Come To Order: Youth Ministry Games
My favorite “get to know each other game” is standing in line. I was introduced to it as a girl guide and have used it often when we met in a new group of people and as a high school teacher with new classes. It only takes a few minutes, but you suddenly know a lot about people, if you can remember.
This game is good for all ages, if you give a little thought to the criteria you line up after. Preschoolers, for example, won’t know the alphabet. A Captain calls out what the rule for the line up is, for instance by height, and people line up. When the line has been formed everybody introduces themselves and shakes hands with their neighbors in the line. Repeat four or five times with new rules.
Criteria for forming the line can be:
- Age, youngest first
- Height, smallest first
- Alphabetically by given name, family name, town you come from, street you live in, …
- Shoe size,
- Length of hair
- Size of nose (great discussions arise)
- Height you can jump etc.