The document describes a pumpkin seed toss game that can be used to facilitate discussions around choosing goals and the power of words. Participants try to toss bean bags into carved pumpkins worth different point values based on the size of the mouth. This activity can then prompt discussion around choosing easy versus valuable targets, and how the words that come out of our mouths reveal our character and values rather than what goes into our mouths.

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Halloween Ideas
- Pumpkin Seed
Toss
Use this game as a
discussion about the
power of our words, or
about how we choose
goals in life.
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Materials
1. Several Carved pumpkins
with different size mouths or
with different size holes in
the top.
As an alternative, have a
watermelon seed toss on a
hot summer afternoon. Cut
off the ends of the
watermelon. Hollow it out
and then pit it back together
with toothpicks. Carve funny
faces in the watermelons as
you would a pumpkin.
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2. Small Bean Bags (Referred
to as Pumpkin seeds / or
watermelon seeds)
3. Place the pumpkins on a
bale of hay or cloth covered
table some distance from the
participants.
4. Choose one of the
discussion ideas below…
Choosing only one will keep
everyone focused and create
a more powerful object
lesson.
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Activity
Each Youth / Child is given
5 chances to try to toss
the pumpkin seeds into
the pumpkin. Each
pumpkin, depending on
the size of the hole is
worth different points.
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Discussion Idea #1: Targets
1. Why did you choose your
pumpkin target?
Some people chose the
smaller pumpkins because
they were worth more.
Others chose the pumpkins
with the larger mouth
because they were an easier
target.
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2. When it comes down
to real life, do you
choose your targets
based on value or upon
which is easier?
3. What are your targets
in the Christian life? Are
they easy? Why do you
value these targets?
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Discussion Idea #2: Your
Mouth
1. In this game you were
judged by your ability to toss
an object into a mouth. But
in God’s kingdom we are not
judged by what goes into our
mouths, but by what comes
out of our mouths.
2. What do your words
reveal about you?
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3. When is it more
valuable to be a “big
mouth”? To keep your
mouth closed?
4. What does the Bible
say about our words?
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