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Often at the start of a youth camp or youth group year there are many people who don't know each other. Even the leaders often don't know many of kids. What's needed is a good ice breaker game which d...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
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No cost
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Have everyone secretly write down the name of a person on a small piece of paper or a "post-it" note. It has to be a person that everyone in the room would know about - a famous historical figure, an ...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
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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
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Speed Dating With a Twist
Large group gamesIcebreaker gamesCircle gamesRelaxing gamesTeam building games
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
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
This game is excellent for a competitive group. It tires everyone out really quickly and can provide a good opportunity to award a prize to the winner.
You have one person to be the leader or "Capt...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
Hot Topic
Each person has a chair. Put 4 chairs in a row (or use a couple couches), the rest in a circle - works well with a range of players. The four on the sofa, or in a row, name off as Matthew Mark Luke an...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
For this icebreaker game you'll need to set up your chairs in a circle facing inwards. Make sure there is one less chair than there are players.
Select one player to start off in the middle. They m...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 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
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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
No Mess
No cost
A fun group game, sure to provide a whole lot of laughs. Might be suitable for a disco night at your youth group!
Set up the group to stand in a circle, and choose one player to be the detective. S...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
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
No cost
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
No Mess
No cost
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
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
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
No Mess
No cost
Talking Point
This game is very simple. Perfect for a sleepover party or a late night camp gamer.
Make a room be able to go from pitch black to full light with the flick of a switch, and I'm serious pitch black....
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Whole Group
30 - 60 mins
No Mess
No cost
Hot Topic
Hold out 5 fingers (well, 4 and your thumb) Go around the circle and one at a time, each person announces something that they have never done, beginning the sentence with the phrase "Never have I ever...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
You will need a decent sized property for this game.
Before you start the game you explain to the youth how Christians risk their lives everyday smuggling bibles into communist countries. All youth...
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Whole Group
1 hour +
No Mess
No cost
Hot Topic
1. Tell the group to get into pairs, preferably with a person who has a similar height/weight to them.
2. Get them to designate one person from their pair to be the "jockey" and one person to be th...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
Such a great classic! Everyone sits on chairs in a circle with their eyes VERY shut. Leader taps the head of a person who will be mafia (or 2-3 mafia if lots of people). Then the leader announces next...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
Put the keys in the metal bowl, and place it under the chair.
Everyone makes a wide circle around the chair.
A Person is blindfolded, and Sits in the chair, armed with the Newspaper/Nerf Sword. ...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 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
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 an excellent ice breaker activity in it's simplest form!
If you haven't heard of "Table Topics" before, they are a great tool to use to help people get to know each other and to inspire int...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
Over $20
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
This is a game that we always play at my youth group. I guess it's kind of a reverse version of Hide and Seek - because the whole group is looking for just one person.
So, one youthian is chosen by...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
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
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
Get all the players to sit in a circle, except for one person who must stand in the middle of the circle. The aim of the game is to not miss out on a seat and get stuck in the middle.
The person in...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
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Talking Point
A great way to help people open up to each other is to ask them fun questions that allow them to express their personality or interesting things about them. This youth group icebreaker game basically ...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
Fantastic running messy food game but shouldn't create too much mess depending on how many marshmallows fall onto the ground and then get stepped on!
Split your group up into 2 teams. Make two hats...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
Extreme Mess
Under $20
This is a game we made up by accident back at youth group in good old days.
Basically... everyone in the group spins around on their own, while looking up, for a certain amount of time (ie. 1 minut...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
Talking Point
A great ice breaker game which is sure to lighten the mood and get people feeling comfortable around one another.
Get the group to stand around in a big circle, all facing inwards. Choose a leader ...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
The group stands in a circle and nominates someone to start. 3 - 2 - 1 ULTIMATE NINJA! Everyone has to start with a ninja pose position.
Going clockwise, the person whose turn it is must try and hi...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
Amoeba Tag
Wide gamesTeam building gamesLarge group gamesJunior youth gamesIcebreaker gamesAction games
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
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
Everyone needs to pair up and one becomes the camper (pref. the smaller person) while the other becomes a tent.
You all form a circle with the tents standing up holding the arms up high forming a r...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
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
Kind like duck duck goose but with water.
Everyone sits in a circle and the game begins just like duck duck goose except the persion who is "it" walks around the circle and drips water on everyone...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 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
This game is to be played in the dark and it an awesome choice to play as a night game on a youth camp.
Take apart the flashlight into it's parts and have the person who is "it" (the Gargon) to go ...
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Whole Group
30 - 60 mins
No Mess
No cost
This is a guessing game. If there are fewer than ten people in the group, one person thinks of a word - if there are 10 people or more, two people think of a word together, without the rest of the gro...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
1. Find the story or book of the Bible you want to teach to your group at www.TheBrickTestament.com. The site has great Lego images which most people find entertaining in themselves. (Warning ... so...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
Under $20
It's a great name game! It's like playing a game of tag, only when the person who is is runs at someone to tag them they can yell out someone else's name. When they yell out someone else's name that p...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
This game should be played with 10-25 people. Pair up each person with a partner. Pick a team to be the squirrel and the nut. Have the squirrel chase the nut. The nut can hook onto a pair of people to...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
I have nooooo idea why, but our youth group loved this game.
Basically, it involves a designated person standing in the middle of the room, blindfolded. They are the swinger of the cat. We turned o...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
Under $20
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
Set the game up by having two lots of two bowls facing each other. One on one side of the room and one on the other side of the room.
Have two teams line up on one side of the room. Have each perso...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
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
No Mess
No cost
