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Candy Corn Race
Materials Needed
- 2 bags of candy corn
- 6 straws
- 2 cups
- 3 boys and 3 girls
How To Play
Make two teams of 3 boys and three girls. Give each child 1 straw and each team a pile of candy corn and a cup. Teams have one minute to pick up as much candy corn as they can by sucking through the straw and placing the candy into a cup. Kids may not touch the candy corn with their hands. The team with the most candy corn in the cup at the end of the game, wins.
Chiquita Lady Relay Race
Materials Needed
- 2 sturdy paper plates,
- 4 bunches of bananas
- 8-10 players
How To Play
Great game for a lesson on the Fruit of the Spirit, Galatians 5:22-23.
Choose two teams of 4 players each. Players must hold the plate with two bunches of bananas on it and walk across the room and back. Players may use only one hand when walking. They must pass the plate to the next player who will do the same. If the bananas drop, the player must start over. Whichever team gets all four players across the room and back first, wins.
Leftovers Relay
Materials Needed
- 2 large bowls of mashed potatoes
- 2 clear Tupperware containers
- 10 Plastic spoons
Setup
Fill two bowls with mashed potatoes and place them on a table. At the other end of the room place the empty storage containers.
How To Play
Here is a fun Thanksgiving-themed relay race where kids will try to fill their leftovers containers up. You will have two teams of five and give each person with a plastic spoon.
When you say “go” the first person in line will use their spoon to take a scoop of mashed potato and run to the container on the other side of the room. There they will deposit their scoop of potato into the container and run back and tag their teammate and then go tot he end of the line. The teammate will then scoop up come mashed potato and do the same thing.
You can give the players 60 – 90 seconds to run this relay.
Once the game is over measure to see who has the most mashed potato in their storage container.
Pumpkin Bowling
Materials Needed
- Several small pumpkins
- 10 one or two liter soda bottles filled with water
How To Play
This is as simple game that is great for a classroom or for a Fall festival.
Set up the ten soda bottles in a bowling pattern and then mark a line ten feet away. Give each player three pumpkins and they have to roll them and try to knock down all the bottles.
In a class you can play several rounds to decide who has the highest score. Or you can simply give a prize to anyone who knocks all the soda bottles down.
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