Welcome to the Jungle: Pumpkin Wars

The seasons here in Sumatra are hot and less rain and hot and lots of rain. That makes it tough for us to know just what season it is back home. Kathi's favorite time of year is the Fall and so she really wanted our PYP Youth Group to do something Fall related.

Her Idea? Pumpkin Chuckin' (Thanks Ashley L.)! We had a friend of ours here go out and find 30 or so pumpkins, which by the way don't really look like the kind of pumpkins we are used too. Green is the new orange as you can see in the pictures below.

We waited until it was nice and dark and then sent each kid out with a pumpkin, after giving them the rules of course:
1) You must open the pumpkin yourself without a knife or tool of any kind.
2) You can only throw the guts of the Pumpkin, not the rind.
3) You can only use what you can pull out of the pumpkin with your hands.

We had three rounds of battle and the kids had a ball! They used the sidewalk as the blunt instrument for which to slam their pumpkin. They then took the guts and hurled them at one another. An orange storm ensued.

There were seeds, guts and rinds everywhere. The kids were covered from head to toe with pumpkin insides. The insides were definitely orange because the kids were covered in it. In fact most of the parents commented that their cars now smell like pumpkin. If that doesn't scream Fall I don't know what does.

It was a lot of fun and we really enjoyed watching the kids have it out with one another. We can't wait until our next get together. Kathi always has a fun idea for the kids.

Let's get ready to RUMBLE!