You then play the game show host and read the interesting facts that were provided and ask the students to guess who it is. How to Play: Make a simple sheet for each student.
Make sure they write their name at the top. All you need to have is the numbers one through five with lines next to them for them to write on. Give each student a sheet of paper and instructions to write five things on their paper. The items they write can be true or false. Collect the sheets from each student. You can have a prize for any student who fools everyone, and no one guesses correctly. Cupcake Decorating Contest Materials Needed: For this game, all you will need is cupcakes and supplies to decorate them with.
How to Play: Purchase or bake enough cupcakes for each player to have one. You will want to have extra in case there is a visitor. You also need plenty of decorating supplies. Be creative and come up with some ingenious decorations for them to use. We may need to make them yourself. Create a list of prize categories. Some examples could be most creative, most colorful, craziest, or most artistic.
Have a prize for each category. Recruit enough judges for each category. Possibly two or three. Assign a time limit for the decorating. Jenga Trivia Materials Needed: Your students will be brushing up on the Bible knowledge to play this classic game with a biblical spin. How to Play: Set up several tables with Jenga towers. Create a large number of trivia questions. Divide your students into teams. The object of the game is to answer the trivia question correctly.
If you answer the question correctly, you are safe and do not have to remove a piece of your tower. If you answer your question incorrectly, then you must remove a piece from your Jenga tower. The last tower standing wins the game. Speedy Yahtzee Tournament Materials needed: This is a perfect game for a youth camp or lock-in night. How to Play: Collect enough Yahtzee games for each one of your groups.
Divide your youth group into small teams. You will start each group playing their games simultaneously. They must move fast. You will have a playoff where the winners of each table then play each other. You can do your playoff one-on-one. If your group is larger, set your tables up with multiple winners in the second round.
The winners of the second round well then play each other for the third round. The last two players square off against each other to see who the Yahtzee grand champion will be. Make a cheesy trophy to give to the winner. How to Play: Purchase enough balloons for your group. We will need two plastic laundry baskets or buckets. They will keep their water balloons in one and an empty one on the other side for them to fill. Divide your students in half, and then line them up, facing each other on the grassy field.
The object of the game is to toss water balloons from one player to another. At the end of the game, the most water balloons in the basket wins. What Comes Next? How to Play: The students start with their Bibles closed. Then you give them the name of the book of the Bible you will read from and tell them what the radius is. For example, you plan to read starting in John Then you would tell them you are reading from John 13, 14, or Assign a time limit for each reading.
They will search the three chapters to find where you are reading. Once they determine where you are reading, they should start reading with you. This shows they have found the correct place. This game helps your students learn to move easily through the Bible on their own. How to play: Have enough plastic Easter eggs for each team member to have a turn. You want the eggs to be empty, so they are harder to keep on the teaspoon.
You will need an egg carton for each team and some spoons. Place the egg cartons on a table. Divide your youth group into teams and give each team an egg carton, eggs, and spoons. The object of the game is to transfer all the eggs by spoon to the egg carton without dropping or touching with their hands. A youth leader places the egg on their spoon to start them off.
If they drop the egg en route to the table, they return and start again. Assign a time limit and let the students start. The first team to fill their carton wins. How to Play: Collect enough paper towel rolls for each team. Purchase enough paper plates for each youth to have a shot at the target. Cut a hole out of the center large enough to fit easily over the paper towel roll.
Purchase enough paper plates for each player to be able to have a shot at the target. Assign a point amount to each plate and have enough team leaders to keep score. Divide your youth group into teams and start the game. Each youth should have the opportunity to toss their paper plate at the target, trying to get a ringer.
You can play a quick round and give each student two chances to through their plate, or they can have several runs at it. The most points wins the game. The Flying Saucers Materials Needed: You will need paper plates, string, some chairs, and ping pong balls. How to Play: You will string your targets across an open space and will be moving. Play the game inside or outside. Cut holes in the center of your paper plates, and punch two holes on the top edge of the plate and then two more on the bottom edge of the plate.
Use the string to thread through the plate on both sides. String 4 plates across with 12 inches between each plate. Next, tie one side of the strings top and bottom to the back of a chair. Next, stretch the string tight so that the plates are flat. Your target is now ready. Repeat until you have enough for each team. You can play this game in two ways. First, have the plates running horizontally, and the object of the game is to toss 4 ping pong balls through the holes in each of the plates.
