November 21, 2024 • 26 mins
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today we're going to give you eight ideas for Winter
Olympic Games for your youthministry.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Welcome to the Ministry Coach Podcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
My name is Jeff Laskola and this is Kristen
Laskola, and today we're goingto talk all about Youth Ministry
Olympic Games.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Winter Edition Winter Olympic Youth.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Group Games.
There we go, Yay.
That's why we're all dressed sofrosty.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It is 64 degrees outside, but in my heart it's a
lot colder.
I don't know what that means.
Our house is cold, so this isfine.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Our house is very cold, very single pane window
home and we did summer Olympics.
So if you did that comment inthe comment section, I would
love to know how that went, orwhat games you used, or if you
added any games maybe thatweren't on the list.
I would love to know about that.
And if you this is just a quicklittle aside if you never
(01:15):
listen on youtube and you'reonly listening on, like the
podcast platforms, that's fineyou're missing out on the very
end of the YouTube videos.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
They're in the podcast too, the bloopers.
Yeah, adam, just the audio.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I always watch it on YouTube just to see how we did
and the bloopers are so funnythere and I thought are people
missing out on these, causenobody ever says anything about
them?
So I sometimes I'm like do theyknow they're there?
Cause they're not staged.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
They're real.
I mean, sometimes I'm justbeing a goofball and singing or
something.
Obviously that's not a blooper.
But yeah, I just didn't wantanyone to miss out.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Right, 100% real.
Um, really bad too.
So, hey, before we jump in, wehave eight games that we're
going to describe for you today,but we also have an additional
four.
If you send us an email atministrycoachpodcast at gmailcom
, we're going to send you theinstructions for all eight of
these, plus four additional for12.
Wow, total 12 games.
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
We are just going to do our best to describe them
very clearly so that you canplay them.
So your imagination will fillin the rest.
Okay, number one is one of myfavorites.
We actually just played it inOctober, which I'm kind of
bummed.
I didn't save it for the winterOlympics.
I guess we could play it againin December, but or January
winter is a long time, I guess.
(02:34):
So it is ultimate hockey.
So the way that we play it andagain, any of these games, if
you don't love exactly how wedescribe it, tweak it just to
fit however you want to play it,it's totally fine.
Hopefully these will justbrainstorm for you.
So what we would do is get twoteams and we would line up 10
(02:56):
players per team per round at atime.
So let's say we have a red teamand a blue team.
The red team would be 10 peopleplaying 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10.'s say we have a red teamand a blue team.
The red team would be 10 peopleplaying 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10.
They would all have a numberSame with the opposing team.
We would have hockey sticks.
They would already be holdingthem.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And you use specific hockey sticks.
These aren't like the fullregulation size.
Good point.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, I use ones that are a little shorter.
They're more they look like foryounger kids.
They're just a little safer.
Now, the biggest thing withhockey is you have to make sure
you don't allow any high shots Idon't know the technical term
for it, but I just don't letkids swing above their knee,
because that's a good way for akid to lose a tooth um, so we
(03:41):
and youth ministry doesn't needany more reasons for kids to
lose trips to the ER andinjuries.
So if your number is called, youtake your stick and you run to
the middle where there's a ball.
We usually play with alightweight ball that you would
see in like a ball pit.
We just ordered a big bag ofthose off of Amazon years ago.
They come in handy for so manydifferent games, so I'd highly
(04:04):
recommend it.
We just put one of those in themiddle, because if you get hit
with one of those, you're goingto be a-okay and two goals.
The first team to make the goalwins and that's the round, and
then everyone lines back up andyou call the next two numbers.
You could call three numbers,you can call four numbers, so
however quickly you want therounds to go, you could play
one-on-one.
I just feel like it depends onhow many kids want to play.
(04:26):
So if I'm only playing 10 at atime, but I have 40 kids per
team who want to play, I'mprobably going to be calling at
least three or four numbers perround to make it run a lot
faster.
So it is simple setup and easyand just make sure you have two
goals.
We just use cones.
We don't have any fancy goals,just two cones on each side for
(04:47):
goals measured out and you'redone.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It's easy and make sure, if you guys are looking to
get those specific hockeysticks I believe you got them
off Amazon.
We'll put everything all thematerials in the description
below, so make sure you guyscheck that out.
If there's anything you need,All right number two is a
bobsledding race.
So what you're going to needfor these are those?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
are they called scooter boards?
I've heard them calleddifferent things, but I think
when we say scooter boards,everyone pretty much yeah, the
little square, they're like 16by 12 or something.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Then they have little wheels on the bottom order Some
of those if you don't alreadyhave them.
But you're going to have teamspair up.
So they're going to be a personon the sled and then there's
going to be a person helpingthem with the bobsled, pushing
them.
So if you want, you can justeither make one big track if you
have a giant space to use theauditorium sanctuary, wherever
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you guys meet, you can make onegiant track all the way around
or you can make it a little morefancy where you have cones set
up and they have to weave kindof in and out, and it makes it a
little more challenging yeah soit's usually just you probably
want to do teams of two, butwhen they go through the whole
lap and they get back, you canhave them switch and then the
rider becomes the pusher and thepusher becomes the rider, and
(05:58):
so on, and so yeah, they coulddo the whole track again
backwards, like not pushingbackwards, but like you make it
there right or switch and thenyou like go back through the
maze or track.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I would really recommend like helmets for this
game, I think, like just somebicycle helmets.
I bought a bunch at a thriftstore once and I just kept them
in my closet and everyone thinkslike buying something you wear
on your head is gross.
Lice need a host.
You know I didn't think we'd gothere today, but lice can't
just live on a helmet, so don'tworry.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, they have to have a host or they aren't
living.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Of course, if one of the kids has lice, it's just
going to be transferred right tothe next kid.
That's true.
