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.

1. Halloween Party 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. • 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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8. • 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.
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9. • 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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10. Holiday Collection
Games and Activities in Celebration
of common Holidays.
Creative Holiday Ideas has over 300 pages of
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