February 6, 2025 • 28 mins
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Let's take your youth group games up a level with these 13 must-have game supplies. If you have a smaller budget, add to your game supply slowly over time and get the most bang for your buck with what you choose! Student ministry starts with connections and relationships and games are one of the best ways to fast track that! Join us as we equip you with the essential tools to create unforgettable experiences for your youth ministry.
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Must-Haves:
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* Hula Hoops: https://amzn.to/3xxcdSR (check your local dollar store or Wal-Mart for good prices)
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* Bandanas: https://amzn.to/42MV1I8
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today we're talking about my favorite must-have
supplies for youth group games.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Welcome to the Ministry Coach Podcast, where we
give you weekly tips andtactics to help you fast-track
the growth and health of youryouth ministry.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
If this is the first time we're meeting, my name is
Jeff Laskola and this is KristenLaskola, and today we are
talking about 10 must have gamesupplies for youth ministry, but
I might give you even more than10.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's way more than I might give you 13.
So so when we say 10, we meanmore like 13.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
When we started writing it was 10.
And then we just kind of wentfrom there, and then we didn't
even count.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
a whole bunch of them too.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
You're in luck, you get more than 10, all that to
say.
And let's just cut out theobvious game supplies.
You need dodgeballs.
You're in youth ministry.
You should know that.
You don't need a podcast totell you that you need cones to
play pretty much anything.
That's a runaround game.
I'm not going to talk aboutcones, tape, dodgeballs, buckets
(01:13):
, dice, whatever.
I'm not getting into thenitty-gritty, I've just narrowed
it down to my 13 apparently, uh, favorite game supplies that
once I got these, I kind of feltlike I am stocked I can play
anything and, to tell you thetruth, when we give you these,
(01:34):
at the end of it, if you boughtthese, you would have like about
30 games just right there thatyou could play yeah, that's not
even including all the staple,dodgeball, yeah tape and the
reason I chose these is becauseit's multiple games per supply,
so I didn't choose somethinglike well, you can only use this
(01:54):
for ultimate steal the bacon.
It's an inner tube and we playthat once a year yeah we have
one, but I wouldn't put that onmy top 10 because it's like well
, let's get the most bang forour buck on here.
So number one is hockey sticks.
I feel like hockey sticks werea huge game changer for me
(02:15):
because there was multiple gamesI could play and our room is
very conducive to hockey becausewe have a smooth floor, a
auditorium.
If you want to play streethockey, you can play it outside,
no problem.
But hockey sticks for me are anessential.
So I have a set um.
Half of them are red, half ofthem are yellow.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
They're not like the giant street hockey ones I think
they're called elementaryhockey sticks or something very
elementary.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
they're short, which is great because it's harder to
do a high shot with those.
The rule always is you can't doa high shot, meaning swing it
above like your knee level Don'tneed any trips to the dentist.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
So here's what I play with hockey ultimate hockey,
ultimate glow in the dark hockey, where that's our glover
nighter and I get a glow in thedark ball for the hockey puck,
twizzle, which is like you couldlook it up.
We don't have time to explainevery single game, but it's
super fun.
And my favorite use for themother than Twizzle, because
(03:16):
that's my favorite game was wedid a leader night out where I
rented roller skates and we itwas all the adults and we played
roller hockey in the auditorium.
You could play with students.
It just got super full contact.
I didn't I don't know if I'dplay it that hardcore with
students someone would probablybreak a tailbone but with the
(03:37):
leaders it was one of the bestnights of our lives.
It was super fun.
So I feel like I get rightthere one, two, three, at least
four weeks of use out of hockey,or sorry, hockey sticks, and I
played twizzle a few times withmy student leadership team
that's a good midweek or weekend, yeah it fits a lot of
(03:57):
scenarios, so that one is superduper fun before you even move
on to number two, as always, wewill put links to everything in
the description below.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So we've done your shopping list for you, so make
sure you check that out.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Maybe they'll just skip the whole thing and just go
.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
You could theoretically, but it's kind of
good to see what the reasonbehind some of these things okay
, that's my, that's my pitch toget you to stick around.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
My second favorite game supply and once I got these
I was all right, sounds crazy,but hula hoops.
I realized I was always goingto our children's classrooms to
borrow their hula hoops.
And then it would be a bummerbecause they're like, no, we're
using them, and I'm like, ah,darn it.
And so I was at Grocery Outletone day and they had a ton of
(04:39):
hula hoops for really cheap.
Because here's the thing withhula hoops they for really cheap
because here's the thing withhula hoops they're not that
cheap, so I never bought a set.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, and I found a cheap set and I'm sure amazon
has a cheap set and we'll linkthat yeah, sometimes you just go
to a dollar store and you getlucky, and if it's in season or
whatever, yeah, like spring,summer, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
so I would say like a set of 12 to 15, depending on
the size of your group.
But I love having hula hoopsfor any game that involves
needing to keep some of theballs contained, like we play a
game called sneak and you'retrying to get balls from one
side to the other, and it's justa nice way for them not to roll
away.
(05:22):
I love doing a hula hoop relayfor the battle, where everyone
grabs hands.
You know when you have to getthe hula hoop from one end to
the other.
That's super fun, you know.
Without letting go, I loveusing them for ultimate rock
paper scissors, where the kidsstart at either end they hop,
hop, hop, hop, hop into the hulahoop.
When they get face to face,they do rock paper scissors
(05:43):
shoot.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
whoever wins continues, whoever doesn't is
out ring of elimination whereyou have all the ball pit balls
in the middle and then one lessthan the amount of students
surrounding it, and they allhave to run in grab a ball.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
If you don't get a ball, you're eliminated.
But again.
It keeps them, like you'resaying, keeps them all contained
in that one little area yeah,and I also really like using
them for, like, the safety zone,for, like, capture the flag.
So, whatever the flag is, youput it in the hula hoop and if
the kid gets it, they can stayin there and you know.
Obviously you could use conesfor that too, but I just feel
(06:16):
like they come in very handy fora variety of games.
So hula hoops, yes.
A plus on those, okay.
