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. When someone finds the hider they then hide with them. This continues until the last one seeking finds the whole youth group hiding in one place. This is a beloved game of many youth! This is a great game for how gossip spreads or how we can often misunderstand or mishear things told to us.
One person is the jokester and they try to make each person in the circle laugh. 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. Have the leader put the wig on the watermelon, and put the watermelon through the hole instead of their head. When the pre-picked kid removes the box, the leader will still yell, the kid will pretend to freak out, grab the bat, and smash the watermelon. Also, pick a big crazy wig that will cover plenty of the melon.
You can choose any number of kids, but 3—5 is probably ideal. That was really interesting! Thanks for showing us how you use the bathroom. Supplies: clear and flexible tubing, eggs, funnel, garbage can. Band kids and athletes tend to do well in this gross test of lung capacity and stamina, but anyone can participate. Choose four students and pair them up for 1v1 matches. Put the funnel into the clear tubing and crack an egg into it.
Hold the tube so that the egg settles into the middle, and then have the first pair of kids each take a side, and put the garbage can between them. After each pair goes, have the winners face off to determine the champion. A few feet should be plenty. Supplies: enough cans or bottles of soda for each contestant to have one, garbage can.
When they come up, have them remove a sock. Open a can or bottle of soda for each kid, and have them put their sock on top of it the top of the can or bottle should be all the way at the bottom of their sock. This is too easy. Pass your soda to the person on your left. Whoever finishes first wins. Keep the garbage can close. Visiting a nursing home is a wonderful way for your youth group to serve together because everyone can do it, and it shows your kids that sometimes attention and conversation are profound gifts we can use to love others.
Your students will be nervous about talking to strangers, and they may struggle to find common ground. So, before you go, talk to your group about ways they might start a conversation, or encourage them to play a boardgame with someone. You may also want to caution them about some of the things they might see or experience.
Equip them to be successful. Give them tools to show the residents and staff that they are loved and that they matter. Pro tip: Call the nursing home you plan to visit in advance. Talk to them about the ideal times for a large group of visitors. It will also help to get a heads up about their specific guidelines and any recommendations they have about what to bring games, books, small pets, etc.
Public parks are for everyone in your community to enjoy. The photographs remain as mementos of the game. Girlie ball is a game as well as an ice breaker activity.
Inflate a large beach ball. Have girls suggest a variety of questions to write on the ball. Once the ball is filled with questions, the girls stand in a circle and throw the ball to each other. Each time a girl catches the ball she must answer a question--the question that her right thumb touches.
After answering the question, the girl throws the ball again. Girls probably can't afford a real spa, but that doesn't mean they can't enjoy the spa treatment. Have girls bring all their best makeup, skin care products and hair products. Girls can lounge in their robes just like at a real spa while they give each other makeovers. A do-it-yourself spa allows girls to have fun two ways--getting makeovers and giving makeovers.
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