Back to Base
A base is decided and young people must run away and hid. They must then try and get back to base a quick as possible without getting caught. This game is great for outdoor fun.
Resources
Welcome to our Catholic youth work Resources archive!
This section is primarily for parish youth workers and those involved in organising groups of young people. You may be a youth worker or leader, or perhaps just a regular young person who wants to start something in their school or parish. Whatever your situation, this Catholic youth work Resources archive is full of ideas for activities, games, praying etc. Use our filter tool below if you’re looking for something in particular. Please bear in mind that many of our resources can be used outside of the designated age range or theme, these are simply here to give you a rough guide!
Big Vs Small
Big vs Small involves the group being split into two teams by height, in which they must compete in games that will inherently favour one side over the other.
Blindfold game
How do you find your way when you have lots of voices telling you different things?!
British Bull Dog
An old classic, people must run from one side of an area to another without being caught by the people who are on.
Carpet Tiles
This is a team game involving carpet tiles and a little bit of competition.
Cheerleader Rock/Paper/Scissors
Rock/Paper/Scissors on a large scale with a twist. Every time someone loses a game, they must then become the winners cheering supporter.
Choose your base
A large group game that is great for lower secondary school young people and primary school. This game is great requires very little set up but does require a bit of space.
Cup stack
Teams must work together to create a pyramid made of paper cups.
Do this, Do that
Similar to ‘Simon says’, Do this, do that works great with any size group. When an action is done and you say “do this” they must follow it, when you do an action saying “do that” they must not do it.
Egg Toss
Egg Toss is a fun race where you paint an egg and then race it down the hill by tossing it down as fast as possible without causing it to crack!
Finger Grab
Testing reactions and helping to focus a group, in this game they have to both catch another finger and remain uncaught to win.
Human Knot
Testing their problem-solving and teamwork abilities, the young people must untangle themselves from one another.
Irish Snap
A fast-paced card game that’s a fun twist on the traditional version of this game.
Jockeys
A large group game that works well for focusing a group in an active way. Jockeys works with any age and any number, as long as you have space!
Mafia
A roleplay game where the group must catch and execute the mafia before the mafia takes over.
Magic Bamboo
Simple in theory, an intense challenge in practice, can you bring the floating bamboo down to earth?