The document describes corn-themed icebreaker games that can be played with youth groups, including Turkey Feed, Corn Pitching, and Odds or Evens. The games involve collecting corn kernels or candy corn and guessing numbers of kernels. It also discusses how corn was an important crop for early American settlers and Pilgrims, and how their voyage to America represented a big risk with potential religious freedom rewards. The conclusion encourages readers to consider risks worth taking for God.

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Youth
Icebreakers:
Kernel
Cornucopia
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Introduction
The cornucopia, also known in English
as the Horn of Plenty, is a symbol of
prosperity and affluence, dating back
to the 5th century BC. It was often
filled with the fruits of the harvest
which included corn, fruits, and other
vegetables. Corn itself was one of the
staple foods of the early settlers. Here
are a variety of games using corn
kernels… you can get dried feed corn
like that sold for bird feeders or
unpopped popcorn will also work.
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Game Materials
• Dried Corn Kernels or
popcorn
• Candy Corn
• Bowls
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Game Description
• Turkey Feed – Turkeys are often
fed corn to prepare them as
guests at Thanksgiving.
• Corn Pitching – How accurately
can you toss corn kernels into
bowls
• Odds and Evens – Can you
guess if there are odd or even
numbers of kernels are in your
partners hand?
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Game Play
Turkey Feed
1. Fill a bowl with dried corn kernels
and add several pieces of candy
corn.
2. Blindfolded players and have
them retrieve the candy corn
from the bowl within a designate
amount of time. (As a gross out
variation, have them retrieve it
with their bare feet then eat it.
3. The player that retrieves the most
candy corn in the designated time
limit wins.
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Corn Pitching
1. Players takes turns pitching ten
corn kernels, one at a time, into a
bowl from a set distance. You
might choose to have various
bowls of different sizes and at
different distances. Display the
points based upon difficulty.
2. Keep score of how many kernels
end up in the various bowls.
3. The winner is the one with the
highest score after three rounds.
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Odds or Evens
1. Each player starts out with the same
number of corn kernels.
2. Players rotate about the room
pairing up with others.
3. When they find a partner, one
player hides a few kernels of in his
hand.
4. The other player must guess if the
number of corn kernels is odd or
even. If guessed correctly, the player
can add the kernels to his own
collection.
5. Players take turns hiding and
guessing, until one player has all the
corn or until a specified time limit!
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Discussion
• In these games are you someone
who plays it safe or shoots for
the moon?
• Was the voyage to the new world
by the pilgrims a safe bet or a big
risk?
• What were some of the potential
risks? Potential rewards?
• What were some of your
strategies in these games?
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Application
Some people play it safe in life. Others
take risks. Most of the time we
evaluate if the potential reward is
worth the risk. For the Pilgrims, coming
to America was a great risk. But the
lure of religious freedom was worth
the risk. Many of them lost their lives
in pursuit of the opportunity to freely
worship God as their conscience
dictated. After the first year of the
Plymouth colony, only half of the 102
settlers were still alive. Times were
hard. Later during a particularly tough
winter is was said that each person had
only 5 kernels of corn to live on each
day.
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Yet in spite of their hardships, they
gave thanks to God. Eternal blessings
outweighed the physical ones. There
may be times when we do not have
much, but to have a relationship with
God is worth any cost and any
hardship! They made a choice, a
decision to pursue God at any cost.
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Conclusion
• Has God called you to do
something out of the ordinary?
• To what has God called you?
• What risks are worth the reward
of knowing Jesus as Lord and
living for him?
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Just as a single grain of corn has the
potential for an abundant
harvest, even one decision for God
can lead to a harvest of blessings in
your life. What choice is God calling
you to make today? Take a kernel of
corn home as a reminder of a
decision God has called you to make
for him regardless of the risk.
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