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hot-potato-and-oven-mitt-pass
Just like Hot Potato, only you get one potato and two oven mitts. Get everyone in a circle and start passing the potato when the music plays.Here's the catch: you can only touch the potato when the oven mitt is on your hand. Two people next to each other start with the mitts on, one hands the potato to...
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human-snowball
MAIN POINT: The snowball effect of bad choices.Shred a bunch of paper and spread it on the floor in an empty room or corner of your youth room. Split into two teams and give each team a roll of duct tape. Have each team select one member to be the "snowball". Give them 2-3 minutes to wrap that person...
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grab-it-2
Divide into two teams. Put them into two lines parallel and next to one another (about 3 feet apart) sitting down and holding hands. At the back of the line put a bucket of water with a bar of soap in it between the two lines. If this is on carpet, put a layer of towels down - the...
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saran-wrap-body-pass
Get 4 staff members from the crowd (as many staff as you have sections of the crowd). Have each staff member stand in front of a given section of the crowd that can cheer for their staff member. Have each staff member grab about 3 or 4 kids to “wrap them.” Hand each group 3 or 4 rolls of...
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Just like Grab It (Click Here), except team members grab an orange instead of soap or marble in an ice bucket. (It can produce some "orange juice" if your youth group is as violent as mine!)Added by Amy HackmanDivide into two teams. Put them into two lines parallel and next to one another (about 3 feet apart) sitting down...
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Games & Icebreakers

Ice Grab It!

Played like the game Grab It! (Click Here). But instead of a pail of water and soap, use a huge bucket of ice with a marble in it (plastic underneath). Flip a coin. If it's heads they go for the marble. Trying to grab it and get it out of their bucket before the other team does...
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