All NexGen Pro articles – Page 108
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Ready-to-use games + ice breakers: NERF Games
After wrestling back control of the games column, the Premier Youthwork team continues its journey into the weird and wonderful. This month, we examine games using one of the most vital tools in the youth work toolbox: the NERF gun.
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Ready-to-use Games + Ice Breakers: Newspaper Games
As wise and astute readers will no doubt be aware, the digital world is increasingly ‘where it’s at’. The era of the printed press is under attack; more and more books are published as ebooks, anything that’s not on an iPad is old hat, and newspapers are increasingly all about digital subscriptions. But fear not printing press owners, your wares are not completely obsolete - as long as there are fish and chip shops, and (crucially for this month’s column) youth workers, your printed material will continue to find a use. This month’s games all involve newspaper.
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Ready-to-use Games - Ice Breakers: 'Things to Hand' Games
No matter how carefully you prepare in advance, no matter what resources you gather, no matter what best-laid plans you construct, there will always be the odd occasion when you need some games and you haven’t got anything ready and available. So these are some ideas based around what might be immediately to hand.
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Ready-to-use Games + Ice breakers : Technology games
In the 21st Century we have the ability to play games with technology that even ten years ago we couldn’t have dreamt of. While these games are all well and good, they can be a divisive issue: ‘I don’t have that model’, ‘My mum couldn’t afford to get me one of them…’, ‘Mine is broken and I’m not allowed a new one until I tidy my room / finish my exams / memorise the complete works of Shakespeare / invent a new clean and renewable source of energy’. So in order to both scratch that techno-itch and avoid any problems of haves and have-nots, here are a collection of technology-based games that don’t require any actual technology at all.
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Ready-to-use Games: Ice Breakers - Christmas Games
You may be experiencing a nagging feeling that something is coming up soon. Some sort of event that may just dominate everything and cause the coming few weeks to be lived at an increasingly frenetic pace, packed with ever-increasing levels of activity, and at ever decreasing amounts of energy. You may of course choose to ignore Christmas, but just in case your group might enjoy some Christmas-themed games - here’s a selection.
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Ready-to-use Games + Ice Breakers : Pointless Games
The role of games in youth work can be a matter of debate. What’s the point of them? What do they achieve? Some games can have learning sneakily inserted into them, teaching important skills and principles, but others literally have no point at all, and just involve doing something random for its own sake. Like this month’s games – there’s no point to them at all, except for fun. Oh, I get it – that’s kind of the point. So, after much waffling, this month’s theme: pointless fun.
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IssuesReady-To-Use Games + Ice Breakers: Football Games
Football games might sound like a tautology: obviously football is already a game. But football contains some glorious minutiae that are ripe for being explored and played with, and so, in honour of the European Championships this month, here are some football games.
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IssuesReady-To-Use Games + Ice Breakers:TV Games
In 2002, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers sang, ‘Throw away your television’. Well, it’s 2016 and it looks like this campaign wasn’t very successful. Newsflash – TV is here to stay! With that in mind, here are some games inspired by shows from the best / most damaging (delete according to your mood) form of communication. (And as TV is a format that demands quick, punchy ideas, rather than writing out these games in great length, we’ve explained them as quickly as possible, with some illustrations.)
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Ready-to-use Games + Icebreakers: Breakfast Games
Each month I attempt to suggest a theme for the games, or - at the very least - some kind of nominal link between them. This month’s is almost certainly more tenuous than ever. The connecting theme between them is: things you use at breakfast time. (I can only apologise.)
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Ready-to-use Discussion : Breaking the Habit
I don’t know about you but I watch some rubbish on TV. I get addicted to the latest series of Masterchef, watch average quiz shows that I’m barely enjoying and I don’t even want to think about how many times I’ve watched each episode of Friends. This kind of lazy approach to our viewing habits is as terrifying as it is dull and perhaps tells us something about life in the 21st century…
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IssuesBridging the skills gap
As shocking as it may sound, no children’s ministry team is perfect. No matter how brilliant your group, you’ll be missing... something. This is where resources can be invaluable, filling some of these gaps...
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