Along with learning information about the Bible, religious school is also for learning about other people and learning to love everyone for who they are. “The Colors of Life” is a perfect activity to do on the 1st day of class. You’ll need a bag of M&M’s. Each kid will take a handful. Once everyone has some, you’ll assign a different meaning for each color. For example, blue=family, green=activities, yellow=friends, red=school, and brown=random facts. Whatever number of each color the kids have is the amount of facts about each subject that they must share with the class. After they share their personal facts, they must give an example of from the Bible. For example, if a student has a blue and they say they have a brother, they must give an example of a brother-brother or brother-sister relationship from the Bible. After each kid shares a fact, allow them to eat the M&M of that color!

A short Sunday School game called “Hot Bricks” deals with the Ten Commandments. This game is sort of like “Hot Potato” but you’ll use a toy brick. Play music. When the music stops, the person that’s holding the toy needs to state one of the commandments. If they cannot think of one, they’re out. This game is short and simple but it helps the kids to memorize the Ten Commandments!

“Word Builder” is a Sunday school game that helps with keywords from the Bible. You’ll divide the class into two teams. Each team must have a different colored piece of chalk. Begin by writing one word that’s relevant to the Bible on the chalkboard. The 1st team must make another word using the original word in the same fashion that they would in a game of Scrabble. However, all of the words must be related to Christianity. The game goes on until one of the teams cannot think of any more words. The team with the most words wins.

“Bible Win, Lose or Draw” is a Sunday school game that’s fun for everybody. Divide the group into two teams. You’ll have one person from each team come up at a time. They’ll pick a Bible story out of a bowl and then draw it for their team. The team has one minute to guess what story is being drawn. If the team doesn’t guess, then the other team has 10 seconds to collaborate and then announce 1 guess. The group that answers correctly (if any) gets 10 points. Anyone that can tell where the story came from gets an additional 5 points for their team. “Bible Win, Lose or Draw” is endlessly entertaining.

Top Five High School Games

1. Karaoke - Use a High School Musical Karaoke CD and get one parent to act as Mrs Darbus while the guests take it in turns, on their own or in groups, to audition for a part of Gabriella, Troy, Ryan and Sharpay by singing a song from the film. Reward the winners with their very own High School Musical microphones.

2. Cheerleading - Put the girls in the party into groups and play the Get'cha Head in the Game song from the movie and see which group comes up with the best cheerleading moves. A good prize for this game is a set of pom poms for each girl in the winning group.

3. Basketball - If you have outside space and some boys coming to the party try to get hold of a basketball hoop and let them battle it out. Let them come up with their own team names, which the cheerleaders can devise a chant to, and award the winners with some Wildcat prizes.

4. Scholastic Decathlon - Divide the kids into teams for this trivia game. Make up your own questions from the film or use the High School Musical DVD game or the High School Musical party game with trivia cards included. Award the winners with some High School Musical notebooks and pens.

5. Pin the kiss on Troy - Use a large poster of Troy and make a cardboard kiss so that each child can be blindfolded and try and pin the kiss on Troy's lips. The winner can receive a poster of their own to take home.