i am sparticus: Ice-breakers for everyone

Ice-breakers for everyone

The following is taken from a noted Christian youth programme leaders guide. So sue me.

Arrival Game
...The young people form caterpillars by sitting down on the floor one immediately behind each other... Let them run! ...Nobody can touch the ground with his hands or her hands. This shuffling along on your buttocks is very hard - so be sure to make the course a short one!
"Some of us have blisters in painful places as a result of those hard fought caterpillar races. The truth is, the human body just wasn't made to walk on its behind"

To summarise: Here is a game that not only injures your young people, but is actively designed to do so! It's alright to injure young people for the sake of introducing a theme (prayer if you can believe that)! Carry this to it's natural conclusion and you get the following great ice-breakers:

• Sometimes it's hard to understand what Jesus did because of the changes in culture. By recreating the past your young people will be able to comprehend Jesus' teaching much easier. Try holding your meeting somewhere with no electricity, running water, sanitary facilities or mobile phones. Maybe you could get some actors in as Roman Soldiers to beat them up for looking at them funny. For real realism infect a young person with leprosy and exile them from the group. This will help them appreciate the teachings of Jesus in a new way.


• Cooking for your young people is a great way of getting to known them and growing as a group. You can even blend the cookery into an illustration to really help your programme run smoothly! Just lie on one side the entire time you're eating food that's been cooked over cow manure


• To provide a memorable illustration of the realities of hell set fire to a young person.

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