Youth group games for guys

All you will need is several square hay bales and a lot of volunteers to help set the maze up. You could do this as part of a fall festival.

Materials Needed: Your youth will line up for an opportunity to play this game, so you should brush up on your Bible trivia. You will need a dunking tank, proper attire, and a towel. The towel is in case you miss a question. Materials Needed: This is the classic game of Pictionary but with trivia questions.

Youth will attempt to draw a subject good enough for their team to guess the correct answer. You will need whiteboards, markers, and index cards for the trivia question. Materials Needed: All you will need to do this fun question-and-answer time is a map of biblical Israel, pushpins, and a list of geographical questions. Materials Needed: This is an easy way to just have some fun. All you need are chairs arranged in a circle, a piece of paper and some tape.

Materials Needed: This is a fun take on the pyramid game show that has been famous for decades. You will give your teams random words on index cards, and they describe the word to their teammate without saying the word. To play this timed game, you will just need index cards and chairs. Materials Needed: This is based on the millionaire game that was popular a few years ago. All you need are some cardboard boxes, balloons, treats, candy, and a special gift.

Materials Needed: This is a fun twist on how to play a question and answer game. All you will need is super sticky post-it notes and markers.

Materials Needed: This is the craziest relay game you will ever play. You will set up stations with objects and instructions. The players run to the object, do what it says, and back to the start line. You will need several crazy props and even crazier instructions. Materials Needed: This game will be a scavenger hunt around the church. You can play inside or outside. All you will need are index cards and several crazy items to hide. Materials needed: In this game, you request for your students to make a list of interesting facts about themselves, and others guess who the fact belongs to.

All you need to prepare is some index cards and pens. Materials Needed: This game will test how well your youth know each other. Have each youth write five things about themselves. Ask them to mix the things up by having things that are true and things that are made up. Materials Needed: For this game, all you will need is cupcakes and supplies to decorate them with.

Materials Needed: Your students will be brushing up on the Bible knowledge to play this classic game with a biblical spin. You will need several Jenga games and quite a few trivia questions. Materials needed: This is a perfect game for a youth camp or lock-in night. All you need are several Yahtzee games and scorepads. They will have a crazy time. Materials Needed: This game is best played outside.

All you will need to start the fun is a bunch of water balloons. Materials Needed: This game is a twist on the classic Bible drill. It is a game for everyone.

All you need is to make sure you have enough Bibles for each youth. Materials Needed: To play this game, use plastic Easter eggs. All you need to do is divide your youth into teams and let the fun begin. Materials Needed: This is a fun combination of classic games to play outside or indoors. All you will need are paper plates, a large paper towel roll, and a sturdy base. Materials Needed: You will need paper plates, string, some chairs, and ping pong balls. Materials Needed: You will need a bunch of empty 2-Liter soda bottles, dirt or stand to partially fill the bottles, and enough round balls for each team.

You will also need to mark your lanes with wide strips of plastic or chalk for outside. Inside, you can use tape. You can play this game in a gymnasium or large room inside, but it is most fun outside because the ball goes a little crazy. Materials Needed: You will need a poster board, colored pens, and an empty soda bottle.

Materials Needed: You will need craft paper or poster boards, markers, tape, and missionary instructions. Materials Needed: You will need a large number of varied sizes of fall leaves either real or fake , butcher paper, sharpies, markers, tape or staplers to attach the leaves, and bible verses.

Teaching your youth the art of gratitude will help shape them into happier people, no matter the circumstances. This activity will be a fun time for your group, and it will be a great way to teach them to recognize things to be grateful for and express gratitude to the Lord. Materials Needed: You will need sheets of colored stiff paper or card stock, various colors of markers, stickers, pens, scissors, glue, tape, glitter, sticky notes, or index cards.

This activity will teach your youth about a precious part of your church family and bless many of your senior adults. Materials Needed: You will need cookies homemade or store-bought , small paper bags for the cookies, colored pens, Bible verses, and scripture stickers optional.

This activity is a great application for lessons on how to love people who are often neglected. The youth will learn about others in the world who are living in difficult places and how much they need to hear that God loves and sees them. You will also challenge your students to serve. Materials Needed: You will need construction paper, glitter, glue, scissors, pastor boards, markers, tape, string, etc.

This activity will introduce the concept of being the hands and feet of Christ and bless some of the most vulnerable in our society. It will teach your youth that simple acts of love can make a huge impact. It will require a lot of help from adult leaders and will require more of your time. The actual expense will depend upon the size of the activity you choose.

