Game Materials

1. Easter symbols: Choose from among the following symbols based on the size of your group.

Easter items related to the Biblical account:
Gray fleece or donkey (Matthew 21:2-5), Palm branch or a coat (Matthew 21:8-11), A vial of perfume (Matthew 26:7-13), A lock of hair (Matthew 26:7-13), 30 silver coins or 3 10-cent coins (Matthew 26:14-15), A strip of terry cloth fabric or towel (John 13:4-11), A communion wafer or bread (Matthew 26:17-29), A communion cup or grape (Matthew 26:17-29), , Praying hands (Mark 14:32-42), A watch (Mark 13:37), Rooster or a feather (Luke 22:61), Piece of rope (John 18:12), A leather whip (John 19:1), Small piece of soap (Matthew 27:20-24), A piece of scarlet cloth (Matthew 27:28), A crown of thorns (Matthew 27:29), A cross (John 19:16-22), nails (John 19:16-22), Dice (John 19:23-24), darkness or Black circle (Luke 23:44-45), sponge with vinegar (John 19:28-30), spear (John 19:32-37), A shattered or split rock (Matthew 27:51, 54), Purple cloth (Matthew 27:51), Clean linen cloth or gauze (Matthew 27:57-61), Spices (Luke 23:55-56), A stone and wax or paraffin (Matthew 27:65-66), an empty tomb (Matthew 28:5-8), Sign reading “King of the Jews”

Easter items NOT necessarily related to Biblical account:
Basket, Bells, Bonnet, Bunny Hop, Candies, Chicks, Chocolate, Chocolate Rabbit, church, Cottontail, Daffodil, Easter Card, Easter Egg, Egg Hunt, Egg Tree, Faberge, Hard Boiled egg, Hot Cross Buns, Jelly Beans, Lamb, Lilies, Marshmellows, New Clothes, Parade, Passover, Pastel Colors, Peeps, Pretzel, Rabbit, Ribbons, Spring, Straw, Sunday, Sunrise

2. The normal mat in the boxed game that forms the playing surface is decorated with six circles each of red, yellow, green and blue. Instead of the standard twister mat, cut Easter shapes from colored construction paper and use sticky-tack to adhere them to the floor. You can place them randomly or in rows of a single symbol for each row like the original twister game. Vary the number of symbols and rows to accomodate the size of your group.

3. There are two spinners. If you don’t have a spinner you can easily make one. Make a twister spinner that includes right hand, left hand, right foot, left foot. You can also paste these onto the side of a die and roll the die in place of a spinner. The second spinner must contain the same symbols as those placed on the floor. In place of a second spinner you can put the symbols on small cards and place them in a bag.

Game Objective
Touch the symbols on the floor with the correct body part as indicated by the spinner and the color and phrase of the symbol drawn from the bag. Do not let any other part of your body touch the ground.

Game Play
1. An appointed person spins the spinner and chooses the symbol (rolling the die or pulling the card with the symbol on it from the bag) and calls out instructions for the players to follow, such as: “left hand: Blue: Cross”, “right foot: yellow: Empty Tomb”.
2. The players follow the directions, moving their hands and feet to the relevant symbols and try not to fall over–a knee or an elbow on the ground and they’re out. Use the wrong body part or the wrong symbol and you are also eliminated from the game
3. The board can get quite crowded and the participants quite distorted hence the name “Twister.” How flexible are you?

Variation
Instead of playing on an individual basis, divide the group into teams. The team with the last remaining members in the game wins.

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Materials
1. Sealed Plastic Easter Eggs with small objects inside
2. Paper and pencils for everyone.

Game Objective
The person who correctly guesses the most objects inside the Easter eggs is the winner.

Game Preparation
Place objects inside hollow plastic Easter Eggs and place them in an Easter Basket. Tape the eggs shut with clear tape so no one can take a peek. By shaking them, participants try to identify the contents. Number each egg for easy reference.

