In this relay, participants will try to replace the missing pieces that have been removed from their team’s pumpkin. It can be used as party game for your October 31st Halloween alternative, for a harvest festival, or a Halloween carnival.

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Youth Ideas:
Pumpkin Patch
Relay
In this relay, participants will try to
replace the missing pieces that have
been removed from their team’s
pumpkin. It can be used as party game
for your October 31st Halloween
alternative, for a harvest festival, or a
Halloween carnival.
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Game Materials
One carved pumpkin for
each team.
(Keep the pieces that are cut
out)
Sharp knife for preparing the
pumpkins.
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Game Preparation
1. Cut off the top of the pumpkins
and remove the seeds and pulp so
that they have been cleaned out.
Cut a different face in each
pumpkin, but save the pieces that
you remove and set them aside.
2. Collect all the pieces you removed
from the pumpkin and mix them
up and place them on a table at
one end of the room.
3. At the other end of the room set
up a small table for each team and
place each team’s pumpkin on the
table.
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Game Play
1. The objective of this game is to
have team members run across
the room… grab one piece that
looks like it might fit the holes in
that team’s pumpkin and return to
his team with the piece.
2. If the piece fits in the pumpkin,
the next person can run to get a
new piece. If the piece doesn’t fit,
the next person on the team must
return it to the table at the end of
the room and collect another
piece to try.
3. First team to complete it’s
pumpkin wins the relay!
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Game Variation
Play the game blindfolded. (Be sure
to remove any furniture or other
things in the room that might injure
the participants. You can also place
helpers at strategic locations to
protect the players.)
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Spiritual Applications
Use it with one of these ideas
for a meaningful lesson:
• Use the pumpkin as a
metaphor for a Christian - The
Pumpkin
• Object Lesson / Children’s
sermon using a Pumpkin - Like
A Halloween Pumpkin
• A specially carved pumpkin
and poem to share the plan of
Salvation - Jack-O-Lantern
• A Children’s sermon on being
the person God created you to
be - Perky the orange Pumpkin
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• A children’s sermon or Object
Lesson on being the light of the
World - Peter Pumpkin
• An object lesson or Children’s
sermon on prayer - Pumpkin
prayer
• Use this puzzle game to teach
about the destructiveness of sin
and Christ’s payment for sin on
the cross- Pumpkin Puzzles
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• Talk about how we all have holes in
our lives (an emptiness) we are trying
to fill. Some people may try to fill it
with money, with relationships, with
various types of pleasures, etc. But the
only thing that can fill the emptiness
we have in our lives is a relationship
with God. Blaise Pascal says we were
all created with a God-shaped vacuum
that only he can fill.
• Just as you had to align the pieces with
the various holes in the pumpkin, we
have to align the various areas of our
lives with the will of God. Only those
things of God which are aligned with
his plan for our individual lives, will fit
correctly and make us whole.
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