It’s not long until February 14th, so here are 3 Valentine’s Day games for teenagers that can be done with an entire youth group.
1. Set Your Heart Racing
Resources
- Drinking straws
- Red tissue paper
- Scissors
Preparation
Cut heart shapes out of the red tissue paper – one heart for each team.
How To Play
To play this youth group game, split the group into teams of the same size, with at least five people in each group if possible.
This is a relay game, so have the teams stand in straight lines all facing the front of the room. Give each person a drinking straw and a heart to the first person in each team’s line. The aim is for them to transfer the heart from one end of the line to the other (and back again if you only have a small group) using only the drinking straw.
Here’s how they should do this:
- The first person sucks through the straw to keep the heart at the other end
- They pass it to the second person in line by having them use their own straw for suction
- The first person stops sucking
- The second person turns round to the next person in line and the process continues
Rules
If the heart falls to the floor, the last person to have control of it has to pick it up using their straw – no hands allowed!
Winner
The first team to get their heart from one end to the other.
2. Head-Two-Head
Resources
- Post-it-notes
- Pens
Preparation
Write names of different celebrity couples on post-it notes – you’ll need one couple for every young person in the youth group.
How To Play
Put a sticky note on the forehead of each of the young people. They then have to go around the room trying to work out who their celebrity couple is.
Rules
They can only do this by asking Yes or No questions – no open questions are allowed. For example, if one of the couples was Beyonce and Jay-Z, the youth might be able to work it out by asking questions like:
- Are they still alive? (Yes)
- Are they over 50 years old? (No)
- Are they sportspeople? (No)
- Are they singers? (Yes)
- Are they both in bands (No)
They wouldn’t be allowed to ask questions like:
- How old are they?
- What type of music do they do?
- What type of hairstyle do they have?
Winner
The first person to work out their celebrity couple. Keep going with the game though until everyone’s managed to work out who their famous lovebirds are.
3. Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt
This final Valentine’s Day game for teenagers will have them looking for a list of different Valentine’s Day-themed items.
This game might take a little more planning, as you may need to recruit extra volunteers to drive the young people around to collect the items. Another alternative would be to organize it as a photo scavenger hunt and play it at the mall.
For full details of how to plan this and a free downloadable Valentine’s Day scavenger hunt list, check out our sister site here. There are also many other scavenger hunt ideas on that site that are perfect for youth groups.
Question: What other Valentine’s Day games that are suitable for youth groups do you know of? We’d love to hear your ideas in the comments below.
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