Cool Church Youth Group Events?

An activity our youth group has done in the past was a "couch potato" race...

They would get several old couches, 1 pick-up truck for each couch, and set up teams.... 1 team for each couch.

The idea is for the kids to drive (carefully, of course) to certain types of places, haul the couch out of the pick-up, place it in front of the location, and have everyone pile on it and take a picture. You may want to have an adult be the designated driver for each team... they can take the picture, also.

Points are awarded for the different type of places they manage to get the couch to in the time limit.

If you had kids old enough to drive, or parent chauffers (sp) some sort of road scavanger hunt might be fun. Like drive the grocery store and buy a canned good item, drive to the food bank to drop it off, drive to a burger place for lunch. I"m just making this up, never been a part of it. good luck!

I'm not sure how big your group is but these are some thing our youth have done in my church:

1: Day hikes that involve "trust" markers along the way (the old, fall backwards blindfolded into each others arms).
2: Volunteer at local charities (the one that seemed to get the best response was actually cleaning the kennels at a local pet shelter believe it or not!)
3: Obstacle courses that involve old school items such as wagons, jump ropes, playground balls etc... The kids also loved this because one of the stations was eating a saltine cracker w/peanut butter on top then chewing a piece of gum and the first to blow a bubble won. Hilarious to watch!
4: Parking lot dances (they called it "Hip Hop Praise")
5: Scavenger hunts for items that have a spiritual meaning (i.e. piece of bread, worn cloth, anything with a spiritual symbol etc...)

Hope you guys find something fun to do!

our youth group also did an Amazing race. Every year they paint their basement room any way they want, or maybe they could paint a building at the local park that needs sprucing up. Renting a karioke machine?

Here are some Girl Scout activities...

- A hike, bring along a picnic lunch.
- A scavenger hunt
- My teen girls just helped to run an "amazing race" activity at a Girl Scout camp. I'm not sure how they did it, but the older girls each had a station and as a group came to them they would have to do an activity before going to the next station/country.
- A campfire, roast marshmellows, sing songs

OH I want to do the "Couch Potato" Malia suggested! That sounds like a blast for kids,,,as long as an adult drives.
I have loved the times the youth group did the "Pizza Scavenger Hunt". They arranged, or bought enough uncooked pizza crusts in boxes so each team of about 5 kids could have one. They start with the crust and are given a neighborhood to go door to door asking for pizza toppings. They have a limited time to get toppings, and then have to go to a prearranged member of the church house to bake the pizza. And be back at the youth group hall at a certain time for pictures and judging. I was the prearranged house a couple times and it was fun to see the goofy things they came in with for toppings. I had a lot of fun with them too by not only having the oven heated up waiting, but by handing them a broom to sweep the kitchen, windex and paper towels to wash a couple windows, and a pile of clean laundry to fold while their pizza cooked! The adult who was driving the group was put in the recliner, handed ice water and news paper to relax. It was a real kick to turn the tables on them and make them do chores for a few minutes. Thay really laughed about it. The best thing tho was when they got back to the chruch for the "Judge the Best Pizza" they found real pizzas already cooked and waiting for them so they didnt have to eat the stuff they collected.
The other great group game I like is the "Bigger Better" scavenger hunt. They form teams of about 6 or so. Each team is given a bottle cap. They have to go door to door asking strangers to trade up for a bigger better item. The bottle cap may be traded for a book, and the book gets traded for a shoe, the shoe for a bath towel, then a old kids chair, and pretty soon you may have teams with dressers and big stuff they can barely carry! They all have to get back at a certain time to compare what they have and see who brought back the bigger better item. I actually got a bar stool I loved and gave the group a 6 ft tall old ratty wicker bathroom cabinet I had planned for a garage sale for $3. It was a blast to see them walking down the street all in a row carrying this thing.The family up the street ended up loving the cabinet and used it in their house,,lol,, so, anything goofy that gets them to have fun with no big religous pressure is a sure way to make kids want to come back and see what great fun they can have without drinking and drugs. its always a good start.

our sunday school has a picnic every spring-fishing, tubing, campfire, beach, pot luck/BBQ. Tons of fun!

How about a bonfire? When I was in youthgroup we loved bonfires or even an overnight camp out.

We have done a driving scavenger hunt with our group. It was a blast! We had adults do the driving and the kids keep track of the items. We made a list of odd things that the kids had to find, they couldn't purchase anything and they had to carry or wear everything back to our home at the end of the time limit. Each kid was suppose to bring a new person to the event and one of the items they had to bring back was a live person. We had kids wearing prom dresses with leg warmers and carrying people into our garage. We even had kids that borrowed a case of Mt. Dew from our local store. It was hilarious! We had an ice cream sundae bar and bon-fire waiting for the kids when they got back. We did this a few years ago with an older group of kids and our younger kids are asking to do this again because they heard so much about it. Contact me if you want me to send you our list we came up with. We also do a lot of "MinuteTo Win It" games. Good luck, have fun!