Object Lesson - Gummy Worm Discipleship

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Object Lesson
- Gummy
Worm
Discipleship
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Although gummy bears were
invented by German Candy maker
Hans Reigel in 1922, the gummy
worm is a relatively recent
concept. The Gummy bear wasn’t
shipped to America until around
1981 and then an American candy
company extended the idea to
gummy worms to give kids
something fun to eat and to shock
their parents. Gummy worms are
one of the most popular gummy
candies around. Use these games
with gummy worms as an object
lesson to talk about Jesus’ call to
his disciples to become fishers of
men.

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What You Need
Lots of Gummy Worms
Games using Gummy Worms
NOTE: The intention is for these
games to be played with gummy
worms, but if you can’t get
gummy worms, you can use extra
long Twizzlers, or string licorice.

Chicken Races – In this crazy youth
game, everyone is a chicken. Place
gummy worms in a shallow baking
pan with crushed Oreos piled on
top and place it at the opposite
end of the room. You can use one
pan for each team or have them all
fight over the worms in a single
pan. On “go”, the first team
member from each team must flap
their arms like wings and make
clucking sounds while running to
the pan to collect a worm using
their mouth (beaks) only.

No hands allowed. Once they
retrieve a worm they can return
to the team and the next youth
repeats the task. Worms must
still be whole to be counted. First
team to have everyone retrieve a
worm wins. Variation: Instead of
Oreo cookies, use chocolate
pudding sprinkled with Oreo
cookies.

Chicken Feed – This is similar to the
chicken race, but have a deeper pan
with more chocolate pudding and
Oreos. Each team chooses one
representative. The youth who
retrieves the most worms from the
pan in a designated time wins.
Gummy Relay – Pair up the youth.
One end of a gummy bear goes into
each person’s mouth. The pairs
must then navigate an obstacle
course without break the gummy
bear or allowing it to drop from
their mouths. Fastest pair wins!

Worm Fishing – To play this game you
fill a fishbowl with pretzels or goldfish
crackers, and the youth use a fishing
rod to get one out and eat it. The bait
is gummy worms that are nice and
sticky. If you don’t have a real fishing
rod, use a stick and some string. You
could even add a reel if you wanted
to. If you don’t have a fishbowl handy,
any clear, large bowl will do the trick.
Use lukewarm water to wet down a
gummy worm and then pat it dry so
that it’s nice and sticky. Tie the worm
to the end of the string on the fishing
rod. Players have one minute to use
the wishing rod to “hook” a
pretzel/goldfish from the fishbowl by
getting it to stick to the ooey-gooey
gummy worm.

No hands allowed. Then, once one
is “caught,” it must be brought back
to the player’s mouth and she must
eat it before the timer runs out in
order to win the game. To make it
more difficult, increase the distance
to the fishbowl. If a pretzel/goldfish
falls off the gummy worm it must
be abandoned and another one
“caught” on the gummy worm. If a
player touches the string or gummy
worm while a pretzel is attached,
that pretzel won’t count. String
may not be wound around the
finger during an attempt. The
player(s) with the most pretzels at
the end of the 60-seconds wins.

Worms between your toes – Fill 5
or 10 gallon buckets (or kiddie
pools) about 1/4 of the way up
with water and drop at least 20
gummy worms in each one.
Everyone takes off their socks &
shoes. The first person in line for
each team will run to bucket and
dip their foot in the water, pulling
out a worm with their toes. They
must then transfer the worm into
a bowl located beside the bucket.
Teams only get a point for worms
dropped into the bowl.

Whoever has the most worms at
the end of a designated time limit
wins! (If you’re indoors, have some
towels on hand for participants to
dry their feet. You may also want to
lay tarps down to minimize the
mess.) Variation: Instead of a bowl,
guys lie down with their heads
beside buckets. The girls feed them
to the guys using only their feet.
The girl and guy team who can eat
the most gummy bears in 2
minutes wins.

Gummy Worm Rulers – Provide a
list of measurements in gummy
worms of various items around the
youth room. Youth must find the
item that matches the
measurements. The team with
greatest number of correctly
identified items wins. (Tip:
Measure the length of a typical
gummy worm and then just
measure things in the room with a
ruler like the length of a table,
width of a door, height of a poster,
etc. Divide the measurements by
the length of a typical gummy
worm to get the lengths in gummy
worms – 3.5 gummy worms, etc)

Gummy Worm Race – Placed a
marshmallow a pretzel, or even a
donut in the middle of a gummy
worm. On go, players must eat
their way to be the one to finish
off the marshmallow. Whoever
eats the marshmallow wins the
game. Variation – The team who
eats the worm the fastest wins!
Gummy Worm Stretch – In this
game, the goal is for partners to
have the most stretched-out
gummy worm without breaking it.
Check your results with a ruler.

Gummy Worms Pictionary – Played
like normal pictionary where you
have to draw the clues for your
teams to guess the word or phrase,
but in this variation, instead of
drawing, lay out the gummy worms
to create shapes. No numbers
symbols or letters are allowed. You
can do it on a cookie sheet, chopping
board, or butcher paper.
Fishies – Take a couple fishing poles
and stick a gummy worms to them
with string. Bindfold the youth and
dangle the gummy worms around.
The first person to find the gummy
worm with their tongue and eat it,
wins.

Make Dirt Cups as snacks – You’ll
need 8 ounce clear plastic cups,
chocolate pudding mix, milk (as
specified on pudding box)
chocolate sandwich cookies like
oreos (crushed) and gummy
worms. Mix the pudding
according to the package
directions. Layer the pudding and
the cookie crumbs in cups. Top
the layers with more crumbs and
gummy worms.

Gummy Worm Gulpers – Youth
race against the clock to eat
gummy worms hanging from the
ceiling. You’ll need clothespins,
strong string, and lots of gummy
worms. Cut various lengths of
string, attach one end to the
ceiling or from a tree and one end
to a clothespin, and clamp a
gummy worm in each clothespin.
Youth run from string to string and,
using only their mouths, snatch
and eat the gummy worms. The
winner is whoever eats all the
worms in the shortest amount of
time.

TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
• How would you describe a
gummy worm to someone
who has never seen or
eaten one before?
• What are some of the
characteristics of gummy
worms?
• What are some uses of
real worms?
• Has anyone ever fished
with a worm?

MAKE IT SPIRITUAL
Read Matthew 4:17-22
• Worms are attractive to fish.
What are some things that are
attractive to people?
• What things does the world go
fishing for?
• What are we to fish for as
Christians?
• Is a person a fisherman if year
after year he never goes fishing?
• Is a person a fisherman if he
never catches a fish?
• Is a person a true disciple of
Jesus Christ if he never attempts
to win a soul for Christ?

MAKE IT PRACTICAL
• As a fisherman, do we cast our
nets in our backyard or do we go
to a place where fish can be
found? (Jesus never suggests that
the world should come to the
church but commands the church
to go into the world to witness.
Jesus has given us the example –
he goes to the people, he never
waits for the people to come to
Him.)
• How is telling others about Jesus
similar to fishing?
• Lures are attractive to fish. How
can you make the good news of
Jesus attractive to your friends?

MAKE IT PERSONAL
• What can you do this
week to be more
effective as a fisher of
men?
KEY SCRIPTURE
• Matthew 4:19: “Come,
follow me,” Jesus said,
“and I will make you
fishers of men.”

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