How to Play “Defying Gravity”: Two balloons per participant. We found that color-matching balloons really helped! We also made it a contest between three people to try to keep the 2 balloons afloat for the whole 60 seconds. We modified “Defying Gravity” from Minute to Win It so it was doable for the Main Street participants. […]
How to Play “Shoe Fly Shoe”: All you need is a pair of shoes (which most everyone wears to places) and an elevated flat surface (table, chair, bench, etc). Have the participants step away from the flat surface at an appropriate and pre-determined distance. First one to get their shoe on the flat surface wins! […]
How to Play “Movin’ On Up”: 20 plastic cups per contestant. One of the 20 cups should be a different color. This is a race against another person to see who can pull the one-colored-cup to the top first. This game is modified from Minute To Win It and we did it @ msy. source […]
This past Wednesday @ Middle School Youth (Hayward Wesleyan Church) we started a new series called: “Tempting Stuff.” One of the questions posed to the students in their small group was: What are some temptations that middle school students face? In an effort to bring out to the whole group what was being shared in […]
Bullseye We played this game @ msy on Wednesday, October 26 with a single-shot nerf gun 5 suction-cup darts a whiteboard marked up with targeted prized areas Fun times! source YouTube graphic Bullseye-Game.jpg [107kb, JPG]
How to Play “This Blows” Game: Set up a number (you can decide how many) plastic cups in a row across a table. When the game starts, the players may grab the balloon and begin to blow it up. The participants may only knock cups off the table by using air from the balloon and […]
This was a fun activity we did a couple of weeks ago @ msy. Jen C. had the idea to have the students push two cars in neutral across the church parking lot in a race. It was fun. The video is tough to see because it got dark so quickly, but you get the […]
How to Play “Blow Your Nose”: You take a self-wadded up piece of tissue and a coffee stir straw and have the students try to blow the tissue off of a defined space (we used a table) through the little straw. We like having competitions (going head to head with another student). But you can […]
My how times have changed, eh? HT Los.
This summer we have been teaching through the books of Daniel (6 weeks) and Esther (6 weeks). It’s been light and fun (for the summer), yet still deep and meaningful (because we are interacting with God’s Word!). Here are the links: Daniel Teaching Videos: Daniel 1: Daniel and His 3 Friends Daniel 2: Nebuchadnezzer’s Dream […]
How to Play “The Elephant” Game You can run this game with as many participants as you want. Materials you need paper clips, pipe cleaner, a cup, and a table to play on. Take the paper clips and bend them up and flared out a little. Take the pipe cleaner and make a hook with […]
I was reading Children’s Ministry Magazine this past month and I came across about 13 game ideas they had referenced. Normally I gloss over these sections because we already do a lot of fun elements to our children’s ministries and I don’t find them useful. This time, however, I thought they would be a great […]
This is a good “recruiting” video for children’s ministry. It does a great job of communicating the importance of intentional spiritual formation in the life of a child from BOTH home and the church. via CM Buzz source YouTube
How to Play the “Junk in the Trunk” Game Wiggle a box filled with ping pong balls and attached to your waist until the box is empty in under 60 seconds. source YouTube
How to Play “The Elephant March” Game You’ll need some pantyhose (I had to tie two “leggings” together to get the length needed), a heavy ball that can swing well (I tried a tennis ball, but it wasn’t quite heavy enough), a case of water bottles, and an area safe enough to swing an “elephant […]
There are so many variations one can do with a bin of bean bags. In this iteration we played a sort of “bocce” version where the students had to get the bean bag “on” to an object, or the “closest” to an object. For the objects, we just used things that were readily available. We […]
How to Play the “Pizza Delivery Noodle” Game: In one hand you have a noodle and in the other hand you have a bean bag that lays flat on the back of your hand. The object of the game is to knock off the beanbag of your opponent with your noodle before they knock your […]
How to Play the “Card Ninja” Game Flip a playing card hard enough to stick into a watermelon half placed at a distance in 60 seconds or less. source YouTube
How to Play the “Nose Dive” Game Contestant must transfer cotton balls, one at a time, from one serving bowl to another many feet away using only the nose in 60 seconds or less. Vaseline on the tip of the contestant’s nose is used as a transfer agent. source YouTube
How to Play the “Extreme Hanky Panky” Game Using a designated hand for each box, remove all tissues from 2 tissue boxes in under 60 seconds. source YouTube