Assorted Game Techniques
Here's a list of Game techniques generated during several sessions of my workshop "There are Methods to this Madness." These are from CMA (Children's Ministries of America) in Chicago in March 2004, 2005, and 2006, and April 2007, and the Detroit NET WoRM events in May 2004 and in May 2006. They are straight from the newsprint sheets, unedited. (Exchange Volunteer removed duplicates.)
Balloon tap
Balloon toss
Beach ball – verse game
Bibleology
Bible Jeopardy
Bible Trivia
Bible Twister
Bingo
Board games (including Life size board games)
Books of the Bible -- race to put in order
Buzzer Game
Card games
Charades
Clothespins
Colors
Computer games
Concentration
Cranium
Crossword -- enlarged
Destinations (Clues)
Dice (using dice to play a game)
Family Feud
Fear Factor/Survivor/Reality
Fish for memory verses
Golf
Hangman
Hot/cold game -- mixed messages
Jeopardy
Life size games including Chutes and Ladders, stations where they talk about different things, and a Candy Land type of layout (for example: trace Holy Week on it)
Make up new games
Map Game
Matching Game
Memory Game
Multiplying kindness
Musical chairs
Name that Tune
Non-competitive
Obstacle course
Parachute games
Pictionary
Play with kids -- break the rules
Popcorn tag (for example: how the church spread)
Pop the balloon
Prayer Tag
Puzzles
Question & Answer
Quiz bowl
Relay races
Scavenger hunt
Scrabble
Scripture drill
Sculpture
Sequencing activities
Snowballs (Papers/Questions)
Steal the Bacon
Sword Drill
Tags (variations including Freeze tag)
Team building
Tic-tac-toe
Treasure Hunt
Trust games
TV Shows
Wallyball (Clues/Scripture)
Wheel of fortune
Wheel of Wisdom
Win/Lose/Draw
Word in flow
Word puzzles
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