That's how you can get it.
You meant I was thinking likepeople are sitting around for a
long time buying something on athrift store.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
But um, yeah, just keep some lights all around.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh, I see what you're saying old, old, uh, thrift
store bicycle.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, you're not gonna buy lice on a helmet.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
But yes, it could be transferred from one there was a
bike helmet on the lice Ibought.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I would like a refund please and keep in mind you can
do all kinds of teams for this.
So it could be your smallgroups could be a team.
You could do countries.
You could theme it, just likeif your youth group is really
into like disney and pixar itcould be like themes along those
lines.
You know, just whatever you guysare into, you can make it fun.
You could get like pre-printedlittle flags and colors.
(07:22):
And you know we had talked inthe summer o Summer Olympic
episode about the openingceremonies.
You know, if you have yourleaders really into it and like
you know, they come up and theopening ceremonies could just be
like one, like small groupleader from each small group
with some fun music andbackground or whatever.
So you can go as far as youwant on the flair.
(07:44):
That's like the creative elementthat you bring to it to really
make this go from just a kidpushing another kid on a wheelie
board to like epic and I thinkthat's the art of the games and
we talk about that a lot, butit's like the delivery, the
preparation, the theming, thebells and whistles that we put
on it.
I had a great conversation witha really great tech guy at a
(08:07):
DYM conference Blarg I doubt helistens to our podcast, but if
he does, I salute you, sirjuicer and he was saying like
they were playing this game thathad to do with like old
testament trivia and he's likethe moment I put on the sound
track to the prince of egyptlike things got epic and he goes
(08:27):
, it was just music but it tooka trivia game like people leaned
in and got into it and feltemotion right before we even
started playing the game.
So I think I told him he shoulddo a breakout session, because
it's the art of the productionthat we surround these games
with, and so keep that in mindas we describe these of how
(08:50):
could you make it cooler?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
extra themed, put the sprinkles on top, you know so
anyways, and this can either bea like standalone night where
you kind of do just pick a fewof these games and do it, or it
can be like a series where you'dmaybe do it over two, three,
four weeks or whatevercompetition series in addition
to your normal youth group night.
Like these would be in place ofthe games of an ongoing
(09:11):
competition series.
That's great.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, okay.
Number three human curling.
We actually play this one a lot.
This one is really fun.
So what we do is like on anon-winter olympics night, what
we would do is just every teamis a small group and they
sometimes we've themed them likeso funny like come up with the
wildest names for each team,every team needs a skateboard
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and or scooter board I've neverplayed it with a scooter board
but I guess you couldmulti-purpose the only thing I
like for a skateboard on thisgame is you do steer true, good
pointso we draw or we tape off a big
target in the corner of one room.
So our big multi-purpose roomis a, is like a pretty much a
perfect square, I guess, and inone corner of it we draw like a
(10:02):
half target.
So there's a curved line on theoutside and then on the inside
and then further in.
So the outside is worth like100 points, the middle one is
worth 200 points, the inner oneis worth 300 points.
So basically you have someonesit on the skateboard, they all
kind of start at the samestarting line and then you say
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three, two, one, they get pushedtoward the target.
If they have all four wheels inthe 100, they get a hundred
points.
If they have half and half sosay you had the back two wheels
in a hundred, the front twowheels in 200, you would get 150
.
Wow, jeff good math I was gonnasay 300, but that doesn't make
(10:49):
sense.
I was like because 200 plus 100, and then you know the inner.
So you can do the points likethat, like all four wheels and
300.
Oh, but what if you have twowheels out, two wheels in?
Then you do 250 and the.
The trick with this game is twothings.
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Number one if any appendage onthe rider hits the floor, it's
an automatic disqualification.
They can't put their foot down,they can't, so the the board
lands where it may like you justkeep going, even if you hit
another rider, you just and theyall go at the same time they
all go at the same time, so youmight hit another rider, which
could give you an advantage or adisadvantage because it might
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slow you down if you needed toslow down.
And if you are stopped andanother rider comes and hits you
, you get kind of knocked out ofyour target, which or
potentially closer to exactly.
So it could go either way.
And then this one also makesure nobody moves.
So when the, when the roundends and all the riders have
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come to a stop, we have like twoor three judges.
Like I'll literally have myface on the ground, like looking
at the wheels, like where isevery wheel, and then we write
down their points.
And not until we write downtheir points can they like get
up and go.
So the, the pointing or the thescoring is a little intense at
the end because we have 11 smallgroups.
(12:15):
So it's like 11 writers are inthis target and I'm like trying
to figure out where everyone'swheels are.
If you have a smaller youthgroup, it will probably not be
as you have 11 groups go at once, at once.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Oh my god, I know it's wild, we like it.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
It's we.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
We always like when our games become chaotic, yeah
and, like you were saying aboutthe skateboards, that was a good
point about the steering aspect.
It's really easy instead ofhaving to buy a bunch of
skateboards just ahead of time.
Just ask your youth ministryJust say hey, we're playing this
game.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Make sure, if you have a skateboard, bring a
skateboard and most of the timeI just have to put out to my
leaders like, hey guys, we'replaying human curling tonight.
And then there'll be like oneleader that has three.
And then I take yours and thenyou know somehow we manage it.
So the rider is allowed to leanto steer left or right.
They cannot slow themselvesdown, they can't touch the
wheels or put any appendage onthe floor.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Okay, I think I covered it yep number four is
biathlon, so this is verysimilar to the bobsled race, but
what you're gonna do is havethe rider have a nerf gun with
them, and I think it's probablyeasiest to use the.
I think it's like a six loadchamber of a nerf gun, and then
you basically set up tables orsomething to have little targets
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on.
You can just use somethingsimple like solo cups, either
stack them up or just put one onthere or whatever.
