MAIN POINT: This might be a goofy opener for a talk on how to get "garbage" (sin, bad influences) out of our lives.Divide the room into four sections by putting tape on the floor. Have a ton of newspaper and toilet paper and other "dry garbage". The object is to get all of the stuff out of your section...
Cut off the front panel of several cereal boxes — one for each group you've formed. Then cut up each panel into puzzle shapes- one for each person in the group. Mix together all the pieces and give one to each person and have them compete to find their cereal.Idea from Young LifeAlso, see Cereal Box Pick Up (Click...
Break the group into teams of four. Give each team a potato, toothpicks, and cut up vegetable pieces. The object is for each team to make the funniest, most creative potato person possible. You can turn this into a competition between the teams and give out prizes.Be sure to put the potatoes on display for the rest of the...
As students arrive, give them each the piece to a kid’s jigsaw puzzle (minimum 10 pcs, maximum 25). If you have extras left over, place them back into the correct puzzle frames. Put all frames in the center of the room. Have students locate the correct puzzles to which their pieces belong. The first group to completely put a...
Pin a large card bearing a letter of the alphabet to each person’s arm. Give each person a small card and a pencil. The goal is for letters to get together and spell words. Once they’ve spelled a word, they write it on their card.Then separate everyone and look for new words. Award points for each real word and...
Pass out Valentine "conversational" heart candy to everyone, then split up into groups and have each group come up with a poem or funny story using what it says on their hearts.Added by Young LifeAlso, see Valentine Toe Freezer on our Anywhere Games page.
Break up into teams. Each team makes a sculpture out of the fruit given to it. Award prizes for most creative and most stable. Have hand towels and paper towels handy for clean up.Also see Banana Surgery (Click Here), Bubble Gum Sculpture (Click Here), Tootsie Roll Sculpture (Click Here), and Chocolate Tower (Click Here).