MAIN POINT: Getting students to know one another.Preparation: Index cards, tape, and pensThis is a small group game. As each person arrives have them write their name clearly on an index card. Then tape a card to their back.Give everyone another index card. On "Go!" with hyped music in the background, everyone copies names off backs of other people, while...
You don't have to wait til Christmas to play this small group game.Break students up into groups of 3-6. Provide pens/pencils and pretyped slips of paper or 3x5 cards with the names of celebrities or well-known fictional characters (ideas below). Pass one name each to every group or have them choose blindly from a container or your hand.Give them...
Use this up-front game before any holiday (so you have an automatic theme) to promote an upcoming event, or just for fun. Pre-select a theme to give students an idea of what sentence they’re about to come up with.Set up two dry erase boards up front. Get 4 students (2 teams of 2) to come to the front of...
Small group or travel game.Either in seat order or in a circle, the first person says the name of any city, river, ocean, or mountain that could be found in an atlas. The next person must say another place that starts with the last letter of the place previously said. There is a 10-second limit and no place can...
MAIN POINT: You can use this game as a kickstarter for a discussion about friends leading you down the wrong path or finding God's will.Choose two competitors. One is taken out of the room. The other has 1-3 minutes (depending on the size of your group) to arrange a maze, using all the people in the room. The maze...
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Jello Belly Flop
In the winter, have a belly flop contest in a baby pool full of Jello. Lay a tarp over a big old mattress under the baby pool. You can have your whole group do it if it is a small group, or make this an up-front game with a few volunteers.Idea by Young LifeAlso, see Jello Twister (Click Here).
MAIN POINT: This is a getting to know you game. Relationships don't go anywhere if you can't even remember what people tell you! This game also begins like the game Dollar Surprise (Click Here).Give 5-10 people increments of $1-3 each... secretly instruct them (like when everyone is arriving and just hanging out) to remember the 7th person they mingle with (small...