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Bring a stack of copier paper and let the kids make lots and lots
of paper airplanes. Then you need some way to clearly divide the room
in half. (The taller the divider the better.) A couch works, but even
better was a rolling chalk board. Put half the kids on each side of
the divider. Put half the paper airplanes on each side of the divider.
Explain that they can only throw ONE plane at a time and they must
stop when the leader says "stop". Say "Go". They
throw the airplanes over the divider as fast as they can. Planes are
flying in both directions. Let them go about 3 minutes. Give them
a ten second warning and then say "stop". Count the airplanes
on each side of the divider. The team with the least number of planes
wins. Repeat it a number of times, keeping track of the wins to get
the champions.
A quicker variation: Throw a big bag of loose socks. |
Choose a story with many alliterations (I
like to use "Fat Fireman Foster" or "The Dreadful Dragon with a Diamond
D" from my little boy's Sesame Street storybook). Read the story
to the group. Instruct group members to stand up or sit down every
time they hear a word that begins with the letter you designate.
The quicker you read, the sillier it gets! (One of my favorite passages: "Fat
Fireman Foster was a faithful, friendly fire fighter. He was fabulous
when a forest fire flickered freely through the fair forest...." |
What you need is vollenteers (or 2 groups of vollenteers competing
against each other. Keep the number of vollenteers in each group small,
say 2 or 3. You give them a senario (say a child who came in late).
Then you tell them to act out the scene, but they have to integrate
the sound effects that you play with the senerio. Play sound effects,
some can have nothing to do with the scene (like in the senerio above,
my youth pastor played the sound of a bomb, and of a lot of other
things). The only real object is to come up with either the most acurate
to the sound effects skit, or the most humorous skit (usually the
latter). |
Have group form a circle sitting in chairs. One person is to stand
in the middle as the "ring master". Everyone is to choose
an animal name for themselves (dog, rhino, hippo, monkey,...). The
person in the middle is to have a wadded up newspaper to hit the animals...make
sure it is tape up well because it will fall apart! You start with
one person asking them to call out one of the animal names in the
circle. The person whose name was called must call out another name
before he/she is swatted by the ring master. This goes on until someone
is swatted before another name is called or they call out the ring
masters animal name. Once a person has been swatted, they are to become
the ring master and the former ring master. take that persons seat.
This game is a lot of fun and can be tweaked to make the rules better.
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This game begins just like the regular bobbing
for apples. However, this game adds a new twist. Immediately after
bobbing for apples, the person bobs for marshmellows in a bowl of
flour. You can just imagine the results. The game is quite messy
so make sure the floor is covered with plastic for quick and easy
clean up. |
My kids love games where they have to work together to build stuff.
So we've done a variety of building activities that are always a success.
Divide your group into groups of 4-5. Give each group about 100 sheets
of paper and a roll of scotch tape. Give them 30 minutes to build
a platform at least one foot high. A hymnal must be able to be balanced
on the top of the structure. When all the teams are done, gather everyone
around one structure at a time. Let the team members begin placing
hymnals on top of the structure. The structure which can support the
most hymnals without being helped is the
winning team. Another variation is to build a bridge between two chairs
without touching the floor. Give the groups a pack of straws, paper,
and tape. Same idea. You can use hymnals again or use a remote control
car to cross it. |
The game is a play off of another game called.... CHUBBY BUNNY.
WE IMPROVED THE GAME!!! ... we use "atomic fireballs" (those
red hot dime-store candies) for the game. RED GOOK
GOES EVERYWHERE!!!!! It's a little more about how hot... than it is
about how many.... we like this better because it's more interesting
(messy) and... it is safer. It is very difficult
to get three cramped up marshmallows out of the back of a kids throat...
remember they may just choke. With the fireballs...
