Are your Icebreakers a SNORE?

In group activities, icebreakers are those fun, energizing activities, which allow the participants in the group to get to know each other. They can also be used to introduce a topic, to facilitate teamwork, to get people engaged in a program, to loosen them up to start sharing feelings and ideas, or simply just for fun!

Learn how you can avoid the SNOREs of boredom in your next icebreaker!

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Easter Ideas

Looking for some Creative Easter Ideas for the youth you are working with, the children you teach, or even your own children.

On my main website (http://www.creativeyouthideas.com) you can find Easter themed Children’s Sermons and Object Lessons, Creative Teaching Ideas for Easter, Easter Devotionals, Easter Drama Ideas, Ideas for Evangelism events and activities, and Easter themed Game and Icebreaker Ideas, and jokes and illustrations to add sparkle to your youth talks.

In fact there are over 1200 FREE ideas for various themes and events in addition to the Easter Ideas.

But you don't have to go searching through all 1200 ideas to find those Easter gems. Alternatively, you can buy the Easter Collection e-Book. Its available for a limited time only at only US$9.99! Click here to find out more.

With YOUth on my Heart
Ken

Rediscovering Your Creativity

I am often asked, "How can you come up with so many Creative Ideas?"

Personally, I think all of us are born creative. We are born with a "Sense of Wonder". Unfortunately, as we get older we tend to lose our sense of wonder. We figure everything out. Things began to have but one interpretation, the correct answer, a single perspective, fossilized associations. We forget how to "think outside of the box” and tend to see things in only one way. But give a child a banana and it becomes more than a healthy snack. With a little imagination it becomes a gun, a smile or a frown, a mobile phone, a nose, an antenna, a flute, and more.

So how can we regain our creativity? What is the solution?

Find out how you can rediscover your creativity at http://www.creativeyouthideas.com

Youth Leaders looking for Creative Ideas take 1 year old Youth Work website to over 1 Million hits

Created at the end of November 2005, the Creative Youth Ideas website has attracted thousands of visitors from all around the world, many of which come back again and again making it one of the top youth work sites on the internet.

Singapore - February 4, 2007 – Youth worker, Ken Sapp, with 20 years international experience working with youth, originally began the Creative Youth Ideas Website (http://www.creativeyouthideas.com) to share resources with a few fellow youth workers. But in just over one year it has developed into one of the top Youth Work websites on the internet!

Living in the island nation of Singapore and working and conducting talks, training workshops, and conferences around Asia, Ken realized that there was a scarcity of youth resources available to those working with youth outside the United States. Even in Singapore, where resources are widely available, the expense is beyond the budget of many youth programs. With this in mind, he started Creative Youth Ideas to make available free resources for those working with youth.

Ken Sapp, got the idea for the site after realizing that he and others working with youth were spending more time searching for or developing effective youth resources than they were spending time with the youth! It was out of this frustration that he began to compile a list of his the most useful resources he had developed working with youth from many different cultures around the world and started posting them online.

The free online resources include icebreakers, games, object lessons, creative teaching ideas, children’s materials, jokes, illustrations, and inspirational stories. To date there are over 1200 ideas online and that number is growing every day!

Christopher Wenzel, Youth Pastor, at Ridgecrest, CA says, “This site really helps me cut down on wasted time searching for ideas, games, and resources. I appreciate you sharing your expertise and experience with us... for FREE!”

Ann, at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Viroqua, WI says, “I am the Parish Administrator at our church, in which we are temporarily without our youth director. I love working with youth, so I said I would continue the youth program for a while in her absence. I have been able to have a great time with these youth along with teaching them! They are having a blast too and wonder where I am coming up with all these fun games and lesson plans. Thank you very much for saving our youth program!”

Visit http://www.creativeyouthideas.com today and discover what 1 million have already discovered – great youth work resources for free.

SuperBowl Charades to Tackle that SuperBowl Party

SuperBowl Charades

American Football is a national past-time and it doesn't get any better than the Superbowl. When the Superbowl comes around, why not take the opportunity to tackle a few games with your youth while you score a few goals for the kingdom of God. This is the first, of several ideas to take advantage of all the Superbowl hype to reach out the youth! Its also a great idea for a superbowl party for adults!

In this classic variation of charades participants must act out phrases or words in order for team members to guess the correct phrase. The essence of Charades is pantomimes: you must act out a word or phrase without speaking or making any sound effects.

For a Superbowl Party you can use the names of teams or football terms as items for the charades game. Check out the entry at http://www.creativeyouthideas.com for a list of teams and football terms that could be used for SuperBowl Charades. You'll also find simple instructions on how to play the charades game and optional spiritual applications and discussion questions for a youth ministry event!

See you there!
With YOUth on my Heart,

Ken

Creative Youth Ideas on Blogger

I have my own website, but wanted someplace to keep an open archive of all the crazy ideas I come up with in my work with youth. On my main website at http://www.creativeyouthideas.com I have more than 1200 FREE ideas. And new ideas are added EVERYDAY!

I'm building a collection of the best teaching ideas, illustrations, devotionals, curricula, games, icebreakers, object lessons, sermons, inspirational stories, and training materials gathered from over 20 years of experience working with youth around the world.

So that's what I plan for this site.

I love networking with other youth workers and those who are making a difference in the lives of youth around the world.

With YOUth on my heart,
Ken