War Ball

Make a circle with lime or powder on the grass about 20-30 feet in diameter, the size can vary, depending on the group. Then divide the circle into 4 equal sections. Create four teams and assign one team per...

The Garbage Game

You'll need 2 small garbage cans (1 per team), 50 pieces of crumpled paper (25 per team) and 4 "Jail break cards" (2 per team). Set up two territories with a no mans land in between. Divide your group into 2...

Egg Head

This game is great for any size youth. Step 1: Split the youth into 2 or 4 teams, and get an even amount of people from every team. Step 2: Stick a raw egg in a stocking, and stick the stocking on your he...

Story Noises

Have two volunteers come to the front of the room. One will stand facing the class/audience. The second volunteer will stand behind the other, with his or her back away from the audience. Ask the class will ...

Skit In A Bag

Divide the group into groups of 4-5. Have a brown grocery bag full of funny, miscellaneous items you find around your house for each group. Bags usually contain about 5-7 items. Things like a comb, an apple,...

Balance the Bucket

This activity can work as a teamwork exercise. Split your group into teams of five students each. Give each team identical buckets filled to the exact same level with water. (ALL either half full or 75 per...
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Frozen T-Shirt

Take a few t-shirts (usually one with your student ministry logo or a recent event shirt) soak in water, fold, then freeze them for at least 24 hours. Bring the shirts out and ask for volunteers. have the volun...

Duck Duck Splash!

Played just like Duck Duck Goose except the ducker carries a bucket with water in it. Instead of saying goose, the ducker dumps the bucket on the person who will get up and chase the ducker to tag him/her befor...

Lemonaide Stand

In this game you split the kids up into groups - the number of people in the group does not matter as long as you have two or more teams going against each other. Have teams line up single file behind a tabl...

Human Tic-Tac-Toe

Line three rows of three chairs like a tic tac toe board. Make teams out of nine or more kids. Give them each numbers starting at one and so on, so that each team has one of each number. Have a team on each sid...