188 Games Found

1. 2x4 Skis Submitted by: on October 14, 1997
Materials: 2x4s, rope
Messy Rating: Clean up/Cool down Duration: 5-20 minutes Cost: $30.00

2 Groups of 5-10

Prepare a four 2x4's, (or larger if possible), with ropes at each end by drilling through the wood and pushing the rope through and knotting it. Have each group stand on a set of the 'skis' (Pack as many teens together as possible). Then they have to race about 100'. This is another good problem solving puzzle. (They have to yell 'RIGHT' - 'LEFT' - 'RIGHT' and so on).

2. Animal Game Submitted by: on January 17, 1998
Materials: newspaper
Messy Rating: No Sweat Duration: 5-20 minutes Cost: $0.00

Have group form a circle sitting in chairs. One person is to stand in the middle as the "ring master". Everyone is to choose an animal name for themselves (dog, rhino, hippo, monkey,...). The person in the middle is to have a wadded up newspaper to hit the animals...make sure it is tape up well because it will fall apart! You start with one person asking them to call out one of the animal names in the circle. The person whose name was called must call out another name before he/she is swatted by the ring master. This goes on until someone is swatted before another name is called or they call out the ring masters animal name. Once a person has been swatted, they are to become the ring master and the former ring master. take that persons seat. This game is a lot of fun and can be tweaked to make the rules better.

3. Backdraw Submitted by: KC BeDunnah on October 25, 1997
Materials: paper, pen/pencil
Messy Rating: No Sweat Duration: 5-20 minutes Cost: $0.00

Break your young people down into several teams. Have the kids sit on the floor (or in chairs) facing back to front in their teams (similar like that of a train). With the group in single file lines, give the persons on the back of the line an object to draw. That person then is to draw the object you gave them (drawn on a small piece of paper, etc.) on the back of the person in front of them with their finger. Then the next person does it likewise and so on and so on until the person in front of the line draws on paper what you gave the person on the back of the line. The first team done and draws the best picture wins!

4. Barnyard game Submitted by: on October 14, 1997
Materials: nothing
Messy Rating: No Sweat Duration: 5-20 minutes Cost: $0.00

There are several ways of doing this. Either in the dark or in a lighted room. Dark is a lot more fun, but you need to make sure none of the adults are playing (because of liability and Harassment). It does work well in a lighted room too. While the 'kids' (Term used loosely - since most of the people reading this would probably consider me a kid at 20) are coming into the room assign them animals (i.e.: Donkey, Chicken, Horse, Elephant - get creative). Tell them not to tell anyone what animal they are. They have to find everyone else with the same animal that they have. They do this by making the animal sounds (They may NOT talk). Give them a while, and when it seems like they've all found their groups, let them stop. You can also play other games with they groups they've made. They can do some mixers in the small groups - get to know each other.

NOTE: You can have each group hold hands once they've found their group - Jr. Hi Usually Loves the idea, and High School usually doesn't really care.

5. Birdie on a Perch Submitted by: Tony D. Baker on October 14, 1997
Website: http://www.cm-online.net/ym/
Materials: music
Messy Rating: Clean up/Cool down Duration: 5-20 minutes Cost: $0.00

Have everyone get a partner. Have them decide who is the birdie and who is the perch. Have all the birdies stand in a circle and all the perches stand in a circle surrounding the birdies. Have music ready. When the music starts, the birdies walk clockwise around the circle and the perches walk counter-clockwise. When the music stops, the birdies must find their perches and sit on them. Usually the perch kneels on one knee, making a perch out of the other leg. The last couple to pair up is out and the object is to be the last couple left. It's more fun if you make them move quickly in their circles so that they are at least jogging. To speed it up, you can make the last 3 (or more) couples to pair up be out.

6. Blind Square Submitted by: on October 14, 1997
Materials: rope, blindfolds
Messy Rating: No Sweat Duration: 5-20 minutes Cost: $0.00

Blind-fold the kids and get a giant piece of rope that is tied together at the ends. Have them form a square.

7. Body Part Musical Chairs Submitted by: Tony D. Baker on October 14, 1997
Website: http://www.cm-online.net/ym/
Materials: one chair per person
Messy Rating: Clean up/Cool down Duration: 5-20 minutes Cost: $0.00

Have everyone form a big circle of chairs with the chairs facing outward. Remove one chair. Have music ready. When the music starts everyone must walk around the chairs (again it's fun if you make them jog). When the music stops, a caller yells out a body part. Then everyone races to touch that body part to a chair, one person per chair only. If they touch a chair before the body part is called, they are out. The one person who doesn't get a chair is also out. To speed it up, you can remove more chairs. We usually start out simple - nose, hair, left elbow, etc. but towards the end we get more complicated - your bare feet, someone else's left hand (they must grab one of the people who are already out). The object is to be the last one left.

