All it takes is the right prompt to help your students and leaders discover something interesting about each other. This will get them moving as they do, too, as they shift from one side of the room to the other (or raise their left hand or right hand, if you have a big group). Have a blast as you find out if they “DID” or “DIDN’T” do it!
Students may be famous for being on their devices, but how much have they paid attention to the news about their favorite apps? See how many big headlines they’ve caught as you challenge them to guess via trivia style, move-to-the-side-of-the-room, or call it out as a turn-to-a-friend-and-guess icebreaker.
When was the last time you learned something about someone in your group? Use these fun prompts to see who has or hasn’t done something unique. Have them move from one side of the room or the other (or raise a left or right hand, if you group is large) to indicate if they “DID” or “DIDN’T” do it.
Looking for a fun, on-the-spot guy-versus-girl face-off game? This one is a great opener for a message on relationships. Bring up two contestants (or more) to study the cheesy Christian pick-up line, and then face their opponent to say it with a straight face until someone can’t keep a straight face!
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!
Want to yet again help your group learn a few things about each other? Use this to put each question on the screen, one at a time, and then have your students move to one side of the room or the other (or raise a left or right hand, if you group is large) to indicate if they “DID” or “DIDN’T” do it.
Looking for a game to help your group get to know each other? This is perfect! Put each question on the screen, one at a time, and then have your students move to one side of the room or the other (or raise a left or right hand, if you group is large) to indicate if they “DID” or “DIDN’T” do it. The last slide ends on a question about a Bible verse, and you can also bring some up on the microphone to share one they have memorized.
Who has had the greatest variety of friend experiences? Find out by having the whole room stand up (or having students who can’t stand raise a hand), and then having them stay standing if what’s read is true of them. Otherwise, they sit down until the game is over (or you generously let everyone back in after a few rounds) and see who is left standing.
Pro-tip: The last question has to do with karaoke and can lead to a karaoke showdown if you want to keep the fun going!
You will be given a category by which you and the members of your group will have to line up in.... WITHOUT TALKING! The first group to line up correctly wins a point.
For each question, you will answer "Left" or "Right" by holding up your arm to show which option you think is the correct answer. If you're right, stay standing. If you're wrong, sit down. If you cheat... God sees you.
Game includes: Title slide, rules, and 20 games slides
For each question, you will answer "Left" or "Right" by holding up your arm to show which option you think is the correct answer. If you're right, stay standing. If you're wrong, sit down. If you cheat... God sees you.
Game includes: Title slide, rules, and 20 games slides
"Unstand if..." is your classic, "Sit down if..." youth ministry game. The cool thing about this game is that you can quickly enter the conditions and start playing right away. Just have everyone stand up. If what's on the screen is true about them, have them unstand (aka sit down)! Since you can change the conditions in the dashboard, this is a great and simple game that can be played every week.
Grab two bicycle pumps and two students! Have them inflate the turkeys on the screen until one of them pops. The first to pop their turkey is the winner! This funny game is easy to understand with hardly any setup. Every time a student pumps their bicycle pump, just hold down an arrow key on your keyboard. This will cause their turkey to inflate. If the turkey gets too big, "POP!", it explodes into a bunch of turkey pieces. Check out the, "How to Play" section below for more details.
Sword vs Shield is a “This or That” game that has your students battling it out between two rivals. Everyone needs to pose holding a sword or a shield. Then, two knights fly on to the screen in mid-battle. Just as the knight with the sword strikes the knight with the shield, the screen goes dark. Then, with the click of a button, the winner is revealed. The students making that pose win that round.
"Stop the Clock” has students trying to figure out how to stop the clock (hence the name). STC can be used in an escape room, during scavenger hunts, or on stage during your large group time. This STC is called, "Three Key" and requires students to find and plug three USB thumb drives into a USB hub to... Stop the Clock!
Ships and Sailors is a classic youth ministry game that gets your students running around the room while they try to preform the actions on screen. For example, when the game lands on Starboard, everyone runs to the right side of the room. When it lands on Row, students have to get in groups of 4 and pretend to row the boat. Anyone slacking or not able to pair up for a task is OUT!
Shifty Dot is a fantastic tool that can be used for a bunch of different games. We'll give you some ideas, but you can really do whatever you want with this one. The app is simple: Just pick the number of players and the screen with be filled with a group of boxes. A little white dot shifts around while it counts down. Watch the walk-through video below to get an idea of what you can do with this one.
Shake It Out is a blast! Just grab some contestants and have them shake ping pong balls out of tissue boxes that are strapped around their waists. The first person to shake out all of their ping pong balls before the clock runs out is the winner. The app has a customizable countdown clock with digital ping pong balls that fall when you hit letter keys on your keyboard.
Pose This Way is a crowd favorite that doesn’t require any setup. The screen will flash 6 different poses (The Pray, The No Way, The Whey, The Oh Hey, The Hooray, and The Chipotle). Everyone has to stand up and make one of the poses where they’re standing. If the game stops on the pose that a student is doing, they have to sit down. Just keep eliminating students until there’s only one left!
