Youth Group Balloon Games
Balloon games are always fun to play at youth group. Balloons are cheap to buy, exciting to play with and the game possibilities are endless.
A few of the most well know balloon games include Balloon Pop Off, The Crab Balloon Game and Balloon Frenzy.
Have you played a balloon game that's not listed here? Share your balloon game or balloon activity with others.
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Categories
Teams
Duration
Messy Factor
The aim of this balloon game is to knock the opposing teams balloons to the floor whilst keeping your own in the air.
Basically you have all the balloons for each team blow up their balloons and st...
Inside
Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
Everyone gets in the crab position. Two chairs at either end of the hall with a person standing up on them. Team has to hit the balloon to their chair so the person can pop the balloon with a pin.
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Inside
Multiple Teams
0 - 5 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
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 ...
Inside
Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
Under $20
Set up a large rectangle, mark out a no thow zone, about 5 metres, 2.5M from centre for each side. Then it is played like american dodgeball, only difference is you have the buckets at each end. One p...
Play anywhere
Multiple Teams
5 - 10 mins
Extreme Mess
Under $20
Talking Point
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...
Inside
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
Just like volleyball except you use water balloons! The objective is to not allow the balloons to hit the ground on your side of the court. If you fill the balloons with cold water it makes the game t...
Play anywhere
All On All
5 - 10 mins
No Mess
No cost
A fantastic balloon game to help with learning memory verses!
Put each word of the memory verse in the balloon in different balloons.
Each child gets a balloon to burst, thus retrieving their w...
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All On All
0 - 5 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
Divide your youth group into 3 teams. Layout a small-sized soccer pitch using cones on a grassy area.
2 of the teams will start playing soccer against each other... while the other team get straigh...
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Multiple Teams
0 - 5 mins
Extreme Mess
Under $20
Capture the Flag
Wide gamesWater gamesTeam building gamesCamp gamesAction gamesLarge group gamesNight games
Capture the flag is one of the most popular wide games ever and is great to play on a youth camp in a location with plenty of running space.
SET UP
1. Find a location to play. The ideal location...
Play anywhere
Multiple Teams
10 - 30 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...
Outside
Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Extreme 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...
Inside
Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
Cool Off & Clean Up
Under $20
Charlie's Candy
Wide gamesTeam building gamesSimulation gamesLarge group gamesCamp gamesAction games
This game is based on the great children's movie "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." You're going to need a large group to play it, so this could be a good camp game.
1) Break the group into six eve...
Outside
Multiple Teams
30 - 60 mins
No Mess
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
Have your group split up into two teams and set up like they are going to play volleyball. Then take and set up the net and put the sheet over it so each team cannot see the other team and tell the ki...
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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
Get the group to sit in a circle and then select one person to be "it". They must walk around the circle, tapping each person on the head as they go and say "duck" or "goose". If they say "duck" while...
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Whole Group
5 - 10 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...
Play anywhere
Multiple Teams
10 - 30 mins
No Mess
Over $20
Setup:
- Make sure the rope is marked in the middle, and has two other marks 4 metres apart from the middle.
- Mark three lines on the ground 4 metres apart.
- Break up the group into two even team...
Outside
Multiple Teams
0 - 5 mins
No Mess
No cost
