Object Lesson - Frozen Chosen?

Object Lesson
- Frozen
Chosen?
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Beat the hot days of summer
with a frozen T-shirt contest for
your youth. The objective is
simple – Unfold a frozen t-shirt
and wear it. But it’s not quite as
easy as it sounds. It can be
played as a team effort or you
can have one frozen tee for each
youth. Add a few additional ice
games to get things moving
before you have the final T-shirt
thaw.

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Games Using Ice
• Back to Back Ice Relay – Split
the youth into two teams.
Freeze a water balloon for each
team and just before the game
starts, remove the balloon so
you are left with a ball of ice.
The first two people in line on
each team have to put the ball
of ice between both of their
backs and walk to a designated
finish line and then back to the
team. If they drop it, they must
go back to the beginning and
start over again. First team to
complete the relay wins.

• Build with Ice – Freeze and pop
out a bunch of ice cubes. Use
hot water to make clearer ice.
Shake a little salt on the ice to
act as glue as the salt melts the
ice a little to help the cold cubes
stick to one another. Construct
creations by salting and adding
cubes to create ice people,
igloos, and other shapes.
• Cold Head – Place one ice cube
on your head and the other on a
competitors head. No hands
allowed. First youth to drop the
ice cube is eliminated. Continue
until you have one champion.
Variation – place the ice cube on
the back of their necks.

• Ice Cube Melt – In this game,
the objective is for the youth to
fill a glass with water to the top
using only the dropping water
from melted ice. They may only
use their hands to melt the ice.
Only one ice cube can be
melted at a time.
• Ice Cube Melting Race – Give
each child an ice cube and see
who can get it to melt the
fastest in their hands. Working
in pairs or teams is best, so
when a child’s hands get too
cold, they can pass the ice cube
off to a teammate.

• Ice Cube Melt Relay – One
Large ice cube per team (the ice
cubes should be the same size).
Divide the youth into two equal
teams. Give each team an ice
cube. The first player on each
team holds and rubs the ice
cube until their hands get too
cold. Then they pass it to the
next person on their team, and
so on, until the ice cube is
completely melted. The first
team to completely melt their
ice cube wins the game.

• Ice Cube Transfers – Fill a
bucket with water and lots of
ice cubes. Teams try to remove
ice cubes from the bucket using
only their feet. Make it more
challenging by putting on a blind
fold.
• Ice Puzzles – Get some small
lego sets with the instructions
to create the object. Freeze all
the pieces individually in ice
cubes (It’s ok if longer pieces
stick out of the ice cube). First
team to thaw the pieces and
follow the instruction to create
the lego set wins.

• Marbles in Ice – Place a marble
into each one of your ice cube
trays’ sections. Fill with water as
usual and freeze. Repeat this
process until you have
anywhere between 30 and 100
marbles. The more marbles you
have, the longer the game will
last and the more fun it will be.
Give each youth an equal-sized
cup and tell them that
whomever fills their cup full of
marbles first wins the game.
Alternately, you can deem the
youth with the highest number
of marbles the winner. Then, let
the youth decide how to melt
the ice cubes and retrieve the
frozen marble

• Musical Ice Pass – This is a
variation of musical chairs, with
players passing an ice cube to
music. When the music stops
whoever is holding the ice cube
is eliminated. Make it more fun
by freezing a giant water
balloon to replace the ice cubes.
As a variation, give those
eliminated a small ice cube. If
any youth who was eliminated
can use their hands to get the
ice to melt before the game
finishes they can join back into
the game.

• Pick up ice cubes - Fill a
paddling pool up with water and
add ice cubes. Each person has
to try and remove the ice cubes
using their feet. Count out how
many ice cubes each
team/person is able to remove.
• Thaw it – Freeze a coin or any
other small item in a block of
ice. First team to unthaw the
item without putting it in their
mouth or hitting it with another
object is the winner.

• Thread the Spoon – The day
before the game, cut some yarn
or string into long segments,
allowing about 4 feet of yarn
per team member. If in doubt,
always make your yarn longer
than necessary. Tie one end of
one piece of yarn to the end of
one spoon. Do this for each
team. Put the spoons (with the
yarn attached) in the FREEZER
to freeze. For even more fun,
run the string through one or
more ice cube trays so that
there are ice cubes frozen along
the string as well. You may want
to dip the spoons in water a few
times to add a little ice build-up.

When you’re ready to play,
divide the youth into equal size
teams. Hand the spoon to the
first player and instruct them to
put the spoon down their shirt,
through pants legs (or skirts)
and out by their feet. The fact
that the spoons are cold will be
apparent very quickly. The first
person should also be instructed
to hold the end of the yarn
while the rest of the team
repeats the threading process.

NOTE: the spoon does not, and
should not, go in undergarments;
only inside of shirts, slacks, etc.
The object of the game is to see
which team can “thread the
spoon” from the first person to
the last. When done, the entire
team will be stitched together!