The second way to play is to align the plates vertically like skeeball and assign points to the plates. The plate furthest from the student would get the most assigned points and the one closest to them the least points. Assign youth leaders to help with keeping score and a runner to bring the ping pong ball back to the next player. The game continues until all the youth have had a chance to toss all their ping pong balls. The team with the most points wins the game. Button Up Materials Needed: Locate several very large shirts, one for each team.
How to Play: The object of this crazy game is to see which team can put the shirt on and off the quickest. Assign youth leaders to each team to ensure they adhere to the rules. The rule is to put the shirt on and button it all the way up. Then, unbutton and give the shirt to the next player on your team. The team with the quickest time wins. Bowling with Bottles Materials Needed: You will need a bunch of empty 2-Liter soda bottles, dirt or stand to partially fill the bottles, and enough round balls for each team.
How to Play: Fill your bottles partially with dirt or sand. Put enough in to make them hard to knock over, but not too hard.
Assign point values to each bottle and youth leaders to keep score. Divide your students into teams and start the fun. Each team member has 2 turns to knock all the bottles down. The most points wins. This is a fun game of bowling that is easy to make a bowling alley. Ice Breaker Game Materials Needed: You will need a poster board, colored pens, and an empty soda bottle.
How to Play: Draw a large circle on the poster board. Divide into sections like a pie and color each square. Write a get-to-know-you question in each square. For example: Tell me about your favorite trip? What is your favorite dessert? Do you have any pets? Put the soda bottle in the center to use as a spinner for your wheel. Ask your kids to sit in a circle. If the group is too big, make enough poster boards to divide your group into smaller groups.
One player spins the bottle. They ask a student they do not know the question the bottle stops on. There is no win or lose to this game. It will help your youth to get to know each other. You can even shuffle the players after half of the assigned time has lapsed. This is a great game to play in the fall when there are a lot of new students entering the group.
It is simple to design using a poster board and a z soda bottle. Continental Chess Materials Needed: You will need craft paper or poster boards, markers, tape, and missionary instructions.
How to Play: Label the continents and countries. Write instructions on the index cards like: Your church has sent you to work as a missionary in South America. The student will move to the South American continent.
The next student gets a card that says: You have finished your work in Russia and now are going to work in Australia. That student will move from Russia to Australia. This will cause the player to leave the game.
You should add information to each card about the location and their spiritual condition. Keep track of whose turn it is by writing the names of the students on a whiteboard and assigning a leader to put a mark by each name as you give an instruction to move. You move them with the instruction cards until they get the return home for a stateside visit card. You could play this game often and mix continents and countries, continents only, metropolitan cities, unreached people groups.
This is fun to play and can introduce your students to missionary work around the world. This is a chess game on the floor. You will move your students around from one continent to another. The game will help your youth learn about spiritual needs in other parts of the world, and it is fun. Leaves of Thanks Materials Needed: You will need a large number of varied sizes of fall leaves either real or fake , butcher paper, sharpies, markers, tape or staplers to attach the leaves, and bible verses.
How to Play: Write a title like Falling into Thankfulness on a large piece of craft butcher paper and add your church name and identify that it is from the youth group.
The size of this paper will correspond to the size of your youth group, but it should be a big sign. Prepare bible verses on gratitude written on slips of paper for each student. Give the students a scripture paper, a sharpie, and several leaves. Instruct them to write simple reasons on the leaves for which they are grateful. You and your youth workers should keep in mind that not all the students will have happy home lives, so be prepared to help these students find reasons to be grateful.
Have the students take their leaves over to the large white paper and attach them wherever they want. Each student should also write the scripture verse you gave to them. Praise the students for their choices of why they are grateful.
Encourage the students to always search for reasons to be thankful. Display the completed sign in the church. You can use it as a decoration for a Thanksgiving Fellowship event or a community meal. Your leaf gathering will help bring color to this fall activity. The activity will provide a fun way to apply a Bible study on being thankful. Love for Seniors Materials Needed: You will need sheets of colored stiff paper or card stock, various colors of markers, stickers, pens, scissors, glue, tape, glitter, sticky notes, or index cards.
How to Play: Request a list of your most isolated senior adults from the church office. Write their names on sticky notes or index cards and place them in the center of each table.
Divide students into small groups, pray for them, and ask them to make cards for the people named on the sticky notes or index cards at their table. An alternative option for youth in the older age group is to provide greeting cards.
