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Slap Wrestling
Sport gamesMini olympic gamesIcebreaker gamesPrize gamesRelaxing gamesLarge group games
Two people stand facing each other with about a shoulder's span between them and thier feet together. They must try to make the other player move thier feet by slapping thier opponent's hands only. (t...
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Multi Player Duel
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
No cost
Hot Topic
This activity is very simple and can be used for a wide variety of ages.
1) The group splits up into pairs. One pair starts by going up to kick.
2) The rest of the group decides who will pitch the b...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
Under $20
This is a game that you will want to play in an open area such as outside or in a Gymnasium. The goal of the game is to single highhandedly get everyone else with out going down yourself. It is a good...
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Single Player
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
Under $20
This is soccer. Soccer with not just one ball, not just two balls, but three balls! You'll need three balls, preferably all of a different colour. This game can be really useful to keep as many people...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
Play this game with the same rules as volleyball except with 3 teams. Have 2 teams play against one another while the third team acts as the net. The "net" team can play a big part in this game as the...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
Hot Topic
Blatterball is essentially a cross between soccer and dodgeball [1]. It's named in honour of the former head of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, who we believe best captures the essence of "dodgy" and "soccer" in ...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
1. Break up into even teams
2. Pick a captain for each team who will begin on the dodgeball court
3. The rules are just like dodgeball except when you get hit, the other team GAINS a player rather t...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
An action oriented game good for medium and large sized groups. Similar to football and ultimate, two teams try to get the ?Bacon? to the other side of the field, the ?end zone? which results in a po...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
Start with half the benches at on end of the hall and the other half at the other. Split the group up into two teams at opposite ends of the hall. Players should select one member of their team to be ...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
The object of this game is the first team to score. You will need to play several rounds to determine an overall winner.
How to Setup - Mark off an even rectangular football field with 2 End Zones...
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All On All
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
Set up your hall like a foosball table:
With chairs as the black and white team. The 'black' chairs face to the right goal and the 'white' chairs face to the left goal. The goal could be a buck...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
The timeless classic game - dodgeball - requires little set up effort and is always a winner. There are two ways to play it and they're both explained below:
CLASSIC
Divide the playing area (an ...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
Hungry Hungry Humans
Action gamesCircle gamesPrize gamesLarge group gamesMini olympic gamesSport games
Setup:
First you make a very large circle of chairs, or tables on their sides. This can also be done by creating boundaries on the outsides with tape or a wall of students. Then you place the doll...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
Over $20
The two bases are at opposite ends (much like the distance of a basketball court). Each base has one person on it representing his team. Each team must get their ball to their team member on the mat...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
Divide the group into two teams.
Print out a memory verse and cut it up so there is one word on each piece of paper.
Set up a hoop or bin which teams must aim for. When a goal is made, a team wi...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
Setup:
Sticky-tape a ring of glow-sticks to the opening of the bins, one colour per bin. then place the bins on a stack of say 6 chairs (to give it some height). Divide your youth group into 2 teams....
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
Under $20
1. Create 2 teams.
2. Begin the game by throwing the ball over the net.
3. The goal of the game is to not let the ball touch the ground on your side of the net.
4. You may catch the ball and thro...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
Each team selects a "goalie" who will stand on a platform. The goal is to get the soccer ball to the "goalie". The ball can be moved with your feet, like in soccer, by passing it, or by dribbling it,...
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Multiple Teams
30 - 60 mins
No Mess
No cost
Push the long sides of the tables together so you have a large rectangle with a long seam down the middle.
Line up your group. (We count off just to cement in our heads who hits the ball to us, but...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
1. Leaders divide the group into 2 teams and leaders place the baskets on opposite sides of the classroom.
2. Each member of the teams must grab a chair and place it anywhere they would like in the r...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
Under $20
1. Sort your youth group into two teams and then move them to the volleyball court laid out earlier.
2. With one of the BIG balls the teams play normal volley ball, eliminations. So no points are a...
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All On All
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
Under $20
Have your group split up into two teams and set up like they are going to play volleyball. Then take and set up the net and put the sheet over it so each team cannot see the other team and tell the ki...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
Cabbage
Action gamesCamp gamesJunior youth gamesLarge group gamesSmall group gamesSport gamesWide games
I made this game up as a child with my friends but played it with a tennis ball and ice lolly sticks. I've switched it up so its more practical for everyone else.
Stack up a pile of cones tall enou...
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All On All
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
This is kind of like a normal game of kickball except there is only one pitcher--no outfielders, and everyone else is a runner. When the pitcher pitches the ball, only one person kicks but once this p...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
A large area the size of a basketball court is the best for this game. Have two or three leaders line up parallel to each other on either side of the court. The children then have to run from one end ...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
Under $20
You start out by setting up 2 chairs on each end of the room or wherever you are playing. If you play outside, make sure you have a good size gap between the two chair. You're going to pick 2 teens to...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
Under $20
This is a simple game, but can be great fun for a mini-olympics style event.