Main Teaching Game – Frozen T-
shirts
RESOURCES
• Gallon Freezer Bags
• You’ll need one t-shirt for
each team or participant.
Larger shirts are best and if
possible you want them all
to be the same size.
Sometimes t-Shirts can be
torn or stretched in the
process.
• Water
• Freezer

PREPARATION
• Soak each t-shirt in about 2
cups of water then wring it
out. If there is too much water
it will take too long to thaw.
• Once the shirt has been wrung
out, nicely fold each one into a
square that will fit inside the
freezer bag. Once you have
folded it flat, press it down
again to try to remove even
more water.

• Seal each bag, and place each
t-shirt in the freezer so that
each lies flat.
• Let them freeze for a couple of
days for best results.
• If you need to transport the
shirts to another venue, place
them in a cooler filled with ice
so they stay frozen.

WHAT TO DO
• Tell the youth you are going to
have a real icebreaker game.
• If you play by teams, don’t tell
the youth what you are going to
do and instead ask for a
volunteer from each team. (You
don’t want more than 4 or 5 on
a team or it gets too crowded
and some youth end up sitting
on the sideline and watching.)
• Give each youth (or team) a
frozen tee.

• The objective is to use
whatever means possible to
thaw the t-shirt enough so that
it they can put it on. (They’ll sit
on them like hatching an egg,
throw them on the ground, rub
them with hands, roll them,
stick them on bare arms and
legs to use their body heat to
warm them up enough to
unfold them and put them on.)
They’ll be worn out trying to
get them unfolded enough to
wear.
• The first person to get the t-
shirt on wins! Heads and arms
must be completely in the t-
shirt for normal wear to be
declared the winner.

RULES OF THE GAME
• You might want to set some
rules such as:
• You cannot place the t-shirt in
water or any other liquids
• You cannot microwave it or
use any appliance or
machinery to heat it up.
• You cannot leave the game
area
• You are not allowed to use any
sharp object on the t-shirt

TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
Like many things in life, this game
takes a lot of effort. It’s the same
with building relationships. If you
want to have relationships that
aren’t so cold and are more warm
and friendly, it takes work. “Cold
hearted” and “Hard – hearted”
are terms we commonly use to
describe how youth relate to
others. We also often talk about
the warmth of friendship.

• What happened during the
game?
• What were the difficulties
encountered?
• What made these tasks
difficult?
• How difficult was it to melt
the ice?
• What did you try that didn’t
work so well?
• Did you get frustrated? Why
or why not?
• What was the most effective
strategy?

• What could you do differently
to be more successful if you
played again?
• Did you ever feel like giving
up? What are some things
that you have tried to do that
ended up being so difficult
that you gave up?
• What is something that was
difficult but you kept at it
until you got it done?
• What happened as a result?
• What lesson did you learn?

MAKE IT SPIRITUAL
• How is following God like playing
this game?
• When we become Christians, are
we able to put on holiness right
away?
• Do you ever get frustrated
thinking God isn’t working fast
enough for you?
• How do you respond to God
when He isn’t working fast
enough?
• Have you ever gotten so
frustrated with God, and
impatient that you tried to rush
things in your own way? What
happened?

In the Bible, Cold and Hot are
used to describe the relationship
of a person with God. But God’s
greatest criticism is not to a
person is either hot or cold, but to
someone that is lukewarm. In
Revelation, God refers to the
church of Laodicia in the same
terms.
“I know your works; you are
neither cold nor hot”. “Would that
you were cold or hot! So, because
you are lukewarm, neither cold
nor hot, I will spew you out of my
mouth” (Revelation 3:15-16).

MAKE IT PRACTICAL
Laodicia had no water supply of
its own, so an aqueduct was built
to bring water to the city from hot
springs. By the time the water
reached Laodicia is was neither
therapeutically hot nor
refreshingly cold. And because of
it, one of the strongest words in
Revelation is used, emesai,
meaning to vomit.
• What actions of a Christian
might be described as Hot?
Cold? Lukewarm?

• How does a lukewarm
Christian behave?
• Why is lukewarm worse than
being either hot or cold?
• What is an area of your
devotion to God that could be
described as Lukewarm?
• If we are cold or lukewarm,
how can we become “On Fire”
in our devotion for God?

MAKE IT PERSONAL
• What can you do this week
to become more fired up
about your relationship with
God?
• What can you do this week
to share the warmth of
Christ with someone?

SCRIPTURE
• Revelation 3:15-16 - “I
know your works; you are
neither cold nor hot”.
“Would that you were cold
or hot! So, because you are
lukewarm, neither cold nor
hot, I will spew you out of
my mouth”
• 2 Peter 3:9 (NIV) - ”The Lord
is not slow in keeping his
promise, as some
understand slowness.
Instead he is patient with
you, not wanting anyone to
perish, but everyone to
come to repentance.”

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