Thanksgiving Ideas – 5 Kernels of Corn

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Thanksgiving
Ideas – 5
Kernels of
Corn
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The cornucopia, also known in
English as the Horn of Plenty, is a
symbol of prosperity and
affluence, dating back to the 5th
century BC. It was often filled with
the fruits of the harvest which
included corn, fruits, and other
vegetables. Corn itself was one of
the staple foods of the Pilgrims
and early settlers. The native
Americans taught them how to
bury a fish with the kernel of corn
to act as fertilizer and speed its
growth.

After the first year of the
Plymouth colony, only half of the
102 settlers were still alive. Times
were hard. At a later harvest,
after a particularly tough winter it
was said that each person had
only 5 kernels of corn to live on
each day. Yet they still gave God
thanks in spite of the difficult
circumstances. Here are a variety
of games using corn kernels.

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What You Need
Dried Corn Kernels or popcorn
– you can get dried feed corn
like that sold for bird feeders or
unpopped popcorn will also
work.

Games using Corn
Chopsticks and corn – Using a
pair of chopsticks and a couple
shallow bowls or saucers, each
youth is given one minute to
move corn from one bowl to the
other using only the chopsticks.
Only one hand can be used to
hold the chopsticks. The youth to
transfer the most corn wins.

Corn and Straws Relay – Divide
the youth into teams and give
every person on a team a plastic
straw and a paper cup. Place a
piece of corn in the first team
member’s cup. The youth must
create a vacuum in the straw to
pick up the corn and place it into
the next person’s cup. First team
to get the corn into the last
person’s cup wins. If the corn is
dropped on the floor, the team
must start completely over at the
beginning.

Corn Bocce – On a smooth
surface like a table, one youth
acts as the referee, sliding out the
first piece of corn. He then marks
this piece with a toothpick.
Contestants take turns sliding 4
different pieces as close to the
referee’s mark as they can. The
referee determines which piece is
the closest, awarding that youth
or team a point. Play until
someone gets ten points

Corn Catch – You’ll need one
cornucopia or basket for each team,
one bag of corn per team, and a belt
or length of rope for each team. Use
the rope or belt to secure the
cornucopia around the waist of one
player per team. Have the team
member who is wearing the
cornucopia stand about 7 to 10 feet
away from the players who will be
throwing the corn. The player
wearing the cornucopia may move
around to try and catch the corn as it
is thrown without using their hands
to deflect the corn in any way. Once
everyone has thrown the corn, take
the cornucopia and count the corn
inside. The youth with the most corn
wins.

Corn Foosball – Have two youth
stand at either end of a large table.
One youth throws corn (or a
plastic bag of it) to the other end
of the table, and the other youth
must block it from going through
and making a goal. Use a dry
sponge for blocking making sure it
is one that will not scratch your
table.
Corn Race – Using a drinking straw,
the youth must blow a kernel of
corn across a table. First to blow it
from one end to the other wins.

Corn Pitching – Players takes turns
pitching ten corn kernels, one at a
time, into a bowl from a set
distance. You might choose to have
various bowls of different sizes and
at different distances. Display the
points based upon difficulty. Keep
score of how many kernels end up
in the various bowls. The winner is
the one with the highest score after
three rounds.
Corn Straw Relay – Race to see
who could move the most corn
from the table into a bowl in sixty
seconds using only a single straw.

Kernel Relay – Mark a starting line
and a finish line with masking tape
on the floor roughly 15 feet apart.
Set an empty bowl for each player
at the finish line and a bag of corn
and a spoon at the starting line.
Have each player stand at a bag of
corn and take the spoon in hand,
placing a single kernel on the
spoon. The youth will then
carefully race a piece of corn to an
empty bowl at the finish line,
trying not to let the corn fall off
the spoon.

Each player will continue to race
from the bag of corn to the bowl
to see how many pieces of corn
she or he can get into the bowl
within the allotted time of one
minute. If a player drops a kernel
from the spoon, that youth must
then run back to the bag of corn
and get another piece to start
over again.

Odds or Evens – Each player starts
out with the same number of corn
kernels. Players rotate about the
room pairing up with others.
When they find a partner, one
player hides a few kernels of corn
in his hand. The other player must
guess if the number of corn
kernels is odd or even. If guessed
correctly, the player can add the
kernels to his own collection.
Players take turns hiding and
guessing, until one player has all
the corn or until a specified time
limit!

Turkey Feed – Mix a few pieces
of candy corn in with a bowl of
corn kernels. Blindfold players
and have them retrieve the
candy corn from the bowl within
a designate amount of time. (As
a gross out variation, have them
retrieve it with their bare feet
then eat it.) The player that
retrieves the most candy corn in
the designated time limit wins.

Where’s the Corn? – Line up
three plastic cups out on a
tabletop in front of a youth. Place
a single piece of corn under one
of the cups, allowing the player
to see which cup the corn is
under. Begin to change the cups’
formation around for five to ten
seconds. The youth then must try
to remember which cup is hiding
the corn and will continue to play
and collect corn until he or she
chooses the wrong cup. Give the
earned corn to that player, and
continue on with the next player
until every youth has won pieces
of corn.

TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
• In these games are you
someone who plays it
safe or shoots for the
moon?
• Was the voyage to the
new world by the pilgrims
a safe bet or a big risk?
• What were some of the
potential risks? Potential
rewards?
• What were some of your
strategies in these
games?

MAKE IT SPIRITUAL
Some people play it safe in life.
Others take risks. Most of the time
we evaluate if the potential reward
is worth the risk. For the Pilgrims,
coming to America was a great risk.
But the lure of religious freedom
was worth the risk. Many of them
lost their lives in pursuit of the
opportunity to freely worship God
as their conscience dictated. After
the first year of the Plymouth
colony, only half of the 102 settlers
were still alive. Times were hard.
Later during a particularly tough
winter is was said that each person
had only 5 kernels of corn to live on
each day.

Yet in spite of their hardships,
they gave thanks to God. Eternal
blessings outweighed the
physical ones. There may be
times when we do not have
much, but to have a relationship
with God is worth any cost and
any hardship! They made a
choice, a decision to pursue God
at any cost.

MAKE IT PRACTICAL
• What risks are worth the
reward of knowing Jesus as
Lord and living for him?
• Is Christianity a risk? Why or
why not?
MAKE IT PERSONAL
• Has God called you to do
something out of the
ordinary?
• To what has God called you?
• What are you willing to risk for
religious freedom?

CLOSING ACTIVITY
Just as a single grain of corn has
the potential for an abundant
harvest, even one decision for
God can lead to a harvest of
blessings in your life. What choice
is God calling you to make today?
Take a kernel of corn home as a
reminder of a decision God has
called you to make for him
regardless of the risk.

SCRIPTURES
• 1 Thessalonians 5:18 –
“give thanks in all
circumstances; for this is
God’s will for you in Christ
Jesus.”
• Ephesians 5:20 – “always
giving thanks to God the
Father for everything, in
the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ.”
• Philippians 4:6 – “Do not
be anxious about anything,
but in every situation, by
prayer and petition, with
thanksgiving, present your
requests to God.”

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