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Each team must line up behind an empty bowl. At the other end there must be a bucket of water with one of each type of fruit in there (preferably one for each team member). In the middle, between the ...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
Extreme Mess
Under $20
This is a simple game, but can be great fun for a mini-olympics style event.
Basically, set up a giant size bowling alley in a large area - it could be anywhere! We use our carpark and draw lines u...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
1. Each team puts 8 cards in a discard pile with the top card facing up.
2. That leaves 12 cards “in hand” or on the ground to flip.
3. When the game starts each team flips over 2 cards at a ...
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Multiple Teams
30 - 60 mins
No Mess
No cost
Going Up or Going Down?
Team building gamesSmall group gamesIcebreaker gamesAction gamesLarge group games
You start by splitting everyone up into teams of two. Everyone is standing and has their backs against each other. Holding their hands in the air, they have to sit on the floor without falling over. A...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
This game is great when done infront of a crowd.
Select four people from the crowd to be your players. The best people to get, are squirmish girls (You'll see why in a moment). Get the players to t...
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Multi Player Duel
5 - 10 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
Each team of four has a pair of boots.
For each round, they nominate a player to answer a question. The player is asked a question which is near impossible (and sometimes stupid ie. what have i wri...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Extreme Mess
Over $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
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
Whilst the music is playing, all players must dance around the room and when the music stops players must bop down. Last person to bop down is out. Remaining players will await further instruction, be...
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All On All
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
Lifesavers Relay
Action gamesCamp gamesPrize gamesLarge group gamesMessy food gamesSmall group gamesTeam building games
1) At youth group, break everyone into three teams. If you are at a camp and have a group system, divide them into those groups.
2) Put each team into a straight line and give each person a tooth p...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
Lima Bean Relay Race
Team building gamesMini olympic gamesJunior youth gamesAction gamesLarge group games
Give each team member a straw. Place two tables about 10 feet apart. One the first table have a paper plate filled with lima beans. On the second table have another paper plate to deposit the beans on...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
Under $20
The two bases are at opposite ends (much like the distance of a basketball court). Each base has one person on it representing his team. Each team must get their ball to their team member on the mat...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
Milk Jug Lacrosse
Action gamesLarge group gamesMini olympic gamesSmall group gamesSport gamesTeam building gamesWide games
Each person has a milk jug. There are no boundaries set. Each team has a goal they are to defend with one person. By running up and down the field the tennis ball or is passed from teammate to team...
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Multiple Teams
30 - 60 mins
No Mess
No cost
I usually call this game dance and stop, because then the rules are even easier to explain.
Play music, stop the music. When the music stops, everyone has to freeze. If you see someone moving - the...
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All On All
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
This is a fantastic game that gets even the quite kids involved. This game can be played with 10-25 kids per team. Best played in a large, in an un-breakable hall. Split the group into two teams and h...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
1. Create 2 teams.
2. Begin the game by throwing the ball over the net.
3. The goal of the game is to not let the ball touch the ground on your side of the net.
4. You may catch the ball and thro...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
Players are separated into equal teams and given their own colored flag-football flags which are worn around their waist. The objective of the game is to get the other teams flags. Flags that do not h...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
Divide the group into two teams.
Set out an area with clear boundaries and get one team to stand in the middle of the area and the other team to line up around the area. The outside team get the ba...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
For medium size to large groups indoor or out. Use tape to create large boxes on the floor or ground. Each of these boxes is a deck. Students gather in one of these decks -- the poopdeck, quarterdeck ...
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All On All
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
1. Blow up all the balloons bought and evenly distribute them into 2 different large garage bags (do this beforehand)
2. Divide participants into two groups
3. From a high place release one of the ...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
Under $20
Return of the Jedi (Hide and Seek Freeze Tag in the Dark)
Action gamesTeam building gamesNight games
The goal of the game is to defeat Darth Vader(preferably a youth leader) before he finds and freezes everyone. The only way you can defeat him is by finding a light saber hidden in the building and h...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
A fun twist on traditional kickball: Divide youth into two co-ed teams. Youth leader is "all-time pitcher." Played just like regular kickball except, only 1st and second bases (and home plate). Bases ...
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Multiple Teams
30 - 60 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
Line up 2 teams against opposite walls. Number them all off so each team has a set of matching numbers. Make sure there is a chair at either end of the playing hall to use as the goal, and set up the ...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
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
Everyone is to have socks on and no shoes. They are to stand inside a designated area, and when a leader says go, they all must wrestle each other to get thier socks of.
