Friday, April 24, 2009
Cooking
You can find some ideas for cooking activities on this website. We plan to make gingerbread men in this terms 'Come as you are' Rock Solid session. The idea is to make 'minimee's as part of the session.
Labels: Activities, Rock Solid
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Christmas play doe charades
Here are some ideas for Christmas play doe charades. Basically, make some play doe and break the group up into teams. Then, taking it in turns, each member of the team has to try and get the others to guess the word / phrase using only the play doe....
My suggested words:
- Christmas sticking
- Reindeer
- Snow flake
- Christmas tree
- Cake
- Turkey
- Presents
- Jesus
- Angel
- Holy
- Shepherd
- Star
- Decorations
- Baubles
- Kings
- Rudolph
- Tinsel
- Wreath
- Christmas crackers
- Donkey
- cards
- Mistletoe
- Sleigh
- Mince pie
Labels: Activities
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Origami
Here's a random craft idea for Christmas. See http://www.origami-club.com/en/ for more.
Labels: Activities
Monday, May 26, 2008
Bath Bomb Factory
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
You say, you pay
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Save this T-Shirt
Here is another idea I saw in the Baltic at Gateshead...Save this T-shirt. This is a book that comes complete with a T-shirt and book of design options. The idea is that the book outlines a number of different ways to cut up the T-shirt to produce a different design. I'm guessing that you need only buy one copy of the book and then source some cheep T-shirts at Tesco's or similar. The book cost £10.95 and is by Hannah Rogge.
I guess you could do this in conjunction with Tie die....
Labels: Activities
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Snow game
Sunday, November 11, 2007
youthwork.co.uk conference
Just got back from the youthwork conference at Southport. Here are some websites I came across while I was there:
- http://www.stoptheguns.org/download/badman.mp4 - maybe could be used for some kind of discussion starter for gun crime / violence. See http://www.stoptheguns.org/advertising/index.php for more info.
- They "launched" http://www.schoolswork.co.uk/ while we were there - something to key an eye on. I think the idea is to provide / share resources and ideas for those working in schools.
- http://www.sophianetwork.org.uk/ - a support network for "women in youthwork"
Labels: Activities, Illustrations, Training, Video clip ideas
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Little Miss Sunshine game
Our last Rock Solid session was themed on Listening...here is a game that we put together to try enhance the theme. You will need a copy of the Mr Men book, Little Miss Sunshine.
What to do:
a) Split the group into two teams with even numbers.
b) Get each team to sit in two lines of chairs facing each other. There should be a gap between the chairs as follows:
| A | Gap | B |
| 1 | 1 | |
| 2 | 2 | |
| 3 | 3 | |
| 4 | 4 | |
| 5 | 5 | |
| 6 | 6 | |
| 7 | 7 | |
| 8 | 8 | |
| 9 | 9 |
c) Give each pair (facing each other) the following words:
Player Word Times used 1 Been 3 2 Asked 5 3 Down 3 4 Entering 3 5 Gigantic 3 6 Giggling 3 7 Happy 4 8 Never 3 9 Drove 3
d) Explain that you are going to tell them a story. When the player hears their word, they have to run up the gap between the chairs and run around the outside back to their chair, ie, the team on the left run anti clockwise, the team on the right run clockwise. The first one back gets a point for their team. This is a bit like another game called "ladders".
e) Start reading the story!
Labels: Activities, Rock Solid
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Greenbelt - Kite making kits
While we were at Greenbelt, we took part in the family kite making activity. For this, we were all given a kite making kit. This included string, polls etc. and a blank sheet of material. This allowed us to decorate the kite in what ever way we wanted. As it looked like a good idea for an activity night, we asked where they got the kit from. They told us it came from kiteworld. The kit in question is the Kite Making Kit Sled
Labels: Activities
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Justice talk / Murder Mystery
I've just uploaded my talk on Justice that we did in connection with a murder mystery night a few years ago. We recently did another Murder Mystery night using a bought in script called Murder on the Dance floor - it seemed to work well. Has anyone else out there tried one of these game packs?
Labels: Activities, Talks
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Life in Student Ministry - Freebie Friday
Check out the Freebie Friday on Life in Student Ministry - there are some games ideas...click on the DOWNLOAD link.
Labels: Activities, Talks
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Youthwork Practice
I've just got back from been away and I got an email from Hans at http://www.youthwork-practice.com/
Have a look, it seems to have a few ideas I've not come across.
Have a look, it seems to have a few ideas I've not come across.