they are more likely to spit out the solid objects and less likely
to get so many in their mouths that they don't still have room for
things like.... breathing.With this game we have them repeat interesting
scriptures instead of only saying "chubby bunny" or whatever
it was. |
Break your young people down into several teams. Have the kids
sit on the floor (or in chairs) facing back to front in their teams
(similar like that of a train). With the group in single file lines,
give the persons on the back of the line an object to draw. That person
then is to draw the object you gave them (drawn on a small piece of
paper, etc.) on the back of the person in front of them with their
finger. Then the next person does it likewise and so on and so on
until the person in front of the line draws on paper what you gave
the person on the back of the line. The first team done and draws
the best picture wins! |
Gather all kinds of really horrible foods - ones that are quick
to open and eat. For instance, baby food, fresh produce, chips, crackers(small
box), etc. Everybody is behind a line, 10 ft. One member/leader is
holding the garbage bag with these items in it. The member behind
line has to go up to the bag, pick something out, by feeling, not
seeing what it is, eat it there, then run back to end of line. Race
to the finish. If you don't like something, you still have to eat
it since you picked it. (Be aware of food allergies).
More cruel choices are onions, salami, warm ginger beer (remember,
you have to chug it!), a whole pack of gum/candy. This works well
if you are a hungry bunch!!:) |
Select several guys with moderately long
hair (but not more than 5 or 6 inches...) Select several girls to
be the "stylists". Each boy pulls a nylon stocking over his head
completely covering his hair but allowing his face to still show.
The stylists then begin poking toothpicks through the nylon hose
and pulling out tufts of hair. The most bizarre hairstyle wins the
contest! I've had several guys wear their new hairstyle all night
long! What a hoot! |
Pick two unsuspecting teenagers (the younger, the better!).
Cut the legs off the hosiery. Use the two legs to place over the heads
of the two contestants challenge them to chew up a banana in their
mouths as gushy as possible. Then place the legs of the pantyhose
completely over their heads. Hand them a cup and tell them that they
have to push the banana from their mouths through the pantyhose into
the cup they are holding.Of course, none will go through. For fun,
pull the top of the legs as they are pushing to smear it all over
their faces. It is one of the funniest pranks we have ever played.
We use it every year to initiate our newest members! |
Everyone has a banana in good enough condition to eat. 2 teams
face each other in parallel lines. The people have to put their banana
in a pocket. When the signal is given, the people must draw their
bananas like guns and instantly peel it and eat it as fast as they
can. Whoever has their banana eaten first wins. |
There are several ways of doing this. Either in the dark or in
a lighted room. Dark is a lot more fun, but you need to make sure
none of the adults are playing (because of liability and Harassment).
It does work well in a lighted room too. While the 'kids' (Term used
loosely - since most of the people reading this would probably consider
me a kid at 20) are coming into the room assign them animals (i.e.:
Donkey, Chicken, Horse, Elephant - get creative). Tell them not to
tell anyone what animal they are. They have to find everyone else
with the same animal that they have. They do this by making the animal
sounds (They may NOT talk). Give them a while, and when it seems like
they've all found their groups, let them stop. You can also play other
games with they groups they've made. They can do some mixers in the
small groups - get to know each other.
NOTE: You can have each group hold hands once they've found their
group - Jr. Hi Usually Loves the idea, and High School usually doesn't
really care. |
Start with everyone sitting in chairs in a large circle. Pick one
individual to stand in center of group. The standing individual points
at anyone sitting, and says "Bibbidy Bop Bop". The individual
he points at must say "Bop" before he finish's or he loses
and becomes the center person. If the center man says anything other
than Bibbidy Bop Bop, and the person he points at says Bop, he loses,
and moves to center. It keeps people thinking. |
Get all the teens in your meeting to put
the chairs into a square with an equal number of chairs on all four
sides. Place a large garbage can in the center of the room with the
chairs around the can and faceing the can. Ask them Bible related
a question, the first one to raise their hand gets to answer the
question. If they are right they get to shoot at the can with a basketball.
If they miss, the ball can roll until another person gets it. While
the ball is rolling no one can leave their seat. This is a good way
to review the previous week's lesson. Hint: give the four teams NBA
names to add to the fun. |
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