Activities

Storytelling is a useful leadership capacity; this activity provides a way to exercise for the participants.ObjectiveTo recognize the significance of storytelling as a leadership trait.To illustrate how to tell a story.To practice telling a story.

By writing a poem as a way to stretch one’s creativity, leadership concepts are explored and encouraged.ObjectiveTo focus participants on the topic of leadership.Giving participants an opportunity to become acquainted and begin working together.Stimulating creative thinking.

Through taking part in an art project, leaders recognize their basic values and share them with others, so that participants who will be working together on missions have a greater understanding of each other’s strengths.ObjectiveTo have participants share some of their background information, values, philosophies of life, and leadership experiences.

Designed for smaller groups that can process the enormous ideas presented in the leadership training. This is a valuable way for participants to practice through this exercise. “IDEA” is short for Innovation, Development, Enthusiasm, and Application—all ways that the participants can strengthen their teams.

This is normally a fundraising activity but does bring the added benefit of being great for team building and helps your young people get to know others in the group.A worker auction basically involves auctioning your young people (and leaders) off as workers to the highest bidder. Begin by getting a list of kids and leaders that are willing to auction themselves off.

The activity ‘Would you Rather’ is a very simple game – it can be a great time-filler or icebreaker too.The basic idea is you ask a "Would you rather" question (see below for examples) and each person must decide their answer.You can run the game in various formats, depending on the time available and the size of your group.

A quick simple get-to-know-you activity for youths.This game works for groups of between 4-10 people. Start with a handful of coins and hand out one coin to each person.You then go around the group and each person should look at the year their coin was made (generally printed on the coin) and inform the rest of the group what they were doing in that year.

This one is a classic game that has been around for decades!Each player sits down forming a circle, and a leader goes and picks two people while everyone is closing their eyes. The people that are picked are the winkers, but only the leader knows that. When the leader signals, everyone can open their eyes and look around at other people. The winker's objectives are to "kill" everyone in the room.

Place chairs in a circle facing inward and have all the girls (or guys) sit down. One guy needs to stand behind each girl. One guy should have an empty chair and he is the Winker. The winker's job is to wink at one of the girls in the circle. She is to attempt to get out of her seat and sit in the empty chair in front of the winker.

This is a good ice breaker activity for new groups where people may not know each other that well.Distribute pens and papers to each person and ask them to write something exciting they have done in their lives - for instance, "I have been sky diving" or "I have been in the hospital for a week" etc.

Have group members sit in a circle and choose one person to be the Chief Inspector and instructthat person to stand in the middle of the circle. Instruct the Chief to go somewhere in the circle and ask that person where he or she was on a specific day during the last two weeks, a specific month in the last year, or a specific year in their life. e.g.

This is a great game for groups where people don't know each other that well.