Encourage kids to share their faith! Play this harvest relay group game to help kids think Jesus’ words in Luke 10:2.

Prepare for the Harvest Relay

You’ll Need:

• a large tub
• cold water
• cranberries
• apples
• plastic spoons
• two identical containers
• timer
• a scale

Easy Prep:

• At one end of the room, fill a large tub with cold water, cranberries, and a few apples.
• At the other end of the room, place two identical containers.

Harvest Relay

Play the Game

Split the class into two teams, and tell each team which container is theirs. Give each child a plastic spoon.

Say: Each team has 5 minutes to make its container the heaviest. On “go,” you’ll run to the tub on the other side of the room, one at a time. Then you’ll use your spoons (no hands) to scoop cranberries or apples. You’ll run back to your container and dump in the fruit you got. Then the next person in line will go. If you drop fruit as you’re walking, you must pick it up with the spoon. 

Ask if kids have questions, and clarify directions as needed. Set your timer for 5 minutes and have kids begin. Kids will learn that apples increase the weight in their team’s bucket, but they’re harder to remove and use up more time.

When time is up, call “Stop!”

Talk About It

Use the scale to weigh the containers at the end of the relay. Then let kids wash and eat the fruit. Ask:

• How easy or difficult was it to get the cranberries in the bucket?
• How about the apples?

Read aloud Luke 10:2.

Say: God wants us to go into his harvest—which is the world—and help others know his love. When we share with others about God, sometimes they might slip away just as the cranberries that rolled off the spoons. Sometimes it takes more time and effort to share with our friends, just as the apples took more work.

Ask: How can we work together to share God’s love with people?

Close in prayer, asking God to help kids share their faith with others.

Lori Resch

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