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Team Architect is basically a game where you get each team to build something with very little amounts of strange materials. For example, you could give each team a packet of pop sticks and a roll of ...
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10 - 30 mins
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Under $20
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Speed Dating With a Twist
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Set up the chairs in two circles, a small circle and a larger circle outside of that. Make sure that the chairs are facing each other and there are an equal amount of chairs in the inside circle as we...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
This game is the ultimate icebreaker. Needs a bit a prep before hand - fill up some trays with water and place a t-shirt or pair of shorts or a hat in the water. Then freeze it!
You'll need at leas...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Extreme Mess
Under $20
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Zombie Apocalypse
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How to Play: Basically, there will be three teams. One is the Zombies, one is the Survivors, the last is the Helpers.
The goal of this game is for the Survivors to get back to the starting point wi...
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10 - 30 mins
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No cost
Psychiatrist
Team building gamesSmall group gamesSimulation gamesIcebreaker gamesRelaxing gamesCircle games
Have the entire group sit in a circle; a room with couches and chairs are fine, as long as everybody is pretty much facing each other. Select one person to go out of the room.
Now the group decide...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
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This icebreaker youth group game is a cross between pictionary, sculptionary and charades.
Firstly come up with a list of pictionary style words to use. Try to use words that might be easy enough t...
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5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
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French Vs English
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First off I wanted to say that this is probably one of my all time favourite youth group games. It is one of those games that just involves burning off a lot of energy!
The basic idea is that there...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
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Capture the Flag
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Capture the flag is one of the most popular wide games ever and is great to play on a youth camp in a location with plenty of running space.
SET UP
1. Find a location to play. The ideal location...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
This game is best played with a small group.
Place 20 or more cups in the middle of the room, put half of them upside down and the other half the right way up.
Divide the group into 2 teams and ...
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Multiple Teams
0 - 5 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
This is an all time classic icebreaker game!
Everyone stands in a big circle and then grabs onto two different peoples hands (not the people standing on either side of them).
Once everyone is h...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
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The classic game of Mastermind works well when solved as a whole group. The whole group must work together to crack the code. Alternatively, divide the group into two teams and each gets to set a cod...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
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Simply announce that you want everyone lined up across the room by birth-date. Only catch: no talking. Once they are all lined up, ask certain people their birthdays just to be sure.
You can have t...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
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Select one person from your group to be the captain. They must stand on one side of the playing field (usually just in a room or hall) facing the wall.
The rest of the group must all start with one...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
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No cost
Talking Point
First of all elect a adjudicator to go into the other room. A topic is chosen i.e. Food, Cars, brads, Countries ect. and one by one each person playing walks in to the room with the adjudicator and te...
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All On All
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
Divide your group into two teams.
Stand the first group in a line facing the second group. The second group have a set amount of time (you decide) to look at the appearance of the other team.
On...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
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Line two teams up next to each other with a table a few metres away from the start of the line, each team has 15 cups stacked up like a pyramid. The first player will run to the table then collapse th...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
Under $20
Don't Blink
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Overview: Time to embrace my inner nerd! This is a game based off a certain British science fiction TV show I won't name. Anyway, this game combines teamwork, reflexes, running, skill, and the occasio...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
Under $20
Object:
To have only your gender sitting on the couch.
Set-Up:
If you don't have a couch large enough to fit four people, just designate four chairs as the "couch". Circle the rest of the chairs,...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
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Identity
Team building gamesSmall group gamesMemory gamesIcebreaker gamesPrize gamesRelaxing gamesCamp games
Divide your group into 2 teams. Each person writes the name of a well known person they would like to be play for this game on a notecard.
"Well-known" can mean famous (Madonna) or very well known (...
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Multiple Teams
0 - 5 mins
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No cost
This is a game that requires little preparation and is fun among small groups.
Have the players sit in a large circle so they can easily separate their "families" (more on that soon). Next, get pla...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
Fresh is a classic youth group running and strategy game. It's good for those kids who like to show off their speed, but also for those who'd rather stand still and out wit someone.
It can be a rea...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
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No cost
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You can do this team building activity with a single group (maybe as an team growth activity for your small group) or as a bigger group team challenge.
You'll need a group with at least four or fiv...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
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No cost
Get the group to take off their right shoe. Then throw all the shoes in a big pile in the middle of the room.
Tell everyone from the group to grab a random shoe from the pile and put it on their sp...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
This is a great, fun game for leading into topics like spiritual warfare, reaching the lost, etc.
