Youth group games are always one-part fun, one-part disaster. After all, what’s the point of crazy competition if it isn’t going to scar you for life?
When we searched the Internet for ridiculous youth group games, we expected things like blending food up for disgusting challenges, chubby bunny, etc. But many of the answers we found left our jaws on the floor. Seriously, how were some of these games legal?!
Here are 20 of our favorites:
20. Chicken Soccer
It’s not a true youth group game if there isn’t a level of danger involved.
19. Bobbing for Mayo
Bobbing for apples in a tub of mayonnaise
— Robbie S. (@OfficialRobbie) March 31, 2022
I’d rather be poisoned, TBH.
18. Find the Antichrist(???)
Only youth group kids could find a way to make a math game both religious and terrifying.
17. Survivor
My first year in youth group, one of the first evenings was a Survivor-themed night…and when my team lost, I got voted out first. I had to sit in the sanctuary by myself for the rest of the evening. Not great for my 14 year old self esteem. pic.twitter.com/CxekI7caZd
— Rebecca Wettlaufer (@REWettlaufer) March 31, 2022
God gives His quietest battles to His loneliest soldiers.
16. Fire Hot Potato
So we would soak a 3 pack of tennis balls in gasoline. Then we’d light them on fire and play hot potato. It wasn’t exactly “sanctioned” by the church, but all the YG leaders played.
— Adam Welty. (@adam_welty) March 31, 2022
“Can’t believe this wasn’t sanctioned by church,” we said with so much sarcasm.
15. Round Up the Heifers
If you were the youth pastor who came up with this game, please DM us immediately.
14. Chug!
The one at camp where you had dirty, muddy socks, traded one with a friend, and then had to slide it over a can of coke and chug it. Happy to say, I stopped all dehumanizing games in youth group once I became the pastor!
— Benjamin Spears (@SpearsBenjamin) March 31, 2022
There were so many disgusting and unnecessary steps in this game…
13. The Original Squid Game
Was it… was it a live squid?
12. Got Milk?
I think the statute of limitations is up on this, but in the 90’s there was a competition where you would have to drink a gallon of milk in an hour and whoever kept it down the longest won. No one really won.
— ChurchTechTalk (@churchtechtalk) April 1, 2022
There are rarely ever winners when it comes to youth group games.
11. PB&J&Feet
I once had my students make pb & JJ’s with their feet then feed them to each other 😁
— Jeffrey M. Luchun, D. Min. (@JMLuchun) March 31, 2022
Jail.
10. Amazon Women
“Ended with blood shed” and “they loved it” should not be in the same description.
9. Diaper Dinner
Eating tapioca and butterscotch pudding out of a diaper
— dj tenEightyP (@djteneightyp) March 31, 2022
This can’t be real. We simply refuse to believe it.
8. Sardines
Is Sardines the most controversial youth group game of all time?
7. Horror Relay Races
Hear me out… Relay race where you had to piggy back a team member across the room, they took a mouthful of pop from a 2 litre bottle, got carried back across the room and spit it into a bowl. Then the next people went. pic.twitter.com/AS2DXhddwd
— Stephen Uchacz 🇺🇦 (He/Him) (@SMUchacz) March 31, 2022
Was there supposed to be some sort of spiritual lesson here or do youth pastors just like seeing how far kids will go before they revolt?
6. Honey, If You Love Me
There was always that one kid who took this game just a little too far.
5. Turkey Bowling
Turkey Bowling! Line the hallway with a tarp, dish soap it up and bowl with a raw, frozen turkey. Highest youth attendance night of the year.
— Kyle H (@the_tandy) March 31, 2022
This should be a requirement at all Thanksgiving dinners.
4. Freeze Scum
This feels like a game the leaders enjoyed just as much as the kids.
3. Booger Ball
"booger ball" had to be the most wild. imagine jailbreak from elementary PE but with a giant plastic nose filled with smelly, velcro-laden balls. object is to get kids out or take out "the nose." played in a fellowship hall, took out 3 folding tables in a (failed) leaping dodge.
— Brendan Spencer (@BS_nerd) March 31, 2022
This is actually really creative. Gross, but creative.
2. Footloose
Youth group hosted a party after the Homecoming dance. Guys had to feed their dates nachos WITH THEIR FEET. 🤢
— Emily Mathews (@EmilyAnnLoves) March 31, 2022
This is not biblical. Too much feet content. It’s getting weird.
1. Chubby Bunny
So this is how we find out that someone has, in fact, died from playing Chubby Bunny.
