Thanksgiving Party Activity - Kernel Cornucopia

Thanksgiving
Party
Activity -
Kernel
Cornucopia
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Introduction
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
early settlers. Here are a variety
of games using corn kernels…
you can get dried feed corn like
that sold for bird feeders or
unpopped popcorn will also
work.

Game Materials
• Dried Corn Kernels or
popcorn
• Candy Corn
• Bowls

Game Description
• Turkey Feed – Turkeys are
often fed corn to prepare
them as guests at
Thanksgiving.
• Corn Pitching – How
accurately can you toss
corn kernels into bowls
• Odds and Evens – Can you
guess if there are odd or
even numbers of kernels
are in your partners
hand?

Game Play
Turkey Feed
1. Fill a bowl with dried corn
kernels and add several pieces
of candy corn.
2. Blindfolded 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.
3. The player that retrieves the
most candy corn in the
designated time limit wins.

Corn Pitching
1. 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.
2. Keep score of how many
kernels end up in the various
bowls.
3. The winner is the one with
the highest score after three
rounds.

Odds or Evens
1. Each player starts out with the
same number of corn kernels.
2. Players rotate about the room
pairing up with others.
3. When they find a partner, one
player hides a few kernels of in
his hand.
4. 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.
5. Players take turns hiding and
guessing, until one player has
all the corn or until a specified
time limit!

Discussion
• 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?

Application
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.

Conclusion
• Has God called you to do
something out of the
ordinary?
• To what has God called
you?
• What risks are worth the
reward of knowing Jesus
as Lord and living for him?

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.

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