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First begin by marking out a starting line and a finishing line
approximately 50 feet apart. Find 5 or 6 obstacles that are large
enough to be hidden behind, for example a table or a wheelbarrow.
Place the obstacles approx. 10 feet apart in a zig-zag pattern between
the start and finish.
Assign two people to be the "Bombers " and give them each
a bucket full of water and about 10 small sponges. (It works good
to cut those big sloppy car sponges into three and use those. It is
also possible to use water balloons but I find that they create more
garbage and hurt more which is sometimes a consideration). Place one
of the "bombers' 10 feet past the finish line and one halfway
between the lines. The object of the game is to get from the start
to the finish without getting hit by a wet sponge by going from obstacle
to obstacle. Obviously the job of the "bombers" is to try
and hit the runners. The "halfway bomber" is only allowed
to try and hit the runner until the runner has passed them and then
they must cease fire. For every obstacle that the runner gets to they
receive an assigned point value. Their total points equals their score.
Everyone's wet, everyone's happy.
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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. |
What you have to do is divide the group into 2 groups.Then each
team gathers around the sheet,but leave one side open (short side)then
the youth leader puts a small water balloon on 1 teams sheet.that
team throws the balloon into the other teams sheet.the other team
has to catch it in their sheet if they do they get a point,if they
dont they don't get a point.Sounds easy huh well not quite.The youth
leader dosen't let the other team see him put a big water balloon
on one of the teams sheet,and they throw that.Which ever team has
the most points wins!
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Easy pleaser. Three or four kids lay on their back in a circle
with their feeting kind of up in the middle making a table with their
feet. A full bucket of water is placed on the "Table" and
the challenge is for them to remove their shoes one by one. You can
make it easier or harder by increasing or decreasing the amount of
people or water and always watch for those white shirts! |
Get 5 volunteers and tell them to wait outside and that they'll
be doing a work out. Get one person as the instuctor. Keep the sponge
under a chair in a bucket. Tell a person to come in.
Have the instructor say what ever I do you must repeat. Then have
The instructor
out their arms out or some other exercise. Then have the instructor
tell them to do jumping jacks. While the person is up have another
person out the sponge on the chair that the volunteer sits on while
he or she isn't looking. Then have the instructor sit down. This is
so funny especially when the person thinks they are the best. That's
when they look stupid and everyone will laugh I guarantee it.4 out
of 5 people fell for it |
Get a couple volunteer to do the game.
Then give them one of those children's cubes, the yellow ones with
3 shapes cut out of each side, and with a flip top lid.
Give one of the kids a squirt gun (Super Soakers work great).
And have the other one sit down on a stool.
Set a time limit for them to dump all the shapes in their lap and
put them back through the holes. (45-60 seconds usually works best)
Get some music started (Mission Impossible's what my youth pastor
uses) and have them start.
If some of the shapes fall on the floor, put them back on their laps.
If the kid doesn't get all of the shapes in the holes in the time
limit, then the other guy gets to squirt him!
Then they switch.
Other than a super soaker my youth pastor has also used a pie in the
face and "The Hot Seat" (a seat that shocks you with a 9
volt battery). You get the idea
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Take the 10' x 25' plastic sheet and cut it in half lenght ways.
Secure the tarp to a nice grassy location. (note: try not to secure
it with anything that would stick out of the ground like a spike.
Try a orange cone or sand bag, something visible.) Before bring youth
to the curling ring, wet the tarp and squirt a good bit of soap at
the take off area.
Curling is a game of distance and accuracy played on Ice with a large
round object that is shoved down the ice. In water curling the object
is a teen and the pushers are two other team members. Have the disignated
team member lay down on the tarp on their belly knees bent and feet
up, ( works best when they are already wet :-)), then have the two
pushers grab the teen by the feet and begin to push the teen. You
must set a cut off point where they must let go of the teen and let
them sail. Winner is the team/teen who sails the longest. Note: works
best also when a youth leader keeps plenty of water and soap on the
course. |
Supplies for each team (of over 5 people):
a.) Garbage can full (I mean full) of water
b.) empty bucket
c.) timer or stopwatch
d.) a measuring cup
The object is to be the team that holds their breath the longest
AND gets the most water in the bucket. Time starts and the first
team member puts their head fully underwater for as long as possible.
Once they are done, they immediately move over and try and ring as
much of the water from their hair into the bucket. Also, when they're
done, then next team member in line needs to step up to the can right
away (so you can just keep the watch running to keep track of time
underwater).
HINT: Most people don't have trouble running out of oxygen, but having to much
CO2; if a person exhales a bit while underwater, they can last longer. When the
whole team has had a chance to hold their breath and to strain water from their
hair into the bucket, stop the watch and measure how many ounces of water are
in the "hair bucket." Take the total time and multiply it by how many ounces
of hair water there is (total time x total ounces = final score).
