Thursday, February 7, 2013

Youth Ideas: Valentines Wink’em

This is a classic Valentine’s Day game where the objective is for the girls to catch a guy or vice versa!

Youth Ideas: Valentine’s Day True or False

Can you separate the Valentine’s Day related facts from the fiction?

Youth Ideas: Valentine’s Day Candy Charades

Play a game of charades using candy conversation hearts as the messages.

Youth Ideas: Valentine’s Day ‘Honey, if You Love Me’

Can you get someone of the opposite sex to smile?

Youth Ideas: Valentine Candy Teams

Use Valentine candy hearts as a crowbreaker to break your group into teams.

Youth Ideas: Love Is

Use this creative teaching idea as an introduction to a lesson on love or for Valentine's Day

Youth Ideas: Love Birds on a Perch

This is a high energy elimination game for Valentine's Day where one couple is eliminated from play each round until there is only one couple left.

Youth Ideas: Fractured Valentines

Create random Valentine's from youth response

Youth Ideas: Cinderella’s Valentine

Each blind-folded prince must follow the directions of his Cinderella to return her shoe to her.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Youth Icebreakers: Valentine’s Day Love Letters

Youth Create a wacky love letter, one word at a time.

Youth Icebreakers: Valentine’s Day Bingo

Played as a traditional game of Bingo but using items related to Valentine's day.

Youth Icebreakers: Valentine Twister

Twister is a very simple game that can become very complicated as the players can easily get tied up in knots. Play a classic game of twister replacing the colored dots with Valentine's Day Hearts and phrases from Candy Conversation Hearts.

Youth Icebreakers: True Love

Name as many things as possible that are associated with love.

Youth Icebreakers: Toothless Valentine

The objective of this game is not to laugh

Youth Icebreakers: Matching Emotions

Display the given emotion until you find the other members of your group.

Youth Icebreakers: Circle of Love

As kids toss a ball around the circle they will discover that it's sometimes difficult to say what we love about others.

Icebreakers: Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt

This is the traditional scavenger hunt where participants are given a list of items to retrieve and bring back within a designated time limit. The Valentine’s Day scavenger hunt consists of a list of the Valentine’s Day related objects and some rules. Variations may allow photos of an object to replace the actual object or creative substitutions. The rules may forbid the purchase of items or restrict the participants from going to their own homes or malls to collect items. Various points are assigned to the objects based upon the difficulty necessary to obtain them.

Youth Icebreakers: Pocket Scavenger Hunt

God wants to use the small things in our life to show others his love

Icebreakers: Valentine’s Day Forward and Backward

Display the given emotion until you find the other members of your group.

Icebreakers: Valentine’s Day Famous Couples

In this scavenger hunt / icebreaker, participants must find the hearts hidden around the building and match the couples together which are written upon the hearts.

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Icebreakers: Valentine’s Day Cupid

Youth must pop balloons with cupid's arrows and correctly piece together a love poem or scripture verse.

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Icebreakers: Valentine’s Day “Who Am I?”

Match the fun fact with the youth who wrote it
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Icebreakers: Valentine Balloon Shavers

Shave the cream from the balloon with the razor without popping the balloon.

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Icebreakers: Valentine Balloon Race

Using the air inside the balloons to propel them forward, move the heart shaped balloon to the opposite end of the room and back.

Icebreakers: Hearts in a Bottle

Can you guess the number of Valentine Candy Hearts in the bottle?

Icebreaker: Valentine’s Back to Back

Use this fun drawing game to remind youth that God showed us true love but we have turned our back on God and thus our understanding and standards for true love have degraded.

Icebreaker: Valentine Card Puzzler

Youth match their pieces to the card design to find their groups in this Valentine's Day crowdbreaker.