But as the riders go aroundlet's say you had three tables
set up and there's a solo cup oneach one you would have someone
maybe get two shots and they goto the next target and two
shots, and then the next targettwo shots, and then they come
back and then you have thosepeople switch where the pusher
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becomes the rider, the riderbecomes the pusher and then you
start riding around again.
It rider becomes the pusher andthen you start riding it around
again.
There it's also probably a goodidea to have a third person on
the team that can go and collectthe nerf darts, because
otherwise you're gonna have toreload.
You know, or you'll have toreload either way, but this will
make it a little bit faster, sothey're not just all over the
place.
It's also a good idea to buyone of those like jumbo bucket
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full of those things.
So you just have tons, tons.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, I can never have enough Nerf darts.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I know right.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Because they're just going to get lost.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
But you'll find them throughout years and years and
years later in just random spots.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, like a youth ministry, a little Easter egg
hunt.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Like you know, they're always just waiting,
waiting to be found In the leastwell, not when you're looking
for them, though.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
No, no, no know, later when you're moving things,
or, yeah, behind couches, allkinds of things, okay, so this
one is number five the poolnoodle hockey.
So everybody, every player,needs a pool noodle to make them
go further.
And because everyone's sittingdown, I would cut them in half
yeah I think that's the best.
So there's two lines of chairsone team on one side, one team
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on another side and the chairsare facing each other with about
what like a foot to two feet inbetween them no more than that.
I would say closer to like fourfeet oh, wow because you have
your arms length plus the true,okay, so place the chairs about
four feet apart facing eachother yep, and then you have a
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wiffle ball thrown in into themiddle, or you can use those
ball pit balls too.
Yeah that would work, andeveryone has to stay seated and
they're trying to hit the ballinto their team's goal, which
would just be kind of the end ofthe aisle one way or the end of
the aisle the other way.
If they score, they get a point.
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It's very easy, simple setup.
Pool noodles are one of thosethings that like if you don't
have them.
There's so many different gamesyou can play with them, so you
might as well just invest in abig box of them and keep them on
hand for stuff like this.
But this game is almost no prepand you can play it really
quick, and you could put as manypeople, I guess, as you wanted.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
As long as it was an even number.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
You know.
So if you have a group like youjust want to play with a few,
like 15 on 15 or 10 on 10 or 5on 5 or even bigger, I mean you
could play like 30 on 30.
So it just depends the size ofyour group.
Obviously, with 30 on 30 theround will go a lot longer.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Uh and at that point you can use multiple wiffle
balls too yeah, good point too,yeah, yeah and then at the end
of the row of chairs you caneither just put cones and it's
like, well, if it goes, it goespast it, it's a goal.
Or you can actually invest inthose like simple little soccer
pop-up style goals and you canuse those too.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
All right.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
The next one is number six speed skating shuttle
relay.
That's a horrible name.
I'm sure you can come up with abetter one.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
So how do you play that game Shuttle?
Why shuttle?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Shuttle is the part where you're one person's going
this way and the next person'sgoing back the same direction.
That's the shuttle part, Ibelieve, okay so you have two
teams.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Let's say you have two teams of 10.
So for each team you would putfive people on one side of the
room, five people on the otherside of the room facing each
other.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Facing each other in single file line, okay yes, okay
, single file line.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So then they would put on their skates, which are
paper plates yeah they put themon their feet and they have to
skate across to their other teammember who is on the other side
.
They get off the skates, thenext team member hops on and
that team member now skatesacross back in the direction
that that first person just came.
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They hop off, the next personhops on, they skate across until
you've gone through both linesall 10 people and then the round
ends.
You get a point for your team.
So the rules are the skateshave to stay on their feet.
You could be as mean as you wanthere or as nice as you want,
like oh, the skates fell offjust hop right back on, or we
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play some games where it's like,oh, the skates, come off, you
got to start all over, and whatthat ends up doing is making
students not just like be atotal wild animal, like, oh, who
cares, they're going as fast asthey can, the skates are
everywhere.
Oh well, I'm just running atthis point, but the point is to
like get them to do a little shh, shh, shh.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Like skating across the floor really.
So you might want to keep extrapaper plates on hand, because
if I know students and I think Ido they destroy things and so
those might not make it throughall 10 people.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
And so you want to have some skates for them to put
on.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah, and this game works well with if you have
hardwood floors, if you haveconcrete floors as long as it's
polished concrete, I guess, andthen it can work on carpet as
well.
But I think it's better if youuse the coated paper plates.
It's a specific style, but it'sa little slicker from when when
they're skating across to eachother.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, and if you work with children's ministry
ministry too, I think this onecould work really well for
children's ministry.
I don't know that highschoolers could get into this
one.
I see it being like middleschool and below ah, you might
be surprised.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Really, I don't know.
I could see them liking that.
Okay, all right number, proveme wrong.
Number seven what is numberseven?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
all right.
Number seven is frisbee curling.
So this is sort of the sameidea.
You could use the same setup ashuman curling, which is great.
So if you're going to play morethan one game on that night,
keep the target the same.
And now, instead of puttingeverybody on a skateboard, you
just hand them a frisbee.
Everyone shoots their shot.
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You're going to need to labelthese frisbees, probably if you
have more than two people going,so I would just give every
small group, every team,whatever however you're dividing
it would be just by same color.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
If you have two teams red frisbee, blue frisbee you
know you can do that way.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, I was just thinking how we would do.
It would be by small group andthere'd be so like 11 frisbees
going in at once.
So I would need to put a littletape with just small group on
there so everyone gets one shotand then it lands where it may
and they get points based onwhere their frisbee is landed.
Most points at the end of allthe rounds wins.
This one goes pretty quick,which is great.
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I would definitely pair it withanother game.
I don't think I would make thisthe game of the night.
