Games

Bad Habits

Distribute a small piece of white paper (A4 size paper cut into 4 pieces and give each piece to every...

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Bees Vs. Wasps

This is a fun run around church wide game I play with our middle-schoolers. The amount of nerf guns,...

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The Stories of Your Names

Divide group into smaller groups (3-4 people). Give each group 1 sheet of paper and a pencil. Write every person's...

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Pool Noodle Tape Hockey

Two teams, each team has to score in the other teams goal. Players can hold the pool noodle however...

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The Invisible Ball

This game might sound weird but I have never played with people who didn't like it. It is a...

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Action Netball

You get 2 chairs sitting on the opposite ends of the playing area. Then you separate your group into 2 teams....

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Santa's Coming!

One person is Santa - and chooses an action for the rest of the group to follow. Santa calls...

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Newspaper Memory Verse Shuffle

Break the group into even teams and provide each group with some newspaper pages, a pair of scissors, some...

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Now That's What I Call Latin

This can be done with team Vs. Team, or everyone Vs. everyone. Go to google translate, and translate any...

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Zone Soccer

A human-sized version of foosball. Players play a normal game of soccer, each needing to stay in their designated...

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Atlas Shrugged

1. Split your group into 2-4 teams. Each team has a Frisbee and an end zone. 2. They start in the...

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Charades

Charades is a classic family game of acting and guesses. It's been around for a fair while but we'll...

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Poisonous stump

Want your friends to fall into the poison zone? Then this is the perfect game for you! Get ready...

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Priest of the Parish

Group game involving listening and repeating in teams.

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The Floor Is Lava

Imaginations turn the floor into super hot lava and require players to avoid touching it at all costs. No...

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Toilet Paper Tell Me

A get to know you game that involves players sharing facts about themselves depending on how much toilet paper...

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Zoom Game

Guess popular superheroes, cartoon characters and movie covers from "zoomed" in photos.

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Bush Basketball

Set up the room or the playing area to have a chair at either end. Mark out an area...

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Chalk Memory Verses

Firstly, ensure there's a plentiful supply of colourful sidewalk chalk for everyone to access. Then encourage the kids (individually...

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Chalk Street Art Challenge

Divide kids into teams and hand out plenty of good quality sidewalk chalk. Explain their challenge is to come...

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Cornhole

The long-time favourite American classic game of Cornhole, otherwise known as beanbag toss or sack toss, is a fantastic...

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Walk the Chalk Maze

SETUP Find a big concrete area that's suitable for drawing on with chalk. Using pencil and paper, design a...

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Christmas Carol Challenges

Four fun game variations to play using Christmas carols!

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Secret Santa

Participants give and receive gifts without knowing who gave which gift!

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Balloon Team Keep Up

A massive team vs team competition of trying to keep as many balloons in the air for as long...

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Laser Grid

Players become secret agents trying to navigate their way through a maze of lasers

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Gold Rush

Two teams compete to get the "gold" back to their side of the field.

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Scum

players try to become the king and stay away from the scum seat

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Which Person Is It?

teams compete to correctly identify a person based on clues

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Blanket Ball

Players work in pairs using a blanket to catch and throw a ball

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Chaotica

A simple two team game that you make your own!

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Food Fright

Work in teams to create the scariest monster out of food

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Steal the Bacon

Two teams compete to "steal the bacon" from each other and score on opposing goals.

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Christmas Tree Decoration Making

Get crafty at Christmas time by making some decorations

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Elf on the Shelf

The Elf on the Shelf is a fun holiday tradition for families to play in the lead up to...

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Human Netball

Two teams compete in a twisted version of netball

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Freeze Frame

Not quite charades, not quite pictionary, something in between...

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Scatter Ball

All in Dodgeball.

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Tea Towel Dragons

1. Each player is to take a tag and hang it out of their pocket so it becomes like a...

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Favorite Things Memory Game

Everyone shares their favorite thing and they race to see who can remember first

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Simon Says "It's-a-Me, Mario!"

Simon Says for the LLM age

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Blint Tasting Food Hunt

Teams compete to find the food they blind tasted in a supermarket

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