Some objects that you might use are:

paperclips, salt or sugar, coins, a marble, a rock, sand, nails, pins, jacks, a ring, a small bell, buttons, hershey’s kisses, jelly beans, screws, keys, M&M’s, dice, thumbtacks, staples, aspirin, flour, rubber ball, cork, cottonballs, rice, beans, peanuts, beads, a chain,
an eraser, scrabble tiles, raisins, etc.

Game Play
Give everyone a piece of paper and pass the sealed plastic easter eggs around. Participants can shake and smell them but cannot open them. Have them write down what they think is contained in the egg beside each number corresponding to the numbers written on each egg.

Variation
List the objects included in the Easter Eggs. Kids try to match the objects with the correct egg that contains it and write the egg number beside the object on your list. For your list you can use some of the objects from Easter Egg Hunt.

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Materials
A variety of simple Easter images as designs to be copied. (You can also use simple Easter cards for the design.)

Some secular examples can be found here:
http://www.preschoolcoloringbook.com/color/cpeaster.shtml

Some Christian examples can be found here:
http://www.teacherhelp.org/easter.htm#coloring

Activity
1. Form teams of six or more people.
2. Instruct each team to sit in a line, one person behind another.
3. Youth may not talk, make any sounds, or communicate in any way except to draw on the person’s back in front of them.
4. Give the first person in each line a pencil and a piece of paper.
5. Show the last person in each line a simple image of an Easter object. That person must use his or her finger to draw the object on the back of the person in front of him or her.
6. This continues until the drawing reaches the first person in line. He or she must draw it on the piece of paper.
7. Have judges determine which team’s picture closest resembles the original picture.
8. If time permits, play more rounds, letting team members change positions if they wish.

Application
Things get distorted the farther we get from the source, especially when we have our backs turned on God. In todays world, too often the meaning of Easter has degraded to eggs, chocolate, and bunnies. But the true meaning of Easter could be summarised by John 3:16.

Debrief
1. What does Easter mean to you?
2. What are some of the things the world associates with Easter?
3. In what ways has the Bibical concept of Easter been distorted over time?
4. If you had to identify a single word to associate with easter, what would it be?
5. How can we promote the true meaning of easter with friends and family without alienating them?

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Materials
1. Bingo cards for each participant. Make Bingo cards using a grid of squares (5X5) and placing Easter related items in each square. Make each card different in the choice of items on it and the placement of the items. (Bingo cards are typically unique for each individual. There are also usually more items than spaces on the bingo grid so that not every card has all the items.)
2. Coins or markers to cover squares. Jelly beans work well. You can also simply allow them to mark on the cards.
3. Bingo items in bag to pull out. Write them on small peices of paper or ping pong balls.

Game Play
1. Pass out the bingo cards.
2. Give each child a supply of jelly beans for markers on the board. Ask them not to eat them until the game is over.
3. Draw one slip of paper at a time from the hat or box. Read the item aloud.
4. Ask participants to look for the item on their paper. If they find it, they should place a jelly bean over it. (Make sure each participant covers the free space.)
5. Play until someone gets five marekrs in a row either horizontally, vertically or diagonally. The first person to do so must yell out “He is Risen” and wins. Check the grid to make sure the placement of the markers agrees with those that have been called out.
6. Repeat the game a few times or keep on playing the first game until each child has covered five squares in a row.
7. Let everyone eat the candy after the game is over.

Easter Bingo items related to the Biblical account:
Gray fleece or donkey (Matthew 21:2-5), Palm branch or a coat (Matthew 21:8-11), A vial of perfume (Matthew 26:7-13), A lock of hair (Matthew 26:7-13), 30 silver coins or 3 10-cent coins (Matthew 26:14-15), A strip of terry cloth fabric or towel (John 13:4-11), A communion wafer or bread (Matthew 26:17-29), A communion cup or grape (Matthew 26:17-29), , Praying hands (Mark 14:32-42), A watch (Mark 13:37), Rooster or a feather (Luke 22:61)
, Piece of rope (John 18:12), A leather whip (John 19:1), Small piece of soap (Matthew 27:20-24), A piece of scarlet cloth (Matthew 27:28), A crown of thorns (Matthew 27:29), A cross (John 19:16-22), nails (John 19:16-22), Dice (John 19:23-24), darkness or Black circle (Luke 23:44-45), sponge with vinegar (John 19:28-30), spear (John 19:32-37), A shattered or split rock (Matthew 27:51, 54), Purple cloth (Matthew 27:51), Clean linen cloth or gauze (Matthew 27:57-61), Spices (Luke 23:55-56), A stone and wax or paraffin (Matthew 27:65-66), an empty tomb (Matthew 28:5-8), Sign reading “King of the Jews”

