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Get each person to grab some M&M's. Tell them not to eat them.
Assign a different meaning to each colour:
Blue = family
Green = school
Yellow = friends
Red = hobbies
Brown = music/movies
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Whole Group
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
Under $20
Hot Topic
Everyone sits in a circle. Each player chooses a fruit or vegetable. Player A says their fruit/veggie, then the player's fruit/vegie that they want to pass it on to... ie Player A says "Strawberry st...
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All On All
0 - 5 mins
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Hot Topic
For this great get to know you game, each person must make three statements about themselves, one of which isn't true.
For example: I have two brothers, I was born in Australia, I have a motorcycle...
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Whole Group
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
No cost
Hot Topic
The objective of this game is to get everyone to laugh while you can not laugh yourself. Have everyone sit in a circle facing each other. When it is someones turn, they have to say or act something ...
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Whole Group
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
No cost
Hot Topic
The group stands in the middle of a room (or if outside, between two markers eg cones). one wall/marker is nominated 'true' and the other 'false'.
The leader reads a statement, eg 'bats aren't act...
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All On All
0 - 5 mins
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No cost
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 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 a great fun get to know you game. It works well as an ice breaker game and it really quick to play. Also works for both big groups and small groups.
Hand out a piece of paper and a pen to e...
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All On All
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
No cost
I love this game for getting to know students.
Each player sits in a chair in a circle facing the canter. One player stands in the center to start the game, usually me after I explain it.
Whoeve...
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Whole Group
0 - 5 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
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
No Mess
No cost
Each kid gets a coin. When asked, they share something significant that happened to them the year the coin was made in.
This is basically just a novel way to get conversation flowing and is probabl...
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Whole Group
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
Under $20
This game is a fantastic group mixer ice breaker activity.
Player must wander around the room and battle each other in Rock, Paper, Scissors. The winner evolves to the next stage and the loser stay...
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All On All
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
No cost
Line up kids.
When you say go, they run as fast as they can, screaming as loud as they can as far as they can.
When they can scream no longer, they drop to the ground (dramatic falls are best)
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All On All
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
No cost
This game works a lot like psychiatrist but has it's own twist and humor.
Start out by having one person leave the room. With the rest of the group decide upon an action the person has to guess. T...
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Whole Group
0 - 5 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
No Mess
No cost
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
Hot Topic
Have everyone hold hands in a ring around the chair.
The object of the game is to be the last one "alive".
If you touch the chair you are out of the game.
Players must push and pull those who ...
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All On All
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
No cost
Get 2-4 volunteers. Give each player a can of soft drink, and get them to line up along the starting area. Using only their head they need to push the can of soft drink along the ground, around a chai...
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Multi Player Duel
0 - 5 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
This is a classic kids party game and is great fun especially for a group of junior youth kids.
One kid will sit on a chair facing away from the group with their eyes closed and have the keys or co...
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Whole Group
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
No cost
Mark 9:23 "Everything is possible for him who believes."
Philippians 4:13 "I can do everything through him who gives me strength."
Similar to "if i were going to the moon i would bring..." excep...
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Whole Group
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
No cost
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
So I am a sunday school teacher at my church and I have found this youth group game to be both fun and funny!
You have x amount of kids and one less chair. It is basically like musical chairs but u...
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All On All
0 - 5 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
I have no idea why this game works, but it does!
Kids are sitting in a circle on chairs. You give them each a word of the memory verse. You 'bop' them on the head and they have to say their word. Y...
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Whole Group
0 - 5 mins
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No cost
Dinosaurs
Wide gamesTeam building gamesJunior youth gamesIcebreaker gamesCamp gamesAction gamesLarge group games
1. Choose one person to be the "Danger Alert" or choose an adult or a group leader or something. Give him or her the whistle/horn.
2. Tell the players that they are dinosaurs and there are adult di...
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Whole Group
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
Under $20
This is a very simple game (really an activity) which can be used to review information you have taught.
1. Choose your questions. I use this for my ESL class - ages 4 to 10. So the 'questions' ar...
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Single Player
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
No cost
This is one of the easiest games to set up... but one of the most annoying games to clean up!
Divide your hall into halves or quarters or however many teams you want to have (may depend on the size...
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Multiple Teams
0 - 5 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
How To Play:
Teachers will split students into two teams. There will be a sponge with water next to each student starting.
The first student in each line will get the sponge and soak up as much ...
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Multiple Teams
0 - 5 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
Basically, this is a collection of different ways you can play Uno. For those who don't know, Uno is a fun card game in which players try to get rid of all of their cards using colors, numbers, and ot...
