From the article: 8 Stupid (And Fun!) Youth Group Games
What is your favorite youth group game? Share the activities you've done in church, school, etc. that have been outrageous, entertaining, and even educational! Share Your Favorite
Food for thought
- I've been in youth ministry for 16 years, and I know how much fun kids can have with activities like Bobbing for Ho Ho's and Turkey Bowling. However, I've come to the conclusion that we muddle our witness when we encourage kids to use (and waste) food for entertainment. Hunger is a huge problem in our world, probably even in your city. How does it look if we ask them to chug milk one week and raise money for starving children the next? Just want to encourage all of you to get creative and focus on games that don't waste God's precious gifts and resources!
- —Guest Gair
Hoola Hit
- Divide kids into teams. Each kid stands inside the perimeter of a hoola hoop. Give everyone on team 1 a beanbag. The rules are they can toss the beanbag to any one on the opposite team, but not on their own team. The challenge is to get the beanbag to land on the ground inside someone's hoola hoop. For each landed beanbag--that person scores 1 point. The person in the hoola can hit, kick, bump, etc the beanbag to keep it from landing within that perimeter. Keep the beanbags going back and forth. When it's time to end, the lowest score wins. My teens enjoyed playing this game.
- —Guest MommaStone
Lemonade Contest
- Solicit volunteers for a lemonade contest, but have a large cloth over each glass. When the volunteers are lined up in front of the glasses, have them remove the cloth. What they'll have is a lemon, a tablespoon of sugar and a glass of water. They must consume all three ingredients separately. It's up to you whether or not you want to require them to eat the rind of the lemon.
- —Guest Jody
Death by Porpoise
- We have a game it is like hot potato but the teens sit in a circle and music plays. The person doing the music can not see the participants. The leader has a super soaker water gun. The teens pass around a stuffed porpoise (this is replacable if you don't have one you can really use anything. (Death by Turtle, Death by Teddy Bear etc.) Whoever is stuck with the stuffed animal when the music stops gets sprayed with the super soaker. Kids don't mind getting wet because they get the gun and get to fire at the next loser!
- —Guest Joshua
SARDINES!!
- ok this is a fun game for kids who just want to laugh! it is like hide and seek except one person goes and hides. the youth leader counts to a certain number then everyone else goes and finds that one person. when you find them the game doesnt end! you stay with the person and try to climb into the same space as the person who was originally hidding until only one person has yet to find them. the games ends when everyone is crammed into the same space together!!!
- —Guest phillipians4:13
One More Tip for Turkey Bowling
- I'm sure everyone's getting tired of reading additional comments on existing games, but just some food for thought. If you play this game in the weeks prior to Thanksgiving, you can send the still wrapped, frozen turkeys home with the winners so their families don't have to buy one for the holiday. Very fun game! Students immensely enjoyed it :)
- —Guest E
Milk chug
- The milk chugging should be approached with caution and strictly voluntary, but my youth group used to do it and while disgusting it was very popular. Everybody loved it! Definitely not for all groups but great for some. We called it the Gallon Challenge!
- —Guest Sara
Living Knot
- Divide up into groups of 4 or 5 to 10 (no less than 3 and no more than 10 -12 or so because it would be too big). Everyone must join hands with 2 other people inside the group that are not next to them; crossing over, under, whatever arms so that you have a nice complicated crisscross of arms and hands. Then, the group must untangle themselves so that they form a circle WITHOUT letting go of each others' hands. It's really fun and can be hilarious to watch:) Have fun!
- —Guest MAY
cereal social
- have each child bring their favorite cereal to the function. We started the evening by having the kids close their eyes and we passed the different cereals around to see who could identify the most cereals by taste. We then had them identify the mascots of cereals and pair them with the correct cereal. (the Tucan bird with FuitLoops)(you can go google cereal mascots)then we let them eat .This is gross but we put an empty pitcher on the table for them to pour their left over milk in....a ten dollar bill was found laying beside the pitcher for the kid who drank the milk...(he later threw-up). The evening ended with kids daring each other to eat cereal with oj instead of milk, or mixing cereals together, mixing milk and oj together. The cereal boxes that did not get opened we donated to a needy family. Or you could donate it to a shelter or camp.
- —Guest Darlene
The Cat in the Hat
- Have group sit in a circle in chairs,leave 1 in middle. Go around the circle and assign each person: "cat", "Sally", and "fish". Instruct them that when they hear their "name" to jump up and exchange chairs - person in middle tries to get to a chair at the same time. When you say the phrase "the cat in the hat", everyone gets up and changes chairs. Goal: don't get left in the middle. Can do as a team (boys against girls). Leader keeps track of how many times boys or girls are in the middle. Or award a prize to whomever doesn't get stuck in the middle. Very fun, rowdy game. Teens love it.
- —trins3wildones
Living4Christ
- One of my favorites is the boardwalk. This is where people hold up a board and someone has to walk on it. We divide into teams with two boards each. When the person has stepped off of one board to the next, that board needs to be brought to the front until the team crosses the finish line. Teams compete in a race.
- —Living4Christ
"What is This" was my favorite Game.
- What is this is the only game that does not envolve a huge mess and it seems like fun!
- —Guest Olivia
The Milk Jug activity
- I personally think this game is very foolish and highly irresponsible. I know you said to get permission first, but why waist the time of getting parents permission for something so exceptionally juvenile when there is so much more important things you could be drawing parents attention to. You definite have some great games but this is not one of them at all. Sorry dont mean to be harsh but i work with kids( and have been for a long time) and this sounds more like a foolish college fraternity game during freshman week than an activity for sensible youth.
- —Guest Leviticus613
Best game
- I love playing Assassin (also known as Mafia) check it out on jubed.com
- —Guest Andy
turkey bowling
- bowling alleys have to replace their pins on a regular basis, so they often want to get rid of the old ones. Don't be afraid to just go and ask the manager for leftover pins at your local bowling alley. We did and we reuse them each year. Saves on cost and adds authenticity.
- —Guest k4ruby
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