Easter Bingo items NOT necessarily related to Biblical account:
Basket, Bells, Bonnet, Bunny Hop, Candies, Chicks, Chocolate, Chocolate Rabbit, church, Cottontail, Daffodil, Easter Card, Easter Egg, Egg Hunt, Egg Tree, Faberge, Hard Boiled egg, Hot Cross Buns, Jelly Beans, Lamb, Lilies, Marshmellows, New Clothes, Parade, Passover, Pastel Colors, Peeps, Pretzel, Rabbit, Ribbons, Spring, Straw, Sunday, Sunrise

Variation
1. Make the bingo cards using items from the Biblical Account.
2. As you tell the easter story, youth / children must cover the appropriate square every time they hear something that matches a picture on their card. Everyone will get to bing before you finish and you will have told the Easter story.

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Description
Spruce up your next scavenger hunt or photo scavenger hunt by adding some of the items in the form of riddles. Riddles may rhyme or simply present a conundrum.

Example Riddles for your Scavenger Hunt
* What runs around a house but doesn’t move? [Fence]
* I grow when I eat, but die when I drink? [Fire]
* Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail, never clinking. — J.R.R. Tolkien [Fish]
* I march before armies, a thousand salute me, My fall can bring victory, but no one would shoot me; The wind is my lover, one-legged am I, Name me and see me, at home in the sky. [Flag]
* The more of them you take, the more you leave behind [Footprints]
* When I am filled, I can point the way; When I am empty, Nothing moves me. I have two skins, One without and one within. [Glove]
* Strum me, I’m lovely, I have lots of strings, steel, nylon or catgut, with me you can sing! [Guitar]
* The more you take away, the larger it becomes. [Hole]
* Stiff and stout / I swivel about, hold some in and others out [Key]
* I have keys that open no locks, I have space, but you cannot fill it, You can enter, but you cannot leave. [keyboard]
* A strange attraction compels me to hold your things most dear, yet I know it not, and feel no warmth in my holding. My brothers and I stick close together until one faces me, and then is pushed away. [Magnet]
* I have streets but no pavement, cities but no buildings, forests yet no trees, rivers yet no water. [Map]
* Tear one off and scratch my head, What once was red is black instead. [Match]
* What turns everything around, but does not move? [Mirror]
* The point has been made. You say I have a big head, What I need most, Is someone to drive me home. [Nail]
* Take off my skin and I won’t cry, but you will, what am I? [Onion]
* What kind of coat can be put on only when wet? [Paint]
* Taken from a mine, Shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. [Pencil Lead]
* I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock your soul. [Piano]
* A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. [Potato]]
* Has to be broken before it can be used [Egg]

Create your own
Create riddles for specific locations and items specific to you church, town, or area. For example, use the riddle for a river, but then add a couple lines to indicate a specific river near your location for participants to take a photo of.

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Materials
soccerball, colored strips of cloth

Game description
Just as a spider has eight legs, so does this soccer player.

Game Play
1. Form two teams.
2. Within each team, have kids form groups of four. Give each group of four a supply of colored cloth to tie their ankles together so they form a square facing outward. They must also lock arms.
3. You may also use colored armbands or baseball caps to differentiate teams.
4. Play a normal game of soccer, normal rules, with each foursome acting as one player.

Materials
List of Onomatopoeia

Preparation
Make a list of words that represent sounds – onomatopoeia

Scavenger Hunt Desription
Onomatopoeia are words that represent sounds. Use this for a photo scavenger hunt. Youth must photograph the object or creature that makes the corresponding sound. For example: if the clue is “meow” then the youth must take a photo together with a cat. “clippety-clop” is the sound a horse makes as its shoes strike the ground so they would need to take a photo together with a horse.

