If the player drops the cookie, they take another one and keep trying until one player wins. If your students are surprisingly skilled at this, play best 2 out of 3! To play, you need: bowls Petroleum jelly A bag of cotton balls. Player 3 puts a big glob of petroleum jelly on their nose. Place player 1 and 2 on opposite sides of the room.
Hands may not be used. The team with the most cotton balls transported when the music stops, wins! Everyone locks hands and when the music starts, players begin the joust. The goal is to touch the other person with your pointer finger first. Players can only use their jousting hand Winners play each other. Stop the music when there are only a few people left and bring them to the front. Cheer for the last few battles! Music Directions: Place the different color cup on the bottom of each stack.
They have only 60 seconds to work as a team to replicate the item. You modify this game to be like group charades and have the opposite teams write down objects for the other teams to act out.
Your group will learn to read cues to silently walk and stop together. Could be a great activity for bonding! Participants needed: 3 or more. This can be done in pairs or with the whole group. Last team remaining wins. An imaginary ball is passed around a circle using different words and motions. The goal is to figure out how to untangle the human knot without letting go of hands.
Game Instruction. A game where you have one person start by finishing the statement I was walking down the street. The point is for the person to begin crafting an imaginative story of their walk down the street and what the see or experience. Hide and go seek in reverse.
Where everyone goes and hides and there is one seeker. A current favorite of our youth group! Two versions exist: a competitive version based on a guessing game, and a version that is more about coming up with a creative interpretation. A game where everyone passes the same emotion around the circle. A personal favorite of mine for middle school youth because they love yelling out poop deck! Equipment needed: open space and boundaries markers.
Not only will you love it, so will they. All you need is some chalk or tape to make your court and a ball. Get ready to create a new tradition and a game that will be requested all the time! Youth work in groups of two and try to cooperatively sit down together and stand up with their backs pressed together. A twist on hide-and-go seek where one person hides and everyone seeks. The first team to have everyone make it down and back wins. If you have room for it, you can take this game to the next level by introducing an obstacle course or challenges such as hopping on one foot to the end, hula hoops they have to use for 10 seconds, objects to jump over or run around, etc.
For this youth group game you need an even number of people on each team—so have the students form teams and then fill in with leaders. Teams can be anywhere from 4—20 people. But it gets much harder the more people you have per team.
Each team stands in a circle, and every person grabs a hand from two different people across from them. The goal is to end in a circle with no hands in the middle.
As the groups untangle themselves, some people will wind up facing the inside of the circle and others will face the outside. This game takes a lot of cooperation and communication as kids try to problem-solve, give each other directions, and maneuver around. You can run a trivia night however you want, but you may want some optional supplies to make it feel more official: tables, chairs, lamps for ambiance , a projector, a microphone, speakers, a whiteboard, and snacks.
The bulk of the prep work is coming up with trivia categories and questions. Obviously, the more categories and questions you come up with, the longer your trivia night will last.
This is a good task to delegate to leaders or work on as a team. Make sure your categories and questions are relevant to the kids in your group the broader the better , but here are some categories you might use:.
Resist the temptation to make every question ridiculously hard. At most, you should have one really tough question per category. You can make trivia night into a really fun, out-of-the-ordinary event by putting additional effort into the ambiance. Let kids enjoy snacks while they discuss the questions together. You can do a minimal version of this with just paper and pens, but if you take the time to make trivia night more elaborate, it could easily become an annual tradition and one of the highlights of your youth group.
When the weather is nice or at least tolerable , it opens up opportunities to play some messier, more involved games.
Supplies: Lots of fruit vegetables are OK too , baseball bat, goggles optional. Fruit baseball is exactly what it sounds like. They may already have a program they send this produce to, but if you ask the right store or the right employee , you can probably get all the fruit and veggies you need for free or at least a significant discount.
If you use peppers or citrus fruits, you should probably have your batters wear eye protection of some kind. Remember: the important thing here is that everyone gets at least one opportunity to obliterate a piece of fruit. Feel free to modify the rules or be lenient with strikes so that kids have more chances to participate.
Buy at least two of them one for each team you plan on having. Have one kid from each team lay on top of the ice block and hug the sides with their arms. Someone else will hold their legs and either push or pull them to a cone or whatever you use to designate the end of the course and back. Then they switch: the student who was pushing or pulling hugs the ice block, and the next student in line takes their place. Have kids sit in the back of the line when they finish their leg of the relay.
This youth group is a total free-for-all where kids and leaders get to pelt each other with giant marshmallows. If you have the time to plan and prepare, you can turn part of your town or a local park into a course for The Amazing Race. Choose a series of popular, easily recognizable locations to form your course. Ex: Make a three point shot on the basketball course, send your whole team across the monkey bars backwards, guess the flavors in a smoothie, take a picture with a stranger wearing green, etc.
Have a leader at each station to explain the challenge and hand out the next clue. Set a time limit, and make sure everyone knows what time the game ends and when they need to be back at the starting location—whether they completed the course or not. Depending on your kid-to-leader ratio, you may need to ask parents to volunteer as drivers.
Make sure you set a time that everyone needs to be back. Be prepared to see surfboards, mattresses, outdoor heat lamps, go karts, and other absurd items.
Leaders should talk them through what they should say when they get to the door so that people will be more inclined to help them. Also, some people may be willing to loan items they want back. Up-front games are great because they let you put the spotlight on kids who may not get as much attention, or use some of the strong personalities in the room to your advantage. Supplies: long table with a hole on one side, big tablecloth, stopwatch, watermelon, wig, baseball bat, a couple random items such as a shoe, a football, or phone , a few large boxes.
This is a game that tricks both the participants and the audience. Before you set up the game, call up three contestants. Two of them can be random, but one should be a kid you can trust to ham it up and be a little crazy. Arrange the tablecloth on the table, place the random items on top along with the baseball bat, and cover them with the boxes.
The bat should be the last item before the hole. Have a leader put the wig on and crawl under the table with the watermelon, put their head through the hole, and cover them with a box. Make sure the leader is facing the contestants, not the audience. The person who names all four items the fastest wins.
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