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MUST-HAVE Supplies for YOUTH GROUP GAMES ! · Ministry Coach: Youth Ministry Tips & Resources

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Today we're talking about my favorite must-have supplies for youth group games.
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Ministry Coach Podcast, where we give you weekly tips and tactics to help you fast-track the growth and health of your youth ministry.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: If this is the first time we're meeting, my name is Jeff Laskola and this is Kristen Laskola, and today we are talking about 10 must have game supplies for youth ministry, but I might give you even more than 10.
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: It's way more than I might give you 13.
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: So so when we say 10, we mean more like 13.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: When we started writing it was 10.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: And then we just kind of went from there, and then we didn't even count.
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: a whole bunch of them too.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: You're in luck, you get more than 10, all that to say.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: And let's just cut out the obvious game supplies.
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: You need dodgeballs.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: You're in youth ministry.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: You should know that.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: You don't need a podcast to tell you that you need cones to play pretty much anything.
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: That's a runaround game.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to talk about cones, tape, dodgeballs, buckets, dice, whatever.
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: I'm not getting into the nitty-gritty, I've just narrowed it down to my 13 apparently, uh, favorite game supplies that once I got these, I kind of felt like I am stocked I can play anything and, to tell you the truth, when we give you these, at the end of it, if you bought these, you would have like about 30 games just right there that you could play yeah, that's not even including all the staple, dodgeball, yeah tape and the reason I chose these is because it's multiple games per supply, so I didn't choose something like well, you can only use this for ultimate steal the bacon.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: It's an inner tube and we play that once a year yeah we have one, but I wouldn't put that on my top 10 because it's like well, let's get the most bang for our buck on here.
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: So number one is hockey sticks.
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: I feel like hockey sticks were a huge game changer for me because there was multiple games I could play and our room is very conducive to hockey because we have a smooth floor, a auditorium.
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: If you want to play street hockey, you can play it outside, no problem.
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: But hockey sticks for me are an essential.
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: So I have a set um.
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: Half of them are red, half of them are yellow.
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: They're not like the giant street hockey ones I think they're called elementary hockey sticks or something very elementary.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: they're short, which is great because it's harder to do a high shot with those.
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: The rule always is you can't do a high shot, meaning swing it above like your knee level Don't need any trips to the dentist.
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: 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 the dark ball for the hockey puck, twizzle, which is like you could look it up.
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: We don't have time to explain every single game, but it's super fun.
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: And my favorite use for them other than Twizzle, because that's my favorite game was we did a leader night out where I rented roller skates and we it was all the adults and we played roller hockey in the auditorium.
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: You could play with students.
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: It just got super full contact.
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: I didn't I don't know if I'd play it that hardcore with students someone would probably break a tailbone but with the leaders it was one of the best nights of our lives.
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: It was super fun.
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: So I feel like I get right there one, two, three, at least four weeks of use out of hockey, or sorry, hockey sticks, and I played twizzle a few times with my student leadership team that's a good midweek or weekend, yeah it fits a lot of scenarios, so that one is super duper fun before you even move on to number two, as always, we will put links to everything in the description below.
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: So we've done your shopping list for you, so make sure you check that out.
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: Maybe they'll just skip the whole thing and just go.
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: You could theoretically, but it's kind of good to see what the reason behind some of these things okay, that's my, that's my pitch to get you to stick around.
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: My second favorite game supply and once I got these I was all right, sounds crazy, but hula hoops.
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: I realized I was always going to our children's classrooms to borrow their hula hoops.
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: And then it would be a bummer because they're like, no, we're using them, and I'm like, ah, darn it.
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: And so I was at Grocery Outlet one day and they had a ton of hula hoops for really cheap.
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: Because here's the thing with hula hoops they for really cheap because here's the thing with hula hoops they're not that cheap, so I never bought a set.
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I found a cheap set and I'm sure amazon has a cheap set and we'll link that yeah, sometimes you just go to a dollar store and you get lucky, and if it's in season or whatever, yeah, like spring, summer, you know.
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: so I would say like a set of 12 to 15, depending on the size of your group.
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: But I love having hula hoops for any game that involves needing to keep some of the balls contained, like we play a game called sneak and you're trying to get balls from one side to the other, and it's just a nice way for them not to roll away.
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: I love doing a hula hoop relay for the battle, where everyone grabs hands.
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: You know when you have to get the hula hoop from one end to the other.
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: That's super fun, you know.
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: Without letting go, I love using them for ultimate rock paper scissors, where the kids start at either end they hop, hop, hop, hop, hop into the hula hoop.
