Sunday Snippet: Round the World Dash.

I recently did a Virtual Round the World Dash with a group of kids and these activity sheets were the perfect fit… Wycliffe Fun Facts Activity Pages.

These pages are not your average activity pages: they are packed with factoids, games, quizzes, projects to do and a recipe on each of them. They are really good – we printed them out, one for each kid and turned them into a guidebook.

What we did was pick a missionary from the missionary board at church, one from each continent. These are the sorts of jobs the missionaries had:

  • A teacher from Africa.
  • A banker in Asia.
  • A soccer coach from South America.
  • A fisherman in North America
  • We had a chef from Australia.
  • We had an actor in Europe.

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We made passports with each kidlet and then we virtually traveled the world, and did an appropriate activity in each spot and placed an appropriate sticker inside our passports.

For example:

  • In Africa we had a treasure hunt for little wild animals, and everyone got an African animal sticker.
  • In Asia we counted sweeties (money) with chop sticks… and they got some money stickers.
  • In South America we did football training in the form of soccer relay games… and got a soccer ball sticker.
  • In North America we did magnetic fishing and had a marshmallow fish snack. Everyone got a fish sticker.
  • In Australia we all decorated cupcakes and got a sweetie sticker.
  • In Europe I read a story and they acted it out as I went along and used costume stickers.

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The point of the stickers was that when they look at their passports later they would remember to pray for their missionaries.

  • If they see a wild animal pray for the teacher in Africa.
  • If they see some money pray for the banker in Asia.
  • If they see a soccer ball pray for the coach in South America.
  • If they see a fish pray for the fisherman in North America.
  • If they see a sweetie pray for the chef in Australia.
  • If they see a dress-up costume pray for their actor in Europe.

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We finished our morning with the Global Graffiti project I described here. It is a great fabric painting project that you can do with fabric markers to avoid the serious mess.

3 Replies to “Sunday Snippet: Round the World Dash.”

  1. Hi there, So pleased to meet you! We love the Wycliffe resources and use them all the time – I can’t rave about them enough… brilliant and free!!! We live any a very multi-cultural society and they have been so useful across a wide spectrum of kids…

  2. Hi there, So pleased to meet you! We love the Wycliffe resources and use them all the time – I can’t rave about them enough.

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