Basically, set up a giant size bowling alley in a large area - it could be anywhere! We use our carpark and draw lines u...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
Milk Jug Lacrosse
Action gamesLarge group gamesMini olympic gamesSmall group gamesSport gamesTeam building gamesWide games
Each person has a milk jug. There are no boundaries set. Each team has a goal they are to defend with one person. By running up and down the field the tennis ball or is passed from teammate to team...
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Multiple Teams
30 - 60 mins
No Mess
No cost
This is a fantastic game that gets even the quite kids involved. This game can be played with 10-25 kids per team. Best played in a large, in an un-breakable hall. Split the group into two teams and h...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
Players are separated into equal teams and given their own colored flag-football flags which are worn around their waist. The objective of the game is to get the other teams flags. Flags that do not h...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
Split your group into teams A and B. With each team having an equal amount of girls and guys. The guys from team A take the court first. All they have to do is make as many points as possible - lay-up...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
The most popular game at our Youth Group (played just like in the movie 'dodgeball').
Two teams line up opposite each other touching the wall. Line up some balls in the middle (4-6 of them). When y...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
A fun twist on traditional kickball: Divide youth into two co-ed teams. Youth leader is "all-time pitcher." Played just like regular kickball except, only 1st and second bases (and home plate). Bases ...
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Multiple Teams
30 - 60 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
Get everyone to stand around the room in random places. Then it's as simple as telling everyone to be quiet!
Basically, the game involves the players throwing the ball to each other. A player is el...
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All On All
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
Objective/Rules:
Score the soccer ball on one end of the line WITHOUT letting one's back-side leave the chair.
Set-Up:
To start this game have the each student bring their own chair to the assig...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
Under $20
Line up 2 teams against opposite walls. Number them all off so each team has a set of matching numbers. Make sure there is a chair at either end of the playing hall to use as the goal, and set up the ...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
Divide the kids into two teams, even numbers of guys and girls on both team work best!
Make one team pinnies and one not.
Set up goals by putting a line of masking take to make a large rectangl...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
Its best to play outdoors in an open area.
Give everyone a number (1-however many players there are). Have a leader throw a ball in the air and say one of the numbers that was given, that person ha...
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All On All
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
This game is a variation on Dodgeball, with no teams.
Three players begin the game holding dodgeballs. They call out "Triple Trouble", throw their balls straight up into the air and catch them to b...
Outside
All On All
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
Under $20
Divide the group into 2 teams.
Create a playing field with 2 "end zones" which are essentially rectangles marked out with 4 cones on each end.
The aim of the game is to get someone from your tea...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
Divide your youth group into 3 teams. Layout a small-sized soccer pitch using cones on a grassy area.
2 of the teams will start playing soccer against each other... while the other team get straigh...
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Multiple Teams
0 - 5 mins
Extreme Mess
Under $20
Action Netball
Wide gamesTeam building gamesSport gamesSmall group gamesLarge group gamesJunior youth gamesPrize gamesCamp gamesAction games
You get 2 chairs sitting on the opposite ends of the playing area.
Then you separate your group into 2 teams.
To play the game:
The ref (leader with a whistle) starts everyone in the middle the...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
Rugby, I am generally advised, is a glorious sport that demonstrates the very pinnacle of human achievement, or some such waffle. In my not particularly humble opinion, waffles are a much better demon...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
So you know how to walk like a crab on your hands and feet? Then this game is simple - it's playing soccer, while walking like a crab!
Set up a soccer field as per normal, only it is probably best...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
Number off 1 through however many player you have
Player 1 serves a legal ping-pong serve to Player 2
Player 2 allows the ball to hit the floor before hitting it back onto the table (it doesn't matt...
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All On All
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
This is a pointless game my students made up, one day when they were bored.
It is played just like kickball or baseball, except there are as many bases as you want there to be, the more the better...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
Hand Tennis, short for "Hantis" can involve any number of players. Four tables are set up in a 2x2 pattern. A player enters the game at the first table. As mistakes are made and points are scored, pla...
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Multi Player Duel
1 hour +
No Mess
No cost
You have 4 teams of two. Each team gets two tries whoever misses twice first gets out. They must rotate. The last two keep going spinning around every 6 turns....
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
Hungry Hungry Humans
Action gamesCircle gamesPrize gamesLarge group gamesMini olympic gamesSport games
Setup:
First you make a very large circle of chairs, or tables on their sides. This can also be done by creating boundaries on the outsides with tape or a wall of students. Then you place the doll...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
Over $20
I bought a putter at my church fete for $2 a fair few years ago and since then I've occasionally had a hit around my house. Just grab a golf ball, put a cup somewhere and then play mini-golf - it's th...
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All On All
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