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: When they get face to face, they do rock paper scissors shoot.
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: whoever wins continues, whoever doesn't is out ring of elimination where you have all the ball pit balls in the middle and then one less than the amount of students surrounding it, and they all have to run in grab a ball.
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: If you don't get a ball, you're eliminated.
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: But again.
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: It keeps them, like you're saying, 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.
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: So, whatever the flag is, you put it in the hula hoop and if the kid gets it, they can stay in there and you know.
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: Obviously you could use cones for that too, but I just feel like they come in very handy for a variety of games.
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: So hula hoops, yes.
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: A plus on those, okay.
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: My third pick is roller boards or skateboards.
• 6:30
  Speaker 2: This was another thing that I had been like or scooter boards depending on your terminology, depending on what part of the country you live.
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: So this was one of the things that I was like, oh, if I could just buy a set of those you I just thought that was the coolest thing.
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: I used to be a sub and whenever I do pe, like they would bring these out.
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you googled games to use these for, you would have no shortage especially like a pe account.
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: Like pe, teachers use these for all kinds of fun stuff.
• 6:58
  Speaker 2: 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 a party for kids or whatever.
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: And they had those.
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: I thought it was the greatest thing ever, oh, same Like when I was younger, seeing them like someone.
• 7:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, it was just like a relay race where you just scoot from one end of the back and I'm like I need this in my life as soon as possible.
• 7:22
  Speaker 2: Stop the party.
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: Just give me one of these, anything with wheels, like for a kid, is so fun.
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: So like what we like to do.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: You could use these for Hungry, hungry Hippo.
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: You could use these for bobsled race for the Winter Olympics.
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: You could use these for human curling.
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: We've talked about how they Mario Kart relays, mario Kart relays We've talked about how they don't steer as well as skateboards.
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: So you could, instead of buying the roller or scooter boards, if you are like on Facebook marketplace and just collect about 12 skateboards that people are selling for super cheap, so you could throw out an email or like an announcement like hey, wanting seeking donations of old skateboards, stuff like that, so just some kind of roller board to play these games, because that's three games right there that you can use them for and there's no I feel like there's no end to the possibilities on these like you say, human curling, that's another one.
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah that one's super fun okay number.
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: This isn't really I don't know.
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: I guess it is a game supply, but my games got so much better when I got a supply of blank t-shirts.
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: So I have about what 60 red and 60 blue and they're blank, just Hanes, heavyweight, medium and large t-shirts that we just keep in a box and they're so nice to help us differentiate the teams.
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: I feel like that would ruin some of our games is because nobody knew who was on their team.
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: So games like ultimate football or ultimate Frisbee or this game we really love called um sneak Although sometimes sneak is fun when you don't know who's on your team, because then you're like slithering through without anyone noticing, capture the flag, just something where it's like I don't know what's going on, cause I can't tell who's on my team or not.
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: If you have a larger youth group.
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: So that was a game changer for me and I like take them home and wash them every once in a while, you know when they get really gross.
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: But yes, I highly, highly highly recommend however many teams you need to use, have that many colors of blank T-shirts.
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: Ok, number five you talked me into spending the last of my 2024 budget on this but getting goals.
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: So we would just use cones a lot of times and for goals, for, like, ultimate hockey, like we were talking about, or some kind of soccer game or human foosball, and the hard thing was that with that it was hard to make a call on a high shot.
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: So it was like, was that in?
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: it was like up to the ceiling oh, oh, you mean, if you're using cones?
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so if you have net goals, it's a lot easier.
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: It's very distinct.
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: Was it in or was it out?
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: And then you have everything uniform.
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: It's the exact same height distance as the other goal.
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: It's not just an arbitrary call the width of the goal.
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: you know, kids can't scoop the cone wider or you know, or run into it in the process of playing, and then it's like was it in or was it out?
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and if your group is like mine, like super competitive, those calls are really important, and so if it's just like I don't know, Tears are shed.
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: Seriously.
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: Well, like, if you're the goalie and it went over your head, like are we counting that?
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: so this just takes all the arguments off the table nets and I use them for the games that I mentioned, and it was well worth it so, like I said, human foosball, any kind of hockey game, any kind of soccer game, obviously.
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: So all right.
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: Number six I always, always keep a large supply of balloons.
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: I use balloons for a lot of things and they're great to have just all the time.
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: I keep a canister of them in our game closet for the occasion when you're like what game?
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: We need a game in a pinch.
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: Here's some games to play balloons with, and you need a lot, so always have enough balloons for multiple rounds.
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: It's always a bummer Everyone gets one and then it's like we're out.
