Games & Icebreakers
Sick and Twisted Games
If you like gross and messy games, this is for you!

Alka Seltzer Challenge
Purchase Alka-Seltzer tabs (or cheap substitute) at your local drug store.  The object of this challenge is to see how long a student can keep a seltzer tablet in his or her mouth full of water.  The person who keeps their mouth shut the longest wins.  You will want to have buckets or large bowls for students to empty their mouths into.  For added fun, have students stand across from each other so if one explodes, they drench the person across from them!
Added by Erik Pasco
Young Life Twist: Put an Alka-Seltzer in your mouth and read a Dr. Seuss story.

Balloon Nose Pop
An oldie but a goody. Take large balloons and get a kid to compete against two of his peers. Each kid receives a balloon. The first teen to blow up a balloon using only his nose and popping it, wins.

Balloon Squash Outdoor
Materials: A balloon for each player, a few cans of shaving cream, and a plastic tarp.
Players should wear bathing suits or old clothes. Be prepared to hose them off when the game is done.

Preparation: Each player needs one shaving cream filled balloon.  Divide players into two teams.  Set up the plastic tarp, and put a bucket of cream filled balloons near the tarp.

How to Play:  When the signal is given, a player on each team runs over to the tarp.  One leader will place a balloon on the tarp, and the player must sit on it until it pops.  Then they run back, and tag the next player to go.  First team to be sitting down after all their bottoms are "creamed" wins.
Added by Nick

Banana Barf
Have two or three volunteers put a whole banana in their mouth, instructing them not to eat it, just hold it in their mouth. Then put a pair of panty hose over each volunteer's head. Have them squish the banana threw the tiny holes in the hose into a trash or grocery bag.
Added by Elisabeth

Banana Legs
You can use as many contestants as desired but its best with an audience cheering them on. The contestants place a knee high over their head (similar to a bank robber) and given a banana.  It is a race to see who can eat the banana first, through the nylon. Have a camera ready because you're going to want pictures of this one. Added by Trish Barnhart

Banana Splits in the Mouth
Recruit four hungry volunteers. Two people stand up in chairs while two others lie on the floor at their feet. People in the chairs try to make a banana split in the other person’s mouth by dropping ice cream, syrup, banana, nuts, whipping cream and finally, a cherry into the person's mouth.
Fun options: You could have the people in the chair blindfolded. Alternate people in chairs with people on the floor. Payback time.
Added by Tammy Straub

Belly Flop
Judge on 3 categories:
1. Creativity
2. Pain
3. Air
Young Life variation: In Winter, have Belly Flop contests in a baby pool full of Jell-O.  Lay tarp over a big ole mattress under the baby pool.

Blend 'O' Ramah
Blend '0' Ramah is a great up front game that is very entertaining to watch.  Find four students who have strong stomachs!  You know the type- the students that claim they'll do anything.  
Place four blenders on a table on stage or up front.  Have 20 different edible items placed in 4 different lunch bags.  Number the lunch bags 1-4.
Interview each student- ask them their school, their birthday and their favourite food.  Keep note of who is the oldest in the group.  Then tell the oldest that they get to go first, then the next oldest, and so on until the youngest.  Have them each pick the bag that they will blend.
You put what ever is in the bag into the blender; you do this until all the bags have been picked. Make sure that one of the items is a liquid so that it will blend well.  Once everything is blended, pour into a cup and have them all drink it down. Who ever finishes their cup first wins.
Great blending materials:
Baby food
milk
spam
bananas
chocolate syrup
ketchup
mustard
M&M's
a can of Soda
frozen veggies
Be creative!
Added by Jackie

Blind Feeders
Call up between 4 and 10 volunteers (depending on the size of your group) to make two-person teams. Have an apron (or garbage bag with a hole cut out for the head) and one chair for each team. The person standing behind the chair puts on a blindfold. The person sitting puts on an apron and places hands on hips. The person standing threads their arms through the seated person’s armpits.  Place a bowl in one hand of the blindfolded teen and a spoon in the other. They will feed their partner (ice cream, mousse, Jello, etc.).  The first team finished to the best of their ability wins! Or, you may award prizes for the messiest eaters, cleanest eaters, or the one that got the most into their partner’s mouth, etc.
Added by Amanda from Australia

Bobbing For Apples In Baked Beans
Just as disgusting as it sounds. Make sure you have plenty of clean-up towels. You may be able to get the beans donated and you may want to have swim goggles and earplugs. For this game recruit brave, gross-proof students ahead of time.
Added by Young Life

