eZine 03.13.2001

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	Jonathan’s Resource Ezine

Weekly Resources, Ideas and Articles from The Source for Youth Ministry
Tuesday, March 13, 2001

In This Issue

• Eminem Newsletter Responses
  
  
• A Few Games I Just Saw
  
  
• More New Send-ins
  
  

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Eminem Newsletter Responses

Just an added note to say “thank you” for all the positive responses I received from the last two weeks” articles. If you missed them, they’re in my archives, with the rest of the past year:

https://thesource4ym.com/archives

I feared getting lynched after writing Eminem into the Good Samaritan story. But I was glad that the shock brought attention to where most of us need God to work on our hearts.

Thank you so many of you for being honest with me and sharing how God is working in you . . . he’s working on me too.

God Bless!

Jonathan

A Few Games I Just Saw

Okay, two weeks in a row of “heart!” Some of you are itchin’ for some good ideas for games or activities (I gotta please everyone!)

Here’s a couple funny games I just saw done at a camp I spoke at last weekend.

Saran Inchworm:
Wrap up two or more people in Saran Wrap so they can’t move their limbs at all. Lie them down on the floor. When you say “go,” they must “inch” down to a designated point and have a banana fed to them by a friend (no hands of course, because they are Saran’d to their side). Hilarious to watch.

Tape-head Pick Up:
Spread a bunch of small (2 to 3 inches max) toys, candy, etc all over the floor. Put a beanie on three or more of your students heads and tape up the beanies with the sticky side sticking out (you might want to have this pre-done, this takes a while) Make sure the beanie is pulled down so they can”t see. Now give them each (one at a time) two minutes to crawl on the floor and pick up as much “”junk”” off the floor with their sticky “”tape-heads.”” No hands. Great fun to watch.

More New Send-ins

Here”s a few more people have sent in. Enjoy!


IF YOU LIKE MESSY GAMES (like the ones on my SICK AND TWISTED GAMES page):

Nose Balloon Pop:
An oldie but a goody. Take large balloons and get a kid to compete against two of his peers. Each kid receives a balloon. The first teen to blow up a balloon using only his nose and popping it, wins.

Condiment Twister
This game is exactly like twister, but you load each of the colors up with a condiment. So each circle is smothered with a particular condiment. Grape Jelly for blue, mustard for yellow, ketchup for red, and relish on the green circles. Make sure that you have plastic bags and masking tape to cover the volunteers with, so there clothes are not ruined. Have their faces, hands, and feet (shoes and socks off) exposed. Then change the places on the spinning board to right/left cheek, right/left ear, nose, right/left hand, right/left foot. When you spin, you call out which body part goes where. i.e right cheek to blue, left leg to green, right hand to yellow. It is a mess and a riot. It does get slippery, so make sure you have staff there to help when people start flying around. This is messy and fun. Be sure to have a place for the students to clean up after. Hair with condiments gets pretty stinky and gross.
Added by Brian Carpenter

IF THE WEATHER’S SO NICE YOU HAVE TO PLAY AN OUTDOOR GAME!

Shaving Creme Whiffle Ball:
Basically you just play a game of baseball with whiffle ball and bat, but before each pitch you fill the ball up with shaving creme. So as the bat hits, it splatters everywhere – as you catch the ball you get covered in shaving creme. Usually it turns into a shaving creme fight, but the kids and adults love it.
Added by Tara Spradley

IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO A GYM WITH A BUNCH OF BASKETBALL HOOPS:

Chinese Fire Drill Basketball:
If your church is blessed with a gym and more than two baskets, this is a good game.

Divide the group into a number of teams that is one more than the number of baskets you have. The extra team gets a basketball. Each of the other teams is assigned a basket to defend.

When the game starts, following basic basketball rules, the team with the ball attacks one of the defended baskets. If the attacking team scores a basket they take the ball with them and attack the next basket located counterclockwise in the gym. If the defending team gains possession of the ball before the attacking team scores, the defending team becomes the attacking team and moves to the next defended basket. The team that just lost the ball stays at that basket and defends it from the next attack.

Repeat this pattern until time expires. For extra mayhem, pick teams so there are initially two extra teams so that there are always two baskets being attacked. Be sure your good basketball players are spread among the teams.
Added by Gary Slater


Find more SICK AND TWISTED, OUTDOOR, BIG FACILITY and SMALL FACILITY Games on Jonathan”s Game”s page:

https://thesource4ym.com/games/index.html