Can be played so that whoe...
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All On All
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
Divide the kids into two teams, even numbers of guys and girls on both team work best!
Make one team pinnies and one not.
Set up goals by putting a line of masking take to make a large rectangl...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
2 teams, each team sets up a base on either side of the hall/playing area with limited about of objects.
When the game starts both teams throw the sponge-balls at each other to get the entire othe...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
Its best to play outdoors in an open area.
Give everyone a number (1-however many players there are). Have a leader throw a ball in the air and say one of the numbers that was given, that person ha...
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All On All
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
Steal the Bacon
Action gamesCamp gamesIcebreaker gamesLarge group gamesTeam building gamesWide games
This game is simple and is a great icebreaker among youth groups and camps.
Divide the group into four teams and send them to a corner of a large room, or selected areas outside. Placed in the cent...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
Under $20
Tangle (Royal Rangers Romania)
Team building gamesSmall group gamesPrize gamesCamp gamesAction games
Break the group into 2 teams of 3 players. The players of each team will be tied up together by their feet using a rope. There must be 2 poles on the field and each team will have a different pole as ...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
The whole group joins hands in a circle around the trash can. While holding hands, on the count of three each person goes around the trash can trying to pull one of the others into the trash can witho...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
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
There is one person who is the seeker, the rest of the people are hiders. The seeker puts the hose into the shape of a circle. After the seeker counts to a predesegnated number (i.e. 2 minutes) the se...
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Whole Group
30 - 60 mins
No Mess
No cost
Everyone sits in a circle on chairs and one person is in the middle.
The person in the middle yells out "the wind blows towards people who _________". Everyone who matches up with what they said ha...
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All On All
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
Everyone's seen the TV show right? It used to be on in Australia in the afternoons I think. Anyway, it's a theatre sport game. The possibilties are endless but I'll just start off with something simpl...
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Single Player
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
Action Netball
Wide gamesTeam building gamesSport gamesSmall group gamesLarge group gamesJunior youth gamesPrize gamesCamp gamesAction games
You get 2 chairs sitting on the opposite ends of the playing area.
Then you separate your group into 2 teams.
To play the game:
The ref (leader with a whistle) starts everyone in the middle the...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
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
1. Prepare four sheets of questions. Each sheet represents one suit (diamond, hearts, clubs, spades). On each sheet write a question for each card value (Ace, King, Queen down to 2). So there will be ...
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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
Each player has a balloon tied around their ankle with a piece of string. The aim of this balloon game is to pop all the other balloons, while preventing your balloon from being popped. Once your ball...
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All On All
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $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
1. Leaders divide the group into 2 teams and leaders place the baskets on opposite sides of the classroom.
2. Each member of the teams must grab a chair and place it anywhere they would like in the r...
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Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
Under $20
This is a fun run around church wide game I play with our middle-schoolers. The amount of nerf guns, pool noodles, and wasps totally depend on how big your group is, so you can experiment with whateve...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
Under $20
Balance a bible on a chair in the middle of your playing area. Form a circle around the bible, with everyone holding hands. If you knock the bible off or break hands, you are out.
This game can be ...
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All On All
0 - 5 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
Players should pair off into partners (girls with girls and guys with guys is usually better). One player will be the birdie and the other will be the perch. You might want to suggest that the person ...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
In this messy food game, contestants (two teams of two) face each other in three mini-games. The winner of each mini-game adds one ingredient to the blender. In the end, the ingredients are blended to...
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Multi Player Duel
10 - 30 mins
Extreme Mess
Under $20
It's pretty much what the name suggests! Each person playing is blindfolded and chairs are spread randomly through the space, rather than in a line. Whilst the music is playing, leaders (or people no...
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All On All
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
Under $20
Teens should pair off. The oldest person of the pairs should go to the middle and make a circle. The middle circle will walk counter-clockwise. Then the younger of the pairs will make a larger cirlce ...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
There are different names for this game, but I couldn’t find a Christmas version that we liked. Our junior high youth group created this version. If you’ve never played this game, check out www.ch...
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Whole Group
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
No cost
New
This is a basic relay race using wheel barrows. You'll need at least two teams, each team needing 1 wheelbarrow. So depending on how many wheelbarrows you have available, this could restrict things a ...
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Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
No cost
