Youth Icebreakers - Pumpkin Patch Relay

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Youth Icebreakers
- 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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Game Materials
One carved pumpkin
for each team.
(Keep the pieces that
are cut out)
Sharp knife for
preparing the
pumpkins.


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.


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!



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.)


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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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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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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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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