This is a fun youth ministry game idea:
In this game you can have as many teams as you want. The teams are made up of two people. One person has a bucket and stays behind a line, his/her teammate has a hat on that covers his eyes and on this hat is duck tape wrapped backwards (sticky side facing out). The bucket person spins his/her teamate around three times and then verbally tries to direct them to a pile of candy on the …

Make sure the kids wear grungy clothes for this activity!! They will get very messy!! Divide kids into two or more teams. Have the kids come up with a unique name for their team. Teams score points based on coming in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in each event. First place – 1 pt, 2nd – 2 points, 3rd – 3 pts. Lowest score wins.
KETCHUP BRIGAGE – supplies: a gallon of ketchup and an empty bucket for each team.
Kids form …

Have you ever asked the question, why do my students come to youth group?
There are two answers, and they’re not always the same: The answer students give if you ask them directly (conscious or perceived motivations), or what really motivates them (true motivations).
To figure out what really attracts students to meetings, you have to watch them. What’s the first thing they do when they come in? What do they spend the most of their time doing? What do they seem to enjoy the most, and the least? Here are the …

Here’s a youth ministry idea that you can try with your students: Online Bible Trivia
If you have a website or facebook page or group (probably works best with the facebook page or group) you can place a bible trivia question of the day or week on there and the first student that can give you the correct answer along with a scripture reference wins. They could actually win a prize or you could accumulate entries for a prize at the end of the month or quarter.
Some good things:

Keeps them coming …

Here are some games with Pumkins that you can use for your youth ministry game time:
Pumpkin Bowling: Use 2 liter pops and the pumpkins as bowling balls. Make sure you have some back up pumpkins because they tend to break after a few go arounds.
Pumpkin Golfing: Simply cut out holes on the pumpkins big enough for a golf ball to be able to enter and then line them up and have a putting contest to see who can get the golf ball into the pumpkin cut out.
Put Out the Candle: …

Want a quick and easy game for your youth group?
Try buying some bags of marshmallows depending on the size of your group and then at some point during the meeting bust them out and begin firing them around.
This summer we have been meeting in different places other then the normal spot, but one of the games that was really fun was when we decided to do a marshmallow fight towards the end of our meeting time.
Here’s Why You Should Try:

Cheap – not much to get some bags of marshmallows. I …

I had Jamie Starrett approach me to let you know about some resources of his called Youth Ministry ToolBox.
What Youth Ministry Toolbox provides is PowerPoint lessons and PowerPoint games for youth ministry for a $40 a year subscription which after checking out the lessons and games inside – I think they would be a good buy for your youth ministry.
Here is a few examples of the PowerPoint games on the inside:

YouTube – How Well Do We Really Know It?
Terminator Salvation
Twilight Trivia
My WiKi Can Beat Up Your WiKi

There are over a …