Icebreakers: Pumpkin Picasso

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Icebreakers:
Pumpkin Picasso

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Game Description
How well can you draw the Halloween
Jack-o-Lantern? Here is a great youth
game idea for the Halloween season. You
can use it to bring a fresh spiritual
meaning to the holiday and allow your
youth to apply it to seeking God’s plan and
direction for their lives. You could even
relate it to a talk about not conforming to
the patterns of the world. Be creative and
have a great week! And for those
completely adverse to anything associated
with Halloween, see the alternative
variation under the “preparation” section.



Game Materials
Paper
Colored pens or pencils
Several different Pumpkin Faces (Drawings
or actual pumpkins)
One blindfold for each team



Game Preparation
Create several different pumpkin jack-o-
lantern faces either by drawing them or
by cutting them into actual pumpkins. The
more intricate and detailed the face, the
more difficult it will be for participants.

Variation: If you are adverse to having
anything even remotely associated with
Halloween, you can use the shapes of
natural fallen leaves from various trees or
simple images from a Children’s Bible
Story book



Game Play
1. Divide your church youth group into
various teams or into couples.
2. Have each youth team choose one
“Picasso” who will draw the pumpkin
face.
3. Blindfold all the Picasso’s
4. Reveal the carved pumpkin or the
sketched pumpkin Jack-O-lantern
face.



5. Teams must instruct their blindfolded
“Picasso” using words only how to
draw the pumpkin face on a piece of
paper. (No touching is allowed).
6. You might want to give the teams 2 or
3 minutes to complete their
masterpieces.
7. Compare the final masterpieces
drawn by the youth to the actual
pumpkin or original drawing and the
one that is closest to the original
wins!
8. Swap roles and have a new “Picasso”
to play again!



Variation
1. Allow team members to roam about the
room and try to distract or give incorrect
instructions to opposing teams. But
beware, this can get very noisy! (In the
debrief, you can discuss the distractions
and false instructions we face in life.)
2. Give the Picasso 10 seconds one round to
see the jack-o-lantern face before
blindfolding them. Did it help them to
better understand the instructions?
3. Instead of judging which pumpkin is closest
to the original, create a list of items to
award various points:


1. 20 points for drawing a circle so that the line
crossed or connected with itself
2. 10 points for each eye that was drawn
INSIDE the circle.
3. 20 points for a stem that was actually on top
of the pumpkin
4. 5 points for getting the mouth inside the
circle
5. 5 points if the mouth was BELOW both of the
eyes
6. 5 points for each eye that was the correct
shape
7. 5 points for each mouth that was the correct
shape
8. 5 points for getting the nose inside the circle
9. 5 points for putting the nose between the
mouth and the eyes
10. 5 points for any triangle that is drawn
11. 1 point for each place that lines cross each
other.



Take it to the Next Level
• If you were able to see the desired
result before putting on the blindfold
would it have made a difference?
Explain.
• What role does “vision” play in
accomplishing goals?
• Was it more important – to focus on
the big picture or the small details?
• Did the person giving instructions do
so clearly, orderly, and in a way that
helped you achieve the desired
results? Could any of the instructions
have been clearer? How could the
person giving instructions be more
effective?



Make it Spiritual
• Has God given us a pattern for life?
Do we know what the end result is
supposed to look like?
• Does God focus more on the big
picture or on the small steps needed
to create the end result?
• Are God’s instructions clear? Explain.
• What can youth do to hear God more
clearly?
• Are there things in the lives of youth
that obstruct God’s directions?
• What are some of our standards for
comparison for the Christian walk?



Make it Practical
• Are there things in your life that are
out of place?
• Do you know what you are supposed
to create with your life or do you feel
you are struggling in the dark?
• What are some of the references that
have played the biggest role in how
you have formed your own Christian
life?
• How will God judge the end results of
your life?



Make it Personal
• What is something you can do this week so
that God can use you for greater results
with your life?



Scripture References
“but I gave them this command: Obey
me, and I will be your God and you will be
my people. Walk in obedience to all I
command you, that it may go well with
you.” - Jeremiah 7:23

“For I know the plans I have for you,”
declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you
and not to harm you, plans to give you
hope and a future.” - Jeremiah 29:11



“My sheep listen to my voice; I know
them, and they follow me. I give them
eternal life, and they shall never perish;
no one will snatch them out of my hand.
My Father, who has given them to me, is
greater than all; no one can snatch them
out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father
are one.” - John 10:27-30



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