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All On All
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
Under $20
Its as if you have an invisible ball you are passing around the circle.
there are a few different moves you need to learn.
you have to say the word and do the action for each.
Wiz - one arm sco...
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All On All
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
No cost
1. Make sure everyone in the group knows each others phone numbers, or at least has a group chat set up where everyone can contribute.
2. The player with the newest phone starts by naming an app they...
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Single Player
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
No cost
This is a great game that is high energy, and can give kids (and leaders) an opportunity to vent their frustration!
Depending on numbers of balls and players, each player is issued with a ball at t...
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All On All
0 - 5 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
Get everyone to blow their balloon up. The object of the game is to carry there balloon from the start to the chair and bust it without using their hands, usually between their legs.
If they drop t...
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Multiple Teams
0 - 5 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
This can be an in-lesson game, or just a game with a lesson. It's a game where you have two bowls - the bowl of "problems" and the bowl of "solutions".
In the bowl of problems, you write problems th...
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All On All
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
No cost
Talking Point
1) Everyone arranges themselves in a circle. One person is picked to be in the center.
2) That person will walk around the circle in a dramatic way (the more dramatic, the funnier it is).
3) The...
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All On All
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
No cost
I love this game mostly because of the name, but it is fun to watch and play.
One person wears clown pants, the other person throws candy into them from a distance of about two body lengths away. T...
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Multi Player Duel
0 - 5 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
Everyone gets in the crab position. Two chairs at either end of the hall with a person standing up on them. Team has to hit the balloon to their chair so the person can pop the balloon with a pin.
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Multiple Teams
0 - 5 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
A bit messy but a real laugh.
Get enough eggs so there is one per player. Hard boil them all except one. About 15 minutes in boiling water will be plenty. Put all the eggs in a bowl, including the ...
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Whole Group
0 - 5 mins
Extreme Mess
Under $20
This game is a variation of normal paper scissors rock. I'm going to assume you know how that one works. However, instead of using just your hands, you use your entire body. For scissors, you stretch ...
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Whole Group
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
No cost
This is a great game for learning names and getting used to each other. It's based on the whats missing game, where you place random objects under a sheet, secretly remove one then get the kids to gue...
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All On All
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
No cost
Pick two teams, each team with 2 people. One person lays on the floor and the other person holds the ketchup bottle at SHOULDER LENGTH and must fill one cup with ketchup. After the 1st cup is filled, ...
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Multiple Teams
0 - 5 mins
Extreme Mess
Under $20
Marshmallow dodgeball is a variant of the dodgeball rules. It's best if the kids wear dark coloured clothing. When you throw a starch covered marshmallow it leaves a white powdered spot. (Meaning it's...
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Multiple Teams
0 - 5 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
Tie the doughtnut to a string. Split the group into pairs - each pair being a "team". One people lies on the floor and one holds the string.
The string holder has to dip the doughnut in the bowl of...
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All On All
0 - 5 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
2 players put an end of a pair of panty hose over each others head and hold it over there face. Put a piece of tape at opposite ends of the room 10 metres apart.
When ready leader says go and they ...
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Multi Player Duel
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
Under $20
Simple Word Games
Team building gamesJunior youth gamesIcebreaker gamesPrize gamesRelaxing gamesLarge group games
There are many simple word games you can find at the website listed. Some of them can be played as a whole group. Others are suited to teams but you'll get a feel for what works best.
The games f...
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Whole Group
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
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Get everyone to take their shoes off. Give two spare socks to anyone not wearing any.
Everyone gets down on their hands and knees. When the leader says "Go!", everyone has to try and steal everyone...
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All On All
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
No cost
Whn the leader says "get ready", each player puts the tablet on their tongue. On "go", each player pours the water in their mouth (NOT swallowing any), and clamps their lips together. The object is to...
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All On All
0 - 5 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
Two teams (1 or 2 youth to a team) head off in a race to eat away at a slice of cheese to create a certain shape.
For this game, we projected images of states (hence the name of the game) on the sc...
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Multi Player Duel
0 - 5 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
Take 5-6 volunteer. Ask them to say a tongue twister or something that can be difficult to say.
ie. "Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore"
They must say this five times in a row. They have tw...
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All On All
0 - 5 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
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
Alphabet Concentration
Junior youth gamesDrama gamesRelaxing gamesSmall group gamesLarge group games
This can be played in a pair, a small group or a larger crowd - but the more people there are, the harder it gets!
Players have a conversation where each sentence begins with the next letter of the...
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Whole Group
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
No cost
