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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
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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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 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
1. Each person will get a piece of paper and a pencil/pen.
2. Write down your name vertically down the paper.
3. With every alphabet written down, write a keyword to represent each alphabet th...
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All On All
30 - 60 mins
No Mess
No cost
Both teams line up sitting down facing away from each other. Everyone holds hands.
At one end, the 2 players from either team line, face inwards and place their hands by their sides - ready to grab...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 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
Give the kids either in pairs or as individuals a plate and a tube of toothpaste. The bigger tubes work best. Tell them the challenge is to get all the toothpaste out of the tube as quick as possible....
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
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
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
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
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
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
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
Get a number of volunteers up the front. It can often work better if you don't tell them what they are in for.
Have the jars of baby food hidden so the players can't see them. Have them stand in a ...
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Multi Player Duel
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
How to play: 1. Divide the group into 2 teams. 2. Each team goes to the opposite end of the field where their flag is located. 3. One person on the team distributes the cards before and during the ga...
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Multiple Teams
30 - 60 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Gather all kinds of really horrible foods - ones that are quick to open and eat. For instance, baby food, fresh produce, chips, crackers (small box), etc.
Everybody is behind a line, 10 ft. One mem...
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Multi Player Duel
10 - 30 mins
Extreme Mess
Over $20
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
