Youth Group Games (Free Printables for Leaders)

Picking a game for the meeting

First meeting of the year. The find-someone-who icebreaker bingo sends kids around the room collecting names. Follow it with the youth group hunt so the same teams work together on something.

Weekly meeting in a hall. The youth group scavenger hunt mixes indoor finds, team tasks and kind acts. Twenty minutes, one sheet per team, a leader by each door.

Camp weekend. The camping hunt covers the campsite by day and the sky after dark, and the nature walk hunt is the trail activity. Both have safety notes written for leaders.

Rained out. The rainy day and indoor hunts keep a group moving without going outside. Use the team layout and shuffle so teams spread out.

Team mode and your own lists

The scavenger hunt generator has a team score sheet layout: type your own items with points after a bar, such as a pine cone | 2, set copies to the number of teams and tick shuffle. Each team gets a different order, so nobody crowds the same corner. Print one extra copy for the leader and tick finds as teams report back.

Lists are a starting point. Delete items your building does not have, add the piano or the mural everyone knows, and shorten the sheet to 15 items for groups that are mostly six to eight years old.