This is best played with low lights and room to run and hide. You will need enough glow bracelets ...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
Create two groups of as many as possible and give them a long bible verse each. Tell the two groups they have a couple of minutes to transform that verse into a quick rap. The best rap will win! You c...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
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No cost
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This is a really great running wide game - good for burning off a lot of energy. However, it's also a good wide game for those who might not like to run as it involves a lot of strategy.
1. Set up ...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
Molecule
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This simulation game is a great one to play on a youth camp. It involves a lot of running and team work but also involves some problem solving skills. You'll need a decent bunch of leaders to run the ...
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Multiple Teams
30 - 60 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
The Tangled Chain
Team building gamesSmall group gamesJunior youth gamesIcebreaker gamesRelaxing gamesLarge group games
Get everyone to huddle in a group in the middle of the room and join each hand with someone across the circle. Once everyone has joined hands, let them know their task is now to untangle themselves.
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
Alien Invasion
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1) Give ten players a glowstick for the game, which they will wear around their wrists. Obviously, the game is played at night--preferably outdoors, at a camp.
2) Explain the following situation as...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
Under $20
This is simply the old TV game revisited. Central to this game is a list of questions and survey answers. You could make them up. But using David Morris' hard work is a better option. The game will wo...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
One of my favourite things is taking something normal and making it life-size. The game of battleships is great fun to play normally, so naturally - a human version is twice as fun.
You'll need to ...
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Multiple Teams
0 - 5 mins
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Divide everyone into teams. Select one player from each team to lay down with a cone in their mouth.
Allocate each team portions of ingredients. Similar to a relay, using just a spoon, the teams mu...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
Extreme Mess
Under $20
Skit Night
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We came up with this at our first lock-in 3 years ago and it is one of our most requested events!
We ask the students to make teams of 4. We write down topics on slips of paper, the topics are fold...
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Multiple Teams
1 hour +
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No cost
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
Get a volunteer to be the President, once they are chosen divide the rest of the kids into 2 unequal groups (either a 2:1 ratio or 3:1) the smaller group is then the President's body guards (for added...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
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The aim of this balloon game is to knock the opposing teams balloons to the floor whilst keeping your own in the air.
Basically you have all the balloons for each team blow up their balloons and st...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
Get 4 kids to lie down on their backs in a small circle with their legs sticking up in the air. So their feet should be touching at the top, making a kind of table. Put the full bucket of water on her...
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Multiple Teams
0 - 5 mins
Extreme Mess
No cost
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Divide your youth group kids into some groups, 4 works well as a relay. Just make sure the groups aren't too big.
Set them up in 4 lines across the room. Then send half of each team to the opposite...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
Charlie's Candy
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This game is based on the great children's movie "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." You're going to need a large group to play it, so this could be a good camp game.
1) Break the group into six eve...
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Multiple Teams
30 - 60 mins
No Mess
Under $20
Feet Pictionary
Team building gamesJunior youth gamesIcebreaker gamesRelaxing gamesCamp gamesArtistic games
Set Up:
- Divide the whole group into 2 teams, based on sides of the room. Any size youth group can play. In the front of the room place drawing pad/white board, somewhere both teams can see it wel...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
Giants, Wizards, and Elves
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Summary: An icebreaker / action oriented game good for medium and large sized groups. Similar to a game of rock, paper, scissors, two teams face off and decide to become either ?giants,? ?wizards,? o...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
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No cost
First, you split up into groups of 3-5. You should have at least three teams to play.
Each team gets a chair and the caller chooses any random tangible-object noun. Each team is given 5 minutes to...
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10 - 30 mins
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Simple relay structure for this game. 4 teams line up at one end. Place a bowl of peas (or whatever you are using) at the other end.
The first player from each team has to run to the other end and ...
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Multiple Teams
0 - 5 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
1) Each person gets a straw
2) The straw must be held using their mouth
3) They have to pass the rubberband around using the straw.
4) If the rubberband DROPS, the straw has to be CUT
Rules:
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All On All
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
Under $20
Before the game starts place all the objects at a hidden place where you it is not too difficult to find. Do not let players know where the objects are but clues can be given.
Divide into 2 equal g...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Extreme Mess
No cost
Amoeba Tag
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If you don't know anything about science, an Amoeba is a type of cell that eats other cells by wrapping itself all the way around it, engulfing it to become its lunch (making the cell grow bigger). Th...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
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Ask for two volunteers. These people will attempt to tip everyone else, in order to do this they must touch the person with an apple.
While holding the apple the tipper must keep one leg in the sam...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
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
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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
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
