Plan some Christian getting-to-know-you activities for a youth group.
Start Christian youth group activities off with icebreaker activities to help members and newcomers feel comfortable, as well as overcome anxiety and shyness. Icebreakers also give any newcomers a chance to meet and make new friends. Encourage everyone to play along and try their best by awarding small Biblical prizes like pocket Bibles and biblical bookmarks to game winners.
Easy Icebreakers
Have the players sit in a circle and select one player to go first. She must stand up and say her name along with an interesting fact about herself. She will then select the player to go next. Each player must share her name and an interesting face. Keep playing until everyone has gone at least twice. For a variation, pass around a bowl of candy and have each player take as many pieces as she wants. After everyone has candy, each player must tell a fact about herself for each pieces of candy she took from the bowl.
Paper Clip Games
Give all players 10 paper clips and select three players to be "it." When the activity starts, the three "it" players must try to convenience the other players to connect their paper clips with them. The players can connect all their paper clips to one "it" player or divide them up amongst the three "it" players. The team who ends up with the longest string of paper clips wins the activity. For added fun, each player must share one interesting fact about himself before attaching any paper clip to another paper clip. For a related paper-clip game, have the players sit in a circle. Go around the circle and have each play reveal one fact about himself for each paper clip he is holding.
Bingo Activities
Make bingo cards with descriptions of people in each square. For example, "wears glasses," "has blue eyes," "plays guitar "and "has two brothers." Give each player a bingo card. Have her walk around finding another player that matches each description. The player must sign the card in the square or each player can write that player's name in the square. The first player to complete a row wins a prize. For another variation, simply write down the name of players in the squares and give each player a card. Call out players' names and the first player to get a row wins the game.
Ball Games
Inflate a beach ball and hand it to one player. Have all the players sit in a circle. The player with the ball must say his name and toss the ball to someone else. Each player must say his name before tossing the ball to someone else. After each player says his name twice, players must say the name of the player they toss the ball to instead of their own name. For a harder version, have the players add a hobby to their name. When a player tosses the ball to another player in the circle, he must call out that player's name and hobby.
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