This is a fun gift-exchange game—if this is part of your youth group tradition. Invite each teen to bring a wrapped gift (set a dollar limit) to the youth meeting and place all of the gifts in a pile. Draw numbers out of a hat, with the lowest number selected first. The first teenager (#1), after selecting a gift, opens it. The second teen (#2) can then take the first gift—at which point the first teen then selects another gift from the pile—or can select a gift from the pile. Play continues in this fashion until the last gift is taken from the pile—at which point everyone keeps his/her gift.

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Todd Outcalt is the lead pastor of Calvary United Methodist Church in Brownsburg, Indiana and is a thirty-year youth ministry veteran. He is the author of twenty-five books in six languages, including the youth ministry titles: $5 Youth Ministry (Group); Last-Minute Meetings (Abingdon); Ready to Go Youth Meetings (Abingdon); and The Youth Ministry Encyclopedia (Kindle).

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