Good icebreaker game for finding things out about others…. and a useful game to have up your sleeve for big parties such as Valentines. Create a circle of chairs facing inwards so that everybody playing has a seat to themselves. There is no limit to numbers, but it’s better...
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Keep Your Partner
Good game for anytime, but a nice one for any valentine theme parties 🙂 This game ‘needs’ an odd number of players, so if you are organising it be prepared to ‘take part’ or volunteer not to in order to achieve this. Players partner up either with their real...
Profit
aka “Lemonade Stand”Credited to Elzbth343 Hi I have heard of and played a game called Lemonade stand and how you play is you first start off with $20.00 you use that money to buy products for the lemonade you make. Like on hot days you want to buy more...
Terrorist Hunt
(c) Kit Logan, 2001 This game is designed to provoke discussion and help demonstrate the problem of hunting down terrorists. The object of this game is to hunt down the terrorists with as few a number of civilian casualties as possible. To be effective you need around 20 or...
Satan’s Revenge
Submitted by Michelle Demarest, Inspiration Youth Traveling Theatre Troupe ..We talk about how this game relates to the real world after we play. This game is very addictive Useful game with a lot of potential for Christian teaching and how elements of the game relate to the real world....
String Toss
Get a spool of string or yarn. Everybody playing has to answer a question of some sort (theme) when the ball of string is in their hands. Once they have answered the question they throw the ball of string to another player, but keep hold of the thread so...
Remember
(aka Memory Game) Very good game for children of all ages for sharpening the memory! Use 20 or so different small objects and place these on a tray or table covered with a cloth. Remove the cloth and allow everybody 2 minutes (or whatever time limit you prefer) to...
Memory Game
Children love playing this and often beat any adults when doing so. Typically it is played using special packs of matched pairs of cards which you can buy or if you have the time you can makeup yourself, or you can play this with a normal pack of playing...
Jonah and the Whale
Pamela Bennet:I take the Anchor Boys within my church. There are only eight of them and it is very difficult to play the ‘traditional’ big wide games that they like, one of the games that we do play is called “Jonah and the Whale”. It is a version of...
Hidden worship
This game was originally called “Communist Church” credited to Jason Gross, but attitudes shift and it’s not just Christianity that is persecuted. Essentially it’s a game to put across what it feels like to have to meet in secret because of your religious beliefs. Set up: Needs to be...