Divide the room into one opinion and another and watch them passionately argue constructively, hopefully! You can always do a movie night, board games, Olympics-esque trials, and more. There are so many good group games out there. Consider asking someone in the group to plan the activity ahead of time give them time to prepare! This will engage someone other than an adult leader and potentially give way to a more engaging time for the rest of the youth as well.
Buy-in from the parents. Build a loyal group of 5 or 6 parents of children in the age group that you're building a community for. Have those parents take turns hosting hospitable, welcoming events for the rest of the kids.
As the parents build consistency, the kids will begin to expect it and long for it. Before too long, their best friends will be in that community! Something that usually works is to ask questions that are totally ridiculous and let the kids imaginations run wild. They'll all start to feed off of each other's answers and everyone will be laughing together.
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To Encourage Having Fun Remember, it's easy to get caught into a mindless routine of last-minute activities that just pass the time think 3rd grade substitute teacher wheeling in the VHS and playing a movie everyone had already seen 30 times. To Encourage Working Together Competition, classic games, and beat-the-clock time limits all have their place, but team-building and group activities exist for a reason.
Example: Have someone record a TikTok of another person helping bag the groceries for an elderly person at a grocery store. Add some fun music behind it, then post it to your Youth Group's TikTok account. Get-to-know-you activities A big part of youth ministry is building relationships with your students.
Hide and go seek in reverse. Where everyone goes and hides and there is one seeker. A current favorite of our youth group! Two versions exist: a competitive version based on a guessing game, and a version that is more about coming up with a creative interpretation. A game where everyone passes the same emotion around the circle. A personal favorite of mine for middle school youth because they love yelling out poop deck! Equipment needed: open space and boundaries markers. Not only will you love it, so will they.
All you need is some chalk or tape to make your court and a ball. Get ready to create a new tradition and a game that will be requested all the time! Youth work in groups of two and try to cooperatively sit down together and stand up with their backs pressed together. A twist on hide-and-go seek where one person hides and everyone seeks. When someone finds the hider they then hide with them. This continues until the last one seeking finds the whole youth group hiding in one place.
This is a beloved game of many youth! This is a great game for how gossip spreads or how we can often misunderstand or mishear things told to us. One person is the jokester and they try to make each person in the circle laugh. They can tell jokes, make funny faces, and so forth. Make sure your categories and questions are relevant to the kids in your group the broader the better , but here are some categories you might use:.
Resist the temptation to make every question ridiculously hard. At most, you should have one really tough question per category. You can make trivia night into a really fun, out-of-the-ordinary event by putting additional effort into the ambiance. Let kids enjoy snacks while they discuss the questions together. You can do a minimal version of this with just paper and pens, but if you take the time to make trivia night more elaborate, it could easily become an annual tradition and one of the highlights of your youth group.
When the weather is nice or at least tolerable , it opens up opportunities to play some messier, more involved games. Supplies: Lots of fruit vegetables are OK too , baseball bat, goggles optional. Fruit baseball is exactly what it sounds like. They may already have a program they send this produce to, but if you ask the right store or the right employee , you can probably get all the fruit and veggies you need for free or at least a significant discount.
If you use peppers or citrus fruits, you should probably have your batters wear eye protection of some kind. Remember: the important thing here is that everyone gets at least one opportunity to obliterate a piece of fruit.
Feel free to modify the rules or be lenient with strikes so that kids have more chances to participate. Buy at least two of them one for each team you plan on having. Have one kid from each team lay on top of the ice block and hug the sides with their arms. Someone else will hold their legs and either push or pull them to a cone or whatever you use to designate the end of the course and back. Then they switch: the student who was pushing or pulling hugs the ice block, and the next student in line takes their place.
Have kids sit in the back of the line when they finish their leg of the relay. This youth group is a total free-for-all where kids and leaders get to pelt each other with giant marshmallows. If you have the time to plan and prepare, you can turn part of your town or a local park into a course for The Amazing Race. Choose a series of popular, easily recognizable locations to form your course. Ex: Make a three point shot on the basketball course, send your whole team across the monkey bars backwards, guess the flavors in a smoothie, take a picture with a stranger wearing green, etc.
