Superbowl Party Game Ideas and Activities

American Football is a national past-time for most Americans and the most famous football game is the Superbowl! Just days away, the Superbowl is a great opportunity to tackle a few games with your youth while you score a few goals for the kingdom of God!

Here are some great ideas on the Creative Youth Ideas website to do Just that:

Christian Team
In many ways, the Body of Christ is similar to a football team. Use this Superbowl Teaching Illustration to show that, like a football team, the members of a church each have different positions and they all work together for a common goal.

SuperBowl Teams
Can you name all the football teams represented by these creative descriptions. This makes for a fun icebreaker for your Superbowl Party. You can also put the description on one name tag and a corresponding name for the football team on another name tag. When guests arrive, give them a name tag and have them try to find their match.

The Father’s Eyes
Use this touching football themed illustration for a sermon or talk at your Superbowl Party to teach youth about our Heavenly Father’s love for us.

Football Trivia
Do you know how many cows sacrifice their skins for footballs? The origin of the the football huddle? Check out this entry for fun football Trivia!

Spectator Sport?
Use this Football themed devotional to talk about pressing on toward our goal in life as Christians.

Not Looking Back
Superbowl winners get a gold ring and the team gets a trophy. To simply play in a Superbowl game is an accomplishment. To win is a great achievement. But as the years go by, we often forget who won which Superbowl game. The accomplishments fade. But Paul wasn’t interested in past accomplishments. He was focused on the future! Last year’s game was not as important as what lies ahead. Use this Football themed illustration to talk about giving up everything to pursue our calling in Christ!

SuperBowl Charades
In this classic football themed variation of charades participants must act out phrases or words in order for team members to guess the correct phrase. It’s great for your Superbowl party and has discussion questions and teaching points for living the Christian life. Use it for a half-time game or after game activity at your next Superbowl party!

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Hearts in a Bottle

Game Description
Can you guess the number of Valentine Candy Hearts in the bottle?

Game Materials
A glass jar filled with Valentine Candy Hearts.

Game Preparation
Count the number of Valentine Candy hearts as you put them into the glass jar.

Game Play

  1. Pass the jar around as everyone is arriving and ask them to write their name and their guess at the number of Valentine Candy Hearts contained in the jar.
  2. At the end of your Valentine’s Day party, give a prize to the person who’s guess is closest to the correct number.

Valentine Heart Tower

candytower.jpgIntroduction
How high can you stack your pile of valentine candy hearts?

Game Description
In this game for a Valentine Party event, participants will try to stack a box of valentine candy hearts as high as possible. It’s not as easy as it may seem!

Game Materials

  • One small box of Valentine candy hearts candy for each team. (These are the heart shaped candies with phrases like “Be Mine”, “Love”, “Kiss Me” and other Valentine’s Day phrases printed on them.)
  • A timer or stopwatch

Game Preparation

  1. Divide the Valentine’s Day party participants into teams.
  2. Give each team a box of Valentine candy hearts.

Game Play – What to do

  1. Announce the objective – to build the tallest tower using only the Valentine’s Day candy hearts you have been given. At the end of the time, the group with the tallest standing tower will win! (30 seconds to one minute should be sufficient)
  2. Start the timer. Teams will rush to build their towers. But often they will get greedy and the towers will come tumbling down. Some teams may choose to stop and allow the time to run out. Others may keep going until the last minute. If a tower falls they can start over again.
  3. When the timer runs out, the team with the tallest standing tower is awarded the prize.

Variations

  • Play as couples or as girls against guys!
  • Play such that each person, in turn must add a single heart to the tower.


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Valentine’s Day Ten Commandments

I. I am thy Main Squeeze; thou shalt have no other squeeze before me.
II. Thou shalt not take the name of thy Squeeze in vain, nor badmouth her behind her back.
III. Remember our Anniversary, and keep it holy–or else.
IV. Honor MY mother and father. THINE are just too weird.
V. Thou shalt not kill my love by behaving tackily or cause undo embarrassment when I am with thee.
VI. Thou shalt not commit adultery, nor shalt thou even THINK about it least you be smitten from the earth.
VII. Thou shalt not steal from my wallet/purse while I am at my bath, nor use my credit cards, nor make long-distance calls from my telephone.
VIII. Thou shalt not talk about our personal problems to our friends.
IX. Thou shalt not covet the higher market price of thy neighbor’s house without first puttin’ down the remote and learnin’ how to use a paintbrush!
X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s main Squeeze, nor his son, nor his daughter, nor his stereo, nor his BMW, nor anything else that belongs to thy neighbor.


