Day of the Child Celebration at our church (Comunidadd Cristiana, El Hatillo)

One of the pleasures children experience here in Latin America is "Dia del Nino", which is like Mother's or Father's Day but for the Child, literally, it's "Day of the Child" and it's celebrated with festive activities, pinatas, and special school activities.

We decided to celebrate the children of our Sunday School with a morning of games and team building events. First we prepped the older youth for their special role of caring for the little ones by participating with them and encouraging them along. Then, we put the 125 kids together in five inter-generational groups, mixing up the ages from 3-18 years. We did this creative group divider game by handing out 5 different colored lollipops and after a few brief minutes, we had all the same colored-tongues gather into the same group!

From there we rotated the groups from station to station. You can see from the video how celebrated they felt!!

You can view this 3 min. video directly at YouTube by clicking on the image above or on this link: http://youtu.be/N-eti_VptU0.