Comments on: Freebie Friday #66: Final Four “Mall Madness” ideas

By: GREAT GAME IDEAS « CRAZY Youth Ministry

GREAT GAME IDEAS « CRAZY Youth Ministry — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:52:47 +0000

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By: Tim Schmoyer

Tim Schmoyer — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:11:47 +0000

@ Stephanie: You’re welcome! Glad you find it useful.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:08:19 +0000

Tim I thank God for what you are doing and making your knowledge available on line. May God bless you and your family and continue to change the world through the next generation!!!

By: Top 5 summer youth events that cost under $5 total | Life in Student Ministry

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:47:15 +0000

[...] if it’s unbearably hot outside and you all want to be in air conditioning. I already blogged four Mall Madness ideas. All four of them are dirt cheap or [...]

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Things I Starred this Week, Vol. 2 | The Life of JaWS — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:49:35 +0000

[...] Tim has some great game ideas on Mall March Madness. [...]

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PlugRug.com — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:58:03 +0000

Freebie Friday #66: Final Four “Mall Madness” ideas | Life in Student Ministry…

Some great twists to the traditional mall games…

By: Tim Schmoyer

Tim Schmoyer — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:08:46 +0000

Jon, I love how you got the parents involved with that event! What a great idea! Thanks for sharing it.

By: Jon Perrin

Jon Perrin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:43:46 +0000

We have done two versions of this game. And both of them are much more fun if played the day after Thanksgiving! The first is a life-sized version of Where’s Waldo, where we have someone dressed up like the (storybook character) Waldo in stripes, a hat, etc.

The second was one of our best events ever! We had the parents as “hiders” and teens as “finders”. We teamed up the kids, and gave the parents a ten-minute head start. Each individual on the team that found the most parents, and the parent that was found the least each got mall gift certificates. It’s great because both the teens and the parents have fun together!

By: Jon Eagleson

Jon Eagleson — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:29:06 +0000

A spin off of the mystery men one that I know (but I haven’t had a chance to try, unfortunately!) is called “Yellow Yak”. It’s kind of the same thing, but you make sure to have people dress up in certain patterns (Such as mostly yellow, or purple, or stripes) but make sure they don’t dress up in the color to the point that they stand out. Then, give each person a code name (such as the all yellow person being the “yellow yak”, or the purple one the “purple platypus”).

Give the youth a list of all the names, and send them out to find the people, but with one condition: they cannot mention that they’re playing the game, they can only ask the person their identity. So you have a bunch of kids walking up nervously to people going “um… are you the… yellow…yak?”