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Favorite Youth Group Games series
I love youth group games! I start every large-group youth meeting with some sort of game or fun activity and sometimes end with one, too. They generate excitement, let kids burn energy, teaches them to...
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Favorite Youth Group Games #1: Wawa Man
Outdoor Game; All Ages; 20-30 kids Wawa Man is probably one of my all-time favorite games! It’s a combination of Football and Capture The Flag rolled together as one. Setup 1. Setup a field like the...
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Favorite Youth Group Games: Chuck the Chicken
Indoor Game; All Ages; 12 or more kids This is a fast, active game that works better with larger groups (12 or more people) and needs a fair amount of space that students run around. Supplies needed:...
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Favorite Youth Group Games: Mattress Surfing
Indoor Game; All Ages; 10 or more kids We just played this last night at Sr. High youth group and had a blast! Split everyone into teams of 5-8 kids and give each team a mattress. Instruct the teams to...
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Favorite Youth Group Games: Alphabet Game
Indoor Game; All Ages; 10 or more kids I accidentally ran across this game on my computer while searching for something else. Dunno where I originally got it from, but the document was last modified in...
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Favorite Youth Group Games: Human Snowball
Indoor Game; All Ages; 10 or more kids Last year my wife worked as a receptionist for a company and did a lot of odd jobs besides answering the phone and directing customers. One afternoon I showed up...
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Favorite Youth Group Games: Capture the Flag Pole
Indoor or Outdoor Game; Sr. High Only; 20 or more kids While I would never recommend the TV show MXC (Most Extreme Challenge) to anyone due to the dialog’s sexual overtones, I happened to see this on...
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Favorite Youth Group Games: Binocular Soccer
Indoor or Outdoor Game; All Ages; 10 or more kids This game idea was submitted via email by Pastor Jon Eagleson. It looks hilarious! Just watch this video to get an idea of how it works. Play a regular...
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Favorite Youth Group Games: Twinkie Challenge
Ben Schnipper of Mexico, Missouri submitted this game. Sounds hilarious! Thanks, Ben! Indoor Game; All Ages; 10 or more kids Supplies: Twinkies, babyfood, food injector (preferably one with a a sharp...
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Favorite Youth Group Games: Vertical Twister
Indoor Game; All Ages; 4 or more kids Supplies: One Twister mat for every 4-5 students. One Twister spinner. Tonight with the Jr. High students we played Twister with a twist. Instead of laying the...
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Favorite Youth Group Games: Bean Boozled
Indoor Game; All Ages; 4 or more kids We played this a couple weeks ago in both our Jr. High and Sr. High ministries. The facial expressions and reactions are priceless! The game is pretty simple. I...
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Favorite Youth Group Games: Toilet paper dodgeball
Indoor Game; All Ages; 10 or more kids This game idea is submitted by Russell Martin, a worship leader in Texarkana, Texas. Gather many rolls of toilet paper and put them in the middle of the room....
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Top 5 summer youth events that cost under $5 total
Youth ministry budgets are often slim, but that doesn’t mean your youth group fun has to be. Summer events are great for building relationships, earning trust, and meeting pre-Christians. Here are five...
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Favorite Youth Group Games: Musical dodge ball
Indoor Game; All Ages; 10 or more kids This post has been sitting as a draft for almost a year. Sorry! Better late than never, I guess. Justin Ross has a great youth group game idea of combining...
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Favorite Youth Group Games: Inner-tube challenge
Indoor Game; All Ages; 30 or more kids Troy Young, student pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church in Danville, KY, sent me this game idea. I haven’t tried it yet, but can’t wait to do so! Buy 3 or 4, 20″...
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Favorite Youth Group Games: Baseball meets dodgeball
Indoor Game; All Ages; 30 or more kids This game was submitted by Ish Engle, youth pastor at First Christian Church of Cushing, Oklahoma. There are seven boxes in the field of play, home plate and a...
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Youth group game: Cell phone picture challenge
While feeding my little girl two weeks ago, I watched the Youth Specialties podcast with Jonathan McKee who gave an idea of a cell phone text messaging game. I took his idea and modified it a bit....
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A youth group game using Google Voice
Since I’m on a roll with the whole “technology in ministry thing” after this week’s post on how new technology develops into a ministry tool and how we used Google Wave at youth group, I figured I...
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Freebie Friday 183: “Minute To Win It” activity guide
I know I just posted a couple weeks ago about NBC’s “Minute To Win It” game show and some of the ideas you could take and use as youth group games, but this week’s resource is a bit different. Instead...
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To Game or Not To Game
Games! The location wasn’t anything special—a multi-purpose room of a small little church. But about 70 students, gangbangers and high school dropouts from the community were gathered, laughing,...
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