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Silly Signs

Sign at Railroad Station
“Beware! To touch these wires is instant death. Anyone found doing so will be prosecuted.”

Rest Stop in Wisconsin
“Do not eat urinal cakes.”

At a Santa Fe gas station:
“We will sell gasoline to anyone in a glass container.”

In a New York restaurant:
“Customers who consider our waitresses uncivil ought to see the manager.”

On the wall of a Baltimore estate:
“Trespassers will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
–Sisters of Mercy”

On a long-established New Mexico dry cleaners:
“38 years on the same spot.”

In a Los Angeles dance hall:
“Good clean dancing every night but Sunday.”

In a Florida maternity ward:
“No children allowed.”

In a New York drugstore:
“We dispense with accuracy.”

In the offices of a loan company:
“Ask about our plans for owning your home.”

In a New York medical building:
“Mental Health Prevention Center”

On a New York convalescent home:
“For the sick and tired of the Episcopal Church.”

On a Maine shop:
“Our motto is to give our customers the lowest possible prices, and workmanship.”

At a number of military bases:
“Restricted to unauthorized personnel.”

In the window of a Kentucky appliance store:
“Don’t kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work.”

In a funeral parlor:
“Ask about our layaway plan.”

In a clothing store:
“Wonderful bargains for men with 16 and 17 necks.”

In a Tacoma, Washington men’s clothing store:
“15 men’s wool suits, $10. They won’t last an hour!”

On a shopping mall marquee:
“Archery Tournament — Ears pierced”

Outside a country shop:
“We buy junk and sell antiques.”

In the window of an Oregon store:
“Why go elsewhere and be cheated when you can come here?”

In a Maine restaurant:
“Open 7 days a week and weekends.”

On a radiator repair garage:
“Best place to take a leak.”

In the vestry of a New England church:
“Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual light is extinguished.”

In a Pennsylvania cemetery:
“Persons are prohibited from picking flowers from any but their own graves.”

On a roller coaster:
“Watch your head.”

On the grounds of a public school:
“No trespassing without permission.”

On a Tennessee highway:
“When this sign is under water, this road is impassable.”

In front of a New Hampshire car wash:
“If you can’t read this, it’s time to wash your car.”

And one for Valentine’s Day
On a display of “I love you only” Valentine cards:
“Now available in multi-packs.”


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Valentine’s Day Boggle

Valentine’s Day Game Description
In this Valentine’s Day Game, party participants are to create as many words as possible before the timer runs out using only the letters in the word “Valentine”

Valentine’s Day Game Resources

  • Word List (possibly a dictionary as well)
  • Timer
  • Paper and pencil/ pen for each person

Valentine’s Day Game Preparation
None

What to Do

  1. Participants are to create as many words as possible using only the letters in the word “Valentine”
  2. You may wish to allow only those words for which the participants can give the definition.

Word List
ae, ai, ail, ain, ait, al, ale, alee, alevin, alien, aline, alit, alive, alt, alvine, an, ane, anele, anent, ani, anil, anile, ant, ante, anti, anvil, at, ate, ave, eat, eave, eel, el, elain, elan, elate, elative, elint, elite, en, enate, enliven, entail, entia, et, eta, etna, eve, even, event, evil, evite, ilea, in, inane, inlet, inn, innate, invent, it, la, lain, lane, lat, late, lateen, laten, lati, lav, lave, lea, lean, lean, leant, leave, leaven, lee, leet, lei, lenient, lenite, lent, lenten, let, lev, levant, levin, li, liane, lie, lien, lieve, lin, line, lineate, linen, linn, linnet, lint, lit, lite, live, liven, na, nae, nail, naive, naivete, nan, native, nave, navel, ne, neat, neat, neaten, nee, nene, net, neve, nieve, nil, nine, nit, nite, nival, ta, tae, tael, tail, tain, tale, tali, tan, tav, tea, teal, tee, teel, teen, tel, tela, tele, ten, tenail, tenia, ti, tie, til, tile, tin, tine, tinea, vail, vain, vale, valet, valine, van, vane, vat, veal, vee, veena, veil, vein, veinal, veinlet, vela, velate, vena, venal, venetian, venial, venin, venine, vent, ventail, vet, via, vial, vie, vile, vina, vinal, vine, vineal, vita, vital