You could quickly adapt this activity to Easter. There are always those around us who need a little help around their homes. This activity will bond your group as they learn to work together to accomplish something great. It will engage your youth in the community around them, and with just the expense of the materials. Materials Needed: You will need some paper with the pre-printed verse, pens, and envelopes.

Agape Notes is a great youth camp activity that requires almost no expense. Agape is a Greek word that means unconditional love. There are four words in Greek that we translate into love in English:. Materials Needed: You will need poster board, colored pens, a writing pen, index cards or a pad. With very little expense, this activity will teach your youth that there are many lost and hurting people in need of prayer.

Prayer should always be our first resource when helping others. However, for many, it is the only way we can help. This activity will give your students a small opening into the lives of others that we would never get otherwise. Materials Needed: You will need paper or poster board, tape, markers, a color printer, or a place to print color photographs.

How many people do you pray for each day? How many people are paying for you? Perhaps the person in this photo is not saved and does not know how to pray.

Maybe no one ever prays for them. Can you imagine how that feels? Would you be the one to pray for them? The Lord knows their names and cares for each person in the photographs. He will hear the prayers prayed on their behalf. You will not know how many marriages are rescued or how many souls are saved. Pray for the unknown and expect the Lord to move powerfully. The fruits of this activity are exponential as your youth ministry impacts the community. The illustration is to care and pray for those we do not know.

You will need very few supplies to bring the prayer project together. This activity will teach your youth to understand that God guides our words and actions so that we can be instruments of blessings in His hands. Many people around us put on a good face while in public.

However, inside, what they are in desperate need of is encouragement. People in our church family are carrying huge burdens every day, and we will never know. The purpose of this activity is to teach your kids to work together as the body of Christ.

It will teach them that with just a little effort, they can meet many needs through prayer and teamwork. They will also learn to be led by the Lord in their service. With little effort, you can introduce your youth group to what God is doing around the world.

Instill the concept of working together to extend the Kingdom of Christ while they are still young, and the impact will be exponential. Working in a food pantry will be a lot of fun for your youth, who all love to be active and serve. Allowing your kids to become a part of a local food kitchen helps them see how God uses His children to bless those in need.

Many children and youth are fighting grave illness, and hospitals and doctors are all the life they know.

Teach your youth group how to help lift the spirits of these children, and you will also be modeling empathy on of the many gifts Christians use to imitate Jesus. These activities will also teach your children the blessing of serving the sick and hurting. Working with sick children can be a long-term project for your youth. Materials needed: Notecards, colored pens, gift boxes or treats of some kind like cookies. A good thing to remember is that many servicemen and women are not Christians.

Your youth group praying for and encouraging them may be just the open door they need to turn to Christ. Freedom to have church and choose what we believe has not and does not come free.

Our military men and women help maintain our freedom to choose and to help others in need. Your church may have members who are serving or loved ones serving in the military. Utilize your youth group as instruments of blessings for our brave men and women who serve in the military. People love to hear youth performances.

Taking your youth group out for singing provides opportunities to share Christ through song. Materials Needed: Construction supplies such as lumber and paint, transportation, knowledgeable adult supervision. Young people are a boundless supply of energy, and they love to serve. This type of mission trip is popular among the youth.

It is also an effective way to teach them to be the hands and feet of Christ. Putting on a VBS at an orphanage is a beautiful way to bring Christ into the lives of children who have very little hope and engage your students in the needs of others. Materials Needed: You will need three homes for hosting various parts of the dinner. Progressive dinners for adults have been around for years. However, you can plan a progressive dinner designed specifically for your students.

Materials Needed: You will need money for concert tickets, transportation and adult supervision. Christian concerts are an absolute favorite for many.

There is something unique about the experience. It is unlikely they will forget the outing. Your prayer should be that this concert will be a pivotal event for your kids, one which solidifies their faith as they see so many other young people worshiping the Lord. Materials Needed: You will need a movie on a DVD or through a streaming subscription, a place to watch the movie with your group, and snacks. Using a Zoom movie night is an easy way to keep your youth connected.

Frequently, it is hard for youth to get to spend time together. Reasons could be weather-related or, it could be pandemic-related. However, the fun does not have to stop for your youth group.

Materials Needed: You will need money for a ski trip, appropriate clothing and ski equipment, and adult chaperones.

A ski trip will be a great opportunity to have focused time with your students. It will be easier to spend time with your group every day there because they will be away from the distractions of home.

