Find fun youth ministry games, Christian icebreakers, and team-building activities for church groups, Bible studies, and youth retreats. With Games for Youth Ministry by YM360 you can choose from:
LOCK IT IN is a team-based trivia showdown where quick thinking and teamwork are key! For each question, the first team to select an answer locks it in. Once an answer is chosen, the other team cannot pick it and must choose from the remaining options. Think fast, choose wisely, and see which team can lock in the most correct answers!
Test your knowledge about all things related to Thanksgiving! Guess whether the trivia is genuine (“BET”) or made up (“BLUFF”) to win that round!
Thanksgiving fills you up, but what words can your students spill out about it? This game can activate the whole room as you have everyone partner up or get competitive as a spectacle on stage. Each duo competes by taking turns saying one word based on the prompt until the other gets stuck. Lots of food and seasonal things here!
It’s fall, it’s wild, and it’s time to squad up! Squads – Fall Edition is the ultimate autumn showdown where students have to think fast, move faster, and act their hearts out. Each round, the screen shows three different fall-themed activities like “3 jumping in leaves,” “2 trick-or-treating,” or “4 sitting by the campfire.” Students must quickly form a group with the correct number of people and act out the chosen activity. But here’s the twist—only one of those combos will be eliminated each round. If your group picked the eliminated one… you’re out! Whether you’re pretending to roast marshmallows or diving into invisible leaf piles, this game is full of laughs, energy, and fall vibes.
How to Play:
Split everyone into one big group. When a round begins, show the screen with three different activities and group sizes. Students must quickly form a group of the exact number listed and act out one of the options. After about 10 seconds, reveal which group/activity is eliminated. Any student who chose that combo is out! Keep playing until only a few remain—and crown the last ones standing as the fall squad champions!
Bring the fall vibes and the fun! Crowd Cues: Fall Edition turns your whole room into a living autumn scene. The crowd acts out fall-themed prompts — think pumpkin carving, hayrides, and jumping in leaf piles — while one lucky contestant stands on stage and tries to guess what’s happening. It’s energetic, hilarious, and full of fall flavor!
How to Play
Split your crowd into two teams. Each round, send one contestant from each team to the stage and reveal a fall-themed prompt to the audience. The crowd acts it out (no talking!) while their teammate tries to guess. The first contestant to guess correctly wins the round and earns a point for their team. The team with the most points after all rounds wins!
Welcome to Scarblem – Fall Edition! In this fast-paced word scramble game, letters float across the screen in a swirling autumn mix. Work with your team to piece them together and uncover the hidden fall-themed word before anyone else can.
How to Play
Split your group into equal teams and have everyone start at the back of the room. Each round, scrambled letters will appear on the screen. Teams work together to solve the puzzle, then send one player racing to the front with their guess. The first player to answer correctly earns a point for their team. Play through the rounds to see who wins the Scarblem crown!
Autumn’s heating up in Quickfire – Fall Edition! This fast-paced circle game puts your reflexes and memory to the test as you race to keep the answers flowing. With fall-themed prompts, it’s all about thinking on your feet before the leaves—and players—start dropping.
How to Play
Players take turns around the circle answering the prompt. If you stall, repeat an answer, or slip up with the wrong word or sound, you’re out. The game keeps moving like falling leaves until only one sharp player remains standing as the winner.
Gear up for Stat Boost Showdown – Fall Edition! Each round, two enchanted fall-themed items face off—like a football that always spirals perfectly or one that never gets dropped. The big question: which magical boost is better? Only one way to find out…
How to Play
A contestant secretly picks their favorite enchanted item. Then the two options appear on screen and the crowd chooses by moving to the side of the room that matches their pick. If your choice matches the contestant’s, you stay in. If not—you’re out! Play until the last few remain to see who survives the showdown.
Which of the season’s best food is THE best? That’s what your group will get to debate and try to sway the rest of the crowd on, whether you use this as a fun mixer or as a challenge to match the host’s choice. It’s the perfect opener for a program, message or an event meal!
Your group has had their share of holiday desserts, but how well do they know the treats they’ve eaten or heard of? Test their knowledge through this fun trivia game that covers all their favorites (and maybe a weird one or two). Play it as a face-off or as an all-play!
Think your brain can handle a Christmas twist? Scarblem – Christmas Edition takes classic holiday words and scrambles them into a tangled mess of letters. From carols to cookies, only the sharpest minds (or luckiest guessers) will be able to unscramble the chaos and reveal the right word before time runs out. It’s festive, fast, and full of merry mayhem — perfect for getting everyone in the Christmas spirit!
How to Play
Show each scrambled Christmas word on the screen. Students can play individually or in teams. When the round appears, the first person or team to shout out the correct unscrambled word earns a point. You can make it more competitive by having teams raise their hand to answer or send a player to the front for a face-off. Keep score through all the rounds, and the team or player with the most points at the end wins!
