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Youth Ministry Winter Olympic Games - Indoor Youth Group Games! · Ministry Coach: Youth Ministry Tips & Resources

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Today we're going to give you eight ideas for Winter Olympic Games for your youth ministry.
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Ministry Coach Podcast.
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: This episode is brought to you by Youth Ministry Growth Accelerator.
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: If you're looking to grow the size and health of your youth ministry, make sure you check out Youth Ministry Growth Accelerator at growyouryouthministrycom.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: My name is Jeff Laskola and this is Kristen Laskola, and today we're going to talk all about Youth Ministry Olympic Games.
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: Winter Edition Winter Olympic Youth.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: Group Games.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: There we go, Yay.
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: That's why we're all dressed so frosty.
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  Speaker 2: It is 64 degrees outside, but in my heart it's a lot colder.
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: I don't know what that means.
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: Our house is cold, so this is fine.
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: Our house is very cold, very single pane window home and we did summer Olympics.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: So if you did that comment in the comment section, I would love to know how that went, or what games you used, or if you added any games maybe that weren't on the list.
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: I would love to know about that.
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: And if you this is just a quick little aside if you never listen on youtube and you're only listening on, like the podcast platforms, that's fine you're missing out on the very end of the YouTube videos.
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: They're in the podcast too, the bloopers.
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, adam, just the audio.
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: I always watch it on YouTube just to see how we did and the bloopers are so funny there and I thought are people missing out on these, cause nobody ever says anything about them?
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: So I sometimes I'm like do they know they're there?
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: Cause they're not staged.
• 1:46
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: They're real.
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes I'm just being a goofball and singing or something.
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: Obviously that's not a blooper.
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I just didn't want anyone to miss out.
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: Right, 100% real.
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: Um, really bad too.
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: So, hey, before we jump in, we have eight games that we're going to describe for you today, but we also have an additional four.
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: If you send us an email at ministrycoachpodcast at gmailcom, we're going to send you the instructions for all eight of these, plus four additional for 12.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, total 12 games.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: We are just going to do our best to describe them very clearly so that you can play them.
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: So your imagination will fill in the rest.
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: Okay, number one is one of my favorites.
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: We actually just played it in October, which I'm kind of bummed.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't save it for the winter Olympics.
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: I guess we could play it again in December, but or January winter is a long time, I guess.
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: So it is ultimate hockey.
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: So the way that we play it and again, any of these games, if you don't love exactly how we describe it, tweak it just to fit however you want to play it, it's totally fine.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: Hopefully these will just brainstorm for you.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: So what we would do is get two teams and we would line up 10 players per team per round at a time.
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: So let's say we have a red team and a blue team.
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: The red team would be 10 people playing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.'s say we have a red team and a blue team.
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: The red team would be 10 people playing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: They would all have a number Same with the opposing team.
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: We would have hockey sticks.
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: They would already be holding them.
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  Speaker 2: And you use specific hockey sticks.
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: These aren't like the full regulation size.
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: Good point.
• 3:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I use ones that are a little shorter.
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: They're more they look like for younger kids.
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: They're just a little safer.
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: Now, the biggest thing with hockey is you have to make sure you don't allow any high shots I don't know the technical term for it, but I just don't let kids swing above their knee, because that's a good way for a kid to lose a tooth um, so we and youth ministry doesn't need any more reasons for kids to lose trips to the ER and injuries.
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: So if your number is called, you take your stick and you run to the middle where there's a ball.
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: We usually play with a lightweight ball that you would see in like a ball pit.
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: We just ordered a big bag of those off of Amazon years ago.
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: They come in handy for so many different games, so I'd highly recommend it.
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  Speaker 1: We just put one of those in the middle, because if you get hit with one of those, you're going to be a-okay and two goals.
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: The first team to make the goal wins and that's the round, and then everyone lines back up and you call the next two numbers.
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: You could call three numbers, you can call four numbers, so however quickly you want the rounds to go, you could play one-on-one.
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: I just feel like it depends on how many kids want to play.
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: So if I'm only playing 10 at a time, but I have 40 kids per team who want to play, I'm probably going to be calling at least three or four numbers per round to make it run a lot faster.
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: So it is simple setup and easy and just make sure you have two goals.
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: We just use cones.
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: We don't have any fancy goals, just two cones on each side for goals measured out and you're done.
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: It's easy and make sure, if you guys are looking to get those specific hockey sticks I believe you got them off Amazon.
