Halloween provides a unique opportunity to share the message of salvation with children through fun and engaging activities. This collection of ideas offers creative ideas that blend the excitement of the season with meaningful lessons, helping children understand God's love in a relatable way. Let’s make this Halloween a time for faith, joy, and community!
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Instead of traveling from door to door to get a treat, knock on a door and give the person who answers a treat. Dress up or not, but use this time to visit those who need a little smile and a little encouragement.
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Present the Bible and provide treats and gifts that correspond with the Bible stories. This idea could be used to invite the community in or as a simple Sunday School activity. You could also do this in a preschool or private school setting.
This is how it works:
At each station, have people dressed up to match the Bible story that they will tell. After a short overview of the story, give the children individually wrapped packages of each item to represent the story. Guide the children through each of the stations.
Stories and Corresponding Treats and Gifts:
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Dear God,
As I carve my pumpkin help me say this prayer:
Open my mind so I can learn about You;
(Cut the top of the pumpkin)
Take away all my sin and forgive me for the wrong things I do.
(Clean out the inside)
Open my eyes so Your love I will see;
(Cut the eyes out in heart shapes)
I'm so sorry for turning up my nose to all you've given me.
(Cut a nose in the shape of a cross)
Open my ears so your word I will hear.
(Cut the ears shaped like the Bible)-we did rectangles
Open my mouth so I can tell others You're near
(cut the mouth in the shape of a fish)
Let Your light shine in all I say and do! Amen.
(Place a candle inside and light it)
Get ready for a Halloween experience that emphasizes faith with our Pumpkin Gospel Packet! This resource provides a word-for-word script for engaging pumpkin carving activities, delightful songs, and practical tips to share the message of salvation in a way that’s perfect for kids.
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Supplies: Partially pre-carved pumpkin with a cross carved in one side.
How many of you have been to a pumpkin patch? I visited a pumpkin patch yesterday and brought a pumpkin for us to carve.
With the pumpkin on the floor and carved section away from the audience, dramatically try to get the pumpkin from the floor onto the table to carve it. Pretend it is too heavy and the table is too tall. Try to swing it onto the table but instead swinging around in circles and miss the table. Add other clown silliness. With the pumpkin finally on the table, begin to carve it with carved side away from audience.
I love that God has stories He wants to share with us and His stories are everywhere. God shared a story with me about pumpkins. He showed me that we are like pumpkins. We look so nice on the outside, but inside we are all yucky! Show guts of pumpkin. But when we ask Jesus in our hearts, He volunteers to take the yucky slimy stuff out, Jesus removes the seeds of envy and lying and jealousy. Show seeds. After Jesus gets it all cleaned out He brings a bright light into our lives.
When finished placed a battery-operated candle inside the pumpkin. Jesus' light is so bright that His light shines not only in us, but through us. Dim the lights, turn the pumpkin around allowing the audience to see the cross carved in the pumpkin.
Encourage audience to carve a cross in their pumpkin for people to know that Jesus lives in their house.
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I am a Jack O' Lantern
My light will shine so bright
For I am a Christian pumpkin
My symbols tell what's right.
My nose is like the cross
on which our Savior died
To set us free from sin
We need no longer hide.
My mouth is like a fish
The whole wide world to show
That Christians live in this house
And love their Savior so!
The story starts at Christmas
My eyes are like the star
That shone on Baby Jesus
And wise men saw from far
My color it is orange
Just like the big bright sun
That rose on Easter Day
Along with Gods' own Son.
And so on Halloween
Let's set our pumpkins out
And tell the trick or treaters
What Gods' love is all about!
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Being a human being is like being a pumpkin. God lifts you up,
takes you in, and washes all the dirt off of you.
He opens you up, touches you deep inside
and scoops out all the yucky stuff–
including the seeds of doubt, hate, greed, etc.
Then He carves you a new smiling face and puts His light inside
you to shine for all the world to see.
Discover a variety of holiday activities that keep Jesus at the heart of your celebrations! From crafts to family traditions, these ideas will help you create meaningful moments for your family or classroom that focus on the true reason for the season.
Supplies: Pumpkin, large bowl, newspapers, sharp knife, spoon, candle, matches, Bible
Open with prayer and share “Every Halloween, people carve pumpkins to make jack-o-lanterns. We’re going to carve a pumpkin too, but our pumpkin is very special because it is going to teach us about God."
"You aren't a pumpkin, but all of us are something like one. God picks you from the patch, brings you in, and washes all the dirt off of you." Talk about how a pumpkin is like us: it has an outside and an inside. The outside is what people see. The inside is like our soul or our heart.
"A pumpkin left to itself will soon rot and die. We will die someday too."
Carve out eyes and a small "o" shaped mouth. As you make the holes and pull out the pieces of rind, ask the child, "What do you see inside?" (yucky stuff). "This is what we look like to others and what we are like when are hearts are not changed by Jesus. Our hearts are full of evil called sin (Ecclesiastes 9:3). Sin is all of the bad choices that we make that makes God sad. How can we get rid of this icky stuff?"
"God is the only one who can change our heart. But in order for God to change our heart we must become open to him." Carve an opening in the top of the pumpkin big enough to put your hand through. You might want to quote Revelation 3:20: Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.
Put in your hand and pull out the insides. "God scoops out all the yucky stuff inside of us. He removes the seeds of disobedience, impatience, disrespect, hatefulness, and whatever else we have in our heart." Talk about the cross and how Jesus was willing to become messy for us, so that we might be clean. Ezekiel 36:25b-27: I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
"But if we leave a pumpkin with just the insides taken out, then it's just hollow. We need to have a light inside that will truly make us alive! Jesus said, 'I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.'" Add a light to the inside of the pumpkin. "When Jesus lives inside of you, you can glow! You will want to make good choices because that makes God happy. You will want to help others and to tell other people about your Friend and Lord."
At this point you might want to carve the mouth into a smile! "God carves you a new smiling face and puts His light inside of you to shine for all the world to see."
"When Jesus comes into our hearts, we become new creations, just as our pumpkin has become a new creation." Read 2 Corinthians 4:7-10
Read Matthew 5:14-16. Then light a candle and place it inside the pumpkin. Turn off the room lights and have everyone stand or sit so they can see the light coming through the pumpkin’s face.
Discuss how God wants our light to shine before others. Read 2 Cor. 4:6
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