As kids toss a ball around the circle they will discover that it's sometimes difficult to say what we love about others.

1. Valentines Day Ideas - Circle
of Love
As kids toss a ball around the circle they will discover that
it's sometimes difficult to say what we love about others.
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2. Materials
• Tennis ball (small ball)
• newsprint and a marker.
• A Bible.
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3. Activity
1. Form kids into circles of 10-20 people.
2. Ask each group to sit in a circle.
3. Explain that you’re going to toss the ball to someone
across the circle.
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4. 4. The receiver is to pick out another person across the circle that
has not received the ball yet and toss the ball to him or her.
5. Continue tossing until everyone in the circle has had a chance
to catch and toss the ball.
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5. 6. Repeat the pattern, catching and tossing to the same people
as before. But this time, ask kids to each say one thing they
really “love” (basketball, skateboarding, trench fries, movies,
and so on) before they toss the ball to someone else.
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6. 7. On the third round, repeat the catch-and-toss pattern, this
time asking kids to each say one thing they really love about
the person they’re tossing the ball to (this will probably be
much harder than the previous round).
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7. Debrief
• How did you feel when someone told you something he or
she loved about you?
• Why is it easier to talk about things we love than about what
we love in others?
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8. • What’s one thing we can do in our group to show we love
each other?
• Write the answers to the last question on newsprint. Then
vote on the best idea and do it at each class.
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9. Holiday Collection
Games and Activities in Celebration
of common Holidays.
Creative Holiday Ideas has over 300 pages of
ideas to help you plan your next New Year’s
Day, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s
Day, Halloween or Fall Festival, and
Thanksgiving event. If you’ve ever wondered
what you’re going to do for all these holidays
and how you’re going to do it, this resource is
for you.
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