1800+ Youth Group Games, Team Building Games, & Icebreakers!
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Random Indoor Youth Group Games
Narrow and Wide Gate
BookmarkYou will need: 3 bamboo canes and 2 clothes pegs per gate. At least one team of at least three people(works best two or more teams of 3-6) Make: one gate per team. For each gate use two canes as side bars. Clip one clothes peg on each side bar at the same level (low down for a narrow gate, higher up for a wide gate). Use the third bamboo cane as the cross bar, balanced on the clothes...
Creativity Exercise: Paper Printer
BookmarkThis is a fun and engaging exercise which uses kid’s imagination and innovative skills. Split the group into subgroups of three or four kids. Provide each team with a shoe box, sticky tape, a pair of scissors, a marker pen and a few A4 sheets. Each team has twenty minutes to design a paper printer out of the materials provided. The best design gets a suitable...
Shoe Mania
BookmarkDivide the group into two teams. Have teams lined up facing eachother with a considerable amount of distance between the two lines. Have everyone take their shoes off and put them in a big pile in the middle. Make sure the pile of shoes is very mixed up. Then at your signal, let the teams go to the middle and try to find their two shoes. The team with all of its member’s shoes back on...
Cherry Pie
BookmarkYOU NEED: 2 pie pans 2 bowls or cool whip a jar of cherries Place an even number of cherries in each pan and cover with cool whip so cherries cannot be seen. Get two volunteers to compete against each other. This could be 2 youth or a youth and an adult youth worker etc. When you say go the first person to get all the cherries out of the pie wins. Here's the catch. They can only use...
Choo Choo Train
BookmarkMake two lines of horizontal strips of masking tape each exactly one foot apart from the other. This is good in a standard size classroom. Divide into two teams, and have each person stand between one of the strips at the back of the room, with no gaps. Take turns asking each team a Bible question. If anyone answers correctly, they move to the front of the line, and anyone behind them...
Random Outdoor Youth Group Games
Egg Jousting
BookmarkThis is a fun game. You will need a bunch of those pool noodles (can be found in most backyard pools) and some eggs and pantyhose. Have your group divide into pairs and one person is the horse and the other the jouster. The horse wears the pantyhose with the egg in it (it helps to tie it off, so it will stay put). The jouster rides on the horse's back, and with the pool noodle, tries...
Waterballoon Introduction
BookmarkThis is a great summer intro game, especially for inducting new seventh graders or any group of totally new students. As students arrive at your event put their name on a water balloon. When everyone has arrived distribute the balloons and make sure no one has their own name. The trick is for them to soak the person whose name is on the balloon they recieved while not getting hit by...
Coke Relay
BookmarkFor this game, create an obstacle course that requires a lot of jumping, running, crawling, and motion in general. Divide the teams up into two teams, and it's a basic relay. The catch is that instead of passing a baton, students are given a can of Coke to carry. Upon completing their leg of the relay, they must open their can (which of course sprays everywhere) and drink it before...
Random Ball
BookmarkMy group was on a retreat, but discovered that the kickball, which was the only ball available, was too misshapen to be used for any normal game. This game was the result. It's perfect for wearing people out, killing time with a large group, or just making the most out of very little equipment. Numbers: 4 - 4000 Materials: A ball that can be kicked, (a frisbee was used once, but not...
Fetch!
BookmarkGET: Timer. Large Playing field. Anything that is meant to be thrown (Frisbee, baseball, Soccer... etc.) THE GAME: Divide into groups. Send kids in the field. Leave team leaders on perimeter of field. When time starts, leaders throw items out into field as far as possible. (Don't throw to teammates) People in field FETCH! items and bring them back to leader/score person until time is...
Bananarama I & II – Addition
BookmarkWe played the Bananarama games for our youth and they worked out great- we got a lot of positive feedback- the kids went nuts! A couple things we did different was we had a few leaders in a car go out and give each team a challenge. If the team completed the challenge, they kept all their bananas. If they did not, they lost three bananas. There's a lot of banana-related challenges to...