Focus Challenge
WHAT YOU NEED: Colored beads (or other small objects - legos would work); paper; timer or mobile device, a partner (sibling, friend, parent)
WHAT YOU DO:
• Place a pile of colored beads.
• Partner A place four different colored beads in a line on the floor or table.
• Partner B focus on the beads for 15 seconds.
• Then cover the beads with a piece of paper.
• Challenge Partner B to recreate the pattern of beads.
• Uncover the beads and see if you got the order correct.
• Play several rounds, increasing the level of difficulty.
Read:
“You did a great job staying focused, especially when it was difficult! Sometimes praying isn’t easy. There are times it feels awkward and you don’t know what to say to God. Did you notice when you had a really difficult pattern you were recreating, it was hard to remember the order of the beads at first? However, the more you focused on the pattern and the more you practiced, the easier it got until eventually you could remember the pattern. It is like that with prayer, too. The more you do it, the easier it will be. God really wants to hear from you, and He doesn’t care how you sound. What God cares about is YOU! And God wants you to know you can PRAY anytime, anywhere about anything.”
Optional Discussion Questions for Older Kids
• What do you know about God that makes you want to talk to Him?
• Why is prayer important?
• When do you find it easy to pray? Or when do you usually pray, if you do it regularly?
• When do you find it difficult to pray? What can you do when that happens?
• What do you think is the point of prayer?
WHAT YOU DO:
• Place a pile of colored beads.
• Partner A place four different colored beads in a line on the floor or table.
• Partner B focus on the beads for 15 seconds.
• Then cover the beads with a piece of paper.
• Challenge Partner B to recreate the pattern of beads.
• Uncover the beads and see if you got the order correct.
• Play several rounds, increasing the level of difficulty.
Read:
“You did a great job staying focused, especially when it was difficult! Sometimes praying isn’t easy. There are times it feels awkward and you don’t know what to say to God. Did you notice when you had a really difficult pattern you were recreating, it was hard to remember the order of the beads at first? However, the more you focused on the pattern and the more you practiced, the easier it got until eventually you could remember the pattern. It is like that with prayer, too. The more you do it, the easier it will be. God really wants to hear from you, and He doesn’t care how you sound. What God cares about is YOU! And God wants you to know you can PRAY anytime, anywhere about anything.”
Optional Discussion Questions for Older Kids
• What do you know about God that makes you want to talk to Him?
• Why is prayer important?
• When do you find it easy to pray? Or when do you usually pray, if you do it regularly?
• When do you find it difficult to pray? What can you do when that happens?
• What do you think is the point of prayer?
Let us keep looking to Jesus. He is the one who started this journey of faith,
and he is the one who completes this journey of faith.
Hebrews 12: 2a
and he is the one who completes this journey of faith.
Hebrews 12: 2a
