Here is what we are doing with Swashbuckler. I will keep your input for the next edition. Below is a detailed description of the game and the sheet that went home with the kids. Feel free to use it if anyone is interested.
Pirate Challenge
Object: To have children learn Biblical responses to counter the secular world view.
Music: Monkey Island Game cut #20 (Intro) and #9 (background).
Materials: One line marked on the floor. Two plastic swords. The child with the sword has to stay behind the line to keep the children from charging the swashbuckler and to keep them out of contact range. The adult pirate should dress up to the hilt. He should act boisterous mean, as opposed to truly mean. When he is defeated he should cry out like he has been stabbed, and maybe even fall down.
Choose four child players and allow them to dress up as pirates or sword fighters. Use two plastic swords. Give one to the pirate and give one to the first player. The game is played as each player for himself and is single elimination.
Opening Narration: What you are about to witness is the a battle of two swords. (Music intro starts) The sword of the bad pirate and the sword of the Word of God which is sharper than any two edged sword, able to separate
The adult pirate enters after the music introduction and says, Ahoy Mateys, whose gunna walk the plank taday?
(Other comments to be made at the appropriate time. Four for shark bait! Well, shiver me timbers its a wee lassie (laddie)).
Pirate: Un guard! He and the child raise their swords. The adult pirate will make a statement that is from a secular worldview. The child must answer the statement with a Christian worldview. The appropriate Christian responses will be given to the children in the form of a handout to be studied at home.
If the defender does not give the correct response in the allotted time, the swashbuckler commands that he walk the plank. The way to say walk the plank needs to be memorized so that it does not sound harsh.
Options are:
You may walk the plank.
I hope you can swim.
Its shark feeding time.
Here sharky sharky sharky. Come and get it.
You wont stay dry today
I hope you brought your ear plugs.
Itll be a bad hair day for you.
I hope you dont have on cement shoes.
After the swashbuckler tells the child to walk the plank, the soundman plays the splash sound effect.
A ROCC Hop, not the pirate, gives the child a super cyber coin and the child returns to his seat.
If the child gives the correct answer, he remains standing, and lets the next child play. Play continues until only one child remains and he is the Pirate Buster Extraordinaire!
Pirate Challenge A new game at Kids ROCC
Parents, starting on Sunday February 10th, we will start a new game at Kids ROCC. In order to win, your child must know the appropriate response to the Pirates challenge. Please have your child learn this handout at home. We will play Pirate Challenge for a number of weeks starting on Sunday, February 10th. Please help your child (children) learn the appropriate response to each of the pirates statements. When practicing at home, the parent should read the Pirates line and the child should respond with the childrens line. It is not necessary for the child to learn the scripture reference. It is included only in case you may want to read the verses in context or discuss them with your child.
Pirate:        I believe in God! I do well for myself.
Child: You believe in God, you do well, the demons also believe and tremble!
James 2:19
Pirate:        There are many paths that lead to God.
Child: Jesus said, I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the father but by me!
John 14:6
Pirate:        I am wise. I am so wise that I dont fear nothing or no body!
Child:        Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Proverbs 9:10
Pirate:        Come, serve me in my house and I will make you a ruler and make you rich with
silver and gold.
Child:        I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of
the wicked. Psalm 84:10
Pirate: You should do what important people-like movie stars and professional athletes
do. They knows best.
Child: We must obey God, rather than men. Acts 5:29
Pirate:        God did not create people! They evolved under water and climbed onto dry land
and became human beings.
Child:        God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him.
Genesis 1:27
Pirate:        Hey laddie (lassie), you dont have to do what your parents say. What do they
        know?
Child:        Children, obey your parents for this is pleasing to the Lord. Eph 6:1
Pirate:        You should get even with that guy. Hes always so mean to you.
Child: Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, and do good to those who hate
you. Matt 5:44
Pirate:        Ah come on. So I said a little nasty word. Its only a word. Whats the big deal?
Child: The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable. But the mouth of the wicked
what is perverse. Proverbs 10:32