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: They're cheap.
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: Order big bags of them on Amazon.
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: Trivia crack that one's super fun where they have.
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like concentration.
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: They hold the water balloon over their head and they have to answer like candy bar like snickers, snickers, mars, yeah, back and forth until someone doesn't get one right, and then boom, or repeat chair foosball.
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: That's where you set up the chairs like a foosball court and you have to bat the balloon.
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: And you're like booty can't leave the chair and you just have to hit it from sitting, ball and chain.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: It's where you tie the balloon chair and you just have to hit it from sitting, ball and chain.
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: It's where you tie the balloon to your ankle.
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: You have to like pop, other people stomp on it without yours getting stopped.
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: The purge We've talked about that game before.
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: Basically, don't let your balloon get popped.
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: Pop other people's and human battleship.
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: So we used water balloons for that.
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: Where, you know, we had like a partition in the middle, kids on either side and chairs launching balloons.
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: You're trying to hit someone, so that was really fun.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: So I just feel like balloons, we just always need them.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: So keep a fresh supply for all kinds of things.
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: Another this is number seven, another purchase I was really happy with and I'm so glad I wish we had gotten them sooner as flag belts.
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: I don't use these as often as I do, maybe like the hockey sticks and some of the other game supplies, but one of the most fun, competitive, hilarious games we play is flag tag.
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: So you just basically need flag belts of two different colors and you put the kids two teams in a confined area and they're trying to grab each other's flags while not letting their own flags get grabbed.
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: That one we play at.
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: We have some we have extra right here.
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's what they look like Fresh off of Amazon.
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's a bunch of different types.
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: Some of them are Velcro and you know.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: Whatever you can also use them in the same idea that we were talking about the shirts.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: So like to differentiate two teams, so then you kind of get a bank for your buck there, you know, but flag tag is so fun that it's worth buying the flags just for that, and that's a great game to play at the beach or at camp or on a grass field or something like that.
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: It's super duper fun and, as always, make sure you add in leader rounds.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: That's really fun to watch as well, especially a game like that, you know.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: And flag football obviously too.
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: That's a classic, just simple.
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, PE kind of game, but flag football on a park day or beach day or tournament at camp or something like that could be really fun.
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: And then number eight this is another one that we use only a couple of times a year, but it's ropes for Kajabi can can.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: So you get a like half inch to three quarter inch rope.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: I just would get a super long one from Home Depot or Lowe's or something.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: You cut it and then you cut that into like two feet sections.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then tie enough to have knots on each side.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's the hard thing.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: You have to make sure you have enough for two knots, one on each side, and that's where the kids grab the rope and they're trying to get other people to hit the trash can or the yoga ball, whatever is in the middle.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: Kitty pool filled with whatever.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Orbeez or something slime, and they can't let go or hit the item in the middle.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: And so we play that at camps winter camp we played at the beach day.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: We do one youth group at the beach in the summer and we do it at our summer camp, winter camp, beach day.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that one is super fun.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Needs to be played on soft ground.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: Has anyone gotten injured that you can think of?
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Not like critically.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: It seems like they should, but it never seems to happen.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Here's the risk.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: Usually when you play with junior hires, they're not strong enough to critically injure anyone.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: It would be high school, college and adults, because the force is so much greater.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: So I'd be really careful with high schoolers.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Actually, I saw a variation of this at a camp I just spoke at.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: They did it, but they blindfolded the players so that the force I mean you you don't really know where you're yeah so it didn't get as violent because I think they were playing good variation junior hires and high schoolers together, so they needed to like curb the strength a little bit.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: So yeah, the bigger the kids, the more dangerous this game so yeah, and fine print on that game Never, ever, ever, ever, pair a big kid with a little tiny kid.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: You know, when I pick kids for this game like you might want to do a sixth grade round and then a seventh and eighth grade round Cause at summer camp I had these tiny little 11 year olds that had just gotten here from fifth grade and they're like I want to go, I want to go and I'm looking at the eighth grade girls that they'd be up against.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: I'm like you're going to go to the hospital?