My third pick is roller boardsor skateboards.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
This was another thing that I had been like or
scooter boards depending on yourterminology, depending on what
part of the country you live.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So this was one of the things that I was like, oh,
if I could just buy a set ofthose you I just thought that
was the coolest thing.
I used to be a sub and wheneverI do pe, like they would bring
these out.
I mean, if you googled games touse these for, you would have
no shortage especially like a peaccount.
Like pe, teachers use these forall kinds of fun stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
They're kind of irresistible on my seventh
birthday, my parents, like we,we went to this gymnasium thing
where they kind of like put on aparty for kids or whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And they had those.
I thought it was the greatestthing ever, oh, same Like when I
was younger, seeing them likesomeone.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Oh, it was just like a relay race where you just
scoot from one end of the backand I'm like I need this in my
life as soon as possible.
Stop the party.
Just give me one of these,anything with wheels, like for a
kid, is so fun.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
So like what we like to do.
You could use these for Hungry,hungry Hippo.
You could use these for bobsledrace for the Winter Olympics.
You could use these for humancurling.
We've talked about how theyMario Kart relays, mario Kart
relays We've talked about howthey don't steer as well as
skateboards.
So you could, instead of buyingthe roller or scooter boards,
(07:48):
if you are like on Facebookmarketplace and just collect
about 12 skateboards that peopleare selling for super cheap, so
you could throw out an email orlike an announcement like hey,
wanting seeking donations of oldskateboards, stuff like that,
so just some kind of rollerboard to play these games,
(08:09):
because that's three games rightthere that you can use them for
and there's no I feel likethere's no end to the
possibilities on these like yousay, human curling, that's
another one.
Okay, yeah that one's super funokay number.
This isn't really I don't know.
I guess it is a game supply,but my games got so much better
when I got a supply of blankt-shirts.
(08:32):
So I have about what 60 red and60 blue and they're blank, just
Hanes, heavyweight, medium andlarge t-shirts that we just keep
in a box and they're so nice tohelp us differentiate the teams
.
I feel like that would ruinsome of our games is because
(08:52):
nobody knew who was on theirteam.
So games like ultimate footballor ultimate Frisbee or this
game we really love called umsneak Although sometimes sneak
is fun when you don't know who'son your team, because then
you're like slithering throughwithout anyone noticing, capture
the flag, just something whereit's like I don't know what's
(09:13):
going on, cause I can't tellwho's on my team or not.
If you have a larger youth group.
So that was a game changer forme and I like take them home and
wash them every once in a while, you know when they get really
gross.
But yes, I highly, highlyhighly recommend however many
teams you need to use, have thatmany colors of blank T-shirts.
(09:34):
Ok, number five you talked meinto spending the last of my
2024 budget on this but gettinggoals.
So we would just use cones alot of times and for goals, for,
like, ultimate hockey, like wewere talking about, or some kind
of soccer game or humanfoosball, and the hard thing was
(09:54):
that with that it was hard tomake a call on a high shot.
So it was like, was that in?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
it was like up to the ceiling oh, oh, you mean, if
you're using cones?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, yeah, so if you have net goals, it's a lot
easier.
It's very distinct.
Was it in or was it out?
And then you have everythinguniform.
It's the exact same heightdistance as the other goal.
It's not just an arbitrary callthe width of the goal.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
you know, kids can't scoop the cone wider or you know
, or run into it in the processof playing, and then it's like
was it in or was it out?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, and if your group is like mine, like super
competitive, those calls arereally important, and so if it's
just like I don't know, Tearsare shed.
Seriously.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Well, like, if you're the goalie and it went over
your head, like are we countingthat?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
so this just takes all the arguments off the table
nets and I use them for thegames that I mentioned, and it
was well worth it so, like Isaid, human foosball, any kind
of hockey game, any kind ofsoccer game, obviously.
So all right.
Number six I always, alwayskeep a large supply of balloons.
(11:08):
I use balloons for a lot ofthings and they're great to have
just all the time.
I keep a canister of them inour game closet for the occasion
when you're like what game?
We need a game in a pinch.
Here's some games to playballoons with, and you need a
lot, so always have enoughballoons for multiple rounds.
It's always a bummer Everyonegets one and then it's like
(11:30):
we're out.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
They're cheap.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Order big bags of them on Amazon.
Trivia crack that one's superfun where they have.
It's kind of like concentration.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
They hold the water balloon over their head and they
have to answer like candy barlike snickers, snickers, mars,
yeah, back and forth untilsomeone doesn't get one right,
and then boom, or repeat chairfoosball.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
That's where you set up the chairs like a foosball
court and you have to bat theballoon.
And you're like booty can'tleave the chair and you just
have to hit it from sitting,ball and chain.
It's where you tie the balloonchair and you just have to hit
it from sitting, ball and chain.
It's where you tie the balloonto your ankle.
You have to like pop, otherpeople stomp on it without yours
getting stopped.
The purge We've talked aboutthat game before.
Basically, don't let yourballoon get popped.
(12:16):
Pop other people's and humanbattleship.
So we used water balloons forthat.
Where, you know, we had like apartition in the middle, kids on
either side and chairslaunching balloons.
You're trying to hit someone,so that was really fun.
So I just feel like balloons,we just always need them.
So keep a fresh supply for allkinds of things.
(12:37):
Another this is number seven,another purchase I was really
happy with and I'm so glad Iwish we had gotten them sooner
as flag belts.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I don't use these as often as I do, maybe like the
hockey sticks and some of theother game supplies, but one of
the most fun, competitive,hilarious games we play is flag
tag.
So you just basically need flagbelts of two different colors
and you put the kids two teamsin a confined area and they're
(13:08):
trying to grab each other'sflags while not letting their
own flags get grabbed.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
That one we play at.
We have some we have extraright here.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yes, that's what they look like Fresh off of Amazon.
Yeah, and there's a bunch ofdifferent types.
Some of them are Velcro and youknow.
Whatever you can also use themin the same idea that we were
talking about the shirts.
So like to differentiate twoteams, so then you kind of get a
bank for your buck there, youknow, but flag tag is so fun
(13:39):
that it's worth buying the flagsjust for that, and that's a
great game to play at the beachor at camp or on a grass field
or something like that.