• 4:54
  Speaker 2: We'll put everything all the materials in the description below, so make sure you guys check that out.
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: If there's anything you need, All right number two is a bobsledding race.
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  Speaker 2: So what you're going to need for these are those?
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  Speaker 1: are they called scooter boards?
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: I've heard them called different things, but I think when we say scooter boards, everyone pretty much yeah, the little square, they're like 16 by 12 or something.
• 5:15
  Speaker 2: Then they have little wheels on the bottom order Some of those if you don't already have them.
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  Speaker 2: But you're going to have teams pair up.
• 5:21
  Speaker 2: So they're going to be a person on the sled and then there's going to be a person helping them with the bobsled, pushing them.
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: So if you want, you can just either make one big track if you have a giant space to use the auditorium sanctuary, wherever you guys meet, you can make one giant track all the way around or you can make it a little more fancy where you have cones set up and they have to weave kind of in and out, and it makes it a little more challenging yeah so it's usually just you probably want to do teams of two, but when they go through the whole lap and they get back, you can have them switch and then the rider becomes the pusher and the pusher becomes the rider, and so on, and so yeah, they could do the whole track again backwards, like not pushing backwards, but like you make it there right or switch and then you like go back through the maze or track.
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: I would really recommend like helmets for this game, I think, like just some bicycle helmets.
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: I bought a bunch at a thrift store once and I just kept them in my closet and everyone thinks like buying something you wear on your head is gross.
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: Lice need a host.
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: You know I didn't think we'd go there today, but lice can't just live on a helmet, so don't worry.
• 6:30
  Speaker 2: I did not know that.
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they have to have a host or they aren't living.
• 6:34
  Speaker 2: Of course, if one of the kids has lice, it's just going to be transferred right to the next kid.
• 6:37
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 6:38
  Speaker 2: That's how you can get it.
• 6:39
  Speaker 2: You meant I was thinking like people are sitting around for a long time buying something on a thrift store.
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: But um, yeah, just keep some lights all around.
• 6:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, I see what you're saying old, old, uh, thrift store bicycle.
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not gonna buy lice on a helmet.
• 6:55
  Speaker 2: But yes, it could be transferred from one there was a bike helmet on the lice I bought.
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: I would like a refund please and keep in mind you can do all kinds of teams for this.
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: So it could be your small groups could be a team.
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: You could do countries.
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: You could theme it, just like if your youth group is really into like disney and pixar it could be like themes along those lines.
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: You know, just whatever you guys are into, you can make it fun.
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: You could get like pre-printed little flags and colors.
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: And you know we had talked in the summer o Summer Olympic episode about the opening ceremonies.
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: You know, if you have your leaders really into it and like you know, they come up and the opening ceremonies could just be like one, like small group leader from each small group with some fun music and background or whatever.
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: So you can go as far as you want on the flair.
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: That's like the creative element that you bring to it to really make this go from just a kid pushing another kid on a wheelie board to like epic and I think that's the art of the games and we talk about that a lot, but it's like the delivery, the preparation, the theming, the bells and whistles that we put on it.
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: I had a great conversation with a really great tech guy at a DYM conference Blarg I doubt he listens to our podcast, but if he does, I salute you, sir juicer and he was saying like they were playing this game that had to do with like old testament trivia and he's like the moment I put on the sound track to the prince of egypt like things got epic and he goes, it was just music but it took a trivia game like people leaned in and got into it and felt emotion right before we even started playing the game.
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: So I think I told him he should do a breakout session, because it's the art of the production that we surround these games with, and so keep that in mind as we describe these of how could you make it cooler?
• 8:51
  Speaker 2: extra themed, put the sprinkles on top, you know so anyways, and this can either be a like standalone night where you kind of do just pick a few of these games and do it, or it can be like a series where you'd maybe do it over two, three, four weeks or whatever competition series in addition to your normal youth group night.
• 9:08
  Speaker 2: Like these would be in place of the games of an ongoing competition series.
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: That's great.
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay.
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: Number three human curling.
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: We actually play this one a lot.
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: This one is really fun.
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: So what we do is like on a non-winter olympics night, what we would do is just every team is a small group and they sometimes we've themed them like so funny like come up with the wildest names for each team, every team needs a skateboard and or scooter board I've never played it with a scooter board but I guess you could multi-purpose the only thing I like for a skateboard on this game is you do steer true, good point
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: so we draw or we tape off a big target in the corner of one room.
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: So our big multi-purpose room is a, is like a pretty much a perfect square, I guess, and in one corner of it we draw like a half target.
