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Materials Needed: You will need poster board, colored pens, a writing pen, index cards or a pad. With very little expense, this activity will teach your youth that there are many lost and hurting people in need of prayer. Prayer should always be our first resource when helping others. However, for many, it is the only way we can help. This activity will give your students a small opening into the lives of others that we would never get otherwise.
Materials Needed: You will need paper or poster board, tape, markers, a color printer, or a place to print color photographs. How many people do you pray for each day? How many people are paying for you? Perhaps the person in this photo is not saved and does not know how to pray.
Maybe no one ever prays for them. Can you imagine how that feels? Would you be the one to pray for them? The Lord knows their names and cares for each person in the photographs. He will hear the prayers prayed on their behalf. You will not know how many marriages are rescued or how many souls are saved. Pray for the unknown and expect the Lord to move powerfully.
The fruits of this activity are exponential as your youth ministry impacts the community. The illustration is to care and pray for those we do not know. You will need very few supplies to bring the prayer project together.
This activity will teach your youth to understand that God guides our words and actions so that we can be instruments of blessings in His hands. Many people around us put on a good face while in public. However, inside, what they are in desperate need of is encouragement. People in our church family are carrying huge burdens every day, and we will never know.
The purpose of this activity is to teach your kids to work together as the body of Christ. It will teach them that with just a little effort, they can meet many needs through prayer and teamwork. They will also learn to be led by the Lord in their service. With little effort, you can introduce your youth group to what God is doing around the world. Instill the concept of working together to extend the Kingdom of Christ while they are still young, and the impact will be exponential.
Working in a food pantry will be a lot of fun for your youth, who all love to be active and serve. Allowing your kids to become a part of a local food kitchen helps them see how God uses His children to bless those in need. Many children and youth are fighting grave illness, and hospitals and doctors are all the life they know. Teach your youth group how to help lift the spirits of these children, and you will also be modeling empathy on of the many gifts Christians use to imitate Jesus.
These activities will also teach your children the blessing of serving the sick and hurting. Working with sick children can be a long-term project for your youth. Materials needed: Notecards, colored pens, gift boxes or treats of some kind like cookies. A good thing to remember is that many servicemen and women are not Christians. Your youth group praying for and encouraging them may be just the open door they need to turn to Christ.
Freedom to have church and choose what we believe has not and does not come free. Our military men and women help maintain our freedom to choose and to help others in need.
Your church may have members who are serving or loved ones serving in the military. Utilize your youth group as instruments of blessings for our brave men and women who serve in the military.
People love to hear youth performances. Taking your youth group out for singing provides opportunities to share Christ through song. Materials Needed: Construction supplies such as lumber and paint, transportation, knowledgeable adult supervision. Young people are a boundless supply of energy, and they love to serve. This type of mission trip is popular among the youth. It is also an effective way to teach them to be the hands and feet of Christ.
Putting on a VBS at an orphanage is a beautiful way to bring Christ into the lives of children who have very little hope and engage your students in the needs of others. Materials Needed: You will need three homes for hosting various parts of the dinner. Progressive dinners for adults have been around for years. However, you can plan a progressive dinner designed specifically for your students.
Materials Needed: You will need money for concert tickets, transportation and adult supervision. Christian concerts are an absolute favorite for many.
There is something unique about the experience. It is unlikely they will forget the outing. Your prayer should be that this concert will be a pivotal event for your kids, one which solidifies their faith as they see so many other young people worshiping the Lord.
Materials Needed: You will need a movie on a DVD or through a streaming subscription, a place to watch the movie with your group, and snacks. Using a Zoom movie night is an easy way to keep your youth connected. Frequently, it is hard for youth to get to spend time together. Reasons could be weather-related or, it could be pandemic-related. However, the fun does not have to stop for your youth group. Materials Needed: You will need money for a ski trip, appropriate clothing and ski equipment, and adult chaperones.
A ski trip will be a great opportunity to have focused time with your students. It will be easier to spend time with your group every day there because they will be away from the distractions of home. Many churches do pop-up events for small children, but your pop-up events would take place in the neighborhoods where your youth live. A youth pop-up event will be fun for your students. It is an opportunity to intentionally work toward reaching the youth in the surrounding neighborhoods of your church.
Are you looking for a great way to get your group back together after a long summer? Holding a pizza night will be a temptation that most could not resist. A build your own pizza night is a simple way to get your kids back through the doors and prayerfully bring new youth into the youth group. This event will be the first time for many of your kids to pray for other areas in the world. When we pray for the lost and suffering of this world, the Lord allows us a glimpse into His heart.
Materials Needed: You will need some world maps, black markers, paper, and pens. It is exciting to think that if your group is big enough, you can pray for the world in just one night!
Movies in the park, what great fun for your youth group! Your movie night will provide a perfect avenue to invite their friends. Materials Needed: You will need a projector, DVD player or any other streaming device, a projector, a king-sized sheet hung from two trees or two net frames for sports like soccer or volleyball, blankets and snacks.
This is an incredible way to bless your local refugee agency or Christian clinic. They tirelessly work to help women find ways to keep their babies or assist them with putting their babies up for adoption.
Many young women would welcome a gift, and the agency could use any funds you raise. Materials Needed: You will need materials to make diaper trees, bags for bagging the completed diaper trees, and pizza for the volunteers.
Many agencies are working to help refugees assimilate into our culture. There are many beneficial ways that your youth could be a part of their ministry. When we teach our students to serve while still young, God will use their service to shape them into His instruments. Serving others is an experience that will stay with your kids for the rest of their lives. God says in Acts that He is who moves the boundaries of people so that perhaps they will seek Him.
Involving your youth in serving vulnerable members of our world population will help them see that some need prayers and help. Additionally, the Lord may use this event to call some of your youth into the ministry. There is so much emphasis on our digital life in our culture. Take some time to unplug from all the distractions that come from technological lives.
Set up a camping trip at a national park or some other camping area and make a memorable event that your youth will not forget. Materials Needed: You will need money for the trip, appropriate footwear and supplies, and adult chaperones. We all hear God better when we take time away from distractions, and the youth need it more than ever.
Perhaps this will be the first time they experience the closeness of God as He woos them to be set apart for Him. This trip will be an incredible opportunity to see Him work!
What an exciting road trip when you are going to a conference! Load up your youth group and take them to a youth conference to be recharged and refreshed. How often do we need this as adults? If adults need spiritual uplifting from time to time, imagine what our youth need. Materials Needed: You will need funds for a trip, transportation and adult chaperones. Our youth are facing challenges and stresses every day that we never had to handle.
Give them a break from the sometimes toxic culture we live in and help them learn how to focus on Christ. We hope there are some fun activities and ideas here to help your youth group pray together and stay together! How to Play: You will need to purchase a stuffed cat and mouse, or it could be a stuffed dog and cat. Ask your students to sit in a circle.
Give the mouse to a student on one side of the circle, and the cat to someone on the opposite side. A youth worker will play a song on a guitar or piano at a normal speed to start.
Then they alternate fast and slow speeds to make the game great fun. The students pass the mouse and the cat around the group at the same speed as the music. They repeat this until the cat catches the mouse. The student left holding the mouse when the cat catches it is out. You can devise a fun game for the losers that makes them feel a little less like losers. How to Play: You can choose any object for the students to pass, but they must do something with the item before passing it to the next person.
For example, if using a scarf, they wrap it around their neck once and then pass it to the next person. A bucket would also work. They would need to stand up and turn in a circle, then sit down and pass the bucket to the next person. One of the youth workers will sit with their back to the group and play a song on the guitar or piano. They will set the speed at which the game moves.
The key to the fun is that they must do something with the object before passing it on, and everything must move to the speed of the music. At the end of the game, the music suddenly stops. The last person holding the object is out. Trivia 2. How to Play: Draw an easily identifiable image on a large sheet of kraft paper or poster board. It should be something recognizable. Attach the drawing or printed images on the wall. Make numbered sheets and use them to conceal the drawing.
Write corresponding numbers on the back of index cards, and then write trivia questions based on your current lessons on the front side of the card. Divide students into teams, and each team will take turns drawing a number. If they answer the trivia question correctly, they get to remove the matching number over the image on the wall and guess the drawing or scripture.
The questioning continues until they reveal enough of the picture, and someone guesses what it is. How to Play: You will want to play this game in a space that is easy to clean. Fill portions of large-sized balloons with whipping cream and hang them from the ceiling or a tree limb outside.
Hang the balloons with string or fishing line. The string or fishing line allows the balloon to move freely and adds a little more challenge to the game. Give the students a time limit to design and construct a sword out of aluminum foil. When time is up, blindfold the students and line them up in front of a balloon. Assign leaders to help determine the winner. How to Play: Print Bible story images from the internet and assign each photo a number. Write the corresponding numbers on index cards, fold them and place them in a bucket or hat.
Each student will have a turn to draw a number from the bucket, and then you will show the student the corresponding photo. If they can tell you what Bible story the photo represents, they get to keep the slip with the number. If they guess wrong, return the number to the bucket. When they have identified all the photos, the person with the most index cards wins the game. You could play this game for fun or use it as a review time at the end of a series of lessons. How to Play: Divide students into small groups and give each group several rolls of toilet paper or crepe paper.
Each group chooses a mummy, and the elected mummy stands still while their teammates roll them up. In place of paper, you could also use fabric purchased in the clearance aisle of your local sewing store. You cut the fabric into long strips and use it in place of the paper.
For an added element of fun, have props to put on the mummy once they finish wrapping. When all teams finish their mummies, award prizes to the first to complete their mummy and the most creative mummy. Tennis Bible Trivia Materials Needed: The object of this game is to have the most tennis balls in your basket at the end.
How to Play: Divide students into teams and give each the same amount of tennis balls. Ask each person a Bible trivia question. For each correct answer, they throw a tennis ball into a round laundry basket across the room. If the ball remains in the basket, it counts as a point for their team.
If it bounces out, it does not count. At the end of all the questions, the team with the most balls that stayed inside their basket wins.
The Photo Puzzle Materials Needed: With very little prep time, you can apply a lesson on God as the creator and designer of all things.
How to Play: Take a full-page magazine photo or printed photo and tear it into random, jagged pieces. Insert the pieces into a large deflated balloon. Then blow the balloon up and shake things up. Divide students into small groups, and each group chooses a balloon.
Assign a time limit and give a warning as the end is getting close. The game begins when the groups burst their balloons, then they try to put the photo back together. The first team to put the picture together wins. How to Play: Determine the number of players you will have and get enough small balloons for each. You will also need enough laundry baskets for each team. Each player has a turn at rubbing a balloon on their clothes to build enough static electricity for it to stick to them.
Then they walk over to the laundry basket without the balloon falling or them holding it in place. If the balloon falls off, the player can reapply and start again from that spot. The winner is the team with the most balloons in their basket. How to Play: Ask for everyone to put some personal items on a table.
It could be things like sunglasses, a watch, keys, a hairbrush or comb, a pen, chewing gum, etc. Ask for a volunteer to be the detective. Allow them a few minutes to look at the objects on the table, and then they will leave the room. Another volunteer will choose an item from the table and conceal it in their pocket, purse, or somewhere in the room.
Now the detective returns and must first determine what is missing from the table and then who took it. Once they guess which object is missing from the table, they then interrogate the other students to discover the thief. Allow your detective a set number of questions based on the group size and assign a time limit for each round. The questions should lead them to who took the item. For example, is the thief a boy or a girl? Tall or short? Hair color, wearing red or blue, etc.
They interrogate the students until they guess who took the object, have used all their questions, or until time runs out. How to Play: Fill your balloons partially with water, and you want them jiggly. Give each team a shovel.
Divide your teams into two groups and station them across from each other. If possible, have the same number of players on each side. Give the first player a shovel and place a water balloon on the shovel. They must then take the shovel and balloon as quickly as they can to their team member across from them, and this continues until every person has had a turn. The first team to pass the shovel and balloon to all the team members wins. If they drop the balloon, they must return to the starting point and begin again.
How to Play: Create several good story beginnings and write them on index cards. Read the opening line of a story and choose the first youth to say the next part. It surprised him to see her standing where she was. You can decide when to end a story and move on to another one. Escape Room Bible Trivia Materials Needed: As far as youth group games go, this one certainly is unique and offers a fun time!
How to Play: If your church is big enough, choose different Sunday school classrooms for each escape room. If too small for this, prepare several areas of the church to use for the escape area. Assign at least one leader to each room.
They administer the questions or tasks to each team that enters. Divide students into teams, and they choose an escape room to start with. It could also be a Pictionary-type task where one team member must draw a picture of a bible subject, and the others guess what it is. Your escape rooms can be as fun and crazy as you like. If they cannot complete the task, they move to the next room and do not receive a token. Once all teams have attempted each room, the end the team with the most tokens wins.
How to Play: Design duct tape dartboards with some tape sticky side out. Put it on the ground, at an angle, and not flat. Use duct tape to put a line a few feet away from the board. Assign a leader to keep score. Put some duct tape, sticky side out, on each ping pong ball.
Divide your group into teams and give them enough ping pong balls for each player. Based on your number of players and allotted time, assign the number of chances each person gets to toss their ping pong ball at the target. You can divide your board into point sections like a dartboard and keep score that way.
Or you can assign a point value to each ball that sticks and count how many are on the board after each team member has their turn. The group with the most points wins. How to Play: Divide a playing field or grassy area into lanes. They need to be wide enough that a participant can roll their pumpkin easily. Purchase enough pumpkins for your teams to each have one. Get equal-sized and shaped pumpkins so that each team has the same chance of success.
Put half of a team on one side of the lane and the other half opposite them. The object of the game is to roll a pumpkin to their team member across from them as quickly as possible.
The teams roll a pumpkin back and forth until all team members have had a turn. The first team to finish the relay wins. How to Play: Set up some rain boots along the wall with plenty of space between each boot. Divide your youth into teams and give each team the same number of pennies.
They should work together to determine the best way to pitch the pennies into their boot. Mark starting points at the same distance from each boot and let the pitching begin. Each team member should have the opportunity to throw their pennies. Once all the youth have tossed their pennies, the winning team is the one who has the most pennies in their boot. Alternatively, you could use a bucket, an opened umbrella, or a can. The Quickest Hands Win Materials Needed: This is a great icebreaker game as the youth get to know each other by working together.
How to Play: Get a set of playing cards for each team and put a pack on each table. It would be a good idea to cover your tables if they are slick. Divide your youth group into teams and assign a table to each. The first team who successfully builds a card house with the most cards wins. You can award a special prize to the team who uses all their cards. Hit the Cans Materials Needed: This is a simple carnival game adapted to be played inside and with teams.
How to Play: Assign a point value for each can. Recruit a leader to be a scorekeeper. If possible, recruit a leader for each location to restack the cans.
Set up a pyramid of cans on a table or the floor for each team and mark starting points at the same distance for each. Give a ping pong ball to each team member. Each person steps up to the line and throws their ping pong ball, trying to knock the cans down.
At the end of each turn, record the score, and then the next youth takes their turn. Once every person has had their turn, you can tally the score or do another round. The one with the most points wins. Water Pitcher Relay Materials Needed: For this fun classic game, you will need enough plastic water pitchers, round tubs, and plastic buckets for the number of teams you will have. How to Play: Divide your students into teams.
The first person for each team will start by running across the field to the round tub and filling their water pitcher. Note: the water pitcher can be as small or big as you want. They must get back to the other side as quickly as possible to empty their pitcher into the bucket.
They then pass their pitcher on to the next person in line. You could add some fun by putting objects in the middle of the path and asking them to circle around it going and coming back. The first team to fill their bucket wins. How to Play: Take the large playing cards and tape the printed images on the face of the card. Mix them up and place them face down on a table.
Assign a time limit for each turn and time each student. Each youth will come up and try to find all the matches in the quickest time. How to Play: Purchase enough tennis balls for each team. Collect enough clean aluminum cans to use as bowling pins. You can fill the cans with sand or pebbles to make the game a little harder. Recruit leaders to help keep score for each team. Each student gets two chances to know all their cans down.
Assign the starting score of 50 points for each turn. Deduct 10 points for each of the cans that remain upright. The team with the most points wins. Harvest Hay Maze Materials Needed: Take advantage of the late summer hay harvest by setting up a challenging hay maze. How to Play: Locate a friendly farmer who will loan you a trailer full of hay bales.
Draw your complicated maze on paper for that the volunteers can see the design they are working toward. Recruit adult leaders to set up the maze. Bribe them with food, and you will get more to help.
Set a timer and have the youth start one at a time. Once one is halfway through the maze, start the next player. The person who gets through the maze the quickest wins. Dunk the Youth Pastor Materials Needed: Your youth will line up for an opportunity to play this game, so you should brush up on your Bible trivia.
Each youth gets a turn at asking you, the youth pastor, a question. Each wrong answer results in a turn, hopefully, to dunk you. This is a fun summer game that would be great for use with your youth Vacation Bible School.
How to Play: You will choose your own trivia questions or facts and write them on an index card. Set up enough whiteboards for each team. Divide your youth group into teams.
Give the first player of each team a trivia subject to draw. Have your youth leaders keep track of the teams who successfully guess their subject. The team with the most completed trivia questions wins.
Pin the Answer on the Map Materials Needed: All you will need to do this fun question-and-answer time is a map of biblical Israel, pushpins, and a list of geographical questions. How to Play: Prepare a list of questions on biblical geography. You should have a well-balanced list of questions, from easy to hard. Here is an example: Question: Where did Jesus walk on water?
Answer: The sea of Galilee. Easier for those newer to the faith and harder for those who have been in church for a long time. Place your map of Israel on a bulletin or corkboard. Provide enough color-coded pins to cover all your questions. You should have a different color for each team. Divide your group into small teams.
Every student should answer a question. 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.
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