But if you have a lot of kidswho want to play, it goes so
quick, everybody can play andit's simple setup.
You kind of get a two for onewith the setup because of human
curling.
So, I would do them together.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Another game that you might want to play with.
That is the next one we'regoing to talk about.
Remember, if you want theinstructions for all these games
, email us atministrycoachpodcast at gmailcom
and we'll send you all 12 overto you.
Okay, this last one is called.
This is another one.
I don't have a good name for it, but we're just going to call
it cross country skiing partners.
Sure, why not?
(20:47):
I'm sure there's a much bettername than that said
cross-country skiing.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I'm like, yeah, well, that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
And then partners yeah, okay so this came from
mario party.
Actually, there's a game onthere that basically is the same
concept, but I'm like I wonderif you can do this with real
life and you can.
We tested it out so basically,you're gonna need to go to um,
any home depot low some kind ofhardware lumber store and you're
gonna buy either, or lumberstore and you're going to buy
either two by fours and you'regoing to need two per team or
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per.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, two per team, yeah two per team.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Or you can get the fence planks.
They're like if you're puttingup a fence.
There are those things that areabout six inches wide.
I think they're about six feettall.
Those ones work great.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Actually, that's what we tried ours on, but the
length of the two by four isyou're probably going to want to
have at least be about six feetand you can explain the rest
and those become the skis right.
So you're gonna have students.
You have two students go perround and they're gonna put
their.
You put the planks down on thefloor, they put their right foot
on the right plank, left footon the left plank and then you
get some rope.
It's not heavy duty rope, likethinner nylon rope and you make
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this is like a handle.
So it needs to be as long aslike from the floor to where
their hand is and they hold onto those and then they basically
lift up their right foot at thesame time to take a step.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Then they lift up their left leg together to take
a step Right step left step,right step until they get to the
finish line as fast as they can.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yes, and again, if they fall off, do you want to
say, oh, you have to start allover or just get?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
back on.
Another thing you can do is,once you get to the finish line,
you can have them just turnaround and do the same thing
right back.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yeah, and maybe even have it be backwards if you
wanted to.
That might be too difficult andlike, if you want to add in, we
played this one game at wintercamp where they had.
It was almost like a clothingrelay, so every team got like a
bag of winter clothes like theyhad to put on boots ski hats,
yeah, whatever.
So if you want to add like anextra thing instead of like just
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them going across, it's likeall right, you have to get
dressed, go across, come back,take off your snow clothes and
then boom.
First person to do what wins.
Just to add in a other hustleelement because it is skiing, so
that could be like a fun thingfor the spectators too, for
people who aren't playing, towatch them do the clothing relay
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um just an added element to fun, so that is that's eight.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
eight so you guys can have, like I said, it's, either
a one night event or you canspread this out over a series of
however many weeks you deemnecessary, but these are all
indoor games.
I'm sure some of you can playoutside, but it is winter, I'm
sure it's cold where a lot ofyou guys are, and my hands are
sweating right now in thesegloves.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Those are intense gloves.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Let's do a question of the day and then a community
comment of the day, and then youguys can go and do your winter
Olympic event, all right?
So the question of the day iswhat is the coldest temperature
you've ever been in?
Oh man, I don't know you canthink about it for a second
because I do know.
So I was one time I believe itwas when I was in chicago that
it got to.
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I think it was 18 degrees I knowchicago can get a lot colder,
but when I was there that's ascold as it was that's very cold
now, I was also.
I don't know if thistechnically counts, but it's my
game so I say it does.
I was in a grocery storerefrigerator like where they
have like the freezer orwhatever, and that was sub zero.
I don't know how far down likemaybe like 20 below or something
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.
But cold is cold, Like once youget to a certain point it just
hurts and you don't feel whetherit's 20 below or 40 below.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
So when we went to Ohio we visited his family and
they have these cows they keepin a refrigerated room so that
their hair grows.
That was very cold, but I don'tknow how cold it was, she told
us.
But I don't think I've everbeen anything less than like in
the 30s.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I don't know where I would have been that I would
have been in the 20s, but likeit snows at 32 degrees
Fahrenheit so I would have hadto, I would have been in the 20s
but like it snows at 32 degreesFahrenheit, so I would have had
to have been in that.
Yeah, so I know some of youguys are probably in climates
that are really cold, so what isthe coldest temperature you've
been in?
Okay, this is the communitycomment of the day.
I have to take my glove offbecause I can't use my phone.
This comes from Erin Cole,who's answering the question of
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what she enjoys about thispodcast, and she said the real
practical tips.
There is so much general infoout there.
It's so nice to get somespecific ideas and strategies.
I love how relatable you bothare, and it's always so easy to
listen and learn from you oh, Ilove that thank you, aaron,
appreciate that many people saythat about the practical stuff
you know which.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
I think that's kind of become what we're sort of
known for, which I love, becausethat is exactly what I wanted
for so long yeah like how shesaid there's so much general
info out there.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I feel like every time I thought someone was going
to give me like how to do this,I'm like all right, step one
right but then they would justsay something more theoretical
and you end up with a blankpiece of paper at the end but
I'm not smart enough to puttheory into action.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Can you just tell me how you did it and then maybe I
won't do it exactly how you didit, but at least I'll have some
practicum like under my belt andthen like, adjust it for me,
right, but nobody was ever doingthat it was just always like
just a vague theory that right Ithink they just assumed I could
plug it in for myself, couldn't?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
so here we are.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
I'm glad you, I'm glad you feel that way.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Thank you, I appreciate that, and thank you
guys for watching and listeningand we'll see you next time
today we are gonna give youeight olympic what I hit the
table more fancy and have combsCombs, though.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Let's say that you have two teams of Ten.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Twenty Actually, in addition to bloopers, make sure
you send us in.
