1800+ Youth Group Games, Team Building Games, & Icebreakers!
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Random Indoor Youth Group Games
Doughnut Chow Down
BookmarkYou need a few doughnuts - it doesn't matter if there glazed or not. Then you have a bucket of chocolate syrup and some string. Tie the doughnut to the end of the rope and give it to your teams of 2 members. One person in each group holds the doughnut and dips it in the chocolate syrup then the other group member lays on the ground and has the doughnut dangled in front of their mouth...
Pong Wars
BookmarkTwo or more teams, lots of ping pong balls with as many colors as their are teams. Small trash cans approximately 12 to 15 feet between the teams. The object is to get as many of your teams colored balls into the opposing teams can. If your team smashes a ball from the opposing team, then one of yours comes out of their can and does not count. With tons of ping pong balls flying...
Memory Verse Shootout
BookmarkThis game tests the memory verses of your youth. Play this with a group that you've been with for some time or when discussing the importance of committing verses to memory. Split the group into two teams . Now name a word that is found all throughout the Bible (e.g. God, Word, Christ, love, etc). One member from the first team quotes a verse that has that word. The other team...
Amazing Mobsters – Doctor Variation
BookmarkThis is a lengthy variant, but if you enjoyed the original, trust me it is worth the time to read. Doctor Variant Choose a certain card to represent the town Doctor. Each time that the Town "Sleeps" the facilitator of the game can ask the Doctor only to raise his/her head. The facilitator, asks the doctor which person that he/she would like to protect from the mob. Secretly the...
M&M Relay Variation
BookmarkDivide the M&M's by color and put an equal number of each color in each teams bowl. Then specify the order in which the M&M's must be eaten. Players line 15-20 feet from the bowls and take turns running down to eat one M&M at a time. For some added fun, don't worry about equal numbers of each color, you can even make it very different, so it looks like one teams is way ahead (because...
Powder Puffs
BookmarkThis game can get a little messy, so be sure to use a plastic tarp or play on a tiled floor. What You Will Need: Large bowls Flour LifeSavers (or some other kind of small candy. Powdered doughnuts also work well) Apple Water Table Set Up: Put water in one of the bowls and flour in the other. Bury the candy in the bottom of the bowl with the flour and the apple in the bowl of water. Be...
Random Outdoor Youth Group Games
Civil War
BookmarkThe game is called "Civil War" and it is a water game that demands a small field. Divide into even teams (2-1,000,000) and line each team up side by side, arm length apart about 25 yards from one another on their own Territory Line. You know, like opposing armies in the Civil War. Arm each soldier with TWO water balloons each. Pick one team to "go" first. What this means is one team...
Messy Food Relay
BookmarkThis gets messy so bathing suits and/or t-shirts and shorts are recommended, and a water hose to rinse off is needed. Divide into as many teams as desired, but aim for at least 5 people on each team. On chairs or low tables, have boxes or brown grocery bags filled with an assortment of odd foods. Cans of Cheez Wiz, small sandwich bags with a handful of surgery cereal, small pkgs. of...
Ultimate Glowing Sneakball
BookmarkItems needed: 4 Touch lamps per team, balls that glow in the dark or have lights (any discount store), 1 water balloon launcher per team, Set-up: Form students into three equal teams (do more as needed). Put four touch lamps around the team. We will need three team bases. At each team base there will be an adult that is enforcing the rules. The teams will be super far away from the...
Free Stuff Snatch
BookmarkThis was kinda off the cuff and organised within two days. Basically, the kids go down a main street of town, asking shop owners for free stuff. We found asking politely helps. Something like: "Hi we're from such and such church/youth group. We were wondering if you had any free stuff you could give us. See, we're competing with another team to see how generous businesses are in such...
Capture The Flag
BookmarkDivide your group into 2 teams, you also need to divide your playing area into 2 equal parts. (We use a field for the younger youth and the entire camp ground for the older youth). Each team has to designate an area to be used as a "jail" which can be guarded from 5 feet away. Each team also has to hide their flag from the other team. Once the game has started, opposing team members...
Lemonade Relay Race
BookmarkThis is an awesome messy game! To play you need at least two teams of at least 4 or so people. You also need an empty bucket, a pitcher of water, sugar, and lemon juice for each team. Have each team line up relay style with the water, sugar, and lemon juice at one end and the bucket at the other. The first person on each team squats down so that another member of his team can pour the...