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Another one that's been fun (even with the setup [and cleanup]
involved...
It's based on the old TV show "Double-Dare" -- you set up an
obstacle course for the teams to do kind of a tag-team thing. The
object is to find your teams flags throughout the obstacle course
and be the first ones to pin them on the youth pastor.
The typical things for the obstacle course are going over/under
chairs, running through tires, etc. The fun starts when they have
to dig for their flag in a huge bowl of cheap dog food mixed with
water (and left standing for about 1/2 hour), dig through vats of
solidified Jell-O, (even modify the bobbing for marshmallows to
hold the flags for a team), have balloons covered in whipped cream
that must be popped to get the flag, etc.
We've set it up with 4 flags per team (so there were 4 students
on a team). On the word "Go" the first person completes part of
the course and digs through the dog food until they find their team's
flag, then they run back to the starting line, and the second person
completes part of the course (having to dig in the Jell-O for the
flag. They run back and the third person goes. Once all 4 flags
have been found they must attach them to the youth pastor.
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Have two volunteers from the students start at one side of the
play area and everyone else in your group on the other side. When
you say start the two rats starting coming across the field having
to pick-up as many waterballoons as they can. Give them a little while
to start picking them up. Then say chase. When you say that all of
the students on the other side run out picking up all of the other
waterballoons in the field and throw them at the two rats. The two
rats can throw their waterballoons at anyone WHO HAS A WATERBALLOON
IN THEIR HAND. They cannot hit anyone who doesn't have a waterballoon
in hand, not even if they just threw a waterballoon at them. If a
rat hits one of the others without a waterballoon then they are captured
and whoever they hit gets to soak them with the water from the hose.
This game is good to teach them about how peer pressure and if we
are not connected with more strong christians then we are going to
be bomb-barded with the enemy's schemes and feel like we are being
hit on everyside and we can't see how to get out of it.
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Fill up wash tub with water, spray a 15 foot diameter circle around
the bucket, have kids bring there own water guns. The cicle is "BASE"
but you can only stay in the circle long enough to fill there guns
and then they have to get out and play.
TO begine the game have 1/2 of the kids fill there guns with water
and have them go ahead and start spraying each other while the others
franticly try to fill there guns. Play till 1) there is no water or
2) every one is sick of it or 3) The Rapture takes place, and in that
case I think we would all rather be there rather than here. Have fun
and Be blessed. |
have two (or more) teams line up relay-style. In front of the first
player on each team have a small bucket. At a distance, have a large
tub of water. Using a Dixie cup, the first player on each team runs
to the tub, gets a cup of water, and returns to dump it in his team's
bucket. Then the next person goes - until one team's bucket is full
(depending on the size of the teams, players will probably go several
times). Voice of Experience (but don't tell the kids) - if they quickly
but calmly WALK back with their full cup, they spill less and usually
win over the teams that run faster, because they spill so much water.
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two teams, line up facing each other across an open space, with
a long hose with a spray nozzle lying on the ground midway between
- like this:
Team A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
nozzle-------------hose--------------------------------- -----------faucet
Team B 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Number the players on each team. When you call out a number,
like #3, the #3 player from each team must be blindfolded (best
done by a neutral adult). While being blindfolded, you are rearranging
the hose so they don't know where the nozzle is. At your whistle
(or other signal), they stumble towards the hose, feeling the ground
with their hands, being verbally guided by the shouts of their team-mates,
who cannot leave the line (cones at each end or a rope they can't
cross helps). Whichever person finds the NOZZLE (not just the hose)
first gets to take off their blindfold and spray the other person
(not in the face - too many wear contacts).
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Leader (Unsuspecting) and 3 volunteers (Unsuspecting)
This is a great skit that we use to initiate new leaders to our group.
Set up two tables end to end with about a 1' of open space between.
Drape sheets over the table with the overlap in the gap between tables.Get
about 10 different balls (Golf Balls, Bowling Balls, Baseballs, etc.)
and put about 7 on the first table and 3 on the second. Cover all
the balls with a towel.Tell the leader that they are going to squat
in between the table and have their head covered with a towel. You
will tell the three volunteers that it is a race to see how fast they
can pull off the towel and say what kind of ball it is. When they
get pull the towel off the leader he yells at the volunteer. (This
is really funny!) Here's the part you don't tell the leader; When
the third volunteer comes in you hand them a bucket of water and whisper
that you are going to pull off the towels and they will yell the names
of the balls. When you get to the leader you will pull off the towel
and the volunteer will throw the water into the wide open screaming
face of the leader.
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This is a simple one. All it requires is a glass of water. Secretly
show a volunteer the name of a well know song or tune, it can be anything,
chart song, worship song, nursery rhyme etc. Get them to take a sip
of water and they must gargle the tune and the others try to guess
what it is. This resulted in some hilarious 'water coming down someone's
nose' episode when we tried it! |
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