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: So there's a curved line on the outside and then on the inside and then further in.
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: So the outside is worth like 100 points, the middle one is worth 200 points, the inner one is worth 300 points.
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: So basically you have someone sit on the skateboard, they all kind of start at the same starting line and then you say three, two, one, they get pushed toward the target.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: If they have all four wheels in the 100, they get a hundred points.
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: If they have half and half so say you had the back two wheels in a hundred, the front two wheels in 200, you would get 150.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: Wow, jeff good math I was gonna say 300, but that doesn't make sense.
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: I was like because 200 plus 100, and then you know the inner.
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: So you can do the points like that, like all four wheels and 300.
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, but what if you have two wheels out, two wheels in?
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: Then you do 250 and the.
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: The trick with this game is two things.
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  Speaker 1: Number one if any appendage on the rider hits the floor, it's an automatic disqualification.
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: They can't put their foot down, they can't, so the the board lands where it may like you just keep going, even if you hit another rider, you just and they all go at the same time they all go at the same time, so you might hit another rider, which could give you an advantage or a disadvantage because it might slow you down if you needed to slow down.
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: And if you are stopped and another rider comes and hits you, you get kind of knocked out of your target, which or potentially closer to exactly.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: So it could go either way.
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: And then this one also make sure nobody moves.
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: So when the, when the round ends and all the riders have come to a stop, we have like two or three judges.
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: Like I'll literally have my face on the ground, like looking at the wheels, like where is every wheel, and then we write down their points.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: And not until we write down their points can they like get up and go.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: So the, the pointing or the the scoring is a little intense at the end because we have 11 small groups.
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: So it's like 11 writers are in this target and I'm like trying to figure out where everyone's wheels are.
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: If you have a smaller youth group, it will probably not be as you have 11 groups go at once, at once.
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I know it's wild, we like it.
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: It's we.
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: We always like when our games become chaotic, yeah and, like you were saying about the skateboards, that was a good point about the steering aspect.
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: It's really easy instead of having to buy a bunch of skateboards just ahead of time.
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: Just ask your youth ministry Just say hey, we're playing this game.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: Make sure, if you have a skateboard, bring a skateboard and most of the time I just have to put out to my leaders like, hey guys, we're playing human curling tonight.
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: And then there'll be like one leader that has three.
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: And then I take yours and then you know somehow we manage it.
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: So the rider is allowed to lean to steer left or right.
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: They cannot slow themselves down, they can't touch the wheels or put any appendage on the floor.
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: Okay, I think I covered it yep number four is biathlon, so this is very similar to the bobsled race, but what you're gonna do is have the rider have a nerf gun with them, and I think it's probably easiest to use the.
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: I think it's like a six load chamber of a nerf gun, and then you basically set up tables or something to have little targets on.
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: You can just use something simple like solo cups, either stack them up or just put one on there or whatever.
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: But as the riders go around let's say you had three tables set up and there's a solo cup on each one you would have someone maybe get two shots and they go to the next target and two shots, and then the next target two shots, and then they come back and then you have those people switch where the pusher becomes the rider, the rider becomes the pusher and then you start riding around again.
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: It rider becomes the pusher and then you start riding it around again.
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: There it's also probably a good idea to have a third person on the team that can go and collect the nerf darts, because otherwise you're gonna have to reload.
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: You know, or you'll have to reload either way, but this will make it a little bit faster, so they're not just all over the place.
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: It's also a good idea to buy one of those like jumbo bucket full of those things.
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: So you just have tons, tons.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can never have enough Nerf darts.
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: I know right.
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: Because they're just going to get lost.
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: But you'll find them throughout years and years and years later in just random spots.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like a youth ministry, a little Easter egg hunt.