Bobbing for Worms
Similar to Bobbing for apples, but you use gummy worms and an infant's swimming pool. Not a game for the weak at heart or have hang ups about germs. Take the infant's swimming pool and fill with water. Add one bag of gummy worms to the water. They will sink to the bottom. Have the volunteers take a turn at bobbing for the worms. The person who can get and keep the most worms in their mouth during their one minute try time wins. You can have the youth wear goggles to protect eyes. Junior Highers love this game.
Added by Jodie

Bubble Gum Sculpture
Materials: bubble gum and a towel or two
This can be played as an up-front game or, with smaller groups, everyone can play.
Divide your group into groups of 4 or 5. Ask for two very brave volunteers out of each group. (Don't tell them what they're volunteering for) Give them a plate or flat dish (we used cookie sheets). Give the rest of the groups the bubble gum, and tell them to chew as quickly as possible. Have them chew it only until it is soft, and then give it to the volunteers in their group, and start chewing the next piece. As the group is chewing, the volunteers need to be working on their sculpture. Set a time limit, say 10 minutes, and give them creative ideas of what to make- such as pizza, turtle, etc., but it has to be something difficult. When the gum chewers are through, have them step back and watch. Have someone judge the sculptures. We gave a prize (a Christian CD) to each of our winning volunteers, since they were so brave!
Note: Instead of regular stick gum- such as Wrigly's, I would suggest using larger gum drops- such as Bazooka. {It's much easier to work with!} Keep it cheap, because you'll want to buy enough!
Submitted by Rebecca Sapp aka Zgrrl

Build your own Snowman
This can be played up-front while the audience watches, or you can divide into teams and have the group play.
For each contestant have a bag full of assorted snowman accessories such as a hat, scarf, mittens, a carrot etc. and a pair of safety goggles, a can of shaving cream and a set of clothes to go over their clothes for protection. Each team has a designated amount of time to use the shaving cream to cover their "snowman" (the contestant) and put all of the accessories on. The team to make the nicest looking snowman wins.  If you do this game indoors, be sure and put a large tarp on the floor.
Added by Tina Ogle

Cake Head
Mix a cake on the head – yes, directly on the head - of a brave volunteer who will be a good sport if their hair gets messed up. Just dump it all on their head. Use cake mix, eggs, water, oil, and icing. Mmm, yummy! Lathers up good, too!
Added by Elise Hawke

Caramel Apple Fest
This is the age old up front game where you have a contest between several students, eating a hanging caramel apple blindfolded (see who could get done first)! For a fun twist, give one of the kids or leaders a caramel ONION instead of apple!
Added by Naomi

Caramel Apples On A String
Choose a student from each class. Tie caramel apples to a string tied to a broom handle and get someone to hold it for each student. They race to see which one can eat the apple the fastest. Fake starting and stop once to add chocolate syrup, then again to add whipped cream and last to blindfold the contestants. Added by Young Life

Chee-toes
Get together three groups of two people. Have one person in each pair sit in a chair and take off one of their shoes and sock. Now have the other person in the team lay on the ground. Place a napkin next to them; with around 10 - 15 cheetos cheese snacks. The object of the game is to have the person with the bare foot try to feed cheetos to the person lying on the ground by picking them up with their toes and putting them in the other persons mouth. The first team done wins a prize (whatever you want to give them.)
Tip: Have them put a rubber glove on the bare foot (for sanitary purposes!)
Added by Jason Fullmore

Christmas 12 Bags of Doom
This is a messy "thank you" or Christmas gift to your staff (or interns). Staff wear dumpy clothes and get ready to be icky!
Students get to dump 12 items of gross stuff on the staff, one at a time. The twelve days of Christmas gives a nice outline for the event:
On the twelfth day of Christmas our students give to you (the interns)...
12 raw eggs
11 cups of oatmeal
10 squirts of syrup
9 cups of popcorn
8 squirts of green ketchup
7 cups of applesauce
6 bags of cornmeal
5 packages of Swiss miss
4 frozen mixed vegetables
3 cans of whipped cream
2 cups of canola oil
1 betty Crocker cake mix
A great gross event as long as your not the dumpee....
Micah McCarty NEWCHURCH, OKC

Cold Toe Dogs
Fill large bowls with freezing ice water (add salt prior to game to make the water extra cold). Then place the sliced hotdogs into the water, small round slices are the best.
Split up into teams of two. One player needs to sit in a chair with a bowl on the ground directly in front of them the same player also needs to remove the shoe and sock from one of their feet. The second team member kneels down in front of the bowl. The sitting player removes the hotdog slices from the freezing water with their foot and then the kneeling member removes the hotdogs only using their mouth. To make it really gross the kneeling team member has to eat the hotdogs. We have even replaced the hotdogs with sardines or spam.
Added by Meri Clark