That doesn't make any sensewhatsoever and that is a blooper
, right there.
Today we're going to give you eight ideas for Winter
Olympic Games for your youthministry.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Welcome to the Ministry Coach Podcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
My name is Jeff Laskola and this is Kristen
Laskola, and today we're goingto talk all about Youth Ministry
Olympic Games.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Winter Edition Winter Olympic Youth.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Group Games.
There we go, Yay.
That's why we're all dressed sofrosty.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It is 64 degrees outside, but in my heart it's a
lot colder.
I don't know what that means.
Our house is cold, so this isfine.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Our house is very cold, very single pane window
home and we did summer Olympics.
So if you did that comment inthe comment section, I would
love to know how that went, orwhat games you used, or if you
added any games maybe thatweren't on the list.
I would love to know about that.
And if you this is just a quicklittle aside if you never
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listen on youtube and you'reonly listening on, like the
podcast platforms, that's fineyou're missing out on the very
end of the YouTube videos.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
They're in the podcast too, the bloopers.
Yeah, adam, just the audio.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I always watch it on YouTube just to see how we did
and the bloopers are so funnythere and I thought are people
missing out on these, causenobody ever says anything about
them?
So I sometimes I'm like do theyknow they're there?
Cause they're not staged.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
They're real.
I mean, sometimes I'm justbeing a goofball and singing or
something.
Obviously that's not a blooper.
But yeah, I just didn't wantanyone to miss out.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Right, 100% real.
Um, really bad too.
So, hey, before we jump in, wehave eight games that we're
going to describe for you today,but we also have an additional
four.
If you send us an email atministrycoachpodcast at gmailcom
, we're going to send you theinstructions for all eight of
these, plus four additional for12.
Wow, total 12 games.
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
We are just going to do our best to describe them
very clearly so that you canplay them.
So your imagination will fillin the rest.
Okay, number one is one of myfavorites.
We actually just played it inOctober, which I'm kind of
bummed.
I didn't save it for the winterOlympics.
I guess we could play it againin December, but or January
winter is a long time, I guess.
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So it is ultimate hockey.
So the way that we play it andagain, any of these games, if
you don't love exactly how wedescribe it, tweak it just to
fit however you want to play it,it's totally fine.
Hopefully these will justbrainstorm for you.
So what we would do is get twoteams and we would line up 10
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players per team per round at atime.
So let's say we have a red teamand a blue team.
The red team would be 10 peopleplaying 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10.'s say we have a red teamand a blue team.
The red team would be 10 peopleplaying 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
9, 10.
They would all have a numberSame with the opposing team.
We would have hockey sticks.
They would already be holdingthem.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And you use specific hockey sticks.
These aren't like the fullregulation size.
Good point.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, I use ones that are a little shorter.
They're more they look like foryounger kids.
They're just a little safer.
Now, the biggest thing withhockey is you have to make sure
you don't allow any high shots Idon't know the technical term
for it, but I just don't letkids swing above their knee,
because that's a good way for akid to lose a tooth um, so we
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and youth ministry doesn't needany more reasons for kids to
lose trips to the ER andinjuries.
So if your number is called, youtake your stick and you run to
the middle where there's a ball.
We usually play with alightweight ball that you would
see in like a ball pit.
We just ordered a big bag ofthose off of Amazon years ago.
They come in handy for so manydifferent games, so I'd highly
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recommend it.
We just put one of those in themiddle, because if you get hit
with one of those, you're goingto be a-okay and two goals.
The first team to make the goalwins and that's the round, and
then everyone lines back up andyou call the next two numbers.
You could call three numbers,you can call four numbers, so
however quickly you want therounds to go, you could play
one-on-one.
I just feel like it depends onhow many kids want to play.
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So if I'm only playing 10 at atime, but I have 40 kids per
team who want to play, I'mprobably going to be calling at
least three or four numbers perround to make it run a lot
faster.
So it is simple setup and easyand just make sure you have two
goals.
We just use cones.
We don't have any fancy goals,just two cones on each side for
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goals measured out and you'redone.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It's easy and make sure, if you guys are looking to
get those specific hockeysticks I believe you got them
off Amazon.
We'll put everything all thematerials in the description
below, so make sure you guyscheck that out.
If there's anything you need,All right number two is a
bobsledding race.
So what you're going to needfor these are those?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
are they called scooter boards?
I've heard them calleddifferent things, but I think
when we say scooter boards,everyone pretty much yeah, the
little square, they're like 16by 12 or something.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Then they have little wheels on the bottom order Some
of those if you don't alreadyhave them.
But you're going to have teamspair up.
So they're going to be a personon the sled and then there's
going to be a person helpingthem with the bobsled, pushing
them.
So if you want, you can justeither make one big track if you
have a giant space to use theauditorium sanctuary, wherever
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you guys meet, you can make onegiant track all the way around
or you can make it a little morefancy where you have cones set
up and they have to weave kindof in and out, and it makes it a
little more challenging yeah soit's usually just you probably
want to do teams of two, butwhen they go through the whole
lap and they get back, you canhave them switch and then the
rider becomes the pusher and thepusher becomes the rider, and
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so on, and so yeah, they coulddo the whole track again
backwards, like not pushingbackwards, but like you make it
there right or switch and thenyou like go back through the
maze or track.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I would really recommend like helmets for this
game, I think, like just somebicycle helmets.
I bought a bunch at a thriftstore once and I just kept them
in my closet and everyone thinkslike buying something you wear
on your head is gross.
Lice need a host.
You know I didn't think we'd gothere today, but lice can't
just live on a helmet, so don'tworry.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, they have to have a host or they aren't
living.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Of course, if one of the kids has lice, it's just
going to be transferred right tothe next kid.
That's true.
That's how you can get it.
