Write down a list of actions that a person can take, or events that can happen to a person. All of these should relate to a particular beatitude. For example, you could write: "You settle arguments instead of starting them," or "You never brag about your own accomplishments," or "You are grieving over the loss of your grandmother" or "You protected a football opponent who had lost his helmet in a play." Break this list into strips of paper and give a set of strips to each group of students. Their job is to match the beatitude with the behavior example. The winning group will match all eight correctly.
Break your larger group into two halves and give each group a printout of the text of the Beatitudes. One group will pick a Beatitude for the other group, whose artist will be the only one to know. The rest of his team will have two minutes to guess the Beatitude he is exemplifying through a drawing.
On an individual or partner basis, your students can identify an example from their personal lives or from history for each Beatitude. Go around the room, letting each student share the Beatitude and the example.
This game will test how well your class members have memorized the Beatitudes. Distribute a copy of the text with key words missing, such as "poor" and "kingdom" from the first one, or "mourn" and "comforted" in the second. Give each student or team five minutes to fill in the missing words without the Bible before you let them open it and fill in the rest they didn't know.