The fruit basket is a fun active game for learning new vocab with involves plenty of moment. It's great for students of any age or level, and even better for those students who can't stay still for long. Although the Internet has no reputable or well-established sites that discuss the formal rules of the card game, 'Fruit Salad,' an underground community of players play the fruit salad card game, sometimes referred to as 'Canadian Fruit Salad.' Although it may be a relatively new game, having spread.
In school during the week and at church on Sundays children spend a lot of time sitting and listening, when they would love to be playing and running around. Anytime teaching Bible concepts with an active game, the children will be interested and welcome the change of activity. The following is a simple and quick game which can be used along with a series or lesson about the Fruit of the Spirit. This game will help the children review the list of the Fruit of the Spirit. Try this object lesson in any ministry situation where you need a teaching game about the Fruit of the Spirit. Be sure to browse all our Fruit of the Spirit lessons and resources.
Game Title: Fruit Basket Upset
Target Age Group: 3rd-6th Grade
Target Time: Minimum of 10 minutes to explain and play
Bible Truth Galatians 5:22-23: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
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Target Age Group: 3rd-6th Grade
Target Time: Minimum of 10 minutes to explain and play
Bible Truth Galatians 5:22-23: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Print Friendly Version: Here is the link to [print_link] this object lesson out and use in your children’s ministry.
Game Objective: To always find a seat in the circle and to practice memorizing the Fruit of the Spirit.
Game Set-up:
Game Set-up:
![How How](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-4oLOfKENfI/maxresdefault.jpg)
- Place chairs in a large circle, so there is one less chair than total number of children participating.
- Every child will sit in a chair facing the center of the circle with one child leftover who will begin the game standing in the middle.
How to Play:
- Each seated child will silently choose one Fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness or self-control) without telling anyone else which fruit they have chosen.
- The child standing in the middle of the circle will call out one Fruit of the Spirit, such as “kindness”.
- The seated children who chose “kindness” will then get up from their chairs and move across the circle to any open chair left by another child.
- Meanwhile, the child who called out “kindness” will also try to find an empty seat and sit down.
- Most likely a new child will be leftover to call out the next Fruit of the Spirit of their choosing and the game continues.
- What ties this game to its title is the child standing in middle of the circle always has the option to call out “fruit basket upset”, which means every seated child no matter their chosen fruit will have to get up from their seat to find a new one. This can become a bit chaotic, but you are bound to hear some laughter, too.
- This game with not end with one winner, but there will be a child in the middle of the circle when you decide the game is finished.
Tips:
- To add variety to this game you can change the way the children move across the circle to their new seat. They could run, which is what they will most naturally do, skip, walk, hop on one foot or two, gallop, side step, bear crawl, or crab walk. Your choice of movement would need to be based upon the children in your class, their physical abilities, and what they happen to be wearing that Sunday morning.
- A game is usually more fun when you stop it before they have grown tired and played it for too long. If they are having fun when you say time is up and are disappointed it is over, then they will more likely want to play it again in the future.
Fruit Basket Game For Kids
![Basket Basket](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bA8Vw4F8oc4/maxresdefault.jpg)
Game contributed by: Sally Garnaat
Support Systems Analyst
Dept. of Political Science
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University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721
Fruit Basket Upset
When I was in scouts in the 60's we just to play Fruit Basket Upset. You try to have enough fruit names (or colors or whatever) to have 4-10 in each catagory. Everyone (but the person(s) in the middle) form a large circle. Make sure your catagories are spread out among the circle. Perhaps assign name/color/number/whatever after the circle is formed. The caller calls out a name/color/number/etc and everyone who has that id has to move to a different spot in the circle--an empty space created by someone else who has to change spaces. The person(s) in the middle tries to get to an empty spot before someone else. Sometimes you can call Fruit Basket Upset and *everyone* has to change spots.
When I was in scouts in the 60's we just to play Fruit Basket Upset. You try to have enough fruit names (or colors or whatever) to have 4-10 in each catagory. Everyone (but the person(s) in the middle) form a large circle. Make sure your catagories are spread out among the circle. Perhaps assign name/color/number/whatever after the circle is formed. The caller calls out a name/color/number/etc and everyone who has that id has to move to a different spot in the circle--an empty space created by someone else who has to change spaces. The person(s) in the middle tries to get to an empty spot before someone else. Sometimes you can call Fruit Basket Upset and *everyone* has to change spots.
Zombies in vegas. Variation number one contributed by: Sallie Zeil
Virginia Beach, VA
I think this game goes by the name 'Apple Woman' in one game book I've seen. You have a circle of chairs, one chair less than the number of players. Players are assigned to be an 'apple', 'banana' or 'orange' (you can change this game, of course, to your theme - if it's Halloween you might have 'Pumpkins', 'Bats' and 'Goblins', for instance.)
The person who is 'it' stands in the center of the circle, with all other players sitting down. 'It' calls out the name of a fruit; everybody who is that fruit must jump up, run to another empty chair and sit down. 'It' also tries to get a seat while they are changing seats, so there 'should' be a new 'it' (the person left without a chair) each time. If 'it' wants to, she can have *everybody* get up and change seats by calling 'Fruit Basket Upset' (actually, we yell 'Fruit Salad!' - at Halloween we'd yell 'Trick or Treat!') It's a fun game for Brownies, one that involves a little running but can be played indoors in a large room, since the circle of chairs contains them.
The person who is 'it' stands in the center of the circle, with all other players sitting down. 'It' calls out the name of a fruit; everybody who is that fruit must jump up, run to another empty chair and sit down. 'It' also tries to get a seat while they are changing seats, so there 'should' be a new 'it' (the person left without a chair) each time. If 'it' wants to, she can have *everybody* get up and change seats by calling 'Fruit Basket Upset' (actually, we yell 'Fruit Salad!' - at Halloween we'd yell 'Trick or Treat!') It's a fun game for Brownies, one that involves a little running but can be played indoors in a large room, since the circle of chairs contains them.
Variation number two contributed by: Jane Maddin
1st Orleans Pathfinders
Orleans, Ontario
http://guiding.skl.com/1stOrleans-Path.html
How To Play Fruit Basket Game
I have seen this done with the Four World Centers. First we played it by naming the Girls as the Our Chalet, Our Cabana, Sangam, and Pax Lodge. After they were used to that, we just yelled the country where that particular world center was located. To get everyone running, we yelled, THE WORLD! This was fun and is useful for teaching the locations of the world centers. To make it more difficult for the older girls, you could yell the year they were established, or the order in which they were established, or the person or people who established them (all details that I don't know!) Enjoy!