newyearseve

BEFORE

- Go out and get some presents for everyone, we got gifts for 20-35 pence each, it can be done! We then wrapped them up cos everyone likes a prezzie!

- Divide the people coming into teams and get a sheet on listing the things happening on the night like a scoresheet

START

- Get everyone to pray together. Commit the night, next year to God. Thanks God for the year just gone

- Set up the chairs so you get everyone in circle

- Everyone gets a present and passes it to left and says something nice to that person. You can do this one by one or at the same time. Everyone then opens their present.

- Game: all those with trainers move 2 left.. those with hoodies move 3 right etc. You can target young people (who like the attention) in this by getting everyone else sitting on them

GAMES

- Hockey game (first to 10)

- Volley-foot-ball – use badminton net (no touching the net) – have to get ball over net in whatever way.. keep changing the rules like 1 bounce, 3 bounces, you have to hop, must partner with someone else, can't touch it, can't kick it etc.

BREAK

- Have drinks & nibbles

- We even had a BBQ set up in the church, yeh OK so we spent like a week trying to de-fumigate the church but hey, just don't tell our leadership team..!

TEAM CHALLENGES

- Pop/Movie quiz (below)

- Have to make the tallest free standing structure that supports an egg- Crossword, theme is Gareth Gates and Cliff Richard songs (click here to download in Adobe PDF format)

FOR FURTHER EXPLANATIONS TO THESE GAMES, VISIT THE GAMES SECTION

- Get into a group and make a shape – cuckoo clock, a teapot etc.

- Fewest amount of feet on the floor game (groups of 5 or 6, group with fewest combined feet on the floor wins so they have to group together)

- Drama game - in a, with a, while a.. (drama situation - eg in a telephone box, with a herd of mongoose, while trying to phone George Bush)

- The word game – word is tetrachloride (make as many words as possible from this word)

- Dodge ball (soft ball thrown at people in room, last person not hit wins)

- Balloon popping (balloon attached to leg, last person with balloon wins)

- Murder in the dark (hide and seek in a dark church)

QUIZ

(update to your needs and to the last year, here's our end 2002 quiz)

1. What was Kylie Minogue’s last hit single of 2001?

Answer - Can’t Get You Out Of My Head

2. Which group consists of Beyonce (Be-on-say), Kelly and Michelle?

Answer - Destiny’s Child

3. Name the title of the song by Dido that was used by Eminem for his hit single Stan.

Answer - Thank You

4. What was Britney Spears first chart-topper in the UK singles chart?

Answer - Baby One More time

5. Who had the number one hit Because I Got High in 2001?

Answer - Afroman

6. Which British male starred in the hit movie 'About A Boy'?

Answer - Hugh Grant

7. A Little Less Conversation was a hit for Elvis versus whom in 2002?

Answer - JXL

8. Who played the part of Daphne in the 2002 film Scooby Doo?

Answer - Sarah Michelle Gellar

9. Who was a 'naughty girl' in 2002?

Answer - Holly Valance

10. What age is Avril Lavigne?

Answer - 18

11. Whose hit was ‘Puppy Love’?

Answer - S Club Juniors (S Club 8)

12. Who was no.1 overall in the USA this year?

Answer - Eminem

13. Which rapper have Metallica recently done a song with?

Answer - Jah Rule

14. What was the other AA-side to Will Young’s ‘Evergreen’

Answer - Anything is possible

SPIRITUAL BITS

- Mainly prayer. Get the group together and pray as a group seeking God. Maybe have a specific prayer time with candles anc chilled music. Seek God together, prophecy (have pens and paper ready, be careful to test it's from God using the Word, God's call on people's lives, whether it feels right). Ask God for his will in the forthcoming year

- You may want to do some worship, depending on the group you have

ONE MORE IDEA

One year we got a load of sand from the roads near a beach and turned a youth leaders downstairs rooms into a beach, had beach games and a mini olympics. Not sure you want to try it but you may!!