition and invite all
who have yo-yo’s to bring
them to the meeting.

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Application
• Each yo-yo looks a little
different, but all yo-yos are
made the same way.
• Hold up a dangling yo-yo,
string unwound. This string is
attached to a post inside the
yo-yo. When you hold on to
your string and drop your yo-
yo, the yo-yo spins up and
down the string.

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• This yo-yo reminds me of the
Christian life. God puts us
down on earth. (Spin the yo-
yo down.) We spin around
for awhile, but eventually we
need God’s power to keep
on spinning. (Take the yo-yo
up). Like the string, we are
connected to God by prayer
and worship.

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• Even though we’re on earth,
God wants us to aim for the
things in heaven. God wants
us to remember that we
belong to him. If we run out
of strength down here (let
the yo-yo stop its spin), God
reaches down and gathers
us back up (wind the yo-yo
up). And one day God will
take us up to heaven to be
with him forever.

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• In the meantime, as
Christian yo-yos we keep
spinning around, living on
earth (spin the yo-yo down),
but always connected to
God up in heaven (take the
yo-yo up).

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