Games For Youth Ministry

Follow the Heart is a Valentine's Day version of our classic, Follow the Queen game! It's really simple to play and requires no setup. Just show your students the 3 cards on the screen and have them keep their eye on the red heart. Then flip the cards and start shuffling. They have to guess which card is the red heart. You control the speed of the shuffle and which cards to flip. The best part is, you can force a card to be the right or wrong card. This is perfect if you need to help a student out... or force them out! 

Siri, predictive text, and virtual keyboards have spoiled this generation. Students don’t understand the struggle of texting before smartphones. Back in the day, we had to text to school in the snow, uphill both ways, like cave people. When it comes to old cell phones, the Nokia 3310 is the classic example of indestructible old tech. If you had a cellphone in the late 90s, it was the 3310. Text Me brings ’90s nostalgia to another level. We found an old Nokia manual and recreated the texting functionality for this app. Amaze your students with a glimpse into the past. 

Have your cupcake and eat it too! Well, not really... it's digital... Anyway! Cupcake Celebrate displays a cupcake and whatever text you want. You can even light the candle and have someone blow it out! This is perfect for birthdays, graduations, returning from Mono, or anything else that deserves a cupcake! Scroll down to see the instructions on how it works!

Disco-Go-Rama puts two teams of two against each other while they toss discs and attempt to catch them with ping pong paddles. The app keeps score and lets you set a countdown clock to whatever you want. This is a fantastic Minute-to-Win-It type game! 

Remember when you would stay home sick from school and watch The Price is Right with Bob Barker? Those were the days. Anyway, this game is like Plinko with donuts.

Have your students call out, “DROP!” and hit the spacebar. Watch the donut bounce around and hope that it lands in a box at the bottom. If your students are able to get three donuts in a box, they’re the winners. This is a super easy, no-step game that’s perfect for any occasion!

This is a very simple game that everyone can play. There is no skill necessary, just 50/50 guessing. 

Students are presented with two doors. One is locked and the other isn't, but there’s no way of knowing which is which. Each student guesses which door will be unlocked. Students who guess correctly survive for another round. It's a game of elimination until you have only one lucky guesser left standing.

There is a duck on the screen. Each time you hit the spacebar, the duck quacks and the number on the left increases. At some point between the first and 20th quack, the duck will bark. This game is really simple, but it’s a ton of fun. It doesn’t take much explaining, requires zero setup, and can be played a near-infinite amount of times. 

Emoji Slots offers all the fun of Las Vegas’s “one-armed bandit” minus the smoke-filled room and crippling gambling debt. This game requires no setup. It works great as a prize game or a tiebreaker. Stopping each slot individually is a cool way to add a little suspense if the scores are close. Allow that last slot to spin a little longer before ending the game. The anticipating gets the crowd going nuts! 

Enhance is easy to understand and really fun to play! Upload any photos you want into the app and it will display them as super pixelated pictures. Your students have to guess what the picture is as you slowly un-pixelate it. This is perfect for screenshots of movies, pictures from your youth group, or just random stuff you found on the internet! 

Extreme Head Counting is a new take on one of our most popular games, Extreme Potato Counting! In this game, you use the heads of your students, staff, or volunteers. Just button mash the keyboard to launch a bunch of heads onto the screen see if your students can keep track of them all! 

What's more fun than potato counting? That's right, EXTREME POTATO COUNTING! EPC is really fun if you own how dumb it is. All you have to do is hit any letter key on your keyboard an a potato will lunch on the screen and fall back down. Tell your students to simply count the number of potatoes that appear on screen. Then, hit the spacebar to go into EXTREME MODE (intense, fast music plays and the screen gets darker). Now, button mash all of the letter keys to lunch a bunch of potatoes at once. Keep going nuts on the keyboard and hit the spacebar to finally stop. Have everyone call out how many potatoes there were. Finally, hit the enter key on your keyboard to reveal the answer! The person with the closest to the number, without going over, wins! 

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! 

Flip Board is a fantastic tool that lets you display text on the screen in a cool flip board style! This is perfect to display trivia, names, prizes, pretty much anything you can think of! You can create unlimited panels and cycle through them! Each time you go to a new panel, the whole board does a fun flip animation! 

Flip That Coin is a simple tool that can be used in a tons of different ways. You can use it in a large group setting during a standup-sit-down-type game, or you can use it as a simple tie breaker. Like most of our games, you can control the outcome and force it to land on heads or tales if you need to help a student win or lose. You can even change the logo on the front and back of the coin! That means you can slap on your ministry's logo or an icon that can tie into your talk! 

The Flip Timer is a virtual take on a classic design. Old countdown clocks show a number onscreen with a cool background. Lame! We wanted to do something different. Just like a real flip-style clock, this counter flips each number as time passes. The sound effects and animation make it feel like a real clock. We call it “real virtuality.” 

This church game allows your students the entertainment of a classic street game without the risk of being robbed at knife-point. It’s the perfect prize game. The best part is you can make whoever you want to win or lose. It's an easy game that works with conestants and huge groups. No setup! Just follow the queen! 

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. 

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. 

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! 

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! 

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! 

Head Spin is the perfect people picker that uses your students heads on the screen! Just hit the spacebar to start and stop the spinning to land on a random head. It’s that easy. This is a super fun way to pick students to play games or win prizes. The game includes a “Head Maker” tool to help you quickly isolate students’ heads for not only this game, but for any of our games that use heads. 

Higher Lower is the epitome of a simple, no-setup, re-playable game that's a ton of fun. It's literally your classic, "I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 100" game with an awesome screen element that makes it even better. Have a student guess the number in your head before the timer runs out. All you have to do is hit the arrow keys on the keyboard to show if your number is higher or lower. It's a great game when you're in a pinch and didn't plan a game :)