You meant I was thinking likepeople are sitting around for a
long time buying something on athrift store.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
But um, yeah, just keep some lights all around.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh, I see what you're saying old, old, uh, thrift
store bicycle.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, you're not gonna buy lice on a helmet.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
But yes, it could be transferred from one there was a
bike helmet on the lice Ibought.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I would like a refund please and keep in mind you can
do all kinds of teams for this.
So it could be your smallgroups could be a team.
You could do countries.
You could theme it, just likeif your youth group is really
into like disney and pixar itcould be like themes along those
lines.
You know, just whatever you guysare into, you can make it fun.
You could get like pre-printedlittle flags and colors.
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And you know we had talked inthe summer o Summer Olympic
episode about the openingceremonies.
You know, if you have yourleaders really into it and like
you know, they come up and theopening ceremonies could just be
like one, like small groupleader from each small group
with some fun music andbackground or whatever.
So you can go as far as youwant on the flair.
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That's like the creative elementthat you bring to it to really
make this go from just a kidpushing another kid on a wheelie
board to like epic and I thinkthat's the art of the games and
we talk about that a lot, butit's like the delivery, the
preparation, the theming, thebells and whistles that we put
on it.
I had a great conversation witha really great tech guy at a
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DYM conference Blarg I doubt helistens to our podcast, but if
he does, I salute you, sirjuicer and he was saying like
they were playing this game thathad to do with like old
testament trivia and he's likethe moment I put on the sound
track to the prince of egyptlike things got epic and he goes
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, it was just music but it tooka trivia game like people leaned
in and got into it and feltemotion right before we even
started playing the game.
So I think I told him he shoulddo a breakout session, because
it's the art of the productionthat we surround these games
with, and so keep that in mindas we describe these of how
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could you make it cooler?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
extra themed, put the sprinkles on top, you know so
anyways, and this can either bea like standalone night where
you kind of do just pick a fewof these games and do it, or it
can be like a series where you'dmaybe do it over two, three,
four weeks or whatevercompetition series in addition
to your normal youth group night.
Like these would be in place ofthe games of an ongoing
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competition series.
That's great.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, okay.
Number three human curling.
We actually play this one a lot.
This one is really fun.
So what we do is like on anon-winter olympics night, what
we would do is just every teamis a small group and they
sometimes we've themed them likeso funny like come up with the
wildest names for each team,every team needs a skateboard
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and or scooter board I've neverplayed it with a scooter board
but I guess you couldmulti-purpose the only thing I
like for a skateboard on thisgame is you do steer true, good
pointso we draw or we tape off a big
target in the corner of one room.
So our big multi-purpose roomis a, is like a pretty much a
perfect square, I guess, and inone corner of it we draw like a
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half target.
So there's a curved line on theoutside and then on the inside
and then further in.
So the outside is worth like100 points, the middle one is
worth 200 points, the inner oneis worth 300 points.
So basically you have someonesit on the skateboard, they all
kind of start at the samestarting line and then you say
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three, two, one, they get pushedtoward the target.
If they have all four wheels inthe 100, they get a hundred
points.
If they have half and half sosay you had the back two wheels
in a hundred, the front twowheels in 200, you would get 150
.
Wow, jeff good math I was gonnasay 300, but that doesn't make
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sense.
I was like because 200 plus 100, and then you know the inner.
So you can do the points likethat, like all four wheels and
300.
Oh, but what if you have twowheels out, two wheels in?
Then you do 250 and the.
The trick with this game is twothings.
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Number one if any appendage onthe rider hits the floor, it's
an automatic disqualification.
They can't put their foot down,they can't, so the the board
lands where it may like you justkeep going, even if you hit
another rider, you just and theyall go at the same time they
all go at the same time, so youmight hit another rider, which
could give you an advantage or adisadvantage because it might
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slow you down if you needed toslow down.
And if you are stopped andanother rider comes and hits you
, you get kind of knocked out ofyour target, which or
potentially closer to exactly.
So it could go either way.
And then this one also makesure nobody moves.
So when the, when the roundends and all the riders have
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come to a stop, we have like twoor three judges.
Like I'll literally have myface on the ground, like looking
at the wheels, like where isevery wheel, and then we write
down their points.
And not until we write downtheir points can they like get
up and go.
So the, the pointing or the thescoring is a little intense at
the end because we have 11 smallgroups.
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So it's like 11 writers are inthis target and I'm like trying
to figure out where everyone'swheels are.
If you have a smaller youthgroup, it will probably not be
as you have 11 groups go at once, at once.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Oh my god, I know it's wild, we like it.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
It's we.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
We always like when our games become chaotic, yeah
and, like you were saying aboutthe skateboards, that was a good
point about the steering aspect.
It's really easy instead ofhaving to buy a bunch of
skateboards just ahead of time.
Just ask your youth ministryJust say hey, we're playing this
game.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Make sure, if you have a skateboard, bring a
skateboard and most of the timeI just have to put out to my
leaders like, hey guys, we'replaying human curling tonight.
And then there'll be like oneleader that has three.
And then I take yours and thenyou know somehow we manage it.
So the rider is allowed to leanto steer left or right.
They cannot slow themselvesdown, they can't touch the
wheels or put any appendage onthe floor.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Okay, I think I covered it yep number four is
biathlon, so this is verysimilar to the bobsled race, but
what you're gonna do is havethe rider have a nerf gun with
them, and I think it's probablyeasiest to use the.
I think it's like a six loadchamber of a nerf gun, and then
you basically set up tables orsomething to have little targets
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on.
You can just use somethingsimple like solo cups, either
stack them up or just put one onthere or whatever.
But as the riders go aroundlet's say you had three tables
set up and there's a solo cup oneach one you would have someone
maybe get two shots and they goto the next target and two
shots, and then the next targettwo shots, and then they come
back and then you have thosepeople switch where the pusher
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becomes the rider, the riderbecomes the pusher and then you
start riding around again.