Have a leader at each station to explain the challenge and hand out the next clue. Set a time limit, and make sure everyone knows what time the game ends and when they need to be back at the starting location—whether they completed the course or not. Depending on your kid-to-leader ratio, you may need to ask parents to volunteer as drivers. Make sure you set a time that everyone needs to be back. Be prepared to see surfboards, mattresses, outdoor heat lamps, go karts, and other absurd items.
Leaders should talk them through what they should say when they get to the door so that people will be more inclined to help them. Also, some people may be willing to loan items they want back. Up-front games are great because they let you put the spotlight on kids who may not get as much attention, or use some of the strong personalities in the room to your advantage.
Supplies: long table with a hole on one side, big tablecloth, stopwatch, watermelon, wig, baseball bat, a couple random items such as a shoe, a football, or phone , a few large boxes. This is a game that tricks both the participants and the audience.
Before you set up the game, call up three contestants. Two of them can be random, but one should be a kid you can trust to ham it up and be a little crazy. Arrange the tablecloth on the table, place the random items on top along with the baseball bat, and cover them with the boxes. The bat should be the last item before the hole. Have a leader put the wig on and crawl under the table with the watermelon, put their head through the hole, and cover them with a box.
Make sure the leader is facing the contestants, not the audience. The person who names all four items the fastest wins. I hope to return and share my experience with you. I'm from Nigeria and this has really helped me in my research on how to improve our youth ministry.
Thanks a lot. I thought this was so very helpful to me, I am so excited to get started on this with my youth group, we are very small in numubers but I think they will enjoy it!!!!
This article was so helpful! I cannot wait to dig in deeper with my group with activities from this post. Various activities are a good way to do it. Their input helps as well to get an idea of what they like to do. Good luck. I want to organise an activity in my church that will bring the teenagers closer. How do i go about it? I'm willing to be a youth fellowship leader in our small church in Philippines.
I wanted to have more ideas and lesson plan to make the bonding fun and to glorify our Lord Jesus Christ. I hope this Web can help me. Though who love a few more ideas for a children program am organizing I want to draw a programm for inter church youths from different churches please i need your ideas. I think that would all depend on what day you were celebrating. There are all kinds of activities you can tailor to particular events.
This is absolutely amazing!! I'm starting up a Youth Impact Program in my community. Thank you!!! I am a young youth president and i learned alot from your ideas i will be keeping my youth night tomorrow and i am writing some ideas from from your topics Thank you very much you help me alot.
I have a 16 year old that need to be around other people her age. I like the activities posted. Is there a place she can go in pinellas area in Tarpon Springs or near it? Thank you. I thank God for persons like you that make this type of information available for free. May God continue to guide each and every one of you. Lock-ins can be fun if you can get enough volunteers and kids to do it. They are a good money maker for missions too.
Of course you have to get all the appropriate permissions to do something like that. Hi Tasha - That sounds like a fun idea, but I would get permission from church leaders before doing something like that. Thanks for reading. Thank you for the perfect ideas. I wanted to know is it a great idea to do a secret santa for the whole church for those who what to participate.
I had this idea, my dad is homeless and i can't do much but what i do he is very thankful for. What if your youth group had a chicken noodle night. Go to a place where homeless people go. Have a really big bucket and warm chicken noodle soup and give then a bowl. Just to do something nice. Thank you Linda. I'm hoping lots of people find it useful. I know my daughter really enjoys attending youth groups.
This is an excellent article, Claudia. It contains lots of great ideas for church youth group activities. It would be a very useful article for anyone involved in organizing the activities. If you need ideas for a great icebreaker for your youth group, look no further than this list. You'll find 16 that are good for all group sizes and ages and are sure to get your group together in no time.
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