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Like, but they weren't yeah, they weren't connecting those dots.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: They're just like I want to play you know, so be careful with that one.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: I have heard about people getting very hurt, so be careful.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, and then you mentioned the ball pit balls.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: So that's like think of the old Chuck E Cheese ball pits.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: There are those little plastic, hollow, lightweight balls.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: There are so many games you can play with these.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Again, if you Google it, there's all kinds of stuff I've done with these.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: My favorite one is me buried treasure and that's when we put them all in the big bin and we hide little treasures and the.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: It's like a relay.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: They have to run and dig around, get an item and run it back and they can only do one at a time.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: They have 30 seconds to do it.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: The team that finds the most treasure wins.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: You can hide like little tiny fun things that are worth more than others.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: I've played a game where you just scatter them all on the floor and they're timed and however many they get in their team's net, they get.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: They win if they have the most.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Or you can do it by color, like you can only collect blue or yellow or green, you know.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: I mean there's so many names.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: but there's a game where you tape down the middle of the floor and you just throw a bunch of those out and whoever ends up with the most on their side loses.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're trying to get rid of all of yours.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: I mean again so many variations, Ring of elimination that we mentioned earlier.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: I usually use these types of balls for that, so it's worth it, and so many youth pastors at our church ask me to borrow them, and so they have a lot of games they're playing.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: I don't even ask like what are you doing with them?
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: I'm, they just are like can I come pick up your?
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Chuckie cheese balls.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: It's like sure, okay, number 10.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: I love this game.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: It's you need a bingo set.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: We play once a year.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: You could do it more than that.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: You could do it like quarterly garage sale bingo, so it's like normal bingo.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: But when a kid gets bingo, they come up to the prize table and that's where you get rid of stuff that is lost and found the stanleys that are left over, or if you have extra t-shirts it's a big prize.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Stanley's are like 50 bucks I have a kid who?
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I mean we had a stanley in our room for months.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Nobody claimed and he got it and he's like I just sanitize it and I use it all the time.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Um like, or if you have leftover candy from an event, or sodas or t-shirts.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Sometimes we print out giant pictures and then when we go to a new camp, we want to replace them.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: They can have the old pictures or banners for just a way to get rid of stuff you don't need, yeah, and stuff that you're like oh, I don't want to throw this away, but you're like I don't really have any love it, like they seem to love that, yeah, like the flags from the battle, costumes from the battle that we're never going to use again.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: They get so hyped on it.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: So, garage sale bingo it's definitely worth having a bingo set for.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: And then number 11.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's always good to have a few bins full of minute to win at prizes.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: So whether we're doing prizes or supplies, oh sorry, supplies so sometimes we play the prices right and instead of having the kids do typical prices right games where they have to guess the price of whatever because kids don't shop like that so they don't really know we have them do minute to win it games to get the point instead.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: So I feel like just if you go on YouTube you can see all the minute to win it games.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: So I'll keep like three bins that are all labeled minute to win it games.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: So I'll keep like three bins that are all labeled minute to win it and it's like ping pong balls, q-tips, playing cards, straws solo cups, solo cups, like just stuff that you're like we could pull this out if we needed, like a challenge to settle a match yeah you know.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: So they minute to win it games I feel like can be played on their own, but they really do fit into a lot of like trivia games, like something this is probably too old for a lot of you to know but like double dare or something like that where you need a physical challenge, uh, to see which team wins it.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: They work really well for that.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: So always, always, keep a little stock, supply a minute to win it.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: And then number 12, a giant whiteboard and dry erase markers.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I love having this for my, would you rather?
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: So, the weekends that I'm not playing Pictionary, that's what you would need it for.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I like playing Pictionary a couple of times a year.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: It's really fun and hilarious.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I love taking pictures of the weird drawings they do and posting it on our Instagram story, because some of them are just too good.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: They're hilarious.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: And then when you're not playing Pictionary, you put it up on your information table and you can write a.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Would you rather?
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Every weekend, the kids sign their name under it.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: It's just a fun little tradition to have.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: And then number 13, bandanas or blindfolds seems like so many times I would be like oh my gosh, we don't have a blindfold for this game Like we played this Easter egg game where they were blindfolded, and it was just always like where are the blindfolds?
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: You know, just keep them in a bin.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: They're cheap.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Order a bunch of bandanas, do it that that way, bandanas can double for team designation.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: But yeah, the problem with that a lot of times is like, well, I don't want to wear it on my head, I'm going to wear it on my wrist or I'm going to tuck it in my pocket and then all of a sudden, you can't see it.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: You know, I feel like, unless they're like, you're forcing them to maybe wear it on their head where everybody can see it, then it doesn't always work.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: But if you wanted to get the actual blindfold, like sleep mask type blindfolds, there's less chance that they're going to be able to see underneath them and through them, because if they always tilt their head.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: That's how you know.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: It's the head tilt and they're looking, and when they're supposed to get something and all they just magically grab it right away.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: You're like, of course, that's how it would work yep, so getting actual blindfolds?
