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Game Ideas

ID Cards

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Materials
Arrange a deck of playing cards with the four aces on top, followed by the four 2’s, then the four 3’s, and so on.

Activity
At the start of the meeting, count the number of youth and remove that many cards from the top of the deck. Shuffle these cards and give a card to each participant. (If people come in late, give each of them a card from the top of the left-over cards in the deck.)

Ask the youth to show their cards to each other and explain that these cards are their ID cards.
• When you want youth to pair up, ask them to find someone with a card of the same value and the same color (example: 3D and 3H).
• To form groups of four, ask the participants to find others with cards of the same value (example: 5C, 5S, 5D,and 5H).
• To divide the youth into four teams, ask them to find others with cards of the same suit. (hearts, spades, diamonds, and clubs).
• For two teams ask them to divide into red/ black or odds/evens
• Instead of asking for volunteers, randomly call out the name of a card (example: “Seven of Diamonds!”) and ask this person to do whatever you would have asked the volunteer to do.

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Creative Teaching Ideas

Tree Outside My Window

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Materials
paper and pencil for each person

Activity
Asked each child/ youth to draw a picture of ‘The tree outside my window’.

Debrief
Though the same instruction is given to everyone, the pictures they drew will be different – some will draw a view from a window, others will draw mountains or birds or animals along with the tree, etc.

Application
This activity demonstrates how each one of us has a different point of view about any given thing. We have different backgrounds. We all have different levels of comprehension and different ways of looking at the same thing. We must be sensitive to the fact that God made each of us unique and we are different from the others in our own way. But in the body of Christ, we all come together in unity. As we work together out differences become strengths. As we combine our various perspectives we can see all of life and God’s work in our lives more clearly (1 Corinthians 12)


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