Creative Youth Ideas: March 2006 Archives

Top Ten Reasons to Celebrate Easter

Humorous look at the easter Holidays (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Humor
Average: 2.86 (125 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Easter, Jokes, Humor

Scattered Reminders of Easter

How many items from the Biblical Easter account can you find around the room? (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 3.03 (120 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Easter Games, Holiday games, Scavenger Hunt, Easter egg ideas

Twas the Night Before Easter

Easter take on the famous "Night Before Christmas" poem (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 3.05 (122 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Easter, Humor

Easter Exchange

Can you grab a chair while youth switch places based on Easter symbols? (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 3.09 (115 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Easter Games, Holiday Games

Take Off the Grave Clothes

Christ Shares his Resurrection with us. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 10:32 PM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.84 (111 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Easter, Resurrection, New Life, new start, another chance

Easter Egg Teams

Use Easter Eggs to break your group into teams. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Icebreakers
Average: 3.03 (120 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Easter, Icebreakers, crowbreakers, Easter Games, Holiday Games, Plastic Easter Eggs, Easter egg ideas

Bamboo

Do not become weary in doing good. [Flash Presentation] (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (4)
Category: Inspiration
Average: 3.12 (145 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Perseverance, Good works, loving others

What if

What if GOD met our needs the way we give Him our lives? (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 07:30 PM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.98 (120 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: blessings, God's care, needs, prayer, commitment

Easter Forward and Backwards

Can you make it around the circle to win? (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (1)
Category: Icebreakers
Average: 3.00 (128 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Christmas Game, Holiday Game

The Weaver

Our life is a weaving of different colored threads. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.83 (111 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: pain, sorrow, hurt, plan, purpose

Easter Egg Nose Roll

Roll an easter egg across the finish line using only your nose. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.87 (115 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Easter Games, Holiday Games, Messy Games, Easter egg ideas

Easter Charades

Play a game of charades using key Easter events. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 03:45 PM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Drama Ideas
Average: 2.84 (134 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Easter, Resurrection

Easter Pretzels

Introduce children and youth to the Easter traditions and symbolism associated with Pretzels. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (2)
Category: Children's Sermon
Average: 3.01 (139 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: symbolism of pretzels, Easter traditions, Easter Children's Sermon, Easter Object Lesson

Filled yet?

Often we discover too late that instead of having full lives, our lives are full of holes. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 10:00 PM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Humor
Average: 2.90 (117 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: trials, circumstances, adversity, struggles, testing, water, humor

Easter 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 symbols commonly associated with Easter. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.89 (114 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Easter Games, Holiday Games

No Excuse Sunday

What is your excuse for not attending church? (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 10:45 PM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Humor
Average: 2.72 (119 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Church, attendance, congregation

The Weather Vane

God's love is always there. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 3.03 (116 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: God's love

Traditional Passover Seder (Simple Version)

Have a traditional Passover meal to bring added meaning to the easter events. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Creative Teaching Ideas
Average: 2.97 (115 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Passover, Seder, Easter, Meal

Imaginary Chains

Trusting God, we take an obedient stand for our faith and refuse to live according to our learned limitations. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 11:14 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Inspiration
Average: 2.99 (119 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: faith, belief, limitations

Watermelon Seeds

Can you explain the mystery of a watermellon seed? (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 2.87 (113 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: evangelism, witnessing, mystery of God

What's in the Easter Basket?

The person who correctly guesses the most objects inside the Easter eggs is the winner. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 3.07 (118 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Easter Games, Holiday Games

Watch His Ways

God molds us according to his ways. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.99 (117 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: pain, suffering, trials, tribulations, circumstances, adversity, struggles, overcoming, hurt, affliction, testing

Easter Card Puzzler

Youth match their pieces to the card design to find their groups in this Easter crowdbreaker. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Icebreakers
Average: 3.20 (108 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Easter, Icebreaker, Crowdbreaker

Zeal

Afraid of the Zeal of the Lord? (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 3.07 (112 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: zeal, fear, sacrifice, dedication, devotion, commitment

Jelly Bean Teams

Use Jelly Beans to break your group into teams. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Icebreakers
Average: 2.97 (105 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Easter, Icebreakers, crowbreakers, Easter Games, Holiday Games, Jelly Beans, Jelly Bean Games

Weakness

Weakness has a way of making us rely on God far more than our strengths do. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 2.87 (116 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: strength, weakness

Easter Back to Back

This game humorously demonstrates the fact that for many people, the meaning of Easter has become distorted over time. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.92 (114 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Easter, Meaning, Holiday Games, Easter Games

Jelly Bean Salvation

Use 5 colors of Easter Jelly beans to tell the Gospel. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (1)
Category: Object Lessons
Average: 2.92 (135 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Easter, Salvation, Gospel, Evangelism, Witnessing, Sacrifice, Christ's work, Gospel According to Jelly Beans

Waiting On God

What does it mean to wait on God? (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 11:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 2.97 (128 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: prayer, waiting, paitence

The Water Jar

Jesus loves to take a life that is drifting and give it direction. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.96 (112 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: water jar, woman at the well, direction, drift

Easter Bingo

Can you cover all the squares in your Easter Bingo Board? (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.78 (101 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Holiday Games, Easter, Resurrection, Passover, Good Friday, Crucifixion

Prayer of St. Patrick

Prayer for each day (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 2.98 (105 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Prayer, Dependence upon God, God's Provision

Which Tooth?

