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This purpose of this is to gain a little insight into the young people making up your group. Divide the group up into groups of not more than 10 people.  The week before each person is asked to bring a recording of their favourite song or music which they wil...

Teams are given a list of items that need to be collected by a certain time. The team that gets back first with all the items wins. Teams may be disqualified if their items are not a close enough match to the ones on the list. Examples: A newspaper form a ...

Divide the group into teams of three to five people each. Give each team a pile  of old newspapers, a role of sticky tape and some scissors.  For each team, one person is chosen to be the model and the others the designers. The designers are then to create ...

The group visits four different homes, each which provide a different part of the evening's meals. House 1: Starters House 2: Mains House 3: Desert House 4: Tea/Coffee Transport to the homes can be via car or on foot (depending on the distances). If o...

This activities revolves around various paper airplane challenges.  If the group is large then divide it up into teams of between 3 to 4 people, otherwise let each person compete as an individual. For each challenge, each team is given the identical resource...

Cut off the the bottom corners (as indicated by the dotted lines below) of four pieces of tissue paper (50x75cm) . Using paper glue, construct the following paper balloon. You will need to cut out a square piece to close the top of the balloon. Use some thi...

Divide the group into teams of not more that five.  For each activity the teams can get one of the following scores: 1st: 5 2nd: 3 3rd: 1 At the end the team with the highest score wins. Warm up Give each team a single banana. Get each group to st...

At the beginning of the evening everyone writes down one embarrassing movement (which their name) on a piece of paper. The person running the evening need chooses a number of these that he or she feels will work best. Using one of the selected embarrassing mo...

Randomly choose two people from the group and get them to stand in the front. Without warning, tell one of the two that they now only speak a foreign language which no one in the group understands e.g. Ancient Chinese. The other is told that they are the tran...

Have one of the leaders stand up front with a blanket over them. Inform the rest of the group that under the blanked stands the world's ugliest man. In fact they are so ugly that should anyone happen to see them then that person would fall down dead. To demons...

For a month before have a question box out in which youth members can place any question that they wish. Then invite a panel that can take time to work through a selection of these question. If enough questions are not submitted then you might need to make up...

Everyone dresses up as hobos and then undertake a walking progressive supper. Menu Stop 1: Vegetable Soup Stop 2: Bunny Chow Stop 3: Ice Cream  For more info on Bunny Chow, visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_chow

Basically a hamburger evening in which everyone cooks and makes their own burgers. Everyone dresses up Hawaiian. Gas BBQ, sauces, onions, tomatoes, cheese etc are provided and everyone has a ball cooking up the best burger. Prizes can be given for Best dr...

Break up into teams of between three and five members each. Give each team twenty cents or less. The idea is for them to go away and see what they can return with after battering up from the original the twenty cents. Each time they make an exchange they need ...

The title says it all. Divide into teams of four which then challenge each other in a round-robin style until you arrive at a winning team. Each quiz round consists of the following: Four free-for-all questions Four team questions Two individual questio...

Not much to explain here, an entertainment of Japanese origin in which people take it in turns to sing well-known songs over a pre-recorded backing tape. Use the following free software: http://www.vanbasco.com/karaokeplayer/ and have a hoot. There are many ...

Twelve balloons are inflated, each having a piece of paper mentioning a prize. The prizes range from one really nice prize, down to a few booby-prizes.  A participant is selected from the crowd and asked to select a balloon. This balloon is popped and then pi...

Option 1 Divide into pairs and give each person a 50cm piece of string.  Let each pair tie themselves up as illustrated in steps 1-3 of the following attachment (Handcuffs). The challenge is to see which pair can separate themselves first.  The answer can b...