A Flour Sock "Dodge and Tag" Game about Sin
in the context of the story of Adam and Eve
This game idea was inspired by the "dodgeball" game idea in the Adam and Eve Game Workshop lesson plan posted by Kirk of Kildaire here in this forum. But as you will read, I don't like the lesson their version of dodgeball teaches, and have instead adapted the dodging game and turned it into both a game and demonstration that uses a really fun thing to throw: socks with flour in them. Hope you like it. It might feel messy to some, but not to those of us with Game Workshop!
This idea was originally a children's sermon about trying to shield or protect yourself from sin. It didn't originally use "flour socks" just balled-up socks because it was done in a sanctuary, but in this version, the socks should have flour in them to make it a more fun, memorable, and dramatic game + demonstration in the classroom. 
Kirk of Kildaire's lesson plan suggests a version of "dodgeball" using foam balls or rolled-up socks thrown by God while the kids hide behind chairs. 
In short, my issue is that it reinforces the idea that God is some sort of Zeus throwing lightning bolts to eliminate sinners.
Now, I love dodgeball, playing dodging games, and throwing things at each other like socks. But THE PROBLEM with Kirk's dodgeball game is that it teaches the wrong message. It has God coming loaded with punishment into the Garden, and that's not what the story says. God came in the evening breeze, says the scripture, and he called out to his children.
The lesson I want to teach is that God did not come looking for Adam and Eve or US loaded with punishment in his heart. Instead, God gives them a chance to come out of hiding, to confess, and repent when they or we sin. And God gives us the tools to avoid sin, as well as the forgiveness to keep us from becoming a "slave" to sin, owned by it, unable to defend ourselves against it, and afraid that our sins will separate us from God (indeed NOTHING will be able to separate from the love of God, right Romans 8?)
The solution is to ADAPT the fun game to help it teach what we need it to teach. Read on!
Fortunately, there's a great version of "dodgeball" that leaves a mark!
You play it with a sock that has flour poured inside it. (About 1/2 cup per sock. NOTE that if there are gluten or wheat allergies in your class, cornstarch will also work.) When you throw the sock, it doesn't hurt the person it tags, but it does leave a white POOF of flour on them. They are MARKED by sin. Our sin affects others. Nobody comes away clean where sin is concerned.
The sock doesn't hurt and it will leave a flour mark and poof in the air when it hits something. (Use cornstarch if there are gluten or wheat allergies.)
The flour poof of sin also opens up your game to become a metaphor, a demonstration that you can add understanding to in several ways.
1. So first you play a small game of "dodgeball" using EMPTY ROLLED UP SOCKS instead of balls. Otherwise you play the game the same way as you play dodgeball. Get hit and you're on the sidelines. Catch one and your sidelined players go back into the game.
2. After a quick round or two of "regular" DODGE-SOCK 
introduce socks with flour in them into the game (explaining that the flour represents "sin," mistrust, deceiving others, lieing, cheating).
Restart the game and see how long it takes until everyone has been HIT BY SIN (marked with flour once or twice). Otherwise, you can play a round or two just like regular dodgeball, only substituting the flour-sin-socks for dodgeballs. Prepare for lots of POOF!
TIP: Ahead of time, use a permanent marker to write the names of various sins on each sock. (Lieing, lusting, coveting, cheating, speaking bad about someone, stealing, murder, racism, greed.)
3. After a game or two of trying to eliminate the team on the other side of the line with your sin-flour-socks,...
Pause and explore that metaphor about Sin.... that it spreads and eventually leaves no one untouched. Does God know that about sin? Of course God does! God knows everything, including that Adam and Eve were going to sin ---that WE are going to sin, break his rules, do bad things, and not live up to God's hopes and plans for us. When we have faith in Christ, we do not become sinless, we become forgiven (saved) and desiring to "be better" in gratitude for the gift of forgiveness. We learn to love, not fear God. We stand up when God calls us, admit our sins, and ask for help to do better. That's what Adam and Eve SHOULD have done instead of trying to hide or blame.
That's when you DEMONSTRATE this next point about Sin...
4. Have a coordinated student step onto the playing field alone in front of several students who are on the other side of an imaginary line about ten feet away. Give the lone student a SHIELD to block sock shots. Give the students on the other side all the flour socks. See if they can "tag" the student who has the shield.
TIP: Make your shield about 3' x 3' out of stiff cardboard so that it can stop the floured sin-socks from getting past the shield, but also so you can WRITE ON THE SHIELD.
5. Brainstorm what we can do to SHIELD ourselves from being "tagged" by sin, hit, hurt, messed up by sin. Write those ideas on the shield and then invite another student to come up and try to block all the sin-flour-socks being thrown at them (like 5 or 6 throws). We block sin with prayer, knowledge, help from scripture, help from friends and parents, listening to God, what else?
How could Adam and Even avoided being TAGGED by sin? They had several options to avoid sinning, including trying to avoid God. What could they (we) have done differently?
5. Invariably a sin-flour-sock will get through and leave its mark...
If not, make sure one does by sneaking a throw past the student's shield and tagging them with flour! That's your cue to make the point that we cannot escape sin in this life. We will make mistakes. We will get caught up in other people's sins (like the sins of injustice, racism, greed, lust, dishonesty).
Let everyone take a "shot" at throwing and shielding as you keep reinforcing your points.
6. Conclude with this arrangement and emptying of the socks...
Have your students gather up all the sin-flour-socks and put them in the shape of cross. Gather around that sock-cross and declare that Jesus took the penalty for all our sin onto himself, and by so doing, freed us to live by grace, not fear, by forgiveness, not by trying to be perfect.
Let's show our gratitude for God's forgiveness of our sin by wiping it off of each other (using a damp piece of paper towel), and emptying the flour out of our sock as a sign that we are trying to get rid of sin in our lives. Pour the flour down a drain with the water running (living water being another great metaphor for the cleansing of sins if you want to run with it).
Our Writing Team's lesson set on Adam and Eve focuses on this interpretation --the gracious God who knows EXACTLY what his children have done and where they are hiding. Despite their original sin of eating the fruit, God still comes calling for them. God still gives them a chance to stand up and take responsibility. God still asks them why they are hiding and naked, and waits for Adam and Eve (us) to step up to the truth and ask forgiveness. And even when God kicks them OUT of the garden, God makes clothes for them to hide their shame and goes WITH them into their difficult lives.
