This is an oldie but a goodie. If you have never tried playing a game called shuffle your buns for your youth ministry, then you need to because its a great warm up ice-breaking – possibly chair-breaking experience!
How to play:
Have your students circle up with their chairs. Have one student step into the center of the circle and when you say shuffle and pick a direction, the student in the middle is trying to get into the open chair but has he or she tries the group is “shuffling their buns” into the empty chair making it difficult to get into the space. If the student gets in the chair before the next person shuffles – then the person that was supposed to shuffle into the chair now has to go into the center and be the person to try and get into the open chair.
Tips:
- Switch directions. So right in the middle of playing yell out SWITCH and have the circle go the opposite direction.
- Some guys and gals are too aggressive so just remind them to take er easy
- You may have to have more then one circle going depending on how large your group is. Too big is bad and too small won’t work very well either.
- Play some music while doing this – a popular song that you may or may not want to use at the time of this post is party rock anthem – only bc its upbeat and they use the phrase, “Everyday im shuffling” but you hafta make the call what is appropriate in your church setting.
Another great thing about this is there is virtually no set up at all and it’s fun when you and or your leaders play too!
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I don’t want to put anyone off about the Church. But whether it is an icebreaker or a direct lesson, why should we play this kind of music with worldly messages?
I don’t see this activity as making the youth ministry anything except more effective. Playing songs that teens don’t normally listen to or enjoy puts them off about church. This is an icebreaker, not a lesson.
Fun game.
Salt is used to preserve the world from corruption. Playing songs that encourage getting drunk seems to make the salt ministry lose it’s salitness. And then what is it good for?