The older students write personal messages to the people they choose. Gather the cards and envelopes containing the names and mail them. For an added step of service, your group could also deliver the cards to each person. This activity is a great way to apply lessons on loving and caring for the vulnerable in our society with very little expense. It is easy to forget the seniors because many are no longer able to attend church.
Cookie Love Materials Needed: You will need cookies homemade or store-bought , small paper bags for the cookies, colored pens, Bible verses, and scripture stickers optional. How to Play: Prepare a lesson demonstrating the love of Christ for the outcasts of society.
To do this, coordinate the best time to donate cookies to your local food kitchen or homeless shelter. Buy or bake a large number of cookies and buy cookie bags. The students will decorate the small paper cookie bags with Bible verses. Choose verses that talk about the love that God has for us and how He sees and hears us when we call out to Him for help.
To fill the bags, the students should wash their hands or use gloves. They fill the decorated bags with cookies. If you prefer to seal the bags, you can use scripture stickers. Arrange a time for the youth to serve the cookies at a local shelter if the group is old enough. If your group is too young to go to a shelter, you could pray over the cookies together. You and your youth workers can deliver the cookies.
Adopt a Needy Nursing Home Materials Needed: You will need construction paper, glitter, glue, scissors, pastor boards, markers, tape, string, etc. How to Play: Locate a nursing home in a needy part of town and obtain permission from the director to decorate their facility for Christmas. Spend time over several youth group meetings making decorations. You can make snowflakes to hang from the ceiling, Christmas posters, Christmas scriptures, etc.
Choose a night to take the decorations and decorate the facility. There are many good ways to make this a big event. You can decorate the facility and have a Christmas party complete with music and a lesson on Christ. You could also adopt the residents and have each student and their family bake their person a Christmas treat. They will know who in your church membership needs some help with painting.
Maybe your church does not have anyone who needs help. If so, research agencies working within your community and see if you can help them. Once you have obtained permission from the person who needs help with painting their home or another project, you can move ahead with planning the project.
Announce the activity to your group as part of a lesson on serving those in need. If your church does not have the funds to purchase paint for the project, you can let your youth plan great ways to raise the money. Maybe through events like a car wash, bake sale or raking leaves, etc. Recruit as many youth workers and parents as possible to help supervise this event.
Agape Notes Materials Needed: You will need some paper with the pre-printed verse, pens, and envelopes. How to Play: At the beginning of the week of Youth Camp, introduce the kids to Agape Notes challenging them to write as many Agape Notes to other campers, counselors, staffers, etc.
Every camper has an envelope with their name on it, and people can deliver Agape Notes to their envelope. Your youth ministry supplies the notepaper. Our culture can be excessively harsh in judging others.
In place of tearing others down, this activity teaches your kids to look for, appreciate, and express gratitude for the good in those around them. There are four words in Greek that we translate into love in English: 1.
How Can I Pray for You? How to Play: Enlist enough parents and youth leaders to work with each student. Choose a safe outdoor shopping mall or another shopping venue.
Once in the shopping area, divide students up and assign parents and youth leaders to work with them. Each small group can set up somewhere and wait for people to read their signs and approach them.
Designate one person from the team to write down the prayer request, and if the person allows, pray for them on the spot. Your follow-up time for this outing should be to pray for each name the group collects. You will be amazed at the number of strangers who will share their hurt and concerns with you.
Equally, you will be surprised at how thankful they are that you prayed with them. Adopt a Stranger Materials Needed: You will need paper or poster board, tape, markers, a color printer, or a place to print color photographs. How to Play: E-mail a note to all the parents explaining the activity and purpose. Ask your youth to take random photos of strangers with their phones when out in public places. Note : The trick is for them to be candid shots, and the person does not know that they are taking the photo.
There should be no contact between the students and the strangers! They then text or e-mail you the photos they have taken. Below the photo space, add a paragraph with the following list of questions: 1. Then add the photos to your document and print or print several pages with the frame and attach the photographs to them. Mix the photos up and give them to the youth group to help them learn to be led by the Lord to pray for strangers. Alternatively, you could make one large scripture frame sign on a poster board or kraft paper.
Put all the photos on the sign with the list of questions and pray for a few people each time you meet. Teaching your youth how to pray for people they do not know will have an unknown but beautiful impact. How to Play: Teach a lesson on kindness, using the many scriptures that demonstrate the random acts of kindness of Christ. Note how his actions led to blessings, healings, and salvation.
