Object Lesson - Christian Pumpkins

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Object Lesson
- Christian
Pumpkins
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Pumpkins are closely associated
with both Halloween and
Thanksgiving and are most
likely native to America. In this
week's lesson you'll find a lot of
game ideas using pumpkins,
and also a reminder that God
looks at the inside and not
merely what's on the outside.
He wants us to have a clean
heart. Like a like shining from
inside the pumpkin, he also
wants us to shine out to the
world.

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Pumpkin Games
Capture the Pumpkin – For this
Pumpkin-themed version of
capture the flag, divide the teens
into two teams, each with a
territory, a jail and a pumpkin. The
teens can choose to place the
pumpkin anywhere on their
territory, but it must be visible.
While teams can assign people to
guard the pumpkin, you must set a
perimeter around it that they
cannot enter to give the other
team a chance to capture it.

The goal is to steal the other
team’s pumpkin and make it back
to your own territory without
getting tagged. If anyone is tagged
on another team’s territory, they
are sent to jail. Other team
members can free them if they
can manage to tag them and both
make it safely back to their
territory. If no one has captured a
pumpkin within a certain time
frame, determine a winner by the
number of prisoners a team has.
This game is best played in a large
park with plenty of hiding places.

Card Ninja – Players must throw
playing cards at a pumpkin trying
to get one card to stick in the
pumpkin before one minute is up.
Elephant March – Knock over
plastic bottles filled with sand
using a small pumpkin hanging
from panty hose worn around the
head.
Pumpkin Ring Toss – Toss rings
over pumpkins with stems.

Connect The Pumpkin – This
game is especially good around
Halloween but can be played any
time. Purchase some pumpkins
and cut them up into pieces
(make sure the pieces are not too
small). Next to the pieces of
pumpkin place a set of wooden
toothpicks. Once everyone is
ready instruct the group to put
the pumpkin together using the
toothpicks. Give the group a set
time limit and ask them to begin.
The team with the pumpkin that
has been best put together wins.

Pass the Pumpkin – This game is
a variation on “hot potato”. Seat
the youth on the floor in a circle.
Give them a small pumpkin to
pass around. Play music as they
pass the pumpkin, and
periodically stop the music.
Whoever is holding the pumpkin
is out. The game continues until
one person is left with the
pumpkin.

Pass the Pumpkin – Youth tuck a
small pumpkin under their chin
and shoulder, race to their
teammate, and pass the pumpkin
to them without using their
hands. If the pumpkin is dropped,
it can be put back into place using
hands.
Pumpkin Bocce Ball – Place the
big pumpkin several feet away.
Give each player a small pumpkin.
Each player rolls (No tossing or
throwing) their pumpkin and tries
to be the closest to the big
pumpkin. The player closest wins
…

Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin –
Using a Black Marker, Draw a
face on a pumpkin but leave off
the nose. In turn, blindfold each
youth and give them a black
cutout shape of a nose with
double-side tape on the back.
Youth must pin the nose on the
pumpkin. Closest wins. (You
might want to have the nose
draw as well. The one who pins
the nose most accurately over
the drawing wins.)

Pumpkin Carving Contest –
Working as teams, youth create the
winning carvings for categories
such as funniest, spookiest and
most beautiful pumpkin. If you
have young kids without adult
participation, hold a pumpkin
painting contest instead.
Pumpkin Penny Toss – Carve out a
large pumpkin, making a wide
opening at the top. Give the youths
a limited number of pennies. Have
them stand an appropriate distance
from the pumpkin and try to toss
the pennies in, one at a time.
Whoever gets the most inside wins.

Pumpkin Golf – Played just like
miniature golf where you use
putters to hit the golf ball into the
pumpkins mouth rather than a cup.
To create a pumpkin golf pumpkin,
you’ll need to cut off the bottom of
the pumpkin and then clean out
the inside of the pumpkin and then
add the mouth to the pumpkin. The
pumpkin’s mouth will also serve as
the entry point for the golf ball so
the mouth must be at the bottom
of the pumpkin. Then create the
eyes and nose just as you would a
normal pumpkin.

Pumpkin Relay – Teams race to be
the first to pass the miniature
pumpkins to the end of the line
without using their hands. If the
pumpkin is dropped they must
start over again.
Pumpkin Roll – You need two large
pumpkins and two sturdy sticks (or
brooms). The racers, line up on the
starting line with the pumpkins
turned on their sides. On the
signal, the racers use the stick to
roll the pumpkins to the finish line.
Since pumpkins are uneven, they
rarely roll straight.

