MOP RELAY: Divide children into teams and give each team a mop. Play a relay with each team member taking turns to push a potato with a mop the finish line. Continue until all players have taken a turn.

CLEANING PANTOMIMES: Give each child an opportunity to do a pantomime for some kind of cleaning - such as dusting, vacuuming, mopping, scrubbing, etc. Let the other classmates try to guess, or divide the class into teams and each team will pantomime a cleaning item for the other team to guess.

SPONGE ART: Give all children a small piece of a sponge to dip into paints and make a drawing of a clean heart! Encourage children to use the corner of the sponge to write their own initials on their painted hearts. (Provide wet wipes for dirty hands).

PREPARE YOUR HEART: Give each child a large heart to clean off before decorating. The teacher can use the side of some chalk on the hearts before class and tell children they must clean off their heart first and then use sequins or markers or stickers to decorate their heart. Give children cut out letters to glue to their hearts that will say J-E-S-U-S! (These sticky letters can be purchased inexpensively in the scrapbooking section).

HOUSECLEANING: Provide children with cleaning supplies and take pictures as they each take one cleaning supply and clean a designated area. Comment to children how CLEAN the room is beginning to look in such a short time. As children clean, tell the children that when the whistle blows, they are to FREEZE at whatever they're doing and then the teacher will call on different children to give ideas about how we can clean up our HEARTS as well. After an answer is given, the children will begin to clean again until the whistle blows and continue to give ideas how to CLEAN our hearts!!

HEART CHRISTMAS CARDS: Let children fold a piece of colorful paper in half and cut a half a heart out on the fold, so that they'll end up with a heart card. Decorate and use Christmas stickers, etc, and then write I'LL GIVE JESUS MY CLEAN HEART FOR CHRISTMAS inside the heart and write their names on their cards as well. Hang the colorful hearts on a string of Christmas garland on the classroom wall.

BIBLE VERSE SPONGES: Tape parts of the Bible verse to different pieces of sponges and hide in a designated area. Let children run to find all the sponges and then place the sponges in order on the classroom table, as they work together. After the class has completed putting the Bible verse together, have the children read the verse together several times and then begin taking a piece of sponge with sections of the Bible verse away and have the children recite the verse and see if they can fill in the part that is missing. Continue to play until all of the sponges have been removed and children can recite the verse for memory!

CLEAN HEART DISPLAY: Give children hearts to cut out and color and write ways to clean our hearts -- such as praying, forgiving, reading God's Word, etc. Let children tape or glue their hearts to a large poster board on the classroom wall as they complete each heart. Title the poster board with big colorful letters that will say I WANT TO CLEAN UP MY HEART, etc.

HIDE AND GO SNACK: The teacher can hide snacks around the room and as the children CLEAN the room during any of the above activities, they can enjoy a snack while cleaning! The teacher will have to set a limit as to how many snacks each child can find and enjoy. A basket can be on the classroom table for snacks to be put into as children find them.

SING A SONG: HEART/HEART- GIVING MY HEART TO JESUS; INTO MY HEART; TAKE MY HEART AND LET IT BE