Labels: Activities
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Tree making activity
At our last 4pm "all age" service the activity was to make a tree - see picture here. This worked really well. It was made from a carpet roll mounted on a base. Each group was supplied with tissue paper, tape, and a sack full of branches, twigs etc.
Labels: Activities
Friday, December 01, 2006
Christmas Carol Charades / Rock Solid Session 12
Here's a list of Carol's for Opener 1:
- Away in a Manger
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Silent Night
- Jingle Bells
- We Three Kings of Orient Are
- Oh Christmas Tree
- White Christmas
- The 12 Days of Christmas
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Ding Dong! Merrily On High
- Joy to the World
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- Oh Come, All Ye Faithful
Labels: Activities, Rock Solid
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Pictinary - ideas
As part of the Rock Solid session tomorrow night we're doing a quick game of Pictinary. The theme is on "light". Here is my extended list things that are vaguely "bright":
- Bonfire, Sunshine, Fire work, Light bulb, Torch, Eye, Glasses, Candle, Lightning, TV, Moon, Stars, Snow, Christmas tree, Traffic lights, a match
In process of looking for ideas I found this which could be an excellent starting point for a guessing game - i.e., remove the answers and they have to guess what they are.
Labels: Activities, Rock Solid
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Youth weekend plan, scedule and material
I just got around to posting the full schedule / material we used for the weekend away we did back in March. You can find it here. We created a website for the weekend here.
Labels: Activities, Talks
Monday, May 01, 2006
Elastic powered car - craft activity
Check out the craft activity we did for our last Pathfinder meeting - make and race "elastic powered cars" using CD's, cardboard, pins, elastic bands and a bit of pipe. Click here for more info.
Labels: Activities
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Food games night
I've just uploaded the meeting plan for the food games night we did some time back. You can find it here. We're planning on doing it as part of the residential this weekend.
Labels: Activities
Friday, October 21, 2005
Drama ideas - characters part 1
I'm just putting together some ideas for a drama session. As a prompt, I thought it would be good to come up with a list of characters, situations etc...
Here's the first list of characters:
Here's the first list of characters:
- Brother
- Sister
- Mother / Father
- Cousin
- Boss
- Teacher
- Husband / Wife
- King / Queen
- Celebrity / some on famous
- Terrorist
- Dr Evil
- Super hero
- A Pet
- Cat / dog / horse
- Friend
- Young person
- Old person
- Baby
- Model
- Film star
- Pop idle
- Pretty boy
- Jesus
- God
- Doctor
- Vicar
Labels: Activities
Thursday, September 08, 2005
Chalange games night
I'm thinking about doing a games night based on Fort Boyard or Chystal maze....something to think on
Labels: Activities
Thursday, September 01, 2005
28 Ways to build community in your group
- Celebrate Birthdays
- Take pictures and make sure you give them a copy. If your using a digital camera why not make a photo CD. Send picture texts.
- Phone them
- Visit them at home
- Send Text messages
- Create 'shared experiences' - see Memory makers: 50 moments your kids will never forget by Duffy Robbins
- It's kind of obvious, but needs saying - try to speak to each young person at least once everything you have a meeting. Try to remember what you talked about last time and follow it up...I used to find I was having the same conversation every week with the same people!
- Welcome them individualy when they arrive. If you know they are coming for the first time try go see them at home before hand.
- Send them Email
- Chat on MSN
- At the end of the year, try recap on what the group has done - create a display, discus what happened etc.
- Make a group video
- Make sure they have your contact details, phone number, email, SMS, website etc. Why not get a 'business card' made? I've heard of people making a little card with their details on as well as some useful numbers such as Child line.
- Buy birthday / Christmas gifts / books etc.
- Run an open house. Invite people round for meals.
- Day trips
- organize a residential
- Run a website
- Invite them to youth friendly Church services
- Get involved in other aspects of their lives / settings...School, sport etc.
- Give them responsibilities
- Play team building games
- Make time for group discussions / discussions
- Run Fund raisers...Sponsored fast etc.
- Do a quiz about the group and the people in it
- Create mosaic pictures. You can do this with software like Image puzzler
- Develop shared values...what are the rules in your group...official and un-official? Think them up togethier.
- Run surveys, get feedback, ask them for ideas, involve them in planning / decision making
Labels: Activities, Training
Saturday, July 23, 2005
Wooden puzzles...
Whist I was away on hoilday in the Yorkshire dales we can accross some small wooden puzzles that I rekon you could 'scale up' and use in a games night. They can be found at http://www.woodenpuzzlesandgames.co.uk/. Here is an example one that I bought: http://www.woodenpuzzlesandgames.co.uk/solutions/0095.htm
Labels: Activities
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