Your application to this lesson is to have your youth group write random notes of kindness. Pray and ask God to guide their words to encourage those who will receive them. As they write their notes, ask the students to pray for the person who will receive the card.
Once the cards are complete, they will take them to the next church worship service and hand them out to random people. The object of the activity is to give the cards to people they do not know.
How to Play: Choose an agency that works with high-risk families for your youth ministry to partner with on this project.
Your students could choose to bless a struggling single mom, a homeless family living in a shelter, or children in a local orphanage. The youth group will work together to raise funds for their special project. Raising funds can be great fun for your group! You will find your students full of great ideas. You can hold a car wash, dessert auction at the Thanksgiving Fellowship, sell baked goods, etc.
As your youth work together to raise money, they not only build relationships, but they tell others about their project. Their story will raise awareness for the agency or home and encourage those listening to do more for the needy.
Once the students raise enough funds, pray together on how the Lord wants you to use the funds. You could purchase a Christmas meal for your family, Christmas gifts for the orphans.
Perhaps you could gift diapers, school clothes, or supplies for children in need, etc. In reality, because of the tremendous needs, the possibilities on how to serve are numerous and various.
If your church or denomination does not have a sending agency, pray and research other sending agencies and choose one. Request a list of missionaries and where they are working. Take a little bit of time to pray over the list and ask the Lord to lead you to the person or persons who most need a touch from Him. Once you have chosen a person or family for your youth group to adopt, you can introduce the new project as an application for lessons on the first missionaries, their journeys, and how the early church supported their work.
This project should be a long-term project providing many opportunities for your youth to support and pray for the missionaries. Raise funds to send Christmas gifts. Send cards for birthdays and just for encouragement. Work together to find good ways to let your missionaries know that someone at home cares and is praying for them. Ask the missionaries to send your group regular e-mail updates.
Reading their updates will help your group pray for them and learn many new interesting facts. Packing for Jesus Materials Needed: You will need teamwork and energy. How to Play: Prepare lessons on show the early church served the needy and use this activity as an application. Research local food kitchens you might partner with and set up a time to tour their facility. After choosing an agency to work with, schedule a time for your group to help pack their holiday meal boxes.
You could use the youth group to organize a food drive to help the kitchen with supplies to put in the boxes. During the Thanksgiving and Christmas season, food kitchens are busy boxing up the holiday meals that they will be handing out to the families in need. This is a wonderful time to introduce your students to serving the needy. Your youth group can write or create cards of encouragement for the children. Choose scripture references for your youth to include in the cards.
The sick children could use some scripture to remind them that the Lord loves and cares for them. You and your youth leaders can deliver the card and gift, or if your youth are older, they can go with you. Your kids can also send special gifts and cards for Christmas and Easter. Military Encouragement Materials needed: Notecards, colored pens, gift boxes or treats of some kind like cookies.
How to Play: Advertise in the church bulletin to see how many church members have family serving in the armed forces. Pull together a list to use for your activity. Your youth group can put together gift boxes for those connected to your church and send them regularly. The youth should also be encouraged to write notes of encouragement to the servicemen and women.
If your church family does not have anyone serving, you can contact the closest Military Base and see if they will allow you to bless some of their servicemen and women. Your youth group could bake cookies and other treats and deliver them to the base. Another way your student can serve is to write cards to soldiers on the local base. Divide the base into groups, for example, new recruits, singles, families, units, or officers.
Your group can alternate writing notes of encouragement to the groups each month or quarter. This way, the youth group will eventually have prayed for and encouraged everyone serving at the base. Singing for Christ Materials Needed: You will need teamwork and some decent singers. How to Play: You can have a large group of youth sing at all different types of events. They will have fun performing doing pop-up singing in outdoor shopping areas. During Christmas time, they can go caroling.
Invest a little bit of time teaching your youth group meaningful songs, and then let them be a bright light in a dark world. Storm Relief Mission Project Materials Needed: Construction supplies such as lumber and paint, transportation, knowledgeable adult supervision. How to Play: Locate a relief agency or church in an area that has been affected by a storm and take your youth to help rebuild the damaged area.
Use funds from your Youth Ministry budget to cover the lumber and paint supplies. Alternatively, you can check with your church office to see if other funds are available for you could use for this work project or if a local company is willing to donate or sponsor supplies.
