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Ok, so we all remember the kids game telephone, where the person at the front of the line whispers in the ear of the person behind then and then they turn and do the same and eventually by the time yo...
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All On All
10 - 30 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
This is a similar concept to the Iron Chef on TV and can be run in two different ways:
Option A
Give the kids a bunch of ingredients (best to combine a few standard ingredients such as flour, pa...
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Multiple Teams
1 hour +
Extreme Mess
Over $20
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
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
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
This epic twist on dodgeball (http://youthgroupgames.com.au/games/37/dodgeball/) is best played with a fairly large group. It's great to use as an icebreaker because there is almost never an official ...
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All On All
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
Under $20
This is a great youth group ice breaker game. Would work really well to help the group mingle and get comfortable being around one another.
You'll needa jenga set or even a giant jenga set if you h...
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All On All
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
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 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
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
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. 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
Talkin Bout Your Generation
Team building gamesSimulation gamesMusic gamesIcebreaker gamesArtistic games
Played this game in a fairly large youth group but could work for smaller groups too! If you are familiar with the tv game show Talkin bout Your Generation there is a challenge at the end where they ...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
Giants, Wizards, and Elves
Wide gamesTeam building gamesJunior youth gamesIcebreaker gamesDrama gamesAction gamesLarge group games
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
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
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
Everyone needs to pair up and one becomes the indian (pref. the smaller person) while the other becomes a teepee.
You all form a circle with the teepees standing up holding the arms up high forming...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
Talking Point
Spaghetti and Marshmallows
Team building gamesSmall group gamesIcebreaker gamesArtistic gamesLarge group games
Give each team a packet of spaghetti and a packet of marshmallows.
The team that builds the tallest spaghetti and marshmallow tower wins!
You'll be surprised by the things people can come up wit...
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All On All
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
Under $20
Draw a giant sized Noughts and crosses grid in the middle of the room/yard/field. Divide your group into two teams and get them to number off.
Line up the teams on opposite walls/sides of the field...
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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
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
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
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
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
Everyone gets into groups of three. Two people stand facing each other and join hands to create an arch they are the tree, the third person crouches underneath it and becomes the squirrel.
You need...
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All On All
5 - 10 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
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
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
This group game could be used as an ice breaker game or just as a relaxed game.
It's a cross between Telephone and Pictionary.
Would work well in a whole group setting (depending on how big the ...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
This game can either be played as an up-front game or as an all-play game. Either bring 4 people up front or break your group up into even teams of 4-6. Each team nominates one volunteer. Each volunte...
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Multi Player Duel
5 - 10 mins
Extreme Mess
Under $20
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
Explain the game as a simple food eating competition game - you could do it with hotdogs or burgers or anything you can think of. Once you have selected volunteers and they are ready to start eating, ...
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Multi Player Duel
5 - 10 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
The Ultimate Quiz
Team building gamesIcebreaker gamesRelaxing gamesCamp gamesArtistic gamesLarge group games
Divide the group into teams of between 5 and ten people (If you are running a camp with small groups, split them into their small groups).
The game takes the form of a general knowledge quiz with ...
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Multiple Teams
30 - 60 mins
No Mess
No cost
Cryptograms are great fun to use on scavenger hunts, treasure hunts and in simulation games. They can also be a useful way of introducing a memory verse. Competitions are always good too - first perso...
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Single Player
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
Have you ever wanted to play hide and seek, but found that the playing space was simply too small for a good hiding spot? This game seeks to eliminate that problem, simply and effectively.
Really, ...
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Multi Player Duel
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
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
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
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
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
Fill each bowl (enough for all the players) with cream and place a cookie in each bowl. Set up the bowls on a table or outside on the ground. Now everyone has to eat everything out of the bowl without...
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All On All
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
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
Everyone sits in a circle. In the middle of the circle is a toaster.
Put a piece of bread in the toaster and pop it down. Once the toast is down, go round the circle and people have to quickly s...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
A simple water fight game which is fantastic for cooling down on hot summer days.
Preparation
1. Get a large group of youth together and split them into two teams.
2. Give the members of each tea...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Extreme Mess
Under $20
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
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
Give one life saver to each team.
Each member of the team has a toothpick which they keep pursed between their lips (*cough* cough* cigarette style.)
The team stands in a line and the aim of the...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
Under $20
This game is a classic messy food game! Basically set up your twister board (or you can use paper plates if you don't have one). On each colour put a different coloured food.
Red - tomato sauce
Bl...
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All On All
5 - 10 mins
Extreme Mess
Under $20
This is a brilliant circle game!
Basically get a circle of chairs set up and get the whole group to sit in them, except for one person who starts in the middle. This person then has to select someo...
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All On All
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
