Everyone sits on chairs in a circle. Choose someone to stand in the middle. This person then points at someone and says "Bibbidy Bop Birdie on a Perch.
Ask everyone to find a partner so everyone is paired up in groups of two. Have them decide who is the birdie and who is the perch. Birthday Bash. Setup a circle a set of chairs with one less chair then the amount of people present. Make one person "it". Go around Blanket Volleyball.
An interesting and fun variation to the more traditional style of volleyball Body speller. Form two or more teams. Then have team members take turns standing in front of their teams and spelling out words or phrases for the team Get ready to create a new tradition and a game that will be requested all the time!
Youth work in groups of two and try to cooperatively sit down together and stand up with their backs pressed together. A twist on hide-and-go seek where one person hides and everyone seeks. When someone finds the hider they then hide with them.
This continues until the last one seeking finds the whole youth group hiding in one place. This is a beloved game of many youth! This is a great game for how gossip spreads or how we can often misunderstand or mishear things told to us.
One person is the jokester and they try to make each person in the circle laugh. They can tell jokes, make funny faces, and so forth. Set a time limit for each person. The winner is the one who made the most people laugh.
They absolutely love this game. The boys get super into it, trying so hard to get that last seat. Equipment needed: Music, you could play some contemporary Christian music like Toby Mac and some chairs. Split The Difference is a must-know, need-to-have game in your activity arsenal! This game requires no preparation, no materials, can be played anywhere, and is sure to lead to lots of great conversation, laughter and fun.
Rock Paper Scissors Tournament is a fast-paced game that is easy to pull off, and your youth will want to play this one over and over again! Assemble students in a line and have one person be Sherlock. Whilst easier said than done, ensuring the activity is fun will maximise the positive impact on members as they are more willing to get involved.
Seen as you'll be incorporating this into a sports session, it's also probably best to involve exercise or movement in some way.
Another potential issue is the level of competitiveness some of these activities might be played at. Kids can sometimes get a little carried away, and you don't want these activities to strike a divide between members.
This is a simple, flexible and engaging change up activity that can be adapted to pretty much any sport. One simple example might be football, where two teams have to dribble to and from a point as fast as possible, and the first team to get all their players to do so wins.
It's a simple game that offers an interesting change from your team's sport of choice — and brings with it all the team-building benefits you need. Again, this is a simple yet effective teams-based exercise that pits one team against another and can also help to develop a sport-specific skill. Catching sports work particularly well for this game. Every time a pass is completed, they take one step backwards. As the circle gets larger, the game becomes more difficult.
After a couple of minutes, the biggest circle wins. It's a frenetic team game that involves fun, competitiveness and encourages team members to get behind one another. A bit of a classic activity for team bonding, the tug-of-war is a staple activity for teams wishing to strengthen their solidarity. Opposing teams stand either side of a rope, and must pull against the other team until one team has been pulled over a certain point.
Just make sure you balance the teams correctly, ensuring one team doesn't just blow the opposition away. That way, teams must use communication and tactics to win, rather than just brute strength.
The clue may be in the title, but Kwik cricket could easily be adapted to fit a number of sports. It's got a variety of games from pairs cricket to continuous cricket, all with different challenges and rules to keep things interesting for everyone. Take football for example.
Replace the bat and ball with a football and a foot, and you've got a handy take on Kwik cricket that's fun and competitive. These types of activities are great for breaking up a sports session with something new, and get players engaged with one another in a fast-paced, exciting activity.
Sure to be a particular favourite for youth teams, blanket ball marries the best of ball sports with volleyball. A team is given a blanket, which each player helps to spread out to form a sort of blanket trampoline. Throwing the ball into the middle of the blanket, teams must flip the ball over a volleyball net you could improvise and use a pole or skipping rope as a makeshift bar that the ball must go over , which the opposing team must catch in their blanket.
With teamwork and communication an imperative part of success in this game, its an ideal team building exercise for youth teams. Similar to the Photo night, except instead of collecting photos, the teams are searching for leaders trying to camouflaging themselves into the environment :. I know what you're thinking - Pass the Parcel is a very lame game for Youth, but this involves a twist! Read the page for more detail.
Not so much a game but a suggestion to organise an activity your group can do together to benefit other people; for example a "Backyard Blitz", write letters encouraging, or social action , cook meals, etc. It's amazing what a group of people can accomplish together, and the way it will strengthen your group and bring them together. Growing up in a church, without doubt camps were the events that had the most positive influence on my life.
Spending significant quality time together with other people, the experiences we shared, were literally life shaping.
If you're looking to strengthen the friendships of kids within your groups, one of the best ways to do that is to run a camp! We have plenty more team building activities too. If you know of any good ones you'd like to share with others, please let us know and we can add it to the collection - thanks!
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