Condiment Twister
This game is exactly like twister, but you load each of the colours up with a condiment. So each circle is smothered with a particular condiment. Grape Jelly for blue, mustard for yellow, ketchup for red, and relish on the green circles. Make sure that you have plastic bags and masking tape to cover the volunteers with, so clothes aren't ruined. Have their faces, hands, and feet (shoes and socks off) exposed. Then change the places on the spinning board to right/left cheek, right/left ear, nose, right/left hand, right/left foot. When you spin, you call out which body part goes where. i.e. right cheek to blue, left leg to green, right hand to yellow. It is a mess and a riot. It does get slippery, so make sure you have staff there to help when people start flying around. Have a place for students to clean up after.
Added by Brian Carpenter

Diving For The Prize!
Get 3 few volunteers.  Have a table set up in front with 3 large bowls filled with whipped cream.  Tell all that each bowl is filled with whipped cream and has chocolate hidden inside.  The volunteers have to find the chocolate without using their hands, and eat it.  The first one to finish eating the chocolate wins.  The trick is, instead of it being a piece of chocolate, it’s an olive!  You should see their faces! :)
Added by Becky

Duck-Duck-Goose With a Twist
Play this childhood favourite just like Duck-Duck-Goose.  Only, you’ll "goose" the player who gets tapped with a real egg. Nasty but good for the hair! Either forewarn your students to wear grubby clothes, provide wet washcloths and/or towels, or have garbage bags with holes to pull over their heads.
Added by Kyle Connell

Eat Slime Through Pantyhose
Prepare some oatmeal, warmed, a final round.
In the final round, have 6 eggs (5 hard-boiled and 1 raw) and hold them in a bowl above their heads to pick.
Variation: Put your finger on the raw egg and before club explain the game to all 4 contestants (because you don’t know who will be in the finals).
Play the first round for real (possibly girls versus girl, guy versus guy, and battle of sexes for the final round) and in final round they pick the hard-boiled eggs 5 in a row (because you told them not to pick the one with your finger on it till last). Each time you are really in their faces to nail one another, when the final egg is up in the final round you are going crazy only to have the finalist smash it on your head! Make a kid a hero! Added by Young Life

Egg Swing
See Flour Swing, only instead of flour, use an egg. Imagine the possibilities! Added by Jennifer Spaeth

Fear Factor Box
Build a plexi glass box and frame it out - put legs on it (so it looks like a spider) with a clear lid. The bottom is made so you can put your head through it.  Contestants face put their head in and are told to put as many bolts and nuts together in 2 min. while we dump 300 roaches and 300 crickets in the box with their head.  The roaches make the crickets jump all over the place.   We bring this game out for our big events or the beginning of the school year.
Added by Sterling Lynn

Fish Pass Through Relay
Run a long piece of rope (like clothesline) through a dead fish. Make sure the end of the rope is pretty secure. Line up your volunteers shoulder to shoulder. Two teams facing each other. Volunteers must have t-shirts on. No spaghetti straps or long sleeves. The players must pass the fish through their shirt in one sleeve out the other. First one to make it through all shirts wins. Having girls in this one makes the game. They're always squeamish. You need a good number of people for this one. 10 - 12 on a team works best.
Added by J. Bucolo

Flour Swing
Need: Two pair of nylons and five pounds of flour
Prepare: Pour half the flour down one leg of nylons and the other half down a leg in the other pair of nylons. Mark an area on the floor for the match.
Play: Select two volunteers. Each volunteer places the waist portion of they nylons over their head. They now have two nylon legs hanging from their head, one full of flour. The players face off in the marked area for specific time period. This is a fast paced game and one minute is almost too long. Players then swing their heads to make the flour come into contact with their opponent.
The winner is the player with the least amount of flour on their clothes. (It doesn't matter whether the flour is from their own nylon or their opponent's.) Or you can count points for each time a blow is struck to the torso. I take no responsibility for the results of this game!!! :)

Grab Bag Scarf
Again, this can be a relay, but I play it as an up front game involving 6-8 people. Great game for a guys against girls night.
Obtain 2 bags of miscellaneous food items. They must have the same amount of items in each bag. Some items could be: package of unsweetened Kool Aid, a candy bar, soda, a can of sardines, a dill pickle, an onion slice, a clove of garlic, etc. Each bag should have 12-15 items in it. The object of the game is that the first team to eat the entire contents of the bag wins!
Note: Kids might need to vomit after a game like this so give them the bag.
Items needed: 2 bags, lots of food items.

Grape Juice Contest
Put 3 pounds of grapes in each of two coolers. Let two guys crush the grapes with their bare feet for two minutes. See