Icebreaker: Popcorn Sharing

This is a funny way to get students sharing with a new group.  

Decide who will start the game and give them the bag of popcorn. The person to the popcorn-holder’s right, chooses from one of the following questions that the popcorn-holder will have to answer. Then the popcorn-holder will give their answer in the following steps: Say a single answer, put a piece of popcorn in their mouth, say another, put another piece in their mouth. If anyone in the group can count to ten in between their answers, their turn is over and the bag passes to the right. If the group leader cannot understand the words the person is saying, their turn is over and the bag passes to the right.

1. What are the names of several government officials? 
2. What are the names of several BAD-Quality Pop-musicians? 
3. What are the names of several GOOD-Quality Pop-musi- cians? 
4. What are some funny YouTube videos? 
5. What are some good books? 
6. What are some of your favorite celebrities? 
7. What are some actors/actresses? 
8. What are some GOOD movies?
9. What are some BAD movies?

Game: Musical Condiment Twister

We have played this game several times, but had an addition a couple of nights ago that made it even more fun.  The basic idea goes like this:  

1. Create a twister board on a piece of plastic sheeting using paper plates to mark circles and filling those circles in with Ketchup, Mustard, Relish, and Mayonnaise with blue food coloring.
2. Print out pieces of paper that say, "Right foot," "Left Foot," "right hand," and "Left Hand" on red, blue, green, and red paper.  You want enough of these to have each phrase on each color AND to have enough for each spectator to have one.
3. Place the pieces of papers on the backs of the spectator chairs.
4. Blow up a beach ball.
5. Select four or five players (you may want to have two boards... one for guys, and one for girls)
6. Instruct the spectators, "Once the music starts, throw or hit the beach ball back and fourth.  When the music stops, so does the beach ball.  The person holding the beach ball yells out the instructions on the back of their chair like "right foot red" and the players will obey.
7. The players play without removing hands/feet from the board unless they are instructed to by the crowd.

Marco Polo on Land

This is a fun game for a spring evening.  Just enough water to be fun, and not enough to get sick when it's still a little cool.

What you need:

• Blindfold
• Long-range water gun (super soaker)
• Field
• Cones or other method to designate boundaries.

Choose someone to be marco.  Blindfold marco and give him the super-soaker.  Then instruct the students that there are four rules:  1. They must stay inside the boundaries.  2. They must answer polo whenever Marco says his name (though they do not have to yell).  3. When they are hit by water, they are out and must exit the playing field.  4. Persons who are not on the field must not respond when marco says "MARCO!"  The last person standing is marco next time.

To kick it up a notch:

• Periodically make the boundaries smaller
• Add an additional marco after each round
• Make someone being "out" expire after counting to 30 or 60 (this works best if you have a large number of Marcos

Another Gross Game

Ok so how many of you have used Starbucks gift cards as a 'reward' for winning a gross game? Well what if Starbucks  IS the gross game?!? I was at our youth Satellite office the other day (Starbucks) and was presented with Starbuck's newest innovation, Starbucks instant coffee. It comes in variety of different brews from really light to really dark. Well as it turns out, when properly prepared it is not a bad cup of coffee. 

So anyway on to the gross game part of it. Purchase 3 pouches of Starbucks instant coffee, I would recommend the dark roast. Set your game up like this. Announce that you have just been introduced to this great new product that Starbucks offers, rave about what a great cup of coffee it makes in just seconds, blah blah blah.

Have 3 completely dry coffee cups on a table (with spoons just for effect) pour a pouch in each cup and stir for effect. Then invite 3 willing participant to come up and jug this 'dry' coffee. 

I havent done this one yet, but plan on it, next Sunday night. Should be great!

Three Gross Games

Three simple games we have used in the past.  Have seen versions of these played everywhere; therefore, they were probably all stolen from Jesus or Peter originally.

Bloody Marshmallows 

After shooting ping pong balls into buckets to see which topping they get to use (Bucket marked 1 is Ketchup, 2 is mustard, 3 mayo, 4 Catalina Dressing, 5 Mixture), contestants have 30 seconds to cram as many marshmallows dipped in (condiment) into their mouths as possible.  Afterwards, they spit them out and count.  I have had a person concerned with this one about it being a choking hazard.  You can modify it to make it safer by having them eat each one and count as they go.

Cheerio Shaving

After getting a facefull of whipped cream, students dip their face in a bowl of cheerios.  Their partner sqirts of the cheerios with a tiny squirt gun.

Diaper Licking

Students race to see who can lick all the hersheys syrup and candy bars out of their diaper.