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: Like you know, they're always just waiting, waiting to be found In the least well, not when you're looking for them, though.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: No, no, no know, later when you're moving things, or, yeah, behind couches, all kinds of things, okay, so this one is number five the pool noodle hockey.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: So everybody, every player, needs a pool noodle to make them go further.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: And because everyone's sitting down, I would cut them in half yeah I think that's the best.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: So there's two lines of chairs one team on one side, one team on another side and the chairs are facing each other with about what like a foot to two feet in between them no more than that.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: I would say closer to like four feet oh, wow because you have your arms length plus the true, okay, so place the chairs about four feet apart facing each other yep, and then you have a wiffle ball thrown in into the middle, or you can use those ball pit balls too.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah that would work, and everyone has to stay seated and they're trying to hit the ball into their team's goal, which would just be kind of the end of the aisle one way or the end of the aisle the other way.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: If they score, they get a point.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: It's very easy, simple setup.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Pool noodles are one of those things that like if you don't have them.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: There's so many different games you can play with them, so you might as well just invest in a big box of them and keep them on hand for stuff like this.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: But this game is almost no prep and you can play it really quick, and you could put as many people, I guess, as you wanted.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: As long as it was an even number.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: So if you have a group like you just want to play with a few, like 15 on 15 or 10 on 10 or 5 on 5 or even bigger, I mean you could play like 30 on 30.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: So it just depends the size of your group.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Obviously, with 30 on 30 the round will go a lot longer.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: 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 can either just put cones and it's like, well, if it goes, it goes past it, it's a goal.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Or you can actually invest in those like simple little soccer pop-up style goals and you can use those too.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: The next one is number six speed skating shuttle relay.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: That's a horrible name.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you can come up with a better one.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: So how do you play that game Shuttle?
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Why shuttle?
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Shuttle is the part where you're one person's going this way and the next person's going back the same direction.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: That's the shuttle part, I believe, okay so you have two teams.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Let's say you have two teams of 10.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: So for each team you would put five people on one side of the room, five people on the other side of the room facing each other.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Facing each other in single file line, okay yes, okay, single file line.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: So then they would put on their skates, which are paper plates yeah they put them on their feet and they have to skate across to their other team member who is on the other side.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: They get off the skates, the next team member hops on and that team member now skates across back in the direction that that first person just came.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: They hop off, the next person hops on, they skate across until you've gone through both lines all 10 people and then the round ends.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: You get a point for your team.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: So the rules are the skates have to stay on their feet.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: You could be as mean as you want here or as nice as you want, like oh, the skates fell off just hop right back on, or we play some games where it's like, oh, the skates, come off, you got to start all over, and what that ends up doing is making students not just like be a total wild animal, like, oh, who cares, they're going as fast as they can, the skates are everywhere.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Oh well, I'm just running at this point, but the point is to like get them to do a little shh, shh, shh.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Like skating across the floor really.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: So you might want to keep extra paper plates on hand, because if I know students and I think I do they destroy things and so those might not make it through all 10 people.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: And so you want to have some skates for them to put on.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this game works well with if you have hardwood floors, if you have concrete floors as long as it's polished concrete, I guess, and then it can work on carpet as well.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: But I think it's better if you use the coated paper plates.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: It's a specific style, but it's a little slicker from when when they're skating across to each other.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you work with children's ministry ministry too, I think this one could work really well for children's ministry.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know that high schoolers could get into this one.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: I see it being like middle school and below ah, you might be surprised.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Really, I don't know.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I could see them liking that.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right number, prove me wrong.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Number seven what is number seven?
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: all right.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Number seven is frisbee curling.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: So this is sort of the same idea.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: You could use the same setup as human curling, which is great.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: So if you're going to play more than one game on that night, keep the target the same.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: And now, instead of putting everybody on a skateboard, you just hand them a frisbee.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Everyone shoots their shot.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: You're going to need to label these 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.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: If you have two teams red frisbee, blue frisbee you know you can do that way.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just thinking how we would do.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: It would be by small group and there'd be so like 11 frisbees going in at once.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: So I would need to put a little tape with just small group on there so everyone gets one shot and then it lands where it may and they get points based on where their frisbee is landed.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Most points at the end of all the rounds wins.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: This one goes pretty quick, which is great.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: I would definitely pair it with another game.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I don't think I would make this the game of the night.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: But if you have a lot of kids who want to play, it goes so quick, everybody can play and it's simple setup.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: You kind of get a two for one with the setup because of human curling.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: So, I would do them together.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Another game that you might want to play with.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: That is the next one we're going to talk about.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Remember, if you want the instructions for all these games, email us at ministrycoachpodcast at gmailcom and we'll send you all 12 over to you.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Okay, this last one is called.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: This is another one.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I don't have a good name for it, but we're just going to call it cross country skiing partners.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Sure, why not?
