Halloween Ideas - Skeleton Race

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Halloween
Ideas - Skeleton
Race
Even if you don’t want to be
involved with Halloween, you’ll
want to grab at least one of
those plastic or paper
Halloween skeletons for this
object lesson / game.
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Game Materials
Purchase one or more
plastic skeletons commonly
found during the Halloween
holiday season. You can
also use a paper skeleton
that is already cut into parts
or make your own.
(Optional) “Dem Bones”
song to play in the
background

Game Preparation
Separate the plastic
skeleton parts into pieces
or cut them out if they are
on paper.

Game Play
Option 1:
1. Obtain one skeleton for each
team.
2. Place all the parts for each
skeleton in its own sack and
give one sack to each team.
3. When you say ‘Go’, each team
must take out the skeleton
parts and correctly
reconstruct the skeletons.
4. Award prizes for the fastest
times. You can also give
additional prizes for weirdest
skeleton, etc.
5. Play some crazy music while
the game is going on like
“Dem Bones”

Option 2:
1. Hide the skeleton bones
before the lesson starts.
2. Let the participants search for
them and then reassemble
the skeleton.
3. For older youth, you can hide
the bones and then write out
clues for them to follow to
find them.
4. You can also get a few
skeletons and break the kids
into teams.

You can have it as a free for all
(i.e. hide all parts and award
the first team to find one of
each part and put the skeleton
together), or you can add a
spot of color or a colored
ribbon to identify which
skeletons belong to which
team.
5. Team members must first find
a complete set of parts… then
they must assemble it
correctly.

Application
One of the scary things about
Halloween is the skeletons. A lot of
people are afraid of death. When
they see bones it reminds them of
death and they become afraid. But
they are just bones and there is
nothing to be scared about. They
can’t come to life right? or can
they?
The prophet Ezekiel might have
had the first Halloween scare! We
don’t know what day it took place,
but it probably wasn’t October
31st.

Let’s look at Ezekiel 37 to find
out more!
Read the key verses from this
vision.
God’s question to Ezekiel, “Can
these dry bones live?” (v3)
might be a question a lot of
people ask on 31st of October.

But God was talking about more
than a skeleton in a closet. He was
giving Ezekiel a glimpse into the
future when Jesus would conquer
death and bring life to us. Jesus
did conquer death on a cross. He
also resurrected Lazarus from the
dead.
Yet God was giving Ezekiel a
picture of something more.

The bones represented the house
of Israel and their dryness and loss
of hope. (v11) The spirit of God
would enter their bodies and they
would experience restoration and
life.
There may be a situation in your
own life when you feel like a pile of
dry bones. A new life may seem
impossible. But like Ezekiel’s
response to God when asked “Can
these bones live?”, we can answer
“You alone know.” God knows and
with God all things are possible.

God can breath life into any
situation you are in. Not only can
he bring you a new life, but he can
also give you a new heart: “I will
give you a new heart and put a
new spirit in you; I will remove
from you your heart of stone and
give you a heart of flesh. And I will
put my Spirit in you and move you
to follow my decrees and be
careful to keep my laws. (Ezekiel
36:26-27).

• We are all dead in our sin, like a
pile of dry bones (Ephesians
2:1)
• But God, because of his great
love for us, makes us alive in
Christ (Ephesians 2:4-5)
• We experience new life
through faith in Christ! Doing
good things doesn’t get us
eternal life, but we are made
alive in Christ that we might do
good things for Him. (Ephesians
2:8-10)

Lyrics to Dem Bones
E-ze-kiel cried, “Dem dry bones!”
Oh hear the word of the Lord.
(tune descends in half steps)

The foot bone con-nected to
the (pause) leg-bone,
The leg bone connected to the
(‘) knee bone,
The knee bone connected to
the (‘) thigh bone,
The thigh bone connected to
the (‘) back bone,
The back bone connected to
the (‘) neck bone
The neck bone connected to
the (‘) head bone
Oh hear the word of the Lord!

Dem bones, dem bones
gon-na walk a-roun’
gon-na walk a-roun’
gonna walk aroun’
Oh hear the word of
the Lord
(tune descends in half
steps and we retrace
the body)

The head-bone connected to
the neck-bone,
the neck-bone connected to
the back-bone
The backbone connected to
the thigh-bone
the thighbone connected to
the kee-bone
the kneebone connected to
the leg bone
the leg bone connected to
the foot bone
Oh hear the word of the Lord

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