Youth Ministry Curriculum and Resources

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! 

Do you need a quick game for Hallowen to give out a prize? Maybe you need something to act as a tie breaker for a another game. Or do you want a simple, no-setup game for your ministry? Halloween Three of a Kind is just that! Just hit the spacebar and three pumpkins will appear in the boxes. If a student gets three of a kind (hence the name), they win a prize! 

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. 

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! 

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 :) 

Kill Square is our most popular church game because it gets everyone up and moving, having fun, and praying for survival. This game takes a little bit of preparation, but your students are going to love it. It’s easy to understand and students of all mental and physical abilities will enjoy it. 

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! 

Knock Knock lets you upload photos of your students, volunteers, staff, etc and hide them behind doors. Then, the doors swap! You students either have to keep an eye on someone and guess which door they’re behind, or they have to guess the order of everyone! You can have as many doors as you want! The included Head Maker in the dashboard helps you create heads from images quickly! 

Sometimes it’s fun to mess with people! Just hook a student or volunteer up to... anything... it's fake. Turn on the Lie Detector and start asking questions! You can control when the lie detector says they're telling the truth or a lie. It's hilarious and a ton of fun! 

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). 

Llama Llamalong is a fun take on the classic “Simon®” game but with llamas! It’s simple to start and difficult to keep going. Also, did we mention it’s a no-prep youth group game and becomes more fun the more your youth group plays it? Llama Llamalong is the most fun to play when your youth group has a weekly Llama Llamalong Champion. Each week, bring a student up to beat the highest score. If they do it, they become the new champ until someone beats their score. 

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! 

Monster Match is the best middle school game for getting the sillies out. We created it specifically for goofy middle school students and youth workers who occasionally behave like middle schoolers. It’s guaranteed to get your peeps laughing and having a good time. 

Monster Match is the best middle school game for getting the sillies out. We created it specifically for goofy middle school students and youth workers who occasionally behave like middle schoolers. It’s guaranteed to get your peeps laughing and having a good time. 

Name in a Box is exactly what it sounds like! You can enter as many names, prizes, challenges, verses, etc into the dashboard and a really long arm will randomly select one at a time from the box! It's painfully simple, but that's the point! It's a really easy way to pick a student for a game or to pick prizes. 

One of Each is a fast-paced game that has students taking turns calling out items in a given category without repeating the same first letter. Each time an item is called out, you just enter its first letter on your keyboard and it’s taken off the board. If that letter is entered again, you’ll hear a buzz and that student is out! 

Out of 10 gives best friends a chance to prove how well they know each other! One friend is blindfolded while the other can see the screen. A number will be chosen at random (ie 4 out of 10) and the friend who can see has to give the other examples of things they think they would give that rating. For example, if you have to get your friend to guess 8 out of 10 and you know they love sushi, you’d say something, “We’re getting sushi and there’s a 20 minute wait.” If they guess the correct rating, you get a point! 

It’s nice to have a game that doesn’t take a lot of explaining beforehand and is simple to run. That’s why we have Pig Scoreboard. Most people have played at least one game of PIG, even in the olden times: “Thee hast error thine own shot. Thou art now adorn with P-I-G.” 

It’s nice to have a game that doesn’t take a lot of explaining beforehand and is simple to run. That’s why we have Pig Scoreboard. Most people have played at least one game of PIG, even in the olden times: “Thee hast error thine own shot. Thou art now adorn with P-I-G.” 

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! 

Prize Boxes is a quick and simple way to give out prizes to the students in your youth group!. All you need to do is add pictures into the settings and the game will take care of the rest! You can have it randomly select a box, or you can have a student pick the one they want to open. What’s inside? You decide! You can add as many prizes as you’d like and the game will update the number of boxes on the screen! 

The Prize Wheel is one of our favorite apps. It’s a great way to bring up the energy in the room. It takes very little setup and is always a winner. You can set up as many slots as you want. You can even set the size and color of the slot! The best part is, you can change the slots on the fly! If you need to change, "20 pushups" to be 80% of the wheel just before the spin it... you can do that! 

Pumpkin Drop is a super spooky Halloween version of one of our favorite games, Donut Drop. Just have a student yell, "Drop!" and watch as their pumpkin bounces through the pegs and hopefully lands in one of five boxes on the floor. The coolest part about this game is that you can hit a button that completely slows down time in the game! This is perfect for those moments when it looks like the pumpkin is about to fall into a box. Just hit the button and everything runs in slow motion! It's a ton of fun! 

Here’s why the normal way of using raffle tickets isn’t the best. When you give someone a raffle ticket, you tear off the bottom ticket and hand them the top one. At the end of the event, you reach into a hat filled with bottom tickets and pull one out. The problem is that not every bottom ticket makes it to the hat, especially if you have multiple volunteers handing out tickets. This app fixes that! 

Who doesn't need a Red vs Blue scoreboard? This is the perfect way to keep score between opposing players, teams, or entire sections of the crowd. If you use any kind of "versus" game in your youth ministry, Red vs Blue is exactly what you need on screen. It requires no setup and just uses a few buttons to control the scores! 

Rock, Paper, Scissors is exactly what is sounds like! It's a great game to play with all of your students. Just have everyone pick a hand, then let the app pick one at random... or cheat and force it to land on the hand that you want! Watch the walk-through video below to see it in action! 

Santa Drop is a super jolly, Christmas version of one of our favorite games, Donut Drop. Just have a student yell, "Drop!" and watch as a Santa jumps from his sleigh, bounces through the pegs, and hopefully lands in one of five chimneys! The coolest part about this game is that you can hit a button that completely slows down time in the game! This is perfect for those moments when it looks like the Santa is about to fall into a chimney. Just hit the button and everything runs in slow motion! It's a ton of fun! 

Satna Slots offers all the fun of a slot machine minus the chance to win a bazooka load full of money. But! It’s Christmas themed. So, it does have that going for it. Santa Slots requires no setup and works great as a prize game or a tiebreaker! We use Santa Slots at the end of a scavenger hunt that has multiple winners and other tie-breakers. Invite the winners up on stage see who get the highest score. 

You’re not going to believe this, but Scoreboard is a scoreboard! We know, right? All joking aside, Scoreboard is an easy-to-use scoreboard with a timer and custom team names. Just hit the up/down arrow keys to add/ remove points. Use the top row of numbers to add/remove a batch of points! The clock can be set to whatever you want! If you want to keep track of team points, Scoreboard is the tool for you! 

Scramble is your classic word game where the tiles are scrambled and students have to figure out the words/phrases on the screen. All you have to do is enter the words/phrases that you want to use in the dashboard and the game will take care of the rest! This is perfect for students' names, movie titles, or if you want to make it really difficult, Biblical genealogy! 

Secret Squares is a blast! You select any images that you want and they’ll be covered by a bunch of squares. Your students have to figure out what the full image is as you reveal one square at a time! The first student to get it right will win that round! With the touch of a button, you can change the difficulty from just a handful of big squares to an insane amount of tiny squares! 

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. 

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. 

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! 

You can only move when it's night time! That's the number one rule of the game. Clear out your youth room and split the floor into four large sections with tape. Take four decks of cards and spread them out all over four sections. Challenge your students to find every card of one suit (Ace through King). You cannot move in a section that is daytime on the screen. If you do, you're out! The first student (or group) to collect all 13 cards of the same suit will win! 

Song Bite is a new game that plays short snippets from songs that you upload. Students have to guess the name of the song and the band based on less than a second of audio. You control what songs you use, what part of the song that plays, and how long it plays for! Just grab a bunch of mp3s of your favorite songs and you’re in business!