Halloween Party Activity - Skeleton Race

Halloween
Party Activity -
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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