Example items
argh, baa, bam, bang, bark, beep, belch, blare, boing, bonk, boo-hoo, boom, bray, burp, burr, burst, buzz, cackle, caw, chime, chirp, chop, clang, clank, clap, clatter, click, clippety-clop, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, coo, crackle, crash, croak, crow, crunch, ding-dong, drip, fizz, gasp, gobble, groaning, growl, grunt, gurgle, gush, hee-haw, hiccup, hiss, honk, hoot, howl, huff, hum, hush, ka-boom, ka-ching, kerplunk, knock, meow, moaning, moo, mumble, neigh, oink, ouch, ping pong, plop, poof, pop, puff, purr, quack, rattle, ribbit, ring, roar, rustle, scratch, screech, sigh, sizzle, slurp, smash, sniff, snort, sob, splash, splat, squeak, squeal, squish, swoosh, thud, tick, tick-tock, tinkling, tolling, tweet, vroom, whack, wheeze, whimper, whistle, whine, whinny, whirr, woof, yelp, zap, zoom, zzzzz

Variation
Give each group of youth a tape recorder and have them record the sounds.

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Description
Spruce up your next scavenger hunt or photo scavenger hunt by adding some of the items in the form of riddles. Riddles may rhyme or simply present a conundrum.

Example Riddles for your Scavenger Hunt
* Come up and let us go; go down and here we stay. [Anchor]
* You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows. [Bar of Soap]
* He can shave 25 times a day and still have a beard? [Barber]
* What is it that has four legs, one head and a foot? [Bed]
* What is white when its dirty and black when its clean? [Blackboard]
* Stiff is my spine and my body is pale, but I’m always ready to tell a tale. [Book]
* A hundred brothers lie next to each other; Each white and fine — they’ve only one spine. I am the tongue that lies between two. Remove me to gather their wisdom to you. [Bookmark]
* Man walks over, man walks under, in times of war he burns asunder. [Bridge]
* It stands on one leg with its heart in its head. [Cabbage]
* My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick, Fat, I am slow, Wind is my foe. [Candle]
* I’m usually old, in a yard with a fence, here someone rests, and another is of English descent [Cemetary]
* What is bigger when new and grows smaller with use? [chalk, pencil, soap]
* What’s black when you get it, Red when you use it, And white when you’re all through with it? [Charcoal]
* A slow, solemn square-dance, Of warriors feinting. One by one they fall, Warriors fainting, Thirty-two on sixty-four. [Chess]
* Throughout history, there have been thousands of well-documented cases of horses jumping over towers and landing on clergy and small men, forcing their removal. What am I? [Chess]
* Runs, but cannot walk, sometimes sings but never talks. Lacks arms, has hands; lacks a head but has a face. [Clock]
* I have head and tail, but no legs. I am that for which the beggar begs. [Coin]
* I am so simple that I only point; yet I guide men all over the world. [Compass]
* Put on the table and cut, but never eaten [Deck of cards]
* Has to be broken before it can be used [Egg]

Create your own
Create riddles for specific locations and items specific to you church, town, or area. For example, use the riddle for a river, but then add a couple lines to indicate a specific river near your location for participants to take a photo of.

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Materials
None

Preparation
Make a list of items, street signs, and other information that can be found while travelling to a destination.

Scavenger Hunt Desription
Next time the youth go on a road trip to summer camp or to any other destination, have a Travel Scavenger Hunt also sometimes known as a Car Rally Scavenger Hunt or Road Rally Scavenger Hunt. Give each youth a list of items to watch for while traveling. The list can be made up ahead of time and adjusted for the specific scenery. These also can be added as part of a road rally.

