Children & youth ministry
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- Bu səhifədəki naviqasiya:
- Ice breaker Giant hula
- Ice breaker Limbo
- Slip-n-slide tug-a-war
- Watermelon seed spitting
- Mix shake a drink
- Hawaiian trivia
- Stir it up or drown
Toe-dancingHave the students break off into pairs by creative ideas such as same birthday month, age, hair color, etc. They will then hold their partner’s right hand. When the music starts they will begin to try and step on one of their partners toes. They can do this with or without shoes as long as both have them on or off. The students will continue to do this until there is one or three people left. Each time they need to be paired with a partner they have something in common with. Supplies: none needed just fun luau music.
Ice breakerABC Surfboard Students will see how many people they can fit on the surfboard at one time without falling off. Both feet have to be on the surfboard. Option 1: The teams will be students that their first names all start with a certain letter of the alphabet. The letter with the most people wins. Option 2: The teams will each have a student that their first name starts with a certain letter of the alphabet. They will start with the letter a then B and so on. The team with the most people on the surfboard wins. Supplies: a surfboard or a makeshift one and fun luau music. Ice breakerGiant hulaPick a creative way to divide the students into teams of at least six to eight students on a team. They will then lock their arms together forming a circle. Hula music will start to play and they have to do a hula dance while being connected together. After about two to three minutes the team with the best hula wins. Supplies: none needed just fun luau music. Ice breakerLimboStudents will pair up with a partner that is around the same height as them. When it is their turn they will limbo together under the limbo stick. It does not matter how they limbo as long as they are connected or toughing somehow. (It is best to do this ice breaker having the partners being of the same sex.) Supplies: limbo stick and fun limbo music. Ice breakerLei race Divide students into teams. The number of teams correlates to the color of leis you have. Students will have a three to five minutes to go and find as many leis as possible according to their teams’ color. They will be hidden, on volunteers’ necks, lying around displayed, etc. The team to find the most leis wins the game. The catch is one member of the team will get three leis and then the next member has to find three and so on. Supplies: lots of leis, fun luau music. Game
Whale RaceStudents will be broken up into teams of four to six members. They will have a whale that they will ride around in a circle and then pass is off to the next team member, the first team to have all it’s members’ ride the whale will win. Supplies: blow up whales in the pool area of stores, supplies to make a starting line, fun luau music. Game
Break students up into teams of about five or six people and form a bracket. The teams will play in a tournament style format. The teams will stand on the slip-n-slide while sprinklers are spraying the slide and begin to pull the rope, the first team to pull the other team over wins. Supplies: slip-n-slide, two water sprinklers, rope, fun music. Game
Supplies: watermelons, Styrofoam cups, fun music. Game Mix & shake a drinkBreak students up in teams of four. Students will line up behind the starting line and when the signal is given one at a time they will run to a table set up about fifteen yards away. They will eat sugar, a lime, and lemon juice (already placed in cups) and then when they have eaten all that is in the cups then they jump on a pogo stick and pogo back to the finish line and tag the next team member. The first team for all members to mix and stir a drink wins. Supplies: sugar, limes, lemons, paper cups, pogo stick, tape to make a finish line. Game Beach relayTeams will consist of four members. When the signal is given a team member will piggy back another member to the other end about 15 yards. The member that rode will put on flippers and goggles then run back to the starting line. Then two more members will make their way to the other end buy pulling their teammate with a rope to the other end who is riding on a trashcan lid. The one riding on the lid will then unfold and put on a frozen T-shirt and run back to the starting line. The first team to do this wins. Supplies: fins, goggles, frozen T-shirts, trashcan lids, ropes Game
How many inhabited islands are there? 7 What are the names? Maui’, oahu, Molaka’I, lana’I, kaua’I, Hawaii How many islands are there total? 134 What is the largest island? Hawaii What is the state fish? Humuhumunukunukuapua’a What word means “hello” and “goodbye”? Aloha What is the state capital? Honolulu What is the name of the volcano in Hawaii? Kilawea When did it become active? 1982 Supplies: none needed unless you use buzzers Devotion
Note: have a pitcher of water that is half full ready. (Gather all the students and get them seated. Carry around the pitcher of water while speaking.) Most of you came here tonight thinking that you were just here to play games and have tons of fun. Although that is true, there’s more to it. Read Ephesians 5:15-20, which is, “Be very careful, then, how you live-not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ”. We did come here to have fun and play games. But the thing is that if we always get together and we do not share it with others we will not be fulfilled. Take for instance this pitcher; let’s say this is you. Your just going about your business and then you get to go to a great event like tonight and you get filled up with fun (fill the pitcher to the top with water). Now your full and you can’t have anymore fun until you go and share it with someone else. So you go and tell a friend about how much fun it is to be a Christian and then you might even tell another friend and invite them to church (during this time your throwing water on the students). Now your only have full again and you want some more fun, so you go to another event or church service and you get full again (fill the pitcher again). Now you’re full again so you have to go and share it with someone else. It’s the same thing with God. It’s a gift you have inside you. You might have a little bit of God, but you do not have all that you could. So you go to a church service, youth camp, or youth convention and you get filled with God. If you keep that to yourself then you can’t get more of God. So you have to go and share it with someone. Then you came get more of God. The more you share the more you get. Read 2 Timothy 1:6 says, “I remind you to stir up the gift which is in you”. Remember your gift and share it!
