Tower of Babel kids' Game.

This little game is so much fun, I want to do it myself right now! You'll need spaghetti and Jelly babies. One Jelly baby per strand of spaghetti. That's all.

Game: The Tower of Babel
Genesis 11
Share this story with the children: God had told people to spread over the whole earth, but they decided they had a better idea, to all stay in one place. So God confused their languages so they had to split up and go and do what he’d asked them to do in the first place! The point being that even if we are daft enough to go against God and choose our own ways instead, it will work out rather pointless in the end!
• 11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward,[a] they found a plain in Shinar[b] and settled there.
• 3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
• 5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
• 8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
This fun game is a great opportunity to share with the children what happened at the Tower of Babel.

Working alone or in groups, give each team to same quantity of Spaghetti and Jelly Babies. The object of the game is to build the tallest tower possible in the allotted time, pushing the ends of the spaghetti into the candy to join it together.

You could have winners for style and design as well as height!

*TOP TIP* if you’re struggling to get off the ground, try making the structures entirely of triangles, and you should have more success.

Once the children have all attempted the first tower and seen how the winning design works, have a speed trial. Give the children a meagre one minute event, and see who can build the biggest.