Many churches do pop-up events for small children, but your pop-up events would take place in the neighborhoods where your youth live. A youth pop-up event will be fun for your students. It is an opportunity to intentionally work toward reaching the youth in the surrounding neighborhoods of your church. Are you looking for a great way to get your group back together after a long summer?

Holding a pizza night will be a temptation that most could not resist. A build your own pizza night is a simple way to get your kids back through the doors and prayerfully bring new youth into the youth group. This event will be the first time for many of your kids to pray for other areas in the world. When we pray for the lost and suffering of this world, the Lord allows us a glimpse into His heart.

Materials Needed: You will need some world maps, black markers, paper, and pens. It is exciting to think that if your group is big enough, you can pray for the world in just one night!

Movies in the park, what great fun for your youth group! Your movie night will provide a perfect avenue to invite their friends. Materials Needed: You will need a projector, DVD player or any other streaming device, a projector, a king-sized sheet hung from two trees or two net frames for sports like soccer or volleyball, blankets and snacks.

This is an incredible way to bless your local refugee agency or Christian clinic. They tirelessly work to help women find ways to keep their babies or assist them with putting their babies up for adoption. Many young women would welcome a gift, and the agency could use any funds you raise.

Materials Needed: You will need materials to make diaper trees, bags for bagging the completed diaper trees, and pizza for the volunteers. Many agencies are working to help refugees assimilate into our culture. There are many beneficial ways that your youth could be a part of their ministry. When we teach our students to serve while still young, God will use their service to shape them into His instruments. Serving others is an experience that will stay with your kids for the rest of their lives.

God says in Acts that He is who moves the boundaries of people so that perhaps they will seek Him. Involving your youth in serving vulnerable members of our world population will help them see that some need prayers and help. Additionally, the Lord may use this event to call some of your youth into the ministry.

There is so much emphasis on our digital life in our culture. Take some time to unplug from all the distractions that come from technological lives. Set up a camping trip at a national park or some other camping area and make a memorable event that your youth will not forget. Materials Needed: You will need money for the trip, appropriate footwear and supplies, and adult chaperones. We all hear God better when we take time away from distractions, and the youth need it more than ever.

Perhaps this will be the first time they experience the closeness of God as He woos them to be set apart for Him. This trip will be an incredible opportunity to see Him work!

What an exciting road trip when you are going to a conference! Load up your youth group and take them to a youth conference to be recharged and refreshed. How often do we need this as adults? If adults need spiritual uplifting from time to time, imagine what our youth need.

Materials Needed: You will need funds for a trip, transportation and adult chaperones. Our youth are facing challenges and stresses every day that we never had to handle.

Give them a break from the sometimes toxic culture we live in and help them learn how to focus on Christ. We hope there are some fun activities and ideas here to help your youth group pray together and stay together! How to Play: You will need to purchase a stuffed cat and mouse, or it could be a stuffed dog and cat. Ask your students to sit in a circle. Give the mouse to a student on one side of the circle, and the cat to someone on the opposite side. A youth worker will play a song on a guitar or piano at a normal speed to start.

Then they alternate fast and slow speeds to make the game great fun. The students pass the mouse and the cat around the group at the same speed as the music. They repeat this until the cat catches the mouse. The student left holding the mouse when the cat catches it is out. You can devise a fun game for the losers that makes them feel a little less like losers.

How to Play: You can choose any object for the students to pass, but they must do something with the item before passing it to the next person. For example, if using a scarf, they wrap it around their neck once and then pass it to the next person. A bucket would also work. They would need to stand up and turn in a circle, then sit down and pass the bucket to the next person. One of the youth workers will sit with their back to the group and play a song on the guitar or piano. They will set the speed at which the game moves.

The key to the fun is that they must do something with the object before passing it on, and everything must move to the speed of the music. At the end of the game, the music suddenly stops. The last person holding the object is out. Trivia 2. How to Play: Draw an easily identifiable image on a large sheet of kraft paper or poster board. It should be something recognizable. Attach the drawing or printed images on the wall. Make numbered sheets and use them to conceal the drawing.

Write corresponding numbers on the back of index cards, and then write trivia questions based on your current lessons on the front side of the card. Divide students into teams, and each team will take turns drawing a number. If they answer the trivia question correctly, they get to remove the matching number over the image on the wall and guess the drawing or scripture.

The questioning continues until they reveal enough of the picture, and someone guesses what it is. How to Play: You will want to play this game in a space that is easy to clean.

