Toilet Paper Mummy - Youth Work Game

The Toilet Paper Mummy game is a fast and furious activity that you can use as an icebreaker with your young people. Here’s how to play it:

Split your youth group into teams with an equal number of young people on each team.
Provide each team with multiple rolls of toilet paper – at least 3 or 4 rolls per team, although this may vary depending on the overall length of the toilet paper roll.

One person should be selected from each team to become a toilet paper mummy. Although you can have teams choose who this would be, it might be better for you to choose. That way, people of equal height/size can be chosen from each team so that the game is fair.
When you tell them to start, the other team members have to mummify their chosen team member by wrapping toilet paper around them.
All parts of the body should be covered from head to toe to create the mummy.
If the roll breaks, teams should tuck the end in and continue the mummification process.

There are two ways that you can determine the winner:

First to finish – One option is to have the winner be the team that creates a completely covered toilet paper mummy first.
Best design – The second option is to set a time limit for all the teams. Once the time’s up, the team with the best mummy wins.

Due to the nature of the game, it’s best to have the teams be split into groups of the same gender to reduce the risk of inappropriate touching.
To help encourage your youth to use resources more responsibly, recycle the toilet paper after the game if that facility is available.
If you lead a Christian youth group, this could be a fun game to play when covering Jesus’ resurrection or Lazarus being raised from the dead.

If you liked this game idea, you might like all our other youth group games.

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