Materials: long balloons, small groups Instructions: Form small groups into circles, with one person in the middle. The members of the circle have the balloons. Each member of the circle says their name once. Then when the leader says go, the center person has to point to a person and say their name and if it’s the wrong name, then the person in the middle is hit by the balloon, and a new person is in the middle.
Materials: soft pretzel Instructions: Have group form a circle sitting in chairs. One person is to stand in the middle as the “ring master.” Everyone is to choose an animal name for themselves (dog, elephant, lion, bear, tiger, horse, camel, etc.). The person in the middle is to have a soft pretzel to hit the animals. You start with one person asking them to call out one of the animal names in the circle. The person whose name was called must call out another animal before he or she is swatted by the ring master. This goes on until someone is swatted before another name is called or they call out the ring masters animal name. Once a person has been swatted, they are to become the ring master
Materials: Music Instructions: Have everyone get a partner. Have them decide who the horse is and who the acrobat is. Have all the acrobats stand in a circle and all the horses stand in a circle surrounding the acrobats. Have music ready. When the music starts, the acrobats walk clockwise around the circle and horses walk counter-clockwise. When the music stops, the acrobats must find their horses and sit on them. The last couple to pair up is out and the object is to be the last couple left.
Materials: blackboard and chalk Instructions: The first person from each team is to go out and make up a message together that relates to the theme. All teams will use this message. Once signaled to start, the first person on each team is to whisper the Rumor to the next person on their team. They will whisper the Rumor to the next - and so on. The last person to receive the Rumor will run to the black board and write the message. The team that is the closest to the correct Rumor wins.
Materials: Name tags with Circus characters Instructions: Pre-make tags with each tag having one famous person on it, mainly divas that everyone would know. These tags will be placed on the back of each guest as they arrive. This is done without them knowing who they are. They are to go around the room asking questions as to who they might be. Questions like “am I a singer?” They can only ask one question and make only one guess as to Who they are with each person that they talk to, then they have to move on to another person. They can come visit previous players once they've visited another player. Games
Instructions: Spit a peanut as far as you can. One peanut at a time. Shot Put rules apply for the feet - ie. no stepping over the line.
Materials: Use a number of packs of standard playing cards. Try to get the laminated ones that are 9cm long and 6.5cm wide. Instructions: On a secure base, build a house of cards, by stacking the cards up. Each completed level of the house (it is complete when it has at least one card flat on the top) is counted. The cards can be put on their ends, or on their sides at each level.
Materials: Broom Stick Instructions: Dizzy stick is a very simple game but a lot of fun. My students played this game every free time they had at our last retreat. Take a broom stick and hold it above your head and then stare at the end of the stick above your head. Now spin around as many times as you can as fast as you can. Then toss the stick down. Now the object of this game is to run over to the stick and jump over it without falling down. If you jump over the stick without falling down you get a point for every time you spun around. This is a simple game but it is a lot of fun and everyone will get a good laugh out of watching each other try to get to the stick and jump over it when they are so dizzy.
Materials: Hoola Hoops Instructions: This can be played with the same rules as tag. Instead of just tagging a person, use the hoola hoop to “ring” them into becoming “It.”
Materials: Pieces of paper with circus animals. Instructions: Simply play charades using circus animals.
Materials: preteens Instructions: Form into small groups, with each group spending a moment to introduce/meet each other. Then tell them the only rule is that they need to use everyone in their team to make a human pretzel. Message (Matt. 10: 29 – 31) Tonight, in our game night, we have been having a blast playing these games. Isn’t the circus fun? Tonight, we’ve played games with peanuts, laughed as we played around like circus animals, and had fun becoming human pretzels! The circus is lots of fun with lots of people, lots of food, and lots of activities and tricks. In the circus there are many different people who do different shows and tricks. There are the clowns, the dog trainers, the horsemen, the ringmaster, and the acrobats. I think that the most amazing of them all are the acrobats and trapeze artists. These talented people do some of the most dangerous and challenging stunts, all in mid-air! Have you ever noticed the net under these amazing trapeze artists? While these amazing acrobats are doing all these stunts, they are putting their lives into the hands of a few pieces of rope put together into a net. These trapeze artists trust that their nets won’t break. Today, we are going to learn a little about trusting God. (Bolton 89) In Matthew 10 verses 29 through 31, Jesus is talking to his disciples as he is sending them out to do his work. He is encouraging them in these verses; “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.” Jesus is reminding his disciples that he will take care of them, no matter what happens. Even though it might seem bad for a sparrow to be sold, Jesus will know if any sparrow would fall to the ground. And if Jesus cares enough about them to know exactly how many hairs on their head then the disciples have no reason to worry. This is true even for us. We have no reason to be afraid or to not trust in Jesus. You are worth much more than little sparrows and if that is true then Jesus is going to take much better care of you. You just have to trust him and he will keep you safe. Remember how the trapeze artists trust in the nets to keep them safe while they do their mid-air stunts? How much more do we need to remember to trust in Jesus whenever things aren’t going the way that they should!! When things look bad and it seems like that they can only get worse, remember that Jesus died on the Cross for you because He loves you so much. If he loved you and me enough to die on that cross and then to be resurrected, then surely he cares enough about our every care, need, or worry. All we have to do is trust and tell Jesus that we are going to give him all our cares and worries! Yüklə 0,7 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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