Fill portions of large-sized balloons with whipping cream and hang them from the ceiling or a tree limb outside. Hang the balloons with string or fishing line. The string or fishing line allows the balloon to move freely and adds a little more challenge to the game. Give the students a time limit to design and construct a sword out of aluminum foil. When time is up, blindfold the students and line them up in front of a balloon. Assign leaders to help determine the winner.

How to Play: Print Bible story images from the internet and assign each photo a number. Write the corresponding numbers on index cards, fold them and place them in a bucket or hat. Each student will have a turn to draw a number from the bucket, and then you will show the student the corresponding photo. If they can tell you what Bible story the photo represents, they get to keep the slip with the number. If they guess wrong, return the number to the bucket.

When they have identified all the photos, the person with the most index cards wins the game. You could play this game for fun or use it as a review time at the end of a series of lessons. How to Play: Divide students into small groups and give each group several rolls of toilet paper or crepe paper. Each group chooses a mummy, and the elected mummy stands still while their teammates roll them up.

In place of paper, you could also use fabric purchased in the clearance aisle of your local sewing store. You cut the fabric into long strips and use it in place of the paper. For an added element of fun, have props to put on the mummy once they finish wrapping.

When all teams finish their mummies, award prizes to the first to complete their mummy and the most creative mummy. Tennis Bible Trivia Materials Needed: The object of this game is to have the most tennis balls in your basket at the end. How to Play: Divide students into teams and give each the same amount of tennis balls.

Ask each person a Bible trivia question. For each correct answer, they throw a tennis ball into a round laundry basket across the room. If the ball remains in the basket, it counts as a point for their team. If it bounces out, it does not count.

At the end of all the questions, the team with the most balls that stayed inside their basket wins. The Photo Puzzle Materials Needed: With very little prep time, you can apply a lesson on God as the creator and designer of all things.

How to Play: Take a full-page magazine photo or printed photo and tear it into random, jagged pieces. Insert the pieces into a large deflated balloon. Then blow the balloon up and shake things up. Divide students into small groups, and each group chooses a balloon. Assign a time limit and give a warning as the end is getting close. The game begins when the groups burst their balloons, then they try to put the photo back together. The first team to put the picture together wins. How to Play: Determine the number of players you will have and get enough small balloons for each.

You will also need enough laundry baskets for each team. Each player has a turn at rubbing a balloon on their clothes to build enough static electricity for it to stick to them. Then they walk over to the laundry basket without the balloon falling or them holding it in place. If the balloon falls off, the player can reapply and start again from that spot.

The winner is the team with the most balloons in their basket. How to Play: Ask for everyone to put some personal items on a table. It could be things like sunglasses, a watch, keys, a hairbrush or comb, a pen, chewing gum, etc.

Ask for a volunteer to be the detective. Allow them a few minutes to look at the objects on the table, and then they will leave the room. Another volunteer will choose an item from the table and conceal it in their pocket, purse, or somewhere in the room. Now the detective returns and must first determine what is missing from the table and then who took it.

Once they guess which object is missing from the table, they then interrogate the other students to discover the thief.

Allow your detective a set number of questions based on the group size and assign a time limit for each round. The questions should lead them to who took the item. For example, is the thief a boy or a girl? Tall or short? Hair color, wearing red or blue, etc. They interrogate the students until they guess who took the object, have used all their questions, or until time runs out.

How to Play: Fill your balloons partially with water, and you want them jiggly. Give each team a shovel. Divide your teams into two groups and station them across from each other. If possible, have the same number of players on each side. Give the first player a shovel and place a water balloon on the shovel.

They must then take the shovel and balloon as quickly as they can to their team member across from them, and this continues until every person has had a turn. The first team to pass the shovel and balloon to all the team members wins. If they drop the balloon, they must return to the starting point and begin again.

How to Play: Create several good story beginnings and write them on index cards. Read the opening line of a story and choose the first youth to say the next part. It surprised him to see her standing where she was.

You can decide when to end a story and move on to another one. Escape Room Bible Trivia Materials Needed: As far as youth group games go, this one certainly is unique and offers a fun time! How to Play: If your church is big enough, choose different Sunday school classrooms for each escape room.

If too small for this, prepare several areas of the church to use for the escape area. Assign at least one leader to each room. They administer the questions or tasks to each team that enters. Divide students into teams, and they choose an escape room to start with. It could also be a Pictionary-type task where one team member must draw a picture of a bible subject, and the others guess what it is. Your escape rooms can be as fun and crazy as you like. If they cannot complete the task, they move to the next room and do not receive a token.

