Materials
1. Bingo cards for each participant in the shape of hearts
2. Bingo items in bag to pull out.
3. Hershey’s kisses or Valentine’s Heart candy as the bingo chips.
Game Objective
Played as a traditional game of Bingo but using items related to Valentine’s day.
Game Preparation
1. Make Bingo cards using Valentine’s related items in each square, …
Materials
A variety of simple Valentine’s images. (e.g. Cupid, hearts, etc) You can also use simple Valentine’s cards for the design.
Activity
Form teams of six people. Instruct each team to sit in a line, one person behind another, and take a vow of silence for the duration of the game. Give the first person in each line a pencil …
John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn’t, the girl with the rose. His interest in her had begun thirteen months before in a Florida library.
Taking a book off …
Red roses were her favorites, her name was also Rose.
And every year her husband sent them, tied with pretty bows.
The year he died, the roses were delivered to her door.
The card said, “Be my Valentine”, like all the years before.
Each year he sent her roses, and the note would always say,
“I love you even more …
Materials
* a large sheet of poster board or newsprint (classified ads work best for newsprint)
* See variations for other needed materials.
Description
Use this creative teaching idea as an introduction to a lesson on love or for Valentine’s Day
Activity
As people walk in the door direct them to a large sheet of poster board or newsprint upon …
In Roman mythology there was a god who was the guardian of doorways,
He had two faces on his head and could look backward and forward simultaneously.
He was the patron of beginnings and endings, and in 46 B.C. Roman emperor, Julius Caesar introduced a new calendar and gave the first month of the year the name of this pagan
Materials
1. A container that can be sealed and stored away.
2. Items for the time capsule (see below)
Summary
Celebrate the previous year and create a fun activity for the next by creating a time capsule. Can be the beginning f a fun youth group tradition.
Preparation
Beforehand, brainstorm with the youth the kinds of things to include in …
Materials
A list of items commonly associated with New Years and large sheet of paper, flip chart, or a whiteboard for each team. Classified ads also work if you use a broad tip marker.
Activity
Each team selects a person to draw. The person leading the game shows all those who are drawing the first item on his list. Each …
Materials
None
Game Play
Each person in the group writes answers to four Christmas questions. Three of the answers are to be true and one is to be a hoax. Questions should center around Christmas.
For example, the following are suggested questions for Christmas:
1. What is the most unusual Christmas gift you ever received?
2. What is the most …