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: I'm sure there's a much better name than that said cross-country skiing.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, well, that's what it is.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: And then partners yeah, okay so this came from mario party.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Actually, there's a game on there that basically is the same concept, but I'm like I wonder if you can do this with real life and you can.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: We tested it out so basically, you're gonna need to go to um, any home depot low some kind of hardware lumber store and you're gonna buy either, or lumber store and you're going to buy either two by fours and you're going to need two per team or per.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, two per team, yeah two per team.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Or you can get the fence planks.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: They're like if you're putting up a fence.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: There are those things that are about six inches wide.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: I think they're about six feet tall.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Those ones work great.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Actually, that's what we tried ours on, but the length of the two by four is you're probably going to want to have at least be about six feet and you can explain the rest and those become the skis right.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: So you're gonna have students.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: You have two students go per round and they're gonna put their.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: You put the planks down on the floor, they put their right foot on the right plank, left foot on the left plank and then you get some rope.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: It's not heavy duty rope, like thinner nylon rope and you make this is like a handle.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: So it needs to be as long as like from the floor to where their hand is and they hold on to those and then they basically lift up their right foot at the same time to take a step.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: 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.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, and again, if they fall off, do you want to say, oh, you have to start all over or just get?
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: back on.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Another thing you can do is, once you get to the finish line, you can have them just turn around and do the same thing right back.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and maybe even have it be backwards if you wanted to.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: That might be too difficult and like, if you want to add in, we played this one game at winter camp where they had.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: It was almost like a clothing relay, so every team got like a bag of winter clothes like they had to put on boots ski hats, yeah, whatever.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: So if you want to add like an extra thing instead of like just them going across, it's like all right, you have to get dressed, go across, come back, take off your snow clothes and then boom.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: First person to do what wins.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Just to add in a other hustle element because it is skiing, so that could be like a fun thing for the spectators too, for people who aren't playing, to watch them do the clothing relay um just an added element to fun, so that is that's eight.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: eight so you guys can have, like I said, it's, either a one night event or you can spread this out over a series of however many weeks you deem necessary, but these are all indoor games.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: I'm sure some of you can play outside, but it is winter, I'm sure it's cold where a lot of you guys are, and my hands are sweating right now in these gloves.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Those are intense gloves.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Let's do a question of the day and then a community comment of the day, and then you guys can go and do your winter Olympic event, all right?
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: So the question of the day is what is the coldest temperature you've ever been in?
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Oh man, I don't know you can think about it for a second because I do know.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: So I was one time I believe it was when I was in chicago that it got to.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: I think it was 18 degrees I know chicago can get a lot colder, but when I was there that's as cold as it was that's very cold now, I was also.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know if this technically counts, but it's my game so I say it does.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I was in a grocery store refrigerator like where they have like the freezer or whatever, and that was sub zero.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know how far down like maybe like 20 below or something.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: But cold is cold, Like once you get to a certain point it just hurts and you don't feel whether it's 20 below or 40 below.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: So when we went to Ohio we visited his family and they have these cows they keep in a refrigerated room so that their hair grows.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: That was very cold, but I don't know how cold it was, she told us.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: But I don't think I've ever been anything less than like in the 30s.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: I don't know where I would have been that I would have been in the 20s, but like it snows at 32 degrees Fahrenheit so I would have had to, I would have been in the 20s but like it snows at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, so I would have had to have been in that.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I know some of you guys are probably in climates that are really cold, so what is the coldest temperature you've been in?
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Okay, this is the community comment of the day.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: I have to take my glove off because I can't use my phone.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: This comes from Erin Cole, who's answering the question of what she enjoys about this podcast, and she said the real practical tips.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: There is so much general info out there.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: It's so nice to get some specific ideas and strategies.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: I love how relatable you both are, and it's always so easy to listen and learn from you oh, I love that thank you, aaron, appreciate that many people say that about the practical stuff you know which.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I think that's kind of become what we're sort of known for, which I love, because that is exactly what I wanted for so long yeah like how she said there's so much general info out there.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: 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 just say something more theoretical and you end up with a blank piece of paper at the end but I'm not smart enough to put theory into action.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Can you just tell me how you did it and then maybe I won't do it exactly how you did it, but at least I'll have some practicum like under my belt and then like, adjust it for me, right, but nobody was ever doing that it was just always like just a vague theory that right I think they just assumed I could plug it in for myself, couldn't?
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: so here we are.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you, I'm glad you feel that way.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Thank you, I appreciate that, and thank you guys for watching and listening and we'll see you next time today we are gonna give you eight olympic what I hit the table more fancy and have combs Combs, though.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Let's say that you have two teams of Ten.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Twenty Actually, in addition to bloopers, make sure you send us in.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: That doesn't make any sense whatsoever and that is a blooper, right there.