Tap a bird to chase it off. Tap a wilting seedling to water it. Tap the thorns to pull them up.
How to play
The farmer walks the field and scatters his seed everywhere: on the trodden path, on the rocky ground, among the thorns and on the good soil, just as in the parable. Then the season begins. Birds swoop down on the seed, most of all on the path: tap them to chase them away. Seedlings on the rocky ground spring up fast and wilt in the sun: tap them to water them. Thorns keep growing back around the young wheat: tap them to pull them up.
At harvest, wheat on good soil yields a hundredfold, on rocky or thorny ground sixtyfold, on the path thirtyfold. Three seasons, each a little busier than the last.
The parable
And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.Matthew 13:4 (BSB)
But when the sun rose, the seedlings were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.Matthew 13:6 (BSB)
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.Matthew 13:7 (BSB)
Still other seed fell on good soil and produced a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.Matthew 13:8 (BSB)
Jesus explains it a few verses later: the seed is the word, and the soils are the ways people hear it (Matthew 13:18–23).
Good for
A Sunday school lesson on the parables, a quick game with the grandchildren, and a one-minute reminder of what to tend.