Creative Youth Ideas: December 2013

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

How slowly can you melt the ice cube?

Use the Christmas icebreaker to find out a little about each other

Youth work in pairs to wrap a gift with an interesting twist.

How good is your aim at tossing Christmas cards?

Use this activity as an icebreaker / crowdbreaker to divide your youth into teams at a Christmas Party

Let the air out of balloons so that they fly across the room in this relay race.

Don't break your Candy Cane!

Play a game of horseshoes using candy canes.

Use this as an introduction to the Wisemen who looked for the star in order to find Jesus.

How well can you draw a classic Christmas scene without looking?

Can you remember who is who and get everyone in your team in the sleigh?

Give youth a variety of items to build a Christmas Snowman.

Use this game based around Christmas symbols to see who is the Scrooge and who has the Christmas Spirit.

This is a photo scavenger hunt where participants must take a snapshot of the entire group

Will you be the one to get the Christmas Gift?

Can you unwrap the present before someone else takes your place?

There are many different variations of the gift exchange at Christmas. This is the most common one for me.

How well can you collect the right color of Christmas candy for your team?

Can you identify common Christmas objects by touch?

Team members pass their canes to the end of the line and back again using toothpicks stuck in their mouths.

Use this game to break your group up into pairs as a mixer.

Alphabetically listed are 25 items commonly associated with Advent and Christmas, one object lesson per day.