It's super duper fun and, asalways, make sure you add in
leader rounds.
That's really fun to watch aswell, especially a game like
that, you know.
And flag football obviously too.
That's a classic, just simple.
(14:02):
Yeah, PE kind of game, but flagfootball on a park day or beach
day or tournament at camp orsomething like that could be
really fun.
And then number eight this isanother one that we use only a
couple of times a year, but it'sropes for Kajabi can can.
So you get a like half inch tothree quarter inch rope.
(14:22):
I just would get a super longone from Home Depot or Lowe's or
something.
You cut it and then you cutthat into like two feet sections
.
Yeah, and then tie enough tohave knots on each side.
Yes, that's the hard thing.
You have to make sure you haveenough for two knots, one on
each side, and that's where thekids grab the rope and they're
trying to get other people tohit the trash can or the yoga
(14:46):
ball, whatever is in the middle.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Kitty pool filled with whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Orbeez or something slime, and they can't let go or
hit the item in the middle.
And so we play that at campswinter camp we played at the
beach day.
We do one youth group at thebeach in the summer and we do it
at our summer camp, winter camp, beach day.
So yeah, that one is super fun.
(15:12):
Needs to be played on softground.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Has anyone gotten injured that you can think of?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Not like critically.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
It seems like they should, but it never seems to
happen.
Here's the risk.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Usually when you play with junior hires, they're not
strong enough to criticallyinjure anyone.
It would be high school,college and adults, because the
force is so much greater.
So I'd be really careful withhigh schoolers.
Actually, I saw a variation ofthis at a camp I just spoke at.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
They did it, but they blindfolded the players so that
the force I mean you you don'treally know where you're yeah so
it didn't get as violentbecause I think they were
playing good variation juniorhires and high schoolers
together, so they needed to likecurb the strength a little bit.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
So yeah, the bigger the kids, the more dangerous
this game so yeah, and fineprint on that game Never, ever,
ever, ever, pair a big kid witha little tiny kid.
You know, when I pick kids forthis game like you might want to
do a sixth grade round and thena seventh and eighth grade
round Cause at summer camp I hadthese tiny little 11 year olds
(16:25):
that had just gotten here fromfifth grade and they're like I
want to go, I want to go and I'mlooking at the eighth grade
girls that they'd be up against.
I'm like you're going to go tothe hospital?
Like, but they weren't yeah,they weren't connecting those
dots.
They're just like I want toplay you know, so be careful
with that one.
I have heard about peoplegetting very hurt, so be careful
.
Okay, and then you mentionedthe ball pit balls.
(16:49):
So that's like think of the oldChuck E Cheese ball pits.
There are those little plastic,hollow, lightweight balls.
There are so many games you canplay with these.
Again, if you Google it,there's all kinds of stuff I've
done with these.
My favorite one is me buriedtreasure and that's when we put
them all in the big bin and wehide little treasures and the.
(17:10):
It's like a relay.
They have to run and dig around, get an item and run it back
and they can only do one at atime.
They have 30 seconds to do it.
The team that finds the mosttreasure wins.
You can hide like little tinyfun things that are worth more
than others.
I've played a game where youjust scatter them all on the
floor and they're timed andhowever many they get in their
(17:31):
team's net, they get.
They win if they have the most.
Or you can do it by color, likeyou can only collect blue or
yellow or green, you know.
I mean there's so many names.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
but there's a game where you tape down the middle
of the floor and you just throwa bunch of those out and whoever
ends up with the most on theirside loses.
Yeah, you're trying to get ridof all of yours.
Yes.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I mean again so many variations, Ring of elimination
that we mentioned earlier.
I usually use these types ofballs for that, so it's worth it
, and so many youth pastors atour church ask me to borrow them
, and so they have a lot ofgames they're playing.
I don't even ask like what areyou doing with them?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I'm, they just are like can I come pick up your?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Chuckie cheese balls.
It's like sure, okay, number 10.
I love this game.
It's you need a bingo set.
We play once a year.
You could do it more than that.
You could do it like quarterlygarage sale bingo, so it's like
normal bingo.
But when a kid gets bingo, theycome up to the prize table and
(18:32):
that's where you get rid ofstuff that is lost and found the
stanleys that are left over, orif you have extra t-shirts it's
a big prize.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Stanley's are like 50 bucks I have a kid who?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I mean we had a stanley in our room for months.
Nobody claimed and he got itand he's like I just sanitize it
and I use it all the time.
Um like, or if you haveleftover candy from an event, or
sodas or t-shirts.
Sometimes we print out giantpictures and then when we go to
a new camp, we want to replacethem.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
They can have the old pictures or banners for just a
way to get rid of stuff youdon't need, yeah, and stuff that
you're like oh, I don't want tothrow this away, but you're
like I don't really have anylove it, like they seem to love
that, yeah, like the flags fromthe battle, costumes from the
battle that we're never going touse again.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
They get so hyped on it.
So, garage sale bingo it'sdefinitely worth having a bingo
set for.
And then number 11.
I feel like it's always good tohave a few bins full of minute
to win at prizes.
So whether we're doing prizes orsupplies, oh sorry, supplies so
sometimes we play the pricesright and instead of having the
(19:41):
kids do typical prices rightgames where they have to guess
the price of whatever becausekids don't shop like that so
they don't really know we havethem do minute to win it games
to get the point instead.
So I feel like just if you go onYouTube you can see all the
minute to win it games.
So I'll keep like three binsthat are all labeled minute to
win it games.
So I'll keep like three binsthat are all labeled minute to
(20:03):
win it and it's like ping pongballs, q-tips, playing cards,
straws solo cups, solo cups,like just stuff that you're like
we could pull this out if weneeded, like a challenge to
settle a match yeah you know.
So they minute to win it games Ifeel like can be played on
their own, but they really dofit into a lot of like trivia
(20:26):
games, like something this isprobably too old for a lot of
you to know but like double dareor something like that where
you need a physical challenge,uh, to see which team wins it.
They work really well for that.
So always, always, keep alittle stock, supply a minute to
win it.
And then number 12, a giantwhiteboard and dry erase markers
(20:48):
.
I love having this for my,would you rather?