It rider becomes the pusher andthen you start riding it around
again.
There it's also probably a goodidea to have a third person on
the team that can go and collectthe nerf darts, because
otherwise you're gonna have toreload.
You know, or you'll have toreload either way, but this will
make it a little bit faster, sothey're not just all over the
place.
It's also a good idea to buyone of those like jumbo bucket
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full of those things.
So you just have tons, tons.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, I can never have enough Nerf darts.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I know right.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Because they're just going to get lost.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
But you'll find them throughout years and years and
years later in just random spots.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, like a youth ministry, a little Easter egg
hunt.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Like you know, they're always just waiting,
waiting to be found In the leastwell, not when you're looking
for them, though.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
No, no, no know, later when you're moving things,
or, yeah, behind couches, allkinds of things, okay, so this
one is number five the poolnoodle hockey.
So everybody, every player,needs a pool noodle to make them
go further.
And because everyone's sittingdown, I would cut them in half
yeah I think that's the best.
So there's two lines of chairsone team on one side, one team
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on another side and the chairsare facing each other with about
what like a foot to two feet inbetween them no more than that.
I would say closer to like fourfeet oh, wow because you have
your arms length plus the true,okay, so place the chairs about
four feet apart facing eachother yep, and then you have a
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wiffle ball thrown in into themiddle, or you can use those
ball pit balls too.
Yeah that would work, andeveryone has to stay seated and
they're trying to hit the ballinto their team's goal, which
would just be kind of the end ofthe aisle one way or the end of
the aisle the other way.
If they score, they get a point.
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It's very easy, simple setup.
Pool noodles are one of thosethings that like if you don't
have them.
There's so many different gamesyou can play with them, so you
might as well just invest in abig box of them and keep them on
hand for stuff like this.
But this game is almost no prepand you can play it really
quick, and you could put as manypeople, I guess, as you wanted.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
As long as it was an even number.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
You know.
So if you have a group like youjust want to play with a few,
like 15 on 15 or 10 on 10 or 5on 5 or even bigger, I mean you
could play like 30 on 30.
So it just depends the size ofyour group.
Obviously, with 30 on 30 theround will go a lot longer.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Uh and at that point you can use multiple wiffle
balls too yeah, good point too,yeah, yeah and then at the end
of the row of chairs you caneither just put cones and it's
like, well, if it goes, it goespast it, it's a goal.
Or you can actually invest inthose like simple little soccer
pop-up style goals and you canuse those too.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
All right.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
The next one is number six speed skating shuttle
relay.
That's a horrible name.
I'm sure you can come up with abetter one.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
So how do you play that game Shuttle?
Why shuttle?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Shuttle is the part where you're one person's going
this way and the next person'sgoing back the same direction.
That's the shuttle part, Ibelieve, okay so you have two
teams.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Let's say you have two teams of 10.
So for each team you would putfive people on one side of the
room, five people on the otherside of the room facing each
other.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Facing each other in single file line, okay yes, okay
, single file line.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So then they would put on their skates, which are
paper plates yeah they put themon their feet and they have to
skate across to their other teammember who is on the other side
.
They get off the skates, thenext team member hops on and
that team member now skatesacross back in the direction
that that first person just came.
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They hop off, the next personhops on, they skate across until
you've gone through both linesall 10 people and then the round
ends.
You get a point for your team.
So the rules are the skateshave to stay on their feet.
You could be as mean as you wanthere or as nice as you want,
like oh, the skates fell offjust hop right back on, or we
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play some games where it's like,oh, the skates, come off, you
got to start all over, and whatthat ends up doing is making
students not just like be atotal wild animal, like, oh, who
cares, they're going as fast asthey can, the skates are
everywhere.
Oh well, I'm just running atthis point, but the point is to
like get them to do a little shh, shh, shh.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Like skating across the floor really.
So you might want to keep extrapaper plates on hand, because
if I know students and I think Ido they destroy things and so
those might not make it throughall 10 people.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
And so you want to have some skates for them to put
on.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah, and this game works well with if you have
hardwood floors, if you haveconcrete floors as long as it's
polished concrete, I guess, andthen it can work on carpet as
well.
But I think it's better if youuse the coated paper plates.
It's a specific style, but it'sa little slicker from when when
they're skating across to eachother.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, and if you work with children's ministry
ministry too, I think this onecould work really well for
children's ministry.
I don't know that highschoolers could get into this
one.
I see it being like middleschool and below ah, you might
be surprised.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Really, I don't know.
I could see them liking that.
Okay, all right number, proveme wrong.
Number seven what is numberseven?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
all right.
Number seven is frisbee curling.
So this is sort of the sameidea.
You could use the same setup ashuman curling, which is great.
So if you're going to play morethan one game on that night,
keep the target the same.
And now, instead of puttingeverybody on a skateboard, you
just hand them a frisbee.
Everyone shoots their shot.
(19:28):
You're going to need to labelthese frisbees, probably if you
have more than two people going,so I would just give every
small group, every team,whatever however you're dividing
it would be just by same color.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
If you have two teams red frisbee, blue frisbee you
know you can do that way.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, I was just thinking how we would do.
It would be by small group andthere'd be so like 11 frisbees
going in at once.
So I would need to put a littletape with just small group on
there so everyone gets one shotand then it lands where it may
and they get points based onwhere their frisbee is landed.
Most points at the end of allthe rounds wins.
This one goes pretty quick,which is great.
(20:06):
I would definitely pair it withanother game.
I don't think I would make thisthe game of the night.
But if you have a lot of kidswho want to play, it goes so
quick, everybody can play andit's simple setup.
You kind of get a two for onewith the setup because of human
curling.
