This is probably more appropriate for children rather than youth, but I have included it on the website anyway as we have a lot of children’s workers who visit.
GAME DESCRIPTION
In this Christmas Party Game, participants must dance to the Christmas Holiday Music until it stops. When the Christmas Music stops, everyone must freeze in place.
Location
Anywhere a line can be drawn across the meeting area.
Energy level: Medium
Description
Which side are you on? Do you know where you stand? Find out in this Christmas icebreaker where participants move back and forth to opposite sides of the room depending on their Christmas related preferences.
Resources
If you have time, use string or tape to …
It's not the bow that is important, but the gift it adorns. It is sad that so many people are enjoying all the wrappings of Christmas and the decorations, but they have forgotten about the gift - God with us - Emmanuel - the birth of Christ.
The first Christmas ornaments were fruits and nuts that were placed on Christmas trees and later eaten from the branches as part of the Christmas feasting. Over time other ornaments were added that brightened up the tree and added additional meaning and significance such as a star or an angel.
We are attracted by extravagantly wrapped gifts with red bows and colorful paper. But its not the wrapper we treasure but the gift. God sent his greatest gift - an innocent, defenceless, vulnerable baby, wrapped in cloths, not wrapping paper.
We are attracted by extravagantly wrapped gifts with red bows and colorful paper. In this game, participants will try to guess the objects that have been wrapped up as Christmas gifts. But the gifts are probably not what they will expect - they are simply things that are very ordinary. The gift of the first Christmas was not wrapped the way the world expected either. The Jews wanted a mighty warrior with a sword in one hand and King's crown in the other. But instead, God sent an innocent, defenceless, vulnerable baby - just a seemingly ordinary baby boy.
The TV show Jeopardy, is a great game for the review of Biblical lessons. It’s also great to see how much people really know about stories that they hear all the time. In this Christmas Jeopardy game, the focus is on Mary.
Resources
1. Game board
The game board can be drawn on a piece of paper, on a whiteboard, …
The story of the priest Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth is an integral part of the Christmas story as found in Luke 1:5-25; 57-66. Mary, pregnant with Jesus, visits Elizabeth, who is pregnant with John the Baptist. In the presence of Christ in Mary’s Womb, John the Baptist jumps in Elizabeth’s womb. But this story is not only about John …
As the streets get lit up, the sidewalks, shop windows, everything gets decorated with scenes of the nativity, we see it all around us, and these symbols carry deep meaning for us. But something we don’t realize is how insignificant they were at the very first Christmas.
INSIGNIFICANT CHRISTMAS?
Resources
A list of 15-20 items that teens carry in their
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