So, the weekends that I'm notplaying Pictionary, that's what
you would need it for.
I like playing Pictionary acouple of times a year.
It's really fun and hilarious.
I love taking pictures of theweird drawings they do and
posting it on our Instagramstory, because some of them are
just too good.
They're hilarious.
(21:10):
And then when you're notplaying Pictionary, you put it
up on your information table andyou can write a.
Would you rather?
Every weekend, the kids signtheir name under it.
It's just a fun littletradition to have.
And then number 13, bandanas orblindfolds seems like so many
times I would be like oh my gosh, we don't have a blindfold for
(21:31):
this game Like we played thisEaster egg game where they were
blindfolded, and it was justalways like where are the
blindfolds?
You know, just keep them in abin.
They're cheap.
Order a bunch of bandanas, doit that that way, bandanas can
double for team designation.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
But yeah, the problem with that a lot of times is
like, well, I don't want to wearit on my head, I'm going to
wear it on my wrist or I'm goingto tuck it in my pocket and
then all of a sudden, you can'tsee it.
You know, I feel like, unlessthey're like, you're forcing
them to maybe wear it on theirhead where everybody can see it,
then it doesn't always work.
But if you wanted to get theactual blindfold, like sleep
(22:06):
mask type blindfolds, there'sless chance that they're going
to be able to see underneaththem and through them, because
if they always tilt their head.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
That's how you know.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
It's the head tilt and they're looking, and when
they're supposed to getsomething and all they just
magically grab it right away.
You're like, of course, that'show it would work yep, so
getting actual blindfolds?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
we were not born yesterday.
We have seen this many times.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
They might like kind of like reach just to the side
and then grab something.
It's like you're not obvioustell you what?
Uh, we have a lot ofinstructions for these games not
all of them, but the ones we do.
If you want to print out pdf ofjust the instructions for all
the ones that we talked aboutthat we do have instructions for
(22:50):
, go ahead and email us atministry coach podcast at
gmailcom and ask for what are wegoing to call this pdf?
What's a good name on the spothere?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
game supply must have game list.
Give me the games, or elsethat's pretty tough.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I don't know if everyone's gonna remember that
how about something a littlesimpler?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
they're smart.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Must must have games just right must have games,
simple yet compelling and sendus an email.
Just foot must have games andI'll send you whatever we do
have for the games we've talkedabout in this episode.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Send them over and, like we said that right there,
that's like 30 games.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
So if you well, I we probably don't have instructions
for 30, but no, but I'm sayingthe ones we mentioned in the
supplies.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
It's like and keep in mind.
I collected these over manyyears, so I would like okay, I
have 200 left in my budget atthe end of the year.
What do I want to buy?
Add to that let's pull thetrigger on the hula hoops this
year, let's pull the trigger onthe hockey sticks.
This year I didn't just go onone giant shopping spree and do
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all because you might be sooverwhelmed right now Like, oh
my gosh, like how much money doyou spend on game supplies?
Oh, over many, many years, Ijust tried to buy one of these
items each year.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, and then always trying to keep them in as good
a shape as possible by puttingthem back where they belong and
making sure kids don't destroythem, which that's probably the
hardest part right there.
Make sure you guys check out anepisode we did about how to get
an entire year's worth of gamesin 30 minutes.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I would probably add pool noodles too, now that I'm
that was, yeah, we did talkabout that?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I think.
No, we didn't.
Well, I mean, it should havebeen up here in the obvious.
Yeah, all that stuff will be inthe obvious section.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
All that stuff will be in the description below with
the dodgeballs and the googlyeyes and the mustaches.
I'm just kidding.
I feel, like every youth husterhas a supply, like a weird like
why do you have this?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
why do you have a giant lego?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
head in your closet because there's a story there.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
There's a story.
Uh, the question of the daythis week is what is the
strangest place?
You've ever fallen asleep?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
other than in my classroom at school many times
many times.
Um, last year I went on avacation with my friends and we
stayed in this like beach houseit was my friend's like dad's
beach house and I fell asleep onthe back patio, like on the
floor, like just like a catconcrete, yeah, just concrete
(25:33):
and my friend Nancy and I wefell asleep like next to each
other and I woke up and I had noidea where I was and I was like
I was like panicking, like whyam I on a sidewalk?
Like whose house is this?
I had no idea where I was, whoam I?
yes, and so she was likelaughing, like are you okay?
I'm like.
I totally freaked out, like Ididn't know why am I asleep on
(25:56):
this concrete?
Here, I don't know.
No pillow, no, nothing, just onthe concrete.
Must have been really tireddesperate, uh, for me.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I had a track meet in high school and it was just a
really, really, really hot dayand our team had like made their
section like where we were allgonna like camp out, you know,
and have all our backpacks andgear and stuff like that.
It was on the side of this hill, it was no shade and the hill
was like really rocky.
And I remember I ran and I wasjust so tired and dehydrated
(26:31):
afterwards, like I just laiddown, because I just thought I
was going to pass out and I Ididn't pass out, but I basically
just about as close as youcould come to passing out, but
actually just falling asleep.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
That's where I just, and I wasn't even like in a
comfortable position.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
And then it was like 30 minutes an hour later,
whatever it was, I woke up andI'm like, I'm covered in sweat,
just felt awful, but that wasdefinitely the weirdest place.
And then people just like justwalked past me like yeah he'll
survive no big deal um, so yeahjust leave them for dead uh,
what's the weirdest place.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
You have ever fallen asleep I wish I was the kind of
person that could just fallasleep anywhere I am under any
circumstances.
That's a true gift.
If that's you man, you shouldthank god yeah, you're princess
and the pea everything has to bejust right hate it all right.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
This is a community comment of the day.
This comes from susan sc, whosays you helped my middle school
summer camp with all the ideasyou shared with me.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
You're welcome, you're welcome, Susan.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
If you guys want to check out any of the summer camp
episodes that we have done, youcan check those out in the
description below it's only like150 days left till my summer
camp.
150 days left till my summercamp.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
It's never too early to plan.
Oh, I'm saying that's coming upquick.
Right 150 days, Like that's.
We're like more than halfwaythere.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
It's go time.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
It's go time.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
So make sure you guys check that out.