Pumpkin Roll Icebreaker – With a
permanent marker, write some
icebreaker questions on a pumpkin
until the surface is covered. These
can be simple things like your
“favorite fall vegetable?” or more
personal things like “the scariest
moment in your life?”. Then sit the
youth on the floor in a circle. Youth
roll the pumpkin to each other, but
they rarely roll in a straight line.
The person closest to the pumpkin
must catch it. When caught, the
question your thumb lands on is
yours. Answer the question then
roll it on to someone else, so they
can take a turn.

Pumpkin Seed Count – Divide the
class into teams of two to four and
cut the top off of a pumpkin for
each team. Tell the teams that the
first team to scoop out and count
50 pumpkin seeds is the winner.
Pumpkin Stackers – Stack five
pumpkins on top of each other
without them falling in the
quickest time.

Pumpkin Toss – Ask the first
player to stand 3 to 4 feet away
from a deep wicker basket and
give him or her 10 to 20 mini
pumpkins. See how many can be
tossed into the basket in 30
seconds. In the event of a tie, let
the finalists compete for the win
by determining which one can
make 10 baskets in the shortest
time.

Pumpkin Transport – Tie five to
eight long cord/string pieces (4-6
feet long) to a large ring. Place
the ring on the ground with the
cords coming out from it like rays
of sunshine. Place a small
pumpkin on top of the washer.
The challenge is for the youth to
pick up the ring and pumpkin by
hanging onto the strings only
without the pumpkin falling off.

TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
MAKE IT SPIRITUAL
• How can pumpkins represent us
as Christians?
Just like us, pumpkins are
different. God picks you from
the patch, brings you in, and
washes all the dirt off of you.
Then he cuts off the top and
scoops out all the yucky stuff. He
removes the seeds of doubt,
hate, greed, etc., and then he
carves you a new smiling face
and puts His light inside of you
to shine for all the world to see.

• How do the following verses
relate to Pumpkins and to our
lives as Christians?
1 Samuel 16:7 – “The LORD
does not look at the things
man looks at. Man looks at
the outward appearance, but
the LORD looks at the heart”
Jeremiah 17:10 – “I the Lord
search the heart and examine
the mind to reward according
to conduct and deeds.”

Matthew 23:25-28 – “Woe
to you, teachers of the law
and Pharisees, you
hypocrites! You clean the
outside of the cup and dish,
but inside they are full of
greed and self-indulgence.
Blind Pharisee! First clean
the inside of the cup and
dish, and then the outside
also will be clean. Woe to
you, teachers of the law and
Pharisees, you hypocrites!

You are like whitewashed
tombs, which look beautiful
on the outside but on the
inside are full of the bones of
the dead and everything
unclean. In the same way, on
the outside you appear to
people as righteous but on
the inside you are full of
hypocrisy and wickedness.”

Psalm 51:10 – “Create in me
a pure heart, O God.”
2 Corinthians 5:17 –
“Therefore, if anyone is in
Christ, he is a new creation;
the old has gone, the new has
come!”

John 8:12 – “When Jesus
spoke again to the people,
he said, “I am the light of the
world. Whoever follows me
will never walk in darkness,
but will have the light of
life.”
2 Corinthians 4:6 – “For God,
who said, “Let light shine out
of darkness,” made his light
shine in our hearts to give us
the light of the knowledge of
the glory of God in the face
of Christ.”

Matthew 5:14-16 – “You are
the light of the world. A
town built on a hill cannot be
hidden. Neither do people
light a lamp and put it under
a bowl. Instead they put it on
its stand, and it gives light to
everyone in the house. In
the same way, let your light
shine before others, that
they may see your good
deeds and glorify your
Father in heaven.”

2 Corinthians 4:7-10 – “But
we have this treasure in jars of
clay to show that this all-surpassing
power is from God
and not from us. We are hard
pressed on every side, but not
crushed; perplexed, but not in
despair; persecuted, but not
abandoned; struck down, but
not destroyed. We always
carry around in our body the
death of Jesus, so that the life
of Jesus may also be revealed
in our body.”

MAKE IT PRACTICAL
• How is the way we clean out
A pumpkin like the way
Jesus cleans us out when
we confess our sins?
• What happens when we
hide our light so others
can’t see it?
• What lessons can we learn
from Pumpkins?

MAKE IT PERSONAL
• What can you do to maintain
a clean heart?
• What can you do this week to
have your light shine brighter
for Christ?

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