Check with the church or agencies to see if there is a place to house your youth while there. Reserve transportation to and from the trip. Recruit the proper adult leadership to help. Purchase any missing VBS materials to supplement any missing items. Suppliers of VBS supplies have materials available to purchase for a while after summer. They will then be ready to lead at your orphanage event. Progressive Dinner Nights Materials Needed: You will need three homes for hosting various parts of the dinner.
How to Play: Send an e-mail to the parents looking for homes to host a party night. The progressive dinners could even become a regular part of your ministry plans. Choose three homes to host an appetizer party, dinner party, and dessert party.
The first home will provide an appetizer and a fun game for the youth. The second home will provide the main meal, a devotional time, and games. The third home will offer a dessert, followed by more youth games and prayer to finish the evening. It would also be a good idea to do the parties in themes, such as Mexican night, Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc.
Christian Concert Outing Materials Needed: You will need money for concert tickets, transportation and adult supervision.
How to Play: Many Christian artists perform in churches. Research some of the popular artists and check their websites for their tour schedules. Check to see if there are any group discounts to help lower the cost.
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Give them an word and the team has to guess the word they drew. This would be a good ice breaker activity before a lesson if you tie in themes from the lesson into the drawings.
The goal is to get 4 of your team onto the same couch. There must be one less seat than people in the room must have a couch; you can play three on a couch if necessary. Divide into at least two teams and have everyone put their name in hat. But everyone should keep their names a secret. Now the person to the left of the empty seat in the room calls out a name.
The person, who drew that name, now moves to the empty seat, and switches names with the person who called out the name. Now the person to the left of the new empty seat calls a name.
You repeat the process. So you have to try to get to the empty the couch and call the right names to get folks on the couch. This takes some thinking but is fun and competitive in a non-athletic way. Each person should write down the names of 10 people — either famous people or people everyone in the group knows. Go around and collect them in a basket or hat. You should have quite a few names in the basket. Split into 2 or 3 teams each team having around three or four members.
Round One. Pick a team to start — one member of that team gets the basket of names, picks out a name, and has to try and describe that person to the other members of his team.
Once they guess correctly, pull out another name from the hat and so on. The team has one minute to go through as many names as they can. If they get stuck on a name, they can pass and move onto the next name. Move onto the next team who do the same as above. Round Two. Similar to Round 1 but you can only use one word to describe the person to your group. The group will be aware of all the names in the basket from round 1 so it is easier than it sounds. Score a point per name guessed as above.
Round Three. Add up the scores at the end to see who wins! If you have a group of athletic, competitive students this one is for you. Keep some band aids on hand for this one just in case. This one needs no explanation, but feel free to add twists. Include more than one flag, take turns having the teams play offense and defense, play with three or four teams going against each other, etc.
This is another classic, but is always a hit with youth groups. Make it extra fun by doing it once a year and utilizing interesting competitions: students vs.
The key to a good match-up is to put a small number of the strongest against a large number of the weakest. For example, take a handful senior high boys and place them against 30 middle schoolers.
When there are more than 50 students, this game is a lot of fun. Play duck-duck-goose as you normally would, however when a few people get tagged and they go to the middle, then they begin another game of duck-duck-goose.
Everyone is in a straight line, with multiple teams doing this. First team that gets to the last person and has the correct word wins. Divide students into teams and have one student face off against another student from the other team. Play five seconds of a popular song from iTunes and have them guess. This one is a favorite because it requires strategy and teamwork. The game is divided up between two teams. The goal is to get a ball into a basket. This can be a basketball hoop, but I have found it just as fun playing it with laundry baskets placed on a table.
Each player has their own chair and is played in rounds. At the beginning of a round, the players have a short amount of time to place their chairs in a position. Once placed, they are not allowed to move from their spot. They then must pass the ball to each other, without it getting intercepted by the opposing team. After each round the players become more strategic and shift from focusing on offense and defense. Likewise, a team that has no one in the middle of the field is unable to make an adequate pass to their teammates.
An interesting side effect of this game is the loner and unpopular student will often become the most passed to player.
They are the ones that are open, because the opposing team neglects to place a chair next to them to guard. Bible drills can be fun but with a twist on an old classic game, students can translate it into real life skills. Instead of saying a specific Bible verse like John , have them find narrative stories like David and Goliath. After doing a few of these narrative type stories, branch out even further.
Have them lookup a passage of the Bible that someone can use if they feel deep sadness, struggle with addiction, feel lonely, etc. This really challenges the students to use critical thinking and provides them with skills they can use later in life. Give everyone a penny. This means the penny will lay flat on the chin and the students will be looking up into the air.
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