And thank you, Susan, forwriting that comment.
We really appreciate it.
And thank you guys for watchingand listening and we'll see you
next time or leadership lessonsfor youth bastards are we
talking about?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
summer is right around the corner and if you're
looking for an incredible summeractivity, no like it was like
yeah, and then I'm like wait,what am I?
Today we're talking about my favorite must-have
supplies for youth group games.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Welcome to the Ministry Coach Podcast, where we
give you weekly tips andtactics to help you fast-track
the growth and health of youryouth ministry.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
If this is the first time we're meeting, my name is
Jeff Laskola and this is KristenLaskola, and today we are
talking about 10 must have gamesupplies for youth ministry, but
I might give you even more than10.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's way more than I might give you 13.
So so when we say 10, we meanmore like 13.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
When we started writing it was 10.
And then we just kind of wentfrom there, and then we didn't
even count.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
a whole bunch of them too.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
You're in luck, you get more than 10, all that to
say.
And let's just cut out theobvious game supplies.
You need dodgeballs.
You're in youth ministry.
You should know that.
You don't need a podcast totell you that you need cones to
play pretty much anything.
That's a runaround game.
I'm not going to talk aboutcones, tape, dodgeballs, buckets
(01:13):
, dice, whatever.
I'm not getting into thenitty-gritty, I've just narrowed
it down to my 13 apparently, uh, favorite game supplies that
once I got these, I kind of feltlike I am stocked I can play
anything and, to tell you thetruth, when we give you these,
(01:34):
at the end of it, if you boughtthese, you would have like about
30 games just right there thatyou could play yeah, that's not
even including all the staple,dodgeball, yeah tape and the
reason I chose these is becauseit's multiple games per supply,
so I didn't choose somethinglike well, you can only use this
(01:54):
for ultimate steal the bacon.
It's an inner tube and we playthat once a year yeah we have
one, but I wouldn't put that onmy top 10 because it's like well
, let's get the most bang forour buck on here.
So number one is hockey sticks.
I feel like hockey sticks werea huge game changer for me
(02:15):
because there was multiple gamesI could play and our room is
very conducive to hockey becausewe have a smooth floor, a
auditorium.
If you want to play streethockey, you can play it outside,
no problem.
But hockey sticks for me are anessential.
So I have a set um.
Half of them are red, half ofthem are yellow.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
They're not like the giant street hockey ones I think
they're called elementaryhockey sticks or something very
elementary.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
they're short, which is great because it's harder to
do a high shot with those.
The rule always is you can't doa high shot, meaning swing it
above like your knee level Don'tneed any trips to the dentist.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
So here's what I play with hockey ultimate hockey,
ultimate glow in the dark hockey, where that's our glover
nighter and I get a glow in thedark ball for the hockey puck,
twizzle, which is like you couldlook it up.
We don't have time to explainevery single game, but it's
super fun.
And my favorite use for themother than Twizzle, because
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that's my favorite game was wedid a leader night out where I
rented roller skates and we itwas all the adults and we played
roller hockey in the auditorium.
You could play with students.
It just got super full contact.
I didn't I don't know if I'dplay it that hardcore with
students someone would probablybreak a tailbone but with the
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leaders it was one of the bestnights of our lives.
It was super fun.
So I feel like I get rightthere one, two, three, at least
four weeks of use out of hockey,or sorry, hockey sticks, and I
played twizzle a few times withmy student leadership team
that's a good midweek or weekend, yeah it fits a lot of
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scenarios, so that one is superduper fun before you even move
on to number two, as always, wewill put links to everything in
the description below.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So we've done your shopping list for you, so make
sure you check that out.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Maybe they'll just skip the whole thing and just go
.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
You could theoretically, but it's kind of
good to see what the reasonbehind some of these things okay
, that's my, that's my pitch toget you to stick around.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
My second favorite game supply and once I got these
I was all right, sounds crazy,but hula hoops.
I realized I was always goingto our children's classrooms to
borrow their hula hoops.
And then it would be a bummerbecause they're like, no, we're
using them, and I'm like, ah,darn it.
And so I was at Grocery Outletone day and they had a ton of
(04:39):
hula hoops for really cheap.
Because here's the thing withhula hoops they for really cheap
because here's the thing withhula hoops they're not that
cheap, so I never bought a set.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, and I found a cheap set and I'm sure amazon
has a cheap set and we'll linkthat yeah, sometimes you just go
to a dollar store and you getlucky, and if it's in season or
whatever, yeah, like spring,summer, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
so I would say like a set of 12 to 15, depending on
the size of your group.
But I love having hula hoopsfor any game that involves
needing to keep some of theballs contained, like we play a
game called sneak and you'retrying to get balls from one
side to the other, and it's justa nice way for them not to roll
away.
(05:22):
I love doing a hula hoop relayfor the battle, where everyone
grabs hands.
You know when you have to getthe hula hoop from one end to
the other.
That's super fun, you know.
Without letting go, I loveusing them for ultimate rock
paper scissors, where the kidsstart at either end they hop,
hop, hop, hop, hop into the hulahoop.
When they get face to face,they do rock paper scissors
(05:43):
shoot.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
whoever wins continues, whoever doesn't is
out ring of elimination whereyou have all the ball pit balls
in the middle and then one lessthan the amount of students
surrounding it, and they allhave to run in grab a ball.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
If you don't get a ball, you're eliminated.
But again.
It keeps them, like you'resaying, keeps them all contained
in that one little area yeah,and I also really like using
them for, like, the safety zone,for, like, capture the flag.
So, whatever the flag is, youput it in the hula hoop and if
the kid gets it, they can stayin there and you know.
Obviously you could use conesfor that too, but I just feel
(06:16):
like they come in very handy fora variety of games.
So hula hoops, yes.
A plus on those, okay.
My third pick is roller boardsor skateboards.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
This was another thing that I had been like or
scooter boards depending on yourterminology, depending on what
part of the country you live.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So this was one of the things that I was like, oh,
if I could just buy a set ofthose you I just thought that
was the coolest thing.
I used to be a sub and wheneverI do pe, like they would bring
these out.
I mean, if you googled games touse these for, you would have
no shortage especially like a peaccount.
