Teen youth group game

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. Is that something you want to change? Do you think Jesus ever feels that way? We have eternal life through Jesus.

Is that something you think about every day? At the beginning of the night, overflowing with thankfulness for everything in our life seemed like it may be difficult to do. I thought we could get started on that tonight, all together.

Just write some things on here that are worth being thankful for. So if you find yourself having a hard time being thankful this week, I understand. But if nothing else, I want you to come back with three more things to write on this banner. So at least three times this week, stop and be thankful for something.

We all have so much to be thankful for because of Jesus. Excellent lesson. Thank you. God bless and continue His work through your ministry. This was amazing and perfect!

At the end of our lesson I had the students write down the 1 Chronicles verse and hang up some place where they would be sure to see it. Thank you for sharing! Hi Riss, Thank you for letting us know that the lesson and game worked really well for your students. Instructions : Put all players in a circle. Choose one player to be the detective. The detective goes outside. Once the detective has left, choose a player to be the secret dancer.

All players must copy what action the secret dancer is doing. Once the group is all doing the same the dance, the detective returns.

The detective has three guesses to guess who the secret dancer is. The secret dancer must change their dance every 10 seconds or so.

The challenge here is for players to watch what the secret dancer is doing without the detective realising who they are copying. The way this works in a youth group context is that once you defeat another player, the player you defeated must cheer for you. This is a fun way of taking a simple game and using it for your youth group or youth ministry. Instructions : You tell all players to get in a circle.

All players walk into the centre, they cross their arms and then grab the hands of another person across from them. They subsequently, need to untie the human know without letting go. To make it happen, split your group into as many teams as you have supplies keeping around members in a group. Provide each group with one pack of spaghetti and one pack of large marshmal- lows. Teams are charged to use their supplies to build the tallest freestanding tower they can meaning that holding the tower up for measuring is against the rules.

Give the groups a certain time limit during which they can construct their tower — anywhere from minutes generally works well — and give them a one-minute warning before their time up. The winning team is the one with the tallest freestanding tower, as measured by the game leader. Break any ties by having the teams move their tower across the room and measuring again, not allowing them to fix any breakages.

Note: Some teams will get creative and incorporate the spaghetti box and marshmallow bag into their structure. There is no rule against this.

Assign points for odd items that students can find to take a picture with around the Church property or within a designated area. Get creative with your lists. The added bonus of this game is you automatically have some great photos of your students that you can put in the youth group room. You can even feature some of them as photos of the week.

Two teams of two students compete. On each team, one student acts as the mother bird and the other acts as the baby bird. The team with the most worms in their eggshell at the end of 20 seconds wins. Ties are broken via bird- calling contest. 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.