Icebreaker Game Variation

  1. Pin a large card bearing a letter from one of the above words to each person’s sleeve
  2. Give each person a small card and a pencil.
  3. The goal is for people with the various letters to get together and spell words.
  4. Once they have spelled a word, they must write the word on their cards and have both people sign it.
  5. They can then separate and look for new words.
  6. Award a prize to the person with the longest list of words.
  7. And you might award a special prize to the members involved in making the longest word.

NOTE: If your group size is bigger than the length of the word, double up on some of the letters, but realize that there may be additional words possible that are not in the list above.


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Inexhaustible

Christ professes to be the inexhaustible person, welcoming all of humanity in every generation; even then, there will be more than enough from this artesian well…No Plato of philosophy, no Einstein of intellect, no politician, no academician, no sage or philosopher ever made this statement. But Christ can, and twenty centuries have proven its truth. The apostles drank from this Source in the first century; but at the end of their era the blessed Source was still brimful.

Justin Martyr and Irenaeus and thousands of other Christian martyrs drank of it in the second century, and they died saying it is still full. Origen and Clement and the great commentators of the third century drank; and when they laid down their pens, the well was still overflowing. Augustine and his generation drank in the fourth century and died crying out, ‘There is still more!’ That well flowed through the Dark Ages, a river flowing through the night
of superstition that chained Bibles in cathedrals. In the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries they came to drink–John Wyclif, John Huss, Thomas Aquinas, and others, and they all cried out, ‘The longer it flows, the deeper it grows!’ Then the great reformers and the thousands they brought to Christ all drank. Luther gave the cup to Calvin, and cried, ‘John, it’s still full!’ Calvin passed the cup to Knox in Scotland, and cried, ‘The more you drink, John, the more there is!’ Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans drank and John Smyth and the Separatists drank, and still, the further it went, the wider it would grow, and the deeper it would flow.

That river flowed through colonial America in great awakenings and it became a mighty wave that flowed over the Appalachians to the great revivals on the frontier. It flows right down to this very day…Jesus, the Source of Life, promises to flow to and through the believer–and through us as sources to others.”

Dr. Joel C. Gregory – “Homesick for God” (Word Publishing)


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Valentine’s Day 2008

Are you looking for ideas for your Valentine’s Day Party or event?

Listed below are just a few of the ideas you can find on the Creative Youth Ideas website. You can find a few Valentine’s Day Games and Icebreakers as well a couple Valentine’s Day Object Lessons!

You can always search for love in the convenient search box in the top left of the Creative Youth Ideas website for a few ideas related to love and God’s love, but here are a few games and teaching ideas specific to Valentine’s Day that you can use:

Valentine’s Games and Valentine’s Icebreakers

Valentine’s related Object Lessons on Love

Valentine’s Day Illustrations, Valentine’s Day stories, Valentine’s Day Lessons and Valentine’s Day Discussions

Of course, be sure to end your Valentine’s Day activity with a discussion on God’s love, the ultimate love, and how we can experience the love of God in our lives by accepting him as Savior!

Sunday Morning Golf

The youth minister woke up Sunday morning and realizing it was an exceptionally beautiful and sunny early spring day, decided he just had to play golf. So… he told the Pastor that he was feeling sick and convinced him to take over the youth ministry for that day. As soon as the Pastor left the room, the youth minister headed out of Singapore to a golf course in JB. This way he knew he wouldn’t accidentally meet anyone he knew from church. Setting up on the first tee, he was alone. After all, it was Sunday morning and everyone else was in church!

At about this time, Saint Peter leaned over to the Lord while looking down from the heavens and exclaimed, “You’re not going to let him get away with this, are you?”

The Lord sighed, and said, “No, I guess not.”

Just then the youth minister hit the ball and it shot straight towards the pin, dropping just short of it, rolled up and fell into the hole. IT WAS A 420 YARD HOLE IN ONE!

St. Peter was astonished. He looked at the Lord and asked, “Why did you let him do that?”

The Lord smiled and replied, “Who’s he going to tell?”

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