Like pe, teachers use these forall kinds of fun stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
They're kind of irresistible on my seventh
birthday, my parents, like we,we went to this gymnasium thing
where they kind of like put on aparty for kids or whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And they had those.
I thought it was the greatestthing ever, oh, same Like when I
was younger, seeing them likesomeone.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Oh, it was just like a relay race where you just
scoot from one end of the backand I'm like I need this in my
life as soon as possible.
Stop the party.
Just give me one of these,anything with wheels, like for a
kid, is so fun.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
So like what we like to do.
You could use these for Hungry,hungry Hippo.
You could use these for bobsledrace for the Winter Olympics.
You could use these for humancurling.
We've talked about how theyMario Kart relays, mario Kart
relays We've talked about howthey don't steer as well as
skateboards.
So you could, instead of buyingthe roller or scooter boards,
(07:48):
if you are like on Facebookmarketplace and just collect
about 12 skateboards that peopleare selling for super cheap, so
you could throw out an email orlike an announcement like hey,
wanting seeking donations of oldskateboards, stuff like that,
so just some kind of rollerboard to play these games,
(08:09):
because that's three games rightthere that you can use them for
and there's no I feel likethere's no end to the
possibilities on these like yousay, human curling, that's
another one.
Okay, yeah that one's super funokay number.
This isn't really I don't know.
I guess it is a game supply,but my games got so much better
when I got a supply of blankt-shirts.
(08:32):
So I have about what 60 red and60 blue and they're blank, just
Hanes, heavyweight, medium andlarge t-shirts that we just keep
in a box and they're so nice tohelp us differentiate the teams
.
I feel like that would ruinsome of our games is because
(08:52):
nobody knew who was on theirteam.
So games like ultimate footballor ultimate Frisbee or this
game we really love called umsneak Although sometimes sneak
is fun when you don't know who'son your team, because then
you're like slithering throughwithout anyone noticing, capture
the flag, just something whereit's like I don't know what's
(09:13):
going on, cause I can't tellwho's on my team or not.
If you have a larger youth group.
So that was a game changer forme and I like take them home and
wash them every once in a while, you know when they get really
gross.
But yes, I highly, highlyhighly recommend however many
teams you need to use, have thatmany colors of blank T-shirts.
(09:34):
Ok, number five you talked meinto spending the last of my
2024 budget on this but gettinggoals.
So we would just use cones alot of times and for goals, for,
like, ultimate hockey, like wewere talking about, or some kind
of soccer game or humanfoosball, and the hard thing was
(09:54):
that with that it was hard tomake a call on a high shot.
So it was like, was that in?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
it was like up to the ceiling oh, oh, you mean, if
you're using cones?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, yeah, so if you have net goals, it's a lot
easier.
It's very distinct.
Was it in or was it out?
And then you have everythinguniform.
It's the exact same heightdistance as the other goal.
It's not just an arbitrary callthe width of the goal.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
you know, kids can't scoop the cone wider or you know
, or run into it in the processof playing, and then it's like
was it in or was it out?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, and if your group is like mine, like super
competitive, those calls arereally important, and so if it's
just like I don't know, Tearsare shed.
Seriously.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Well, like, if you're the goalie and it went over
your head, like are we countingthat?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
so this just takes all the arguments off the table
nets and I use them for thegames that I mentioned, and it
was well worth it so, like Isaid, human foosball, any kind
of hockey game, any kind ofsoccer game, obviously.
So all right.
Number six I always, alwayskeep a large supply of balloons.
(11:08):
I use balloons for a lot ofthings and they're great to have
just all the time.
I keep a canister of them inour game closet for the occasion
when you're like what game?
We need a game in a pinch.
Here's some games to playballoons with, and you need a
lot, so always have enoughballoons for multiple rounds.
It's always a bummer Everyonegets one and then it's like
(11:30):
we're out.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
They're cheap.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Order big bags of them on Amazon.
Trivia crack that one's superfun where they have.
It's kind of like concentration.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
They hold the water balloon over their head and they
have to answer like candy barlike snickers, snickers, mars,
yeah, back and forth untilsomeone doesn't get one right,
and then boom, or repeat chairfoosball.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
That's where you set up the chairs like a foosball
court and you have to bat theballoon.
And you're like booty can'tleave the chair and you just
have to hit it from sitting,ball and chain.
It's where you tie the balloonchair and you just have to hit
it from sitting, ball and chain.
It's where you tie the balloonto your ankle.
You have to like pop, otherpeople stomp on it without yours
getting stopped.
The purge We've talked aboutthat game before.
Basically, don't let yourballoon get popped.
(12:16):
Pop other people's and humanbattleship.
So we used water balloons forthat.
Where, you know, we had like apartition in the middle, kids on
either side and chairslaunching balloons.
You're trying to hit someone,so that was really fun.
So I just feel like balloons,we just always need them.
So keep a fresh supply for allkinds of things.
(12:37):
Another this is number seven,another purchase I was really
happy with and I'm so glad Iwish we had gotten them sooner
as flag belts.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I don't use these as often as I do, maybe like the
hockey sticks and some of theother game supplies, but one of
the most fun, competitive,hilarious games we play is flag
tag.
So you just basically need flagbelts of two different colors
and you put the kids two teamsin a confined area and they're
(13:08):
trying to grab each other'sflags while not letting their
own flags get grabbed.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
That one we play at.
We have some we have extraright here.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yes, that's what they look like Fresh off of Amazon.
Yeah, and there's a bunch ofdifferent types.
Some of them are Velcro and youknow.
Whatever you can also use themin the same idea that we were
talking about the shirts.
So like to differentiate twoteams, so then you kind of get a
bank for your buck there, youknow, but flag tag is so fun
(13:39):
that it's worth buying the flagsjust for that, and that's a
great game to play at the beachor at camp or on a grass field
or something like that.
It's super duper fun and, asalways, make sure you add in
leader rounds.
That's really fun to watch aswell, especially a game like
that, you know.
And flag football obviously too.
That's a classic, just simple.
(14:02):
Yeah, PE kind of game, but flagfootball on a park day or beach
day or tournament at camp orsomething like that could be
really fun.