So, I would do them together.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Another game that you might want to play with.
That is the next one we'regoing to talk about.
Remember, if you want theinstructions for all these games
, email us atministrycoachpodcast at gmailcom
and we'll send you all 12 overto you.
Okay, this last one is called.
This is another one.
I don't have a good name for it, but we're just going to call
it cross country skiing partners.
Sure, why not?
(20:47):
I'm sure there's a much bettername than that said
cross-country skiing.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I'm like, yeah, well, that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
And then partners yeah, okay so this came from
mario party.
Actually, there's a game onthere that basically is the same
concept, but I'm like I wonderif you can do this with real
life and you can.
We tested it out so basically,you're gonna need to go to um,
any home depot low some kind ofhardware lumber store and you're
gonna buy either, or lumberstore and you're going to buy
either two by fours and you'regoing to need two per team or
(21:17):
per.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, two per team, yeah two per team.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Or you can get the fence planks.
They're like if you're puttingup a fence.
There are those things that areabout six inches wide.
I think they're about six feettall.
Those ones work great.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Actually, that's what we tried ours on, but the
length of the two by four isyou're probably going to want to
have at least be about six feetand you can explain the rest
and those become the skis right.
So you're gonna have students.
You have two students go perround and they're gonna put
their.
You put the planks down on thefloor, they put their right foot
on the right plank, left footon the left plank and then you
get some rope.
It's not heavy duty rope, likethinner nylon rope and you make
(21:59):
this is like a handle.
So it needs to be as long aslike from the floor to where
their hand is and they hold onto those and then they basically
lift up their right foot at thesame time to take a step.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Then they lift up their left leg together to take
a step Right step left step,right step until they get to the
finish line as fast as they can.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yes, and again, if they fall off, do you want to
say, oh, you have to start allover or just get?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
back on.
Another thing you can do is,once you get to the finish line,
you can have them just turnaround and do the same thing
right back.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yeah, and maybe even have it be backwards if you
wanted to.
That might be too difficult andlike, if you want to add in, we
played this one game at wintercamp where they had.
It was almost like a clothingrelay, so every team got like a
bag of winter clothes like theyhad to put on boots ski hats,
yeah, whatever.
So if you want to add like anextra thing instead of like just
(22:57):
them going across, it's likeall right, you have to get
dressed, go across, come back,take off your snow clothes and
then boom.
First person to do what wins.
Just to add in a other hustleelement because it is skiing, so
that could be like a fun thingfor the spectators too, for
people who aren't playing, towatch them do the clothing relay
(23:17):
um just an added element to fun, so that is that's eight.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
eight so you guys can have, like I said, it's, either
a one night event or you canspread this out over a series of
however many weeks you deemnecessary, but these are all
indoor games.
I'm sure some of you can playoutside, but it is winter, I'm
sure it's cold where a lot ofyou guys are, and my hands are
sweating right now in thesegloves.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Those are intense gloves.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Let's do a question of the day and then a community
comment of the day, and then youguys can go and do your winter
Olympic event, all right?
So the question of the day iswhat is the coldest temperature
you've ever been in?
Oh man, I don't know you canthink about it for a second
because I do know.
So I was one time I believe itwas when I was in chicago that
it got to.
(24:02):
I think it was 18 degrees I knowchicago can get a lot colder,
but when I was there that's ascold as it was that's very cold
now, I was also.
I don't know if thistechnically counts, but it's my
game so I say it does.
I was in a grocery storerefrigerator like where they
have like the freezer orwhatever, and that was sub zero.
I don't know how far down likemaybe like 20 below or something
(24:23):
.
But cold is cold, Like once youget to a certain point it just
hurts and you don't feel whetherit's 20 below or 40 below.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
So when we went to Ohio we visited his family and
they have these cows they keepin a refrigerated room so that
their hair grows.
That was very cold, but I don'tknow how cold it was, she told
us.
But I don't think I've everbeen anything less than like in
the 30s.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I don't know where I would have been that I would
have been in the 20s, but likeit snows at 32 degrees
Fahrenheit so I would have hadto, I would have been in the 20s
but like it snows at 32 degreesFahrenheit, so I would have had
to have been in that.
Yeah, so I know some of youguys are probably in climates
that are really cold, so what isthe coldest temperature you've
been in?
Okay, this is the communitycomment of the day.
I have to take my glove offbecause I can't use my phone.
This comes from Erin Cole,who's answering the question of
(25:10):
what she enjoys about thispodcast, and she said the real
practical tips.
There is so much general infoout there.
It's so nice to get somespecific ideas and strategies.
I love how relatable you bothare, and it's always so easy to
listen and learn from you oh, Ilove that thank you, aaron,
appreciate that many people saythat about the practical stuff
you know which.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
I think that's kind of become what we're sort of
known for, which I love, becausethat is exactly what I wanted
for so long yeah like how shesaid there's so much general
info out there.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I feel like every time I thought someone was going
to give me like how to do this,I'm like all right, step one
right but then they would justsay something more theoretical
and you end up with a blankpiece of paper at the end but
I'm not smart enough to puttheory into action.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Can you just tell me how you did it and then maybe I
won't do it exactly how you didit, but at least I'll have some
practicum like under my belt andthen like, adjust it for me,
right, but nobody was ever doingthat it was just always like
just a vague theory that right Ithink they just assumed I could
plug it in for myself, couldn't?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
so here we are.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
I'm glad you, I'm glad you feel that way.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Thank you, I appreciate that, and thank you
guys for watching and listeningand we'll see you next time
today we are gonna give youeight olympic what I hit the
table more fancy and have combsCombs, though.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Let's say that you have two teams of Ten.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Twenty Actually, in addition to bloopers, make sure
you send us in.
That doesn't make any sensewhatsoever and that is a blooper
, right there.
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