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: we were not born yesterday.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: We have seen this many times.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: They might like kind of like reach just to the side and then grab something.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: It's like you're not obvious tell you what?
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Uh, we have a lot of instructions for these games not all of them, but the ones we do.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: If you want to print out pdf of just the instructions for all the ones that we talked about that we do have instructions for, go ahead and email us at ministry coach podcast at gmailcom and ask for what are we going to call this pdf?
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: What's a good name on the spot here?
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: game supply must have game list.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Give me the games, or else that's pretty tough.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know if everyone's gonna remember that how about something a little simpler?
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: they're smart.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Must must have games just right must have games, simple yet compelling and send us an email.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Just foot must have games and I'll send you whatever we do have for the games we've talked about in this episode.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Send them over and, like we said that right there, that's like 30 games.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: So if you well, I we probably don't have instructions for 30, but no, but I'm saying the ones we mentioned in the supplies.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: It's like and keep in mind.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I collected these over many years, so I would like okay, I have 200 left in my budget at the end of the year.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: What do I want to buy?
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Add to that let's pull the trigger on the hula hoops this year, let's pull the trigger on the hockey sticks.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: This year I didn't just go on one giant shopping spree and do all because you might be so overwhelmed right now Like, oh my gosh, like how much money do you spend on game supplies?
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, over many, many years, I just tried to buy one of these items each year.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then always trying to keep them in as good a shape as possible by putting them back where they belong and making sure kids don't destroy them, which that's probably the hardest part right there.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Make sure you guys check out an episode we did about how to get an entire year's worth of games in 30 minutes.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I would probably add pool noodles too, now that I'm that was, yeah, we did talk about that?
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: No, we didn't.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it should have been up here in the obvious.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all that stuff will be in the obvious section.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: All that stuff will be in the description below with the dodgeballs and the googly eyes and the mustaches.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I'm just kidding.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I feel, like every youth huster has a supply, like a weird like why do you have this?
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: why do you have a giant lego?
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: head in your closet because there's a story there.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: There's a story.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Uh, the question of the day this week is what is the strangest place?
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: You've ever fallen asleep?
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: other than in my classroom at school many times many times.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Um, last year I went on a vacation with my friends and we stayed in this like beach house it was my friend's like dad's beach house and I fell asleep on the back patio, like on the floor, like just like a cat concrete, yeah, just concrete and my friend Nancy and I we fell asleep like next to each other and I woke up and I had no idea where I was and I was like I was like panicking, like why am I on a sidewalk?
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Like whose house is this?
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I had no idea where I was, who am I?
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: yes, and so she was like laughing, like are you okay?
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I'm like.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: I totally freaked out, like I didn't know why am I asleep on this concrete?
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Here, I don't know.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: No pillow, no, nothing, just on the concrete.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Must have been really tired desperate, uh, for me.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I had a track meet in high school and it was just a really, really, really hot day and our team had like made their section like where we were all gonna like camp out, you know, and have all our backpacks and gear and stuff like that.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: It was on the side of this hill, it was no shade and the hill was like really rocky.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: And I remember I ran and I was just so tired and dehydrated afterwards, like I just laid down, because I just thought I was going to pass out and I I didn't pass out, but I basically just about as close as you could come to passing out, but actually just falling asleep.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: That's where I just, and I wasn't even like in a comfortable position.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: And then it was like 30 minutes an hour later, whatever it was, I woke up and I'm like, I'm covered in sweat, just felt awful, but that was definitely the weirdest place.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: And then people just like just walked past me like yeah he'll survive no big deal um, so yeah just leave them for dead uh, what's the weirdest place.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: You have ever fallen asleep I wish I was the kind of person that could just fall asleep anywhere I am under any circumstances.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: That's a true gift.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: If that's you man, you should thank god yeah, you're princess and the pea everything has to be just right hate it all right.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: This is a community comment of the day.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: This comes from susan sc, who says you helped my middle school summer camp with all the ideas you shared with me.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: You're welcome, you're welcome, Susan.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: If you guys want to check out any of the summer camp episodes that we have done, you can check those out in the description below it's only like 150 days left till my summer camp.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: 150 days left till my summer camp.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: It's never too early to plan.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm saying that's coming up quick.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Right 150 days, Like that's.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: We're like more than halfway there.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: It's go time.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: It's go time.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: So make sure you guys check that out.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: And thank you, Susan, for writing that comment.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: We really appreciate it.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: And thank you guys for watching and listening and we'll see you next time or leadership lessons for youth bastards are we talking about?
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: summer is right around the corner and if you're looking for an incredible summer activity, no like it was like yeah, and then I'm like wait, what am I?