And then number eight this isanother one that we use only a
couple of times a year, but it'sropes for Kajabi can can.
So you get a like half inch tothree quarter inch rope.
(14:22):
I just would get a super longone from Home Depot or Lowe's or
something.
You cut it and then you cutthat into like two feet sections
.
Yeah, and then tie enough tohave knots on each side.
Yes, that's the hard thing.
You have to make sure you haveenough for two knots, one on
each side, and that's where thekids grab the rope and they're
trying to get other people tohit the trash can or the yoga
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ball, whatever is in the middle.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Kitty pool filled with whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Orbeez or something slime, and they can't let go or
hit the item in the middle.
And so we play that at campswinter camp we played at the
beach day.
We do one youth group at thebeach in the summer and we do it
at our summer camp, winter camp, beach day.
So yeah, that one is super fun.
(15:12):
Needs to be played on softground.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Has anyone gotten injured that you can think of?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Not like critically.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
It seems like they should, but it never seems to
happen.
Here's the risk.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Usually when you play with junior hires, they're not
strong enough to criticallyinjure anyone.
It would be high school,college and adults, because the
force is so much greater.
So I'd be really careful withhigh schoolers.
Actually, I saw a variation ofthis at a camp I just spoke at.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
They did it, but they blindfolded the players so that
the force I mean you you don'treally know where you're yeah so
it didn't get as violentbecause I think they were
playing good variation juniorhires and high schoolers
together, so they needed to likecurb the strength a little bit.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
So yeah, the bigger the kids, the more dangerous
this game so yeah, and fineprint on that game Never, ever,
ever, ever, pair a big kid witha little tiny kid.
You know, when I pick kids forthis game like you might want to
do a sixth grade round and thena seventh and eighth grade
round Cause at summer camp I hadthese tiny little 11 year olds
(16:25):
that had just gotten here fromfifth grade and they're like I
want to go, I want to go and I'mlooking at the eighth grade
girls that they'd be up against.
I'm like you're going to go tothe hospital?
Like, but they weren't yeah,they weren't connecting those
dots.
They're just like I want toplay you know, so be careful
with that one.
I have heard about peoplegetting very hurt, so be careful
.
Okay, and then you mentionedthe ball pit balls.
(16:49):
So that's like think of the oldChuck E Cheese ball pits.
There are those little plastic,hollow, lightweight balls.
There are so many games you canplay with these.
Again, if you Google it,there's all kinds of stuff I've
done with these.
My favorite one is me buriedtreasure and that's when we put
them all in the big bin and wehide little treasures and the.
(17:10):
It's like a relay.
They have to run and dig around, get an item and run it back
and they can only do one at atime.
They have 30 seconds to do it.
The team that finds the mosttreasure wins.
You can hide like little tinyfun things that are worth more
than others.
I've played a game where youjust scatter them all on the
floor and they're timed andhowever many they get in their
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team's net, they get.
They win if they have the most.
Or you can do it by color, likeyou can only collect blue or
yellow or green, you know.
I mean there's so many names.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
but there's a game where you tape down the middle
of the floor and you just throwa bunch of those out and whoever
ends up with the most on theirside loses.
Yeah, you're trying to get ridof all of yours.
Yes.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I mean again so many variations, Ring of elimination
that we mentioned earlier.
I usually use these types ofballs for that, so it's worth it
, and so many youth pastors atour church ask me to borrow them
, and so they have a lot ofgames they're playing.
I don't even ask like what areyou doing with them?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I'm, they just are like can I come pick up your?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Chuckie cheese balls.
It's like sure, okay, number 10.
I love this game.
It's you need a bingo set.
We play once a year.
You could do it more than that.
You could do it like quarterlygarage sale bingo, so it's like
normal bingo.
But when a kid gets bingo, theycome up to the prize table and
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that's where you get rid ofstuff that is lost and found the
stanleys that are left over, orif you have extra t-shirts it's
a big prize.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Stanley's are like 50 bucks I have a kid who?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I mean we had a stanley in our room for months.
Nobody claimed and he got itand he's like I just sanitize it
and I use it all the time.
Um like, or if you haveleftover candy from an event, or
sodas or t-shirts.
Sometimes we print out giantpictures and then when we go to
a new camp, we want to replacethem.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
They can have the old pictures or banners for just a
way to get rid of stuff youdon't need, yeah, and stuff that
you're like oh, I don't want tothrow this away, but you're
like I don't really have anylove it, like they seem to love
that, yeah, like the flags fromthe battle, costumes from the
battle that we're never going touse again.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
They get so hyped on it.
So, garage sale bingo it'sdefinitely worth having a bingo
set for.
And then number 11.
I feel like it's always good tohave a few bins full of minute
to win at prizes.
So whether we're doing prizes orsupplies, oh sorry, supplies so
sometimes we play the pricesright and instead of having the
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kids do typical prices rightgames where they have to guess
the price of whatever becausekids don't shop like that so
they don't really know we havethem do minute to win it games
to get the point instead.
So I feel like just if you go onYouTube you can see all the
minute to win it games.
So I'll keep like three binsthat are all labeled minute to
win it games.
So I'll keep like three binsthat are all labeled minute to
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win it and it's like ping pongballs, q-tips, playing cards,
straws solo cups, solo cups,like just stuff that you're like
we could pull this out if weneeded, like a challenge to
settle a match yeah you know.
So they minute to win it games Ifeel like can be played on
their own, but they really dofit into a lot of like trivia
(20:26):
games, like something this isprobably too old for a lot of
you to know but like double dareor something like that where
you need a physical challenge,uh, to see which team wins it.
They work really well for that.
So always, always, keep alittle stock, supply a minute to
win it.
And then number 12, a giantwhiteboard and dry erase markers
(20:48):
.
I love having this for my,would you rather?
So, the weekends that I'm notplaying Pictionary, that's what
you would need it for.
I like playing Pictionary acouple of times a year.
It's really fun and hilarious.
I love taking pictures of theweird drawings they do and
posting it on our Instagramstory, because some of them are
just too good.
They're hilarious.
(21:10):
And then when you're notplaying Pictionary, you put it
up on your information table andyou can write a.
