Youth Ministry Games : Disaster Game

Supplies :
1. Bowling ball
2. Colored paper house, water, silo, and land
3. Pencil and paper

Object: to survive

Opposition to survival: Natural disaster and man made calamity

Play begins in this way; participants each form the following from the corresponding paper:

1. Paper house (fold paper in half to form a frame dwelling)
2. Paper water blue square of paper
3. Land (for income and food) brown paper square
4. Roll yellow paper into a tube to form a grain silo

Place items on the floor according to your own personal strategy. The disasters come one each day in this game. They come in the form of a bowling ball rolled slowly (very, very s l o w l y). Each object covered by the ball is considered destroyed and removed from the game.

Special note: This is a game of reliance. Because one person cannot survive without all four items sharing becomes strategic and necessary.

One person may survive without some of these things for the following time.
Shelter (paper house) ………………………….3 days
Water ……………………………………………..1 day
Food (paper silo) .……………………………… 2 days
Land ………………………………………………4 days

Resources can be shared in the following manner:

One shelter will support 3 people
One food will support 2 people
1 water will support 3 people
1 land will support 4 people