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IssuesChildren playing Free Apple Games Rack up huge Bills
Children have accidentally been racking up enormous bills by playing ‘free’ Apple games on their parents’ iPads and iPhones. Games such as Playmobil Pirates and Racing Penguins are amongst these ‘bait apps’; advertising themselves as free, but letting players buy credits and weapons to progress through the game.
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IssuesGames Master: Find the Word, Rock Paper Scissors, Bouncing Balls
Three easy games to use with the children in your group.
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Games Master: Sitting Beach Volleyball, Suck-a-Skittle, SMS (Silly Messy Simple) Game: Panning for Gold
Three easy games to use with the creative minds behind Messy Church children in your group.
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Games Master: Cat and Mouse, Flour Power, Story
Three easy games to use with the children in your group.
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Games Master: Party Challenges
This issue I’m going to do something different. Rather than games, I’m going to cover challenges. I’ve found that these can work very well
when you have a lot of kids but not a lot of space. Split your hall into various stations and at each station have a challenge. Then split the kids into teams with about five children in each team. Ideally you’d have the same number of teams as stations but it doesn’t matter if you have fewer teams. (If you have one more team than stations set up an extra drinks break station.) Give each team a minute to understand
and practise each challenge, and then three minutes to do as well as they can at each one. Rotate the team around the stations after each period. To find out the overall winner, give each team a point for the position they finish in at each station (best at that challenge = one point, second best = two points, etc), and the team with the fewest overall points wins. Emphasise in all the challenges that they should be working as a team. The challenges may seem easy but when you see the panic every time you call ‘ten seconds left!’ you’ll know it’s working well! -
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Childhood Games
I was talking to a fellow children’s worker about the games we played as children, and we realised that quite a lot of them are completely inappropriate now. The 1970s and 80s were more naïve times, and we thought it would be fun to look back at what we played then - if only to realise how much things have changed.
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Games Master: Three Easy Games to Use with the Children in Your Group
Toppling pyramids; Samson, Delilah and the Lion; Heads Down Thumbs Up.
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IssuesGames children love
Sometimes you can spend ages trying to think up games to play when all the time there’s a ready-made source of inspiration right in front of you – children! If your group is anything like ours, they’ll be very keen to tell you what games they enjoy playing. So I decided to ask our children which games were their favourites. Here’s their top 15:
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Christmas Games
Christmas is often perceived as simply being a time of fun, frivolity and food. As youth workers who are interested in the holistic development of the young people we work with, why not battle this inadequate view of what the season is all about by playing these games, which neatly encapsulate fun, frivolity and food. I have included a handy ‘reason-for-the-season’ link for each game too incase you wish to take your group ‘deeper’ into the Christmas story.
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IssuesChristmas Games
As I sit here staring out of the window, watching the leaves on the trees turn brown, looking at the conkers spread across the pavement and seeing my Facebook feed fill with back-to-school photos, it can mean only one thing: it’s time to write my column for the Christmas issue. Yes, such are print deadlines that even Tesco would blanch at mentioning the C-word this early in the year, but that is the sacrifice I’m making for you, dear readers.
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BlogClassic games
Is it really that time again? Has it come round so soon? Yes it’s everyone’s favourite Games master of the year: the classics column! Here are games that have been enjoyed for generations – let’s introduce them to a whole new audience! Isn’t it great to have games that children, parents and grandparents can all enjoy?
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World Cup games
Every four years, youth workers around the world put aside their denominational and national differences, and unite in a glorious moving-of youth-work-meetings-around-the- schedule-of-matches-at-the-FIFA-World-Cup. To help justify you halting your regular schedule and programmes to basically watch football on TV, here are some World Cup themed games.
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IssuesSpecial day games
In the last few games columns, I’ve asked you to think back to games you played as kids which you definitely should not play anymore. Thank you for sending in suggestions, and it gives me great pleasure to announce the top five:
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Games Master: Team Dodgeball, Spaghetti Quiz, SMS - (Silly Messy Simple) Game: Leader in the Stocks
Three easy games to use with the creative minds behind Messy Church children in your group.
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IssuesFun Games
One question I get asked a lot is: ‘Why do you have games in your sessions?’ You might want me to talk about reinforcing the theme or complementing the teaching, but the main point of a game is to have fun. Church is allowed to be fun (joy is a fruit of the Spirit) and a very good way to have fun is to play together. Of course there should be a time to be contemplative, but there should also be a time to run around screaming while waving your hands in the air (to paraphrase Ecclesiastes 3:7). So for this issue, I decided to go for three games
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BlogGross Games
It had to happen at some point; every now and then you want to play a game that is grosser than humanly imaginable. A game that you don’t want to tell your church leader about. A game that pushes your young people to the very precipice of human decency. A game where there is a very real chance of a young person rushing out of the room in a desperate attempt to to make it to the bathroom. Here are a few of those games…
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IssuesIcebreaker games
For the first time I’m going to theme this column by the time of year (by that I mean the time of year this issue claims to be not the time you
actually get it). So let’s pretend it really is September as the front cover claims. Here is the Games Master back-to-school-icebreaker-
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IssuesParachute Games
There’s one prop that our children love more than any other – the parachute. There’s something about a giant piece of coloured material that screams fun. You can play all these games with a 3.5m parachute, but if you can get your hands on a 5m or a 7m one, that’s even better. There’s plenty of choice online so have a look and see what you can find, and what will fit in your room!
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IssuesName Games
Does this scenario sound familiar to you: ‘I’m sorry, what was your name? Come again? Just one more time?’ And then it’s too embarrassing to ask them to repeat it for the 16th time. But this academic year things are going to be different. Yes, this year you’re going to get the name of everyone in your group right first time. How are you going to do that?
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Toothpick Games
Have you ever brought resources for a youth group session, only to discover that you end up using only a small percentage of them, and now have to store the rest of them in your increasingly-space-precious youth-group-storage-area (i.e. your spare room)? This month’s column includes some ideas for what to do with all those thousands of spare toothpicks that you got for that one thing months ago.
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