Would you rather?
Every weekend, the kids signtheir name under it.
It's just a fun littletradition to have.
And then number 13, bandanas orblindfolds seems like so many
times I would be like oh my gosh, we don't have a blindfold for
(21:31):
this game Like we played thisEaster egg game where they were
blindfolded, and it was justalways like where are the
blindfolds?
You know, just keep them in abin.
They're cheap.
Order a bunch of bandanas, doit that that way, bandanas can
double for team designation.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
But yeah, the problem with that a lot of times is
like, well, I don't want to wearit on my head, I'm going to
wear it on my wrist or I'm goingto tuck it in my pocket and
then all of a sudden, you can'tsee it.
You know, I feel like, unlessthey're like, you're forcing
them to maybe wear it on theirhead where everybody can see it,
then it doesn't always work.
But if you wanted to get theactual blindfold, like sleep
(22:06):
mask type blindfolds, there'sless chance that they're going
to be able to see underneaththem and through them, because
if they always tilt their head.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
That's how you know.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
It's the head tilt and they're looking, and when
they're supposed to getsomething and all they just
magically grab it right away.
You're like, of course, that'show it would work yep, so
getting actual blindfolds?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
we were not born yesterday.
We have seen this many times.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
They might like kind of like reach just to the side
and then grab something.
It's like you're not obvioustell you what?
Uh, we have a lot ofinstructions for these games not
all of them, but the ones we do.
If you want to print out pdf ofjust the instructions for all
the ones that we talked aboutthat we do have instructions for
(22:50):
, go ahead and email us atministry coach podcast at
gmailcom and ask for what are wegoing to call this pdf?
What's a good name on the spothere?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
game supply must have game list.
Give me the games, or elsethat's pretty tough.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I don't know if everyone's gonna remember that
how about something a littlesimpler?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
they're smart.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Must must have games just right must have games,
simple yet compelling and sendus an email.
Just foot must have games andI'll send you whatever we do
have for the games we've talkedabout in this episode.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Send them over and, like we said that right there,
that's like 30 games.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
So if you well, I we probably don't have instructions
for 30, but no, but I'm sayingthe ones we mentioned in the
supplies.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
It's like and keep in mind.
I collected these over manyyears, so I would like okay, I
have 200 left in my budget atthe end of the year.
What do I want to buy?
Add to that let's pull thetrigger on the hula hoops this
year, let's pull the trigger onthe hockey sticks.
This year I didn't just go onone giant shopping spree and do
(24:02):
all because you might be sooverwhelmed right now Like, oh
my gosh, like how much money doyou spend on game supplies?
Oh, over many, many years, Ijust tried to buy one of these
items each year.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, and then always trying to keep them in as good
a shape as possible by puttingthem back where they belong and
making sure kids don't destroythem, which that's probably the
hardest part right there.
Make sure you guys check out anepisode we did about how to get
an entire year's worth of gamesin 30 minutes.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I would probably add pool noodles too, now that I'm
that was, yeah, we did talkabout that?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I think.
No, we didn't.
Well, I mean, it should havebeen up here in the obvious.
Yeah, all that stuff will be inthe obvious section.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
All that stuff will be in the description below with
the dodgeballs and the googlyeyes and the mustaches.
I'm just kidding.
I feel, like every youth husterhas a supply, like a weird like
why do you have this?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
why do you have a giant lego?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
head in your closet because there's a story there.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
There's a story.
Uh, the question of the daythis week is what is the
strangest place?
You've ever fallen asleep?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
other than in my classroom at school many times
many times.
Um, last year I went on avacation with my friends and we
stayed in this like beach houseit was my friend's like dad's
beach house and I fell asleep onthe back patio, like on the
floor, like just like a catconcrete, yeah, just concrete
(25:33):
and my friend Nancy and I wefell asleep like next to each
other and I woke up and I had noidea where I was and I was like
I was like panicking, like whyam I on a sidewalk?
Like whose house is this?
I had no idea where I was, whoam I?
yes, and so she was likelaughing, like are you okay?
I'm like.
I totally freaked out, like Ididn't know why am I asleep on
(25:56):
this concrete?
Here, I don't know.
No pillow, no, nothing, just onthe concrete.
Must have been really tireddesperate, uh, for me.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I had a track meet in high school and it was just a
really, really, really hot dayand our team had like made their
section like where we were allgonna like camp out, you know,
and have all our backpacks andgear and stuff like that.
It was on the side of this hill, it was no shade and the hill
was like really rocky.
And I remember I ran and I wasjust so tired and dehydrated
(26:31):
afterwards, like I just laiddown, because I just thought I
was going to pass out and I Ididn't pass out, but I basically
just about as close as youcould come to passing out, but
actually just falling asleep.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
That's where I just, and I wasn't even like in a
comfortable position.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
And then it was like 30 minutes an hour later,
whatever it was, I woke up andI'm like, I'm covered in sweat,
just felt awful, but that wasdefinitely the weirdest place.
And then people just like justwalked past me like yeah he'll
survive no big deal um, so yeahjust leave them for dead uh,
what's the weirdest place.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
You have ever fallen asleep I wish I was the kind of
person that could just fallasleep anywhere I am under any
circumstances.
That's a true gift.
If that's you man, you shouldthank god yeah, you're princess
and the pea everything has to bejust right hate it all right.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
This is a community comment of the day.
This comes from susan sc, whosays you helped my middle school
summer camp with all the ideasyou shared with me.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
You're welcome, you're welcome, Susan.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
If you guys want to check out any of the summer camp
episodes that we have done, youcan check those out in the
description below it's only like150 days left till my summer
camp.
150 days left till my summercamp.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
It's never too early to plan.
Oh, I'm saying that's coming upquick.
Right 150 days, Like that's.
We're like more than halfwaythere.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
It's go time.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
It's go time.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
So make sure you guys check that out.
And thank you, Susan, forwriting that comment.
We really appreciate it.
And thank you guys for watchingand listening and we'll see you
next time or leadership lessonsfor youth bastards are we
talking about?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
summer is right around the corner and if you're
looking for an incredible summeractivity, no like it was like
yeah, and then I'm like wait,what am I?
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