Materials
This is a high energy game adapted for the Holiday. All that is needed is an open space where kids and youth can run around.
Set-up
Have kids get in groups of three. Two of the kids hold hands so that there is an open space in the middle btween them, as a hollow tree. The remaining participant stands …
Materials
Large picture of a turkey. (If you aren’t very artistic, use an OHP and a coloring book image and project it on to a large piece of posterboard.) Leave a gap for a missing large tailfeather.
Activity
Blindfold one child / youth and have them attach the feather to the turkey. Play this game for Thanksgiving in the same …
“It was early in the morning in another country. Exhausted, I awoke around 3. The name of someone I loved dearly flashed into my mind. It was like an electric shock. Instantly, I was wide awake. I knew there would be no more sleep for me the rest of the night. So I lay there and prayed for the one …
It’s the day before Thanksgiving, and the butcher is just locking up when a man begins pounding on the front door.
“Please let me in,” says the man desperately. “I forgot to buy a turkey, and my wife will kill me if I don’t come home with one.”
“Okay,” says the butcher. “Let me see what I have left.” He …
The Turkey shot out of the oven
and rocketed in to the air;
It knocked every plate off the table
and partly demolished a chair.
It ricocheted into a corner
and burst with a deafening boom,
Then splattered all over the kitchen,
completely obscuring the room.
It stuck to the walls and the windows,
it totally coated the floor,
There …
Squirrels had overrun 3 small churches in a town. After much prayer, the pastor of the first church determined that the animals were predestined to be there. Who was he to interfere with God’s will? he reasoned. Soon the squirrels multiplied.
The pastor of second church decided that could not harm the squirrels, so that humanely trapped them and set …
Materials
1. Pumpkin
2. Cold -cooked spaghetti
3. Candy
Preparation
1. Cut a circle in the top of the pumpkin and remove the stem and set it aside.
2. Scoop out the pumpkin and set the seeds aside. (They can be roasted for a great snack)
3. Draw a face on the pumpkin with a black marker pen.
4. Boil …
Materials
1. Several Carved pumpkins with different size mouths or with different size holes in the top.
As an alternative, have a watermelon seed toss on a hot summer afternoon. Cut off the ends of the watermelon. Hollow it out and then pit it back together with toothpicks. Carve funny faces in the watermelons as you would a pumpkin.
2. …
In Athens, Paul was disturbed by the culture around him. (Acts 17:16). But instead of coming against it, he used things from that culture to present the gospel. (Acts 17:22-31).
Materials
1. A pumpkin (instructions for preparing it are below)
2. A candle or flashlight to go inside the pumpkin
3. Lighter or matches if you are using a candle…
Materials
A variety of scary Halloween masks
Activity
Put on the various masks and make threatening gestures.
Are you afraid of me?
What about this one?
Why are you afraid / not afraid?
Discussion
At Halloween, children often dress up in scary costumes for fun. Sometimes we hide behind a corner and try to scare a friend. We aren’t afraid …