We're anxious to have something happen! (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 10:00 PM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 2.95 (99 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: pain, suffering, trials, tribulations, circumstances, adversity, struggles, overcoming, hurt, affliction, testing

A Beautiful Tune

Watch carefully what you are filled with -- God or the things of this world. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:30 AM | Link | Comments (1)
Category: Children's Sermon
Average: 2.94 (139 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Joy, Music, Priorities, Filling, Sharing God's love with others, materialism

Church Bells

Leave your troubles in God's hands. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 3.05 (118 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: circumstances, faith, fear, doubt, anxiety, worry, confidence, Easter, trust

The Empty Egg

The story of the empty egg. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 06:00 PM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 3.14 (113 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Easter, empty tomb, resurrection, life after death, Easter egg ideas

Butterfly, Botanist, or Bee?

Are you obedient to the knowledge God reveals in your life? Do you live out the word? (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 05:49 PM | Link | Comments (1)
Category: Inspiration
Average: 2.97 (118 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: faith, works, obedience

Walk the Rope Relay

What scriptural standards do you find most difficult to walk? (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Creative Teaching Ideas
Average: 2.93 (111 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Spiritual Walk, Wages of sin, death

Life Restorer

While Easter is not about the Easter bunny, it is about restoring the dead. Jesus was resurrected and because of his work on the cross we also will be resurrected. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 11:50 PM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Humor
Average: 2.92 (124 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Easter, Humor, Joke, Funny, resurrection

A Quiet Place

A quiet place to prepare for the day. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Devotional
Average: 3.07 (115 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Prayer, Quiet Time, Devotional

Joseph's Tomb

Joseph probably didn't realize that his act to bury Christ in his own tomb fulfilled prophecy. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 3.04 (113 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: pain, suffering, trials, tribulations, circumstances, adversity, struggles, overcoming, hurt, affliction, testing, questions, burial, death, prophecy, resurrection, Easter

Life on a Tightrope

Do you put your faith into action? (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:53 PM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Inspiration
Average: 3.09 (120 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: faith, believe, belief, trust, take action

Avoiding Prayer

Expressive Prayer (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:02 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 2.94 (113 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Prayer, Devotion, Intercession, Quiet Time

Egg Tragedy

Sometimes when life seems to have shattered we can make an omelette. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Creative Teaching Ideas
Average: 2.85 (106 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Tragedy, adversity, trials, tests, circumstances, difficulties, tribulations, troubles, Easter egg ideas

Bulletin Bloopers

Reali life bulletin bloopers! (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 11:37 PM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Humor
Average: 3.09 (111 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Bloopers, mistakes, church

Defining Joy

The definition of joy in Scripture is vastly different from the world's definition. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 2.91 (112 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Joy, Happiness, fruits of the spirit

Scavenger Hunt Riddles II

Add riddles to increase the difficulty of your next scavenger hunt. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 11:05 PM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.88 (120 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Scavenger Hunt, Photo Hunt, Video Hunt, riddles, puzzles

Treasures

Our treasures are where our heart is. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 10:45 PM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Children's Sermon
Average: 3.01 (115 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Treasure, Materialism, worth, value, Importance, Priorities

Everything I Need To Know

A funny look at some class truths adapted for Easter. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Humor
Average: 2.85 (111 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Easter, fun, humour, wisdom

If You Think

Success begins with a person's will (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:26 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 3.02 (121 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Atitude, poetry, success

Yo-Yo's

Life is full of ups and downs, mountains and valleys, depressions and mountaintop experiences, difficulties and triumphs. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Object Lessons
Average: 3.00 (122 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Difficulties, Trials, Ups and Downs, Highs and Lows, Connected to God, God's Purpose, God's Will

Life Isn't Fair

God will always do what is best for you. Fairness is a matter of perspective. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 09:06 PM | Link | Comments (1)
Category: Children's Sermon
Average: 2.91 (115 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Fairness, Justice, Care of God, Needs, God's Provision

I Can't

How diligently we sieze the opportunities that God sends our way inlarge amount will determine what we accomplish while on this earth and what praise we will recieve from His lips in heaven. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.89 (113 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: commitment, daughter, fish, taking action, solutions

Icebergs

Are we moved by circumstances or by God's wise and sovereign purposes? (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 PM | Link | Comments (1)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.83 (110 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: pain, suffering, trials, tribulations, circumstances, adversity, struggles, overcoming, hurt, affliction, testing, sovereignty of God

Red and Black

Is it our natural tendency to be selfish and greedy? (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 01:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Creative Teaching Ideas
Average: 2.86 (117 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Greed, Selfishness, sin

Egg or Potato?

Do your afflictions cause you to harden your heart or make you more pliable? (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 3.10 (126 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: pain, suffering, trials, tribulations, circumstances, adversity, struggles, overcoming, hurt, affliction, testing, responding, respond, adaptable, egg

Easter Egg Hunt

Give the traditional Easter egg hunt a spiritual significance by allowing participants to hunt the eggs containing various items from the Easter account in Scripture. (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | Link | Comments (0)
Category: Creative Teaching Ideas
Average: 3.05 (116 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Easter, resurrection, passover, Scavenger Hunt, Easter Egg Hunts, Easter egg ideas

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