8. Chubby Pickle Submitted by: Tammy Treit on December 2, 1998
Materials: Hamburger Dills, tarp or something to cover floor with, bucket/garbage can
Messy Rating: Need a towel or two Duration: 5-20 minutes Cost: $5.00

Grab a tarp or garbage bags to protect the floor, a bucket in case of an "emergency" and some students to duke it out in this "that's disgusting" version of Chubby Bunny. Give each five dill slices to start and have them say Chubby Pickle instead of Chubby Bunny. Works great to get representatives from all grades and then pit the guys vs. the girls. No swallowing, spitting of juice, or chewing and the words "Chubby Pickle" must be intelligible. Prepare to see some serious slime.

(See Chubby Bunny if you don't know how to play it)

9. Cotton Ball Hockey Submitted by: on October 14, 1997
Materials: cotton balls, gloves, low table, blindfolds
Messy Rating: No Sweat Duration: 5-20 minutes Cost: $5.00

2 People

This is a funny game to play during your meeting. Have two people come up and kneel on either side of a low table. Spread a bag of cotton balls on the table and have each person put on gloves. They are then blindfolded. Tell them they have to sweep all the cotton balls off their own side of the table. Quietly remove all the cotton balls and yell go. The teens are wildly sweeping an empty table as the group keeps screaming for them to hurry.

10. Drop the Keys Submitted by: on April 30, 1998
Website: http://www.poboxes.com/mike.halbrook/
Materials: 1 set of keys. Chairs for the group -1
Messy Rating: No Sweat Duration: 5-20 minutes Cost: $0.00

Arrange the chair in a circle, facing inward. Have the group sit. One person is "it" and doesn't have a seat. "It" holds the keys in his/her hand and grabs a person from the circle, then that person grabs a person and so on. When "it" drops the keys, the people in the line have to try to get to a seat, the one with out a seat is "it"

11. Electric Fence Submitted by: on October 14, 1997
Materials: rope
Messy Rating: Clean up/Cool down Duration: 5-20 minutes Cost: $0.00

Any Size Group

This is a fun game as well as a leadership training scenario. Set up a 15' x 15' area surrounded by a rope on post about 4'-5' high. Place the group inside and tell them they have to get out without touching the rope or the invisible fence from the rope to the ground. (The best solution is to throw people out so make sure your not playing on broken glass, etc.)

You will get a chance to see their problem solving skills as well as how they work together. If they have trouble suggest that they get the biggest people out first and leave the smallest person to be picked up last.

12. Everybody's 'IT' Submitted by: Tony D. Baker on October 14, 1997
Website: http://www.cm-online.net/ym/
Materials: nothing
Messy Rating: Clean up/Cool down Duration: 5-20 minutes Cost: $0.00

This game is like regular tag only everyone is 'it'. Everyone runs around trying to tag everyone else. When you're tagged, you sit down. The object is to be the last person left standing.

13. Feetball Pass Submitted by: KC BeDunnah on October 25, 1997
Materials: big ball
Messy Rating: No Sweat Duration: 5-20 minutes Cost: $0.00

Have the youth lay on the floor on their backs, side-by-side, squeezed to each other an in front of each other meeting at the feet. They are to form a single file line, side-by-side and in front of each other with their feet in the air meeting at the bottoms. At the beginning of the line, give them a big ball to pass down the line by using only their feet. (Have the feet work similar to that of a "gutter" allowing the ball to move down the line.) Have them practice moving the ball to the end of the line back to the beginning of the line. Try it in teams to see who can pass the ball the quickest from the beginning to the end of the line.

14. Get the Leader Submitted by: on October 14, 1997
Materials: different balls (golf, bowling baseball, etc.)
Messy Rating: Change of clothes Duration: 5-20 minutes Cost: $0.00

Leader (Unsuspecting) and 3 volunteers (Unsuspecting)

This is a great skit that we use to initiate new leaders to our group. Set up two tables end to end with about a 1' of open space between. Drape sheets over the table with the overlap in the gap between tables.

Get about 10 different balls (Golf Balls, Bowling Balls, Baseballs, etc.) and put about 7 on the first table and 3 on the second. Cover all the balls with a towel.

Tell the leader that they are going to squat in between the table and have their head covered with a towel. You will tell the three volunteers that it is a race to see how fast they can pull off the towel and say what kind of ball it is. When they get pull the towel off the leader he yells at the volunteer. (This is really funny!) Here's the part you don't tell the leader; When the third volunteer comes in you hand them a bucket of water and whisper that you are going to pull off the towels and they will yell the names of the balls. When you get to the leader you will pull off the towel and the volunteer will throw the water into the wide open screaming face of the leader.