It’s time to test your Christmas movie knowledge — one tagline at a time! In Tag! Christmas Movies, each round shows a Christmas movie poster with two possible taglines. One’s the real deal… the other’s a total fake! Students have to decide which tagline actually belongs to the movie before time runs out. It’s a festive guessing game full of laughs, nostalgia, and plenty of movie magic!
How to Play
Students begin in the center of the room. Each round, show a Christmas movie poster on the screen with two taglines beside it. Players move to the right side of the room if they think the correct tagline is Option A, or to the left side if they think it’s Option B. Once everyone’s chosen, reveal the right answer. Anyone who picked wrong is out for the rest of the game. Keep playing new rounds until only one Christmas movie expert remains standing!
Santa’s got a sweet tooth and a sneaky side! In Christmas Cookies, students try to outsmart Santa himself. Four delicious Christmas cookies appear on the screen — but watch out, because Santa’s coming to steal one! Each round, students must pick a cookie corner to stand in and hope Santa doesn’t swipe their snack. It’s fast, funny, and full of Christmas cheer — the perfect holiday elimination game to get everyone laughing and moving!
How to Play:
Show the four cookies on the screen, one in each corner. Everyone chooses a corner by moving to the spot in the room that matches the cookie they want. When everyone’s settled, reveal which cookie Santa tries to grab. Anyone standing in that cookie’s corner is out for the round. Keep playing new rounds with fewer and fewer players until only one person is left standing — the last cookie survivor wins!
Can your students spot the difference between what’s real or made up about Christmas? Get your whole room guessing between “BET” or “BLUFF” to win!
It’s the ultimate multi-answer holiday brain race! Players face off to name three things that fit each festive prompt… from snowman accessories, to creative names for Santa. It’s fast, funny, and full of Christmas cheer!
MOVIE QUOTES: CHRISTMAS EDITION puts your holiday movie knowledge to the test! Choose which movie each iconic quote came from.
In this holiday-themed guessing game, players hear famous quotes from popular Christmas movies. For each quote, participants must decide which movie they think it’s from and hold up 1, 2, or 3 to lock in their answer. The correct movie is revealed after each round—earning players points for right guesses! It’s a fun, fast-paced challenge that tests everyone’s Christmas movie knowledge.
Yule like this one! Get ready for everyone’s assumptions about Christmas to be challenged! Use this fun game to find out what your students do and don’t know about various Christmas traditions as well as what’s in the Bible as you have them determine FACT or FICTION! Play it as a face-off among students onstage, or invite the whole audience to play by moving around the room or facing off against a friend!
Look back on last Christmas through this fun “Two Truths and a Lie” style game! Let volunteers ahead of time know the prompts so they can come up and share 3 stories to test your students. You can play it as a face-off onstage, or have players stand up and hold up 1, 2 or 3 fingers to vote on the story (and sitting down if they get it wrong). Whether Christmas just happened or you’re going back to last year, this game is sure to create some great vibes for your group!
‘Tis the season… for a faceoff! See how much your group can say out loud about Christmas while getting prompts for different things about it. Pair up everyone in the room, or bring a duo on stage. Ho ho ho!
How does (and doesn’t) the rest of the world celebrate Christmas? In this festive and fun-filled games, players will be challenged with unique holiday traditions from other countries to guess if the celebration is real or completely made up. Simply play as an all-play where everyone gives a thumbs-up for thumbs-down to vote… and seize the moment – because some of the most unfamiliar ideas will create engaging conversation. Perfect for testing everyone’s Yuletide knowledge and sparking laughs, this game will enlarge everyone’s understanding of being in the Christmas spirit!
Many people favor dogs over cats, or cats over dogs, but it’s time to prove who is better. Have you group examine the cute-yet-disturbing outfits and decide who wore it better – the cat or the dog. They can yell out their answer to sway others, but then need to vote… either by moving from one side of the room to the other, or however you feel works for your group. Enjoy!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! So why not take a moment to help your group see what it does and doesn’t have in common when it comes to the holidays? Get them moving as they share by shifting from one side of the room to the other (or raise their left hand or right hand, if you have a big group) as they indicate if they “DID” or “DIDN’T” do it!
It's a simply true or false quiz about the Biblical Christmas story.
Work with your team to determine what you think the majority of the other teams will say. Whatever answer is the majority will be the only correct answer.
Put your mind to the test! Only 10 seconds to remember as many icons as possible. How many will you remember? Let's find out.
Game includes: Title slide, rules, and 20 games slides
In Christmas Carol One-liners, you are given one line from a popular Christmas song. Your job is to guess the name of the song. Tis the season!
Game includes: Title slide, rules, and 20 games slides
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