Look Out is a fast-paced game that challenges student to look in the opposite director of the eye on the screen, or they're out! This is one of those games that works perfectly for contestants and the whole crowd alike. Just count down, "Three, two, one!" much like "Rock, Paper, Scissors". Everyone needs to quickly snap their heads either left or right and hope they don’t match the eye on the screen! If you want to make things even more challenging, you can add up and down to the list!
This crowd game gets everyone up and out of their seat. No preparation is necessary. Just tell you students to get ready to move around and make new friends. Everyone has to link arms in groups of up to six people. If the board lands on the number of people in your group, you're out! It's a fun, fast, and amazing (fantastic would have probably fit better there, but I already committed to amazing).
KillSquare 2.0 is the next iteration of one of our most popular games… KillSquare! Here’s how it works: Clear out your youth room and tape down 4 large colored squares. Tell your students to get into a square. Then KillSquare 2.0 will randomly pick a square to eliminate! Everyone has a few seconds to rush into another square before the next random one is hit! Keep doing this until there is one person standing! It’s fast-paced, easy to set up, and something you can play again and again!
Head Shoulders Knees & Cup is a game that requires speed, agility, and the commitment to dive for a cup! Just have 10 students with 9 plastic cups in front of them. They have to do what shows up on the screen (head, shoulders, and knees). When the screen shows the cup, everyone has to dash to grab one on the floor! The person who doesn't get a cup is out! Throw out a cup and do it again until there's one person left. The prize? A bunch of broken cups!
Freeze Frame has students do one of the most challenging things of their lives... stay still! Get a group of students together and have them take a picture using a builtin (or usb) webcam on your computer. Here's the catch, it only snaps the photo when it detects movement. The goal is to stay as still as possible in front of the camera. Once the photo is taken, it gives you a digital Polaroid with your total seconds. Trust us, it's a challenge!
We all know how to play a freeze dance game. Play some music and everyone has to dance. The second the music stops, everyone has to freeze in place. Anyone moving is out. The fun part about this version is that you can speed up and slow down the music as well! Just select an MP3 of the song you want to use and a traffic light will appear on the screen. Green plays the music at normal speed. Red pauses it. Yellow slows it down. When all three are on, the song plays twice as fast!
Four Square is a children’s ministry version of one of our most popular games, Kill Square. It gets everyone up and moving, having fun, and laughing. This game takes a little bit of preparation but your kids are going to love it. It’s easy to understand and students on with any physical or mental status can participate.
Formations is a game that has teams of students racing to match the pattern on the screen. To prep, mark out circles or x's with tape on the floor. You can customize the number of rows and columns you want for the game. On the screen, balls bounce shift to spots on the grid. Each team must place a student in that corresponding grid-box. A grid-box with a number on it needs that number of students to sit in that grid-box. To lock their formation in, everyone on the team sits down with crisscrossed legs. The first team to correctly lock in the correct formation wins that round.
Fact or Fiction is a really easy game to play. Just enter a bunch of real and fake facts into the settings. The game will display each one at a time and your students will have to decide if it’s fact or fiction (hence the name). To display the correct answer, just hit the left or right arrow keys! It’s super easy to setup and tons of fun to play!
No need for setup, just have everyone stand up! A get-up-out-of-your-seat elimination game for the whole group. This is a quick game to wake everyone up and get them involved.
Everyone stands up and faces forward, backwards, left, or right. Then let the crab dance around and land in one of the directions. Anyone facing the same direction of the crab has to sit down. Give everyone a second to face in a different direction and do it again. Keep going until you have two students left. Have them stand on opposite sides of the room and let the crab decide who the winner is.
This game is perfect in-person, outside, or remote. Have your students sit down and race to be the first to hand you whatever appears on the screen.
Some item ideas: a coin, a white shoeless, my leather jacket I let Jennifer Finney borrow at the homecoming game sophomore year of high school. Since you get to enter the items into the game’s dashboard, it can be whatever you want!
This game is sure to entertain both you and your students. With a little setup, this goofy game pits students against each other in a competition of head bobbing.
With pedometers on their heads, the person with the highest pedometer count at the end is the winner! With this app, you can cut out a picture of their heads and have them bobbling on the screen while they’re bobbling in real life! It’s a hilarious visual. Watch the video below to see how to set everything up.
Your students will learn the rules of this game in a minute but want to play for hours. Use this game for full-class engagement or have just as much fun watching The Chosen One.
Have your student(s) stand facing away from the screen or blindfolded. Their task is to follow the audible cues to either raise or lower a limb. Essentially, the child has turned into a human BopIt.
Click the spacebar and the character on the screen either raises or lowers their arms and legs in this order: Right Arm, Left Arm, Right Leg, Left Leg (repeat). There's a raise and lower sound effect that plays with each move. The student simply needs to listen for that cue and either raise or lower an arm/leg in the correct order to match the character on the screen. It's way harder than it sounds. Once your students become pros, you can add more players! Hitting the spacebar will cycle through each player before returning to the first!
Let's go on a little trip and put your navigation skills to the test. Here's your location. What direction do we move next?
Game includes: Title slide, rules, and 20 games slides
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