15. Gorilla, Man, Gun Submitted by: KC BeDunnah on October 25, 1997
Materials: Not listed
Messy Rating: No Sweat Duration: 5-20 minutes Cost: $0.00

This game is played the same way as with "Paper, rock, scissors." The difference is the symbolic gestures used. To start, everyone is to find a partner. (If your group has an odd number, don't worry, because those who get out in the first round, will open up for those who didn't get in.) Once everyone is ready to play with their partner, students are to stand back to back. At the word "Go" students turn around immediately giving their gesture of play. Here is how it is done. Students decide at "go" what they are going to be. GORILLA roars out loud with hands beating chest. MAN just stands there with his/her head faced up (as a stance of pride) with hands and arms folded. GUN is using the hand shaped like a gun and the person says bang. Here is the rules: Gorilla beats man (because he his bigger and stronger); Man beats gun (because he invented it); and gun beats gorilla. Whoever beats their partner, goes and finds another partner who won, and losers are out. As you continue to play the game, it will come down to a final two. Who will win?

16. Have you ever...? Submitted by: on October 14, 1997
Materials: one chair per person
Messy Rating: No Sweat Duration: 5-20 minutes Cost: $0.00

Have them sit in a circle with one less chair than people. Odd person is in the middle. They say have you ever...fell asleep in church? Or, cheated on a test?, etc. Everyone that it applies to has the get up and move at least 5 chairs from where they were sitting. The person in the middle tries to get a seat and so someone else will be left in the middle. It works best to not only be specific but general as well - 'Have you ever attended this YG before?'

Caution: Sometimes it gets rough! Make sure they don't shove each other over the chairs.

17. Honey, If you love me, will you please smile for me? Submitted by: on October 14, 1997
Materials: nothing
Messy Rating: No Sweat Duration: 5-20 minutes Cost: $0.00

The group sits in a circle facing inward. One member of the group is 'it.' The objective is for this person to make another smile. He goes around the circle, picks a person, kneels, and asks him/her, 'Honey, if you love me, will you please smile for me?' The person must respond with, 'Honey, I love you, but I just can't smile for you,' without smiling. If he/she smiles, that person becomes 'it', replacing the first. If the person 'it' does not convince a person to smile, he/she must approach another until he/she does. The person 'it' may do any gestures he/she wants to make the person smile (e.g. make funny faces, do a stunt), but cannot touch the person. This is a
circular game, meaning it does not end. A good length for this game would be 20 minutes, or when most of the group has been 'it.'

18. I Wanna Meet Submitted by: Tony D. Baker on October 14, 1997
Website: http://www.cm-online.net/ym/
Materials: one chair per person
Messy Rating: No Sweat Duration: 5-20 minutes Cost: $0.00

Put the group into a large circle of chairs. Pick one person to be in the middle and remove that person's chair. The person in the middle yells 'I wanna meet...', finishing the sentence with whatever they want '... everyone with red hair... all the girls... everyone who's birthday is in June... everyone who hates spinach', etc. Then, everyone who meets that criteria must get up and run to an empty chair at least 5 chairs away from their previous position. The person left without a chair gets to yell 'I wanna meet' next. You have to be careful with this one. Occasionally, kids will want to know more about each other than you think. I'm always a little nervous that someone will say 'I wanna meet all the virgins' and I'll not want to look at who isn't moving.

19. Knots Submitted by: on October 14, 1997
Materials: Nothing
Messy Rating: Clean up/Cool down Duration: 5-20 minutes Cost: $0.00

Get 5 - 9 kids in a circle and have them reach across and grab other's hands. They cannot grab their own hand no can they be holding both hands of someone else (i.e. each hand is holding someone else's hand).

Then they have to un-tangle themselves without letting go. It can always be done so don't let them give up.

20. Lemonade Submitted by: on October 14, 1997
Materials: lemons, sugar, water, glasses
Messy Rating: Need a towel or two Duration: 5-20 minutes Cost: $5.00

Get 4 'volunteers' up front and have them sit down on stools, facing the rest of the kids. Have on a low table in front of each of the 'volunteers', the ingredients(?) for lemonade, a 1/4 of a lemon each, a teaspoon of sugar, and a glass of water. Announce to the kids it is going to be a race to make lemonade when you say go then the kids first of all eat the lemon then eat the sugar , drink the water then they have to jump up and sit down to mix up the ingredients. The first to do this is
declared the winner.

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