Co-op Colouring
A useful activity for teaching young people the importance of working as a team and the need for others/ community.
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!
Create a Country
Who can create the best country and how’d you go about it?
Cup stack
Teams must work together to create a pyramid made of paper cups.
Decorate a parish Christmas Tree
Help your young people prepare for Christmas and feel a part of the parish by decorating a tree to be placed somewhere in the church or hall.
Dinner Mishmash
All members of the group are given £2 to buy food for a communal meal.
Disclosure Form
Concerns and allegations about a child who is, or may be, at risk need to be documented.
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.
Dodgeball
Splitting the group into two teams, they must throw balls at one another and the winning team is the one who hits all the opposing members first.
Easter Jars
When we finished we stuck a prayer on the jar which we can say before we take out a piece of paper.
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!
Escape the Snake tomb
Groups must work together as teams to cross a marked out area and collect items upon the way, while at the same time ensuring they don’t touch the floor.
Everything
A drama put to music, showing the fall of humankind and how far God will go to get us back.
Faith Line
A helpful way to begin a conversation about faith and belief in God with secondary school young people.
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.
Four Square Dodgeball
A twist on the normal game of dodge ball, this is a handy game for large groups to keep everyone involved.
Garbage Art
The group must recycle bits of rubbish to create a piece of art.