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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. Set a time limit for each person. The winner is the one who made the most people laugh.

They absolutely love this game. The boys get super into it, trying so hard to get that last seat. Equipment needed: Music, you could play some contemporary Christian music like Toby Mac and some chairs.

Split The Difference is a must-know, need-to-have game in your activity arsenal! This game requires no preparation, no materials, can be played anywhere, and is sure to lead to lots of great conversation, laughter and fun. Rock Paper Scissors Tournament is a fast-paced game that is easy to pull off, and your youth will want to play this one over and over again!

Assemble students in a line and have one person be Sherlock. Sherlock leaves the room and the students remaining change one thing about their appearance. They can pull their hair up or down, put on a jacket or take one off, put a sticker on, and so forth. Sherlock reenters the room and tries to identify as many changes in the appearance as they can. Equipment needed: none, other than random items they can use to change their appearance which they should be able to find in the youth room.

I hope you found some new games to play with your group. Remember youth love to have fun and they love to be silly, whether they let on or not. Are you looking for some great topics for youth sermons? Play individually or cooperatively: Get a large container and fill with one inch of water, then play a few small toys and freeze. Add more water and toys and freeze again.

Repeat the process for each layer until the container is full. Remove the block of ice and give your child tools to melt it. Play in a group: This version is a bit easier to prepare. Just fill an ice cube tray with one penny and water. Then freeze. Give each child one ice cube and see who can melt it not break it in their hands first and get to the penny. That child is the winner and everyone gets to keep a penny!

Sometimes unstructured play is best. Have your child help you create this sprinkler. Use the drill to make holes in the bottle, if you have older children you can supervise as they do this step.

Then securely tape the container to the end of the garden hose. Turn on the water for an instant sprinkler! Your children can run through it, jump over it, and have plenty of fun. Looking for fun sprinkler games? Your children can play ring-around-the rosy, hokey pokey freeze dance, and more around the sprinkler. This game is a lot like an egg toss but the water balloons instead.

Start by filling several water balloons. Have the children divide into pairs and give each pair one water balloon. Have the children start close together and throw the water balloon back and forth. On each successful throw, have both children take another step back. The team that ends up the furthest apart wins! All you need for this water game is a hose.

Have an adult hold the hose up high with water streaming out of it. Children can take turns limboing under the stream. After each round, the adult should lower the hose.

Last one limboing wins! The chosen player gets up and chases it around the circle trying to tag them. If It is tagged, they must sit in the center of the circle until someone else is tagged. The chosen player becomes the next It. Resoak the sponge and start again!

Grab a ping pong ball, a sharpie, and several plastic cups. Label the cups numbers Fill the cups halfway with water and set the cups up so the ones labelled 1 are closer and the ones labelled higher numbers are further away. Give a child five ping pong balls and let them throw them into the cups for points.

You could also let the children throw as many ping pong balls as they can in thirty seconds. Then let the next child take a turn. The child with the most points wins. You may want to put down a cheap plastic throw away tarp for these games.

Egg Roulette : Fill a bowl with several boiled eggs and one raw egg hidden in the mix. One at a time the child should crack an egg on their head until one breaks. Egg Toss : Divide the children into pairs and give each pair one raw egg. They must toss the egg back and forth, taking a step back after each successful toss.

The winners get the most distance between them without dropping the egg. Egg and Spoon Race : Give each child one raw egg and one spoon. The first child to get to the finish line and back without dropping their egg wins. If the egg drops, the child must start over from the start line. This fun face paint game mixes tag, with capture the flag. You will need five tongue depressors, each marked with a color of the rainbow. You will also need matching face paint colors.

Hide the tongue depressor and matching face paint in a variety of places around the yard. All of the other players run off in search of the sticks. When they find a stick, they should put a stripe of the matching face paint on their cheek and then continue searching without letting anyone else know where the stick is.

In the meantime, the It tries to tag the other players. If It tags a player, It can wipe off one stripe of color from their face. Squirt Gun Painting : Set up easels with paper or tack paper to a tree.

Fill each squirt gun with a different color. Then give each child a squirt gun and let them spray the paper to paint it. Your children can switch guns to mix different colors. Squirt Gun Tag : Make sure everyone is wearing a white shirt that can get dirty. Fill the squirt guns with two different liquid watercolors and divide everyone into teams.

Continue until only one player remains standing that team wins! To extend the game, play the color wars version. The child with the most white remaining on their shirt at the end of a designated time wins!

The games ended up being a major team building exercise. It helped them find things in common and get past the initial awkwardness that can come with meeting new people. They needed the games to break the ice so they could feel comfortable participating in discussions about the lesson. Now I realize games are vital to building community in youth group. So after doing some research, our team has compiled a list of the top 20 youth group games with you. I have a feeling many of these games will help you and your students this week!

We keep these games updated based on feedback we get from youth leaders like you. So, you can always check back to look for new games.

You take apart a flashlight and hide the parts throughout the play area. One kid is the Grog, which is a monster that can freeze you in place by tagging you. It was a favorite by far. This is the game of sardines, but explain it with the story of how the early Christians met in the catacombs, but they still increased in number. One person hides in a dark place, and then as people find them, they join in hiding, until one person remains.

Dodgeball with a twist. To start, everyone must have a hand on a nerf ball. Throw the ball up in the air and everyone scatters. Somebody grabs the ball in the air or off the ground. Whoever has the ball can only take two steps. After two steps, the player must throw the ball — dodgeball style — at another player. If the ball hits a player, that player sits down right where they are. If a player is hit by the ball and catches it, then the throwing player sits down. At any time sitting players can snag the ball if it rolls by, and they can throw it at standing players trying to get them out.

The game ends when only one player is standing. The youth group gathers in the evening when the church is dark. They congregate in one lit room and one person goes to hide a large doll any stuffed animal will work. The Spaghetti And Marshmallow Tower is a classic game that you may well have played yourself. To make it happen, split your group into as many teams as you have supplies keeping around members in a group. Provide each group with one pack of spaghetti and one pack of large marshmal- lows.

Teams are charged to use their supplies to build the tallest freestanding tower they can meaning that holding the tower up for measuring is against the rules.

Give the groups a certain time limit during which they can construct their tower — anywhere from minutes generally works well — and give them a one-minute warning before their time up.

The winning team is the one with the tallest freestanding tower, as measured by the game leader. Break any ties by having the teams move their tower across the room and measuring again, not allowing them to fix any breakages. Note: Some teams will get creative and incorporate the spaghetti box and marshmallow bag into their structure. There is no rule against this. Assign points for odd items that students can find to take a picture with around the Church property or within a designated area.

Get creative with your lists. The added bonus of this game is you automatically have some great photos of your students that you can put in the youth group room. You can even feature some of them as photos of the week. Two teams of two students compete. On each team, one student acts as the mother bird and the other acts as the baby bird.

The team with the most worms in their eggshell at the end of 20 seconds wins. Ties are broken via bird- calling contest. Give them an word and the team has to guess the word they drew. This would be a good ice breaker activity before a lesson if you tie in themes from the lesson into the drawings.

The goal is to get 4 of your team onto the same couch. There must be one less seat than people in the room must have a couch; you can play three on a couch if necessary. Check out our new Youth Group Games Book - over pages of games! Youth Camps - Prepare for an awesome summer camp!

About Us Youth Group Games was formed in with the aim of providing easy access to high quality ice breaker games, team building activities and other ideas for Youth Group Leaders. You can read more about us here View our Privacy Policy here. A Perfect Square. For this game you'll need a long rope and several blind folds. Gather the group together, have them sit in a circle and place their Animal Farm.

This is a quick, fun activity to divide your group into smaller groups. Give each person a card or post-it note with the name Banana split in the mouth. This game is hilarious and fun for all! Prep: Gather all ingredients for banana Best Friends and Worst Enemies. A short fun physical game to help get people moving