The first kid in line puts the outfit on and races to the other end of the room and back. As each kid runs down and back, they take off the outfit and the next person in line puts it on. 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. Cooperative Board Games. Here are some family-friendly cooperative board games that are great for bringing people together to create shared experiences and memories. All without the unnecessary tension that competitive games sometimes produce.
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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. 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. Have half of them sit on one side of the blanket and half on the other.
Take some time for everyone to introduce themselves and tell the group a little something about them. Then one group at a time, have them cover themselves with blanket and decide, without making any noise, who should leave the blanket first.
The chosen one stands up that the group that wasn't under the blanket tries to remember that person's name. The person who was named then sits out the rest of the game. It continues until everyone has been named. Just like it sounds, this is a team building game where participants really have to break the ice.
Get a few old big t-shirts and some bowls that are all the same size. Put a shirt in each bowl and fill with water. Then freeze the bowls. Having everyone start at the same time, have the groups figure out how to get the shirts out of the ice. The kids will be getting to know each other in no time as they try to figure out what to do. Form two circles of chairs, one circle inside the other, with the chairs facing each other.
Have participants pair up and sit across from each other. Give them a question that they both have to answer. Once they are done, have the students on the inside ring move one chair to the left and the ones on the outside ring move one chair to the right. Ask another question. Repeat as long as you want to play, asking different questions along the way. This game is simple but effective, and a lot like "Would You Rather".
The main difference is that instead of longer questions, "This or That" is simple one word options. The youth are given sticky notes and a pen and are instructed to write down 3 facts about themselves, without writing down their names on the paper. The papers get collected and posted on a wall. Then a volunteer gets the ball rolling by going up to the board, choosing one of the notes not their own , and reading out the facts. The group then tries to figure out who the person is. The first one to guess correctly as long as it isn't their own gets to choose the next note.
This game is a good conversation starter and kids find out a lot of interesting information about each other. Designed to get kids talking, this one is good for older kids, but can easily get out of hand depending on the dynamics of the group. It also works better with smaller groups so it would be a good idea to break the kids into groups of 4 or 5. Design a chart with a list of 6 questions, each question next to a number.
Next to the number, write down a "get to know you" question. Then go around the room a couple of times and have each student roll the die and answer the question that matches the number they come up with. Just like it sounds, the kids sit around in a circle and go around one at a time saying something about themselves like, "Never have I ever been on an airplane.
This is another effective icebreaker for all ages. It can also be played with the leader asking the questions and the youth answering. One of the most well-known party games, if played wisely, this is an effective icebreaker.
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