Scripture Olympics a Success!

A load has just been lifted from my shoulders...we had our quarterly primary activity yesterday afternoon and had a great turn-out. Actually, the load was not too heavy for me. I have a super-duper, fabulous 2nd counselor (Lori Anderson) who organized, delegated, and filled lots of water balloons.

We entitled the festivities, "Scripture Olympics", and had 8 different stations that the kids rotated through - each with a different scripture story highlighted. They were told the story and then participated in an "event" that illustrated a part of that story.


Now, we enlisted several of our primary teachers to man the stations. Even our husbands were used and abused - literally. Here is Greg Breen (primary secretary's husband) getting knocked down by several frozen peas and a few sunbeams. He had the unfortuate job of playing David, from David and Goliath, and after he told the story to the kids, they were given plastic spoons and a bowl of frozen peas to "sling shot" Goliath down. I think next time he tells the bishop that he will support his wife in her calling, there will be some conditions laid out first.



Here's another example of a true primary supporter. Actually, he had no choice in the matter. Brian Ellis, 2nd counselor in the bishopric, told me that he'd help out at the activity. Just give him a call. I think he may ignore those calls in the future. He was Samuel the Lamanite. In our version, Samuel got to wear a rain jacket. Poor guy. He just wanted to help out.


As a kid, I would have loved to have a shot at a member of the bishopric with a water gun.


Here's some kids building the Tower of Babel. Right after I shot this picture, a huge gust of wind came out of nowhere and knocked all those towers down. They didn't seem to mind starting over. Refer to my last post about Costco and you'll understand how we got all those empty boxes!

Jeff was in charge of the Ten Virgin relay. My family had milk with every meal for the last month in order to get 10 empty milk cartons for this game. The kids had to fill up their lamp with "oil" from that blue bucket using a ladle.

Ian really like this one.
I think all 3-year-olds like filling up containers with things, especially water.

Here's Alec with his group digging for buried swords...
Anti-Nephi-Lehies and two thousand stripling warriors.

Sword of Laban relay. Alec kept cheating and pushing the marshmallow back onto his sword with his hand. This was a serious race and he wasn't going to be beaten by a girl...

The kids also competed in a Noah's Ark relay (using stuffed animals) and Moses parting the water tug-of-war (over a wading pool full of water).

After all of the groups had rotated through each station, our closing activity was the Nephite and Lamanite war. This is where all those balloons that Lori filled up came in real handy. It lasted a whole 2 minutes and 42 seconds.

We thought that braving 88 degree weather with 80% humidity while running, building, digging, pouring, sorting, pulling, and shooting, called for some cold water and popcicles.
Just like those people in the scriptures used to get after a hard day of work.