Once all teams have attempted each room, the end the team with the most tokens wins. How to Play: Design duct tape dartboards with some tape sticky side out. Put it on the ground, at an angle, and not flat. Use duct tape to put a line a few feet away from the board. Assign a leader to keep score. Put some duct tape, sticky side out, on each ping pong ball. Divide your group into teams and give them enough ping pong balls for each player. Based on your number of players and allotted time, assign the number of chances each person gets to toss their ping pong ball at the target.

You can divide your board into point sections like a dartboard and keep score that way. Or you can assign a point value to each ball that sticks and count how many are on the board after each team member has their turn. The group with the most points wins.

How to Play: Divide a playing field or grassy area into lanes. They need to be wide enough that a participant can roll their pumpkin easily. Purchase enough pumpkins for your teams to each have one. Get equal-sized and shaped pumpkins so that each team has the same chance of success. Put half of a team on one side of the lane and the other half opposite them. The object of the game is to roll a pumpkin to their team member across from them as quickly as possible.

The teams roll a pumpkin back and forth until all team members have had a turn. Everyone is in a straight line, with multiple teams doing this. First team that gets to the last person and has the correct word wins. Divide students into teams and have one student face off against another student from the other team. Play five seconds of a popular song from iTunes and have them guess.

This one is a favorite because it requires strategy and teamwork. The game is divided up between two teams. The goal is to get a ball into a basket.

This can be a basketball hoop, but I have found it just as fun playing it with laundry baskets placed on a table. Each player has their own chair and is played in rounds. At the beginning of a round, the players have a short amount of time to place their chairs in a position. Once placed, they are not allowed to move from their spot. They then must pass the ball to each other, without it getting intercepted by the opposing team. After each round the players become more strategic and shift from focusing on offense and defense.

Likewise, a team that has no one in the middle of the field is unable to make an adequate pass to their teammates. An interesting side effect of this game is the loner and unpopular student will often become the most passed to player. They are the ones that are open, because the opposing team neglects to place a chair next to them to guard.

Bible drills can be fun but with a twist on an old classic game, students can translate it into real life skills. Instead of saying a specific Bible verse like John , have them find narrative stories like David and Goliath.

After doing a few of these narrative type stories, branch out even further. Have them lookup a passage of the Bible that someone can use if they feel deep sadness, struggle with addiction, feel lonely, etc.

This really challenges the students to use critical thinking and provides them with skills they can use later in life. Give everyone a penny. This means the penny will lay flat on the chin and the students will be looking up into the air. Last one standing with the penny balanced wins. It is quick and easy and the perfect game if you are waiting for doors to open before a youth conference or for your favorite Christian artists before a concert like Winter Jam, Creationfest, Soulfest or Ichthus retro reference.

Prior to the start of the program while students are mingling assemble two dance crews and have them each choreograph a dance routine in the several minutes before icebreaker time.

If your group is small enough, the entire group can be split into two teams and choreograph the dance as part of the actual activity, rather than in advance. Winners are determined based on audience applause for the former or by leaders for the latter. What high school and middle school games do you play with your youth group? Leave a comment below to share your fun game ideas! Because we like to make games more … interesting … picked out 10 people to be up and had 5 of them go clockwise around the circle, while the other 5 went anti-clockwise.

It was beautiful action packed chaos as people tried to dodge each other with up to 20 people running full speed at any given moment. These are great!!! Thank you for such a comprehensive list with both games for day and night, with and without supplies! By the way, to start the game, you need one more chair than the number of people of playing.

Thanks for listing the game. We tried to play it once, and it was a disaster. I would suggest simplifying it by not changing names a second time. It really is a fun game once you get the hang of it. Usually, it was boys against girls. Oh — I would say it works best with about people. Not too few or too many. Thanks so much. Most of my inspiration has come from this website, and one of the games is Grog.

To play this version of Freeze Tag, all you need is a […]. This list of games offered a wide variety of […]. How does duck duck goose inception work actually? How do people end up inside? Nice Ideas, my mom and sister and I like to play different games about once a week.

The last one we did was an Accent game you can see here. In life size clue… How do they figure out who done it? By seeing someone else get spotted with the flash light? Anywho, teams of two at least one of them must have a phone with photos, the more the better , search through their photos of whatever object the youth leader writes on a white erase board. SUPER easy, no supplies, and you can use scripture references instead of objects if you prefer!!

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