Youth Group
Candle Tag
The following game needs to be played outside and preferably at night. It has been played success...
Pizza Hunt
Divide the group into teams of between 3 and 5. Each team is given a pizza base and then needs ...
Four Square
Using masking tape or some other system of marking, set up the following court. The game is play...
Bench Ball
Similar to netball but instead of netball hoops, a player from each team stands on a chair (where...
Loony Olympics
Olympics with a difference. The group is divided into teams. Each team then decides on a name fo...
Radio Plays
Divide the group into teams of not more than five members each. Give each team a tape-recorder/...
My Music
This purpose of this is to gain a little insight into the young people making up your group. Divi...
Scavenger Hunt
Teams are given a list of items that need to be collected by a certain time. The team that gets b...
Paper Fashion
Divide the group into teams of three to five people each. Give each team a pile of old newspape...
Progressive Supper
The group visits four different homes, each which provide a different part of the evening's meals...
Airplanes
This activities revolves around various paper airplane challenges. If the group is large then d...
Hot-air Balloons
Cut off the the bottom corners (as indicated by the dotted lines below) of four pieces of tissue ...
Bananas Galore
Divide the group into teams of not more that five. For each activity the teams can get one of th...
Who done it?
At the beginning of the evening everyone writes down one embarrassing movement (which their name)...
Crowd breaker: Translator
Randomly choose two people from the group and get them to stand in the front. Without warning, t...
Crowd breaker: Ugliest Man
Have one of the leaders stand up front with a blanket over them. Inform the rest of the group tha...
Questions & Answers
For a month before have a question box out in which youth members can place any question that the...
Hobo Evening
Everyone dresses up as hobos and then undertake a walking progressive supper. Menu Stop 1: Ve...
Hawaiian Evening
Basically a hamburger evening in which everyone cooks and makes their own burgers. Everyone dres...
Trading with your measure
Break up into teams of between three and five members each. Give each team twenty cents or less. ...
Bible Quiz Night
The title says it all. Divide into teams of four which then challenge each other in a round-robi...
Karaoke
Not much to explain here, an entertainment of Japanese origin in which people take it in turns to...
M&M's or the Balloon
Twelve balloons are inflated, each having a piece of paper mentioning a prize. The prizes range f...
Crowd breaker: Tied Up
Option 1 Divide into pairs and give each person a 50cm piece of string. Let each pair tie them...
Crowd breaker: Matching pairs
The is a good get-to-know-you activity. Before the event, think of a number of matching pairs e...
Night Walk
This is a very simple activity which is generally enjoyed by most. When a good, clear an warm and...
Carolling
Not much to say here but one evening shortly before Christmas, go carolling outside the homes of ...
Track Distribution
Find a community event and go out in pairs distributing evangelical tracts.
Chocolate Feast
Divide the group up into teams of maximum 5 people. Give each team the following: A Dice A k...
Arm wrestling
Not much to add to this one as the title says it all. Depending on the size of the group, divide...
Youth Rally
A simple, yet effective evangelical outreach. Worship and testimonies, followed by a guest speak...
Collages
Using magazines, newspapers, glue-sticks, felt-tipped pens etc, posters are created. These poster...
Donkey Table Tennis
Set up a standard table tennis table with one two bats. Have the group stand around the table. Ea...
Flour Club
Basically this is a poor man's paint ball. The group is divided up into teams. At least one memb...
Rafts
The following activity needs to take place on water. Each participant will need a life-jacket. ...
Board Pictionary
Pictionary but instead of drawing on paper, the player gets to draw on a white/chalkboard before ...
Assassin
Custom cards can be created for this game or regular playing cards will suffice. The group stand...
Top Secret
A study meant to be run over at weekend, at a youth camp, which challenges us as to what our rela...
Mongolian BBQ
The title says it all. Gas BBQ's are provided (or wood fires under steel sheets). Chopped up ing...
Photo hunt
Similar to a scavenger hunt but the teams needs to collect a series of photos. Use your imaginati...
Motor Rally
This activity requires a number of drivers. The drivers don't do any of the work (and are not all...
Extreme Paper Rock Scissors
Split into two teams. Each team huddles in their safe zone and decides which of the moves they wi...
Dangerous finger
Here is a great game that I have just learnt. It would fall into the same genre as that of arm wr...