Example items
[Miles to a specific destination], [Specific breed of dog], [Specific model and color car], Airport sign, Ambulance, Baby Stroller, Barn, Billboard with a child on it, Bus, Cat, Cemetary, Churches of several different denominations, City Dump, Construction, Cows, Cul-de-sac, Dam, Danger, Dead End, Deer, Deer Crossing, Detour, Dirt Road, Do Not Enter, Do not pass, Dog in a car, Exit, Fire Station, Flashing red light, Flat Tire, Food store, For Sale sign, Fountain, Grain silo, Handicapped Parking, Helicopter, High Voltage, Hiring, Horse, Hospital, Hotel, Ice on Road, Intersection, Keep Out, Keep Right, Large clock, Library, License plate that starts with “Q” [or letters – or all letters], License plates from other states, License plate with three identical digits on it i.e. 777, Lighthouse, Low Water Crossing, Merge, Motel, Motorcycle Gang, Museum, Name of a Bank, Narrow Bridge, Neon Sign, No parking, No right turn on red, No Swimming, No Trespassing, No U-turn, Oil Pump, One Way, Palm Tree, Person talking on a phone, Playground, Police Car, Policeman, Pond or Lake, Post Office, Price of Gas, Radio Tower, Railroad crossing, Rest Area, Road closed, Road Narrows, Road Work Ahead, Round about, School, School Crossing, School Zone, Sharp Curve, Shopping Cart, Signs in foreign languages, Slippery When Wet, Slow, Slower Traffic keep right, Someone on a Bicycle, Someone wearing a cowboy hat, Speed bump, Speed Limit, State Park, State Prison, Statue, Steep Incline, Stop, Subway, Taxi, Tow Truck, Tractor, Trespassers will be prosecuted, Various street signs, Watch for Falling Rock, Water Tower, Winding Road, Windmill, Window Cleaner, Yield Sign

Create your own: The more specific the information and the more obscure and difficult to obtain it, the better. Be creative and try to make the list educational as well as fun.

Additional Guidelines
1. Have an adult in each vehicle (besides the driver) to verify each spotting of an item.
2. Only the first person to spot a particular item can get credit for it. If there are more than one of an item, the first person to spot each instance gets credit.
3. You can limit the hunt to streetsigns or combine it with items and information. Information might be the highway numbers, miles to a particular destination or other information found along the way.
4. At the final destination, tally the results and award the youth with the keenest eyesight!

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Materials
None

Preparation
Make a list of items that can be found in and around your church.

Scavenger Hunt Objective
Teens will search the church facilities to find the information on the list.

Example items
1. The year the church was built [on the cornerstone]
2. Number of rooms in the church building
3. Number of stairs leading to the sanctuary
4. The name of the first pastor of the church [usually on a plaque in the foyer]
5. The name of the largest book in the church library
6. The number of keys on the church piano/organ.
7. Number of pews / seats in the church
8. [Specific persons who donated hymn books or other items to the church – [usually found on a sticker or metal plate]
9. Number of members in a Sunday School Class [Name the specificclass]
10. Number of beds for toddlers
11. A communion wafer and cup
12. List the names of the various rooms in the church
13. Name of the church secretary
14. Brand of church copier
15. Number of Bibles or hymbooks in the sanctuary
16. Length of the candles at the altar
17. Depth of baptismal pool
18. Number of Choir Robes
19. Last week’s church attendance
20. Last year’s donation amount to Missions
21. Last month’s total offering
22. Pastor’s favorite hymn
23. Most recent couple to get married
24. [Specific images on stained glass windows in certain locations]
25. [Describe specific paintings or statues in specific locations]
26. Names of the missionaries the church supports
27. Oldest living member of the church
28. Day of the week for this year’s Christmas / Easter
29. Number of choir members
30. Street Address of the church
31. [Specific information about a well known church member]
32. Chairman of the church board [or deacons]
33. Title of sermon [from a specific date]
34. Bible Version used by Pastor
35. Height of the cross
36. Number of pillars
37. Place where the Christmas decorations are stored
38. Names of all members of the pastor’s family
39. [Words to a specific line of a specific hymn or song]
40. Church Mission Statement
41. Church theme verse
42. Number of Active members
43. Last year’s high attendance
ETC

Create your own. The more specific the information and the more obscure and difficult to obtain it, the better. Be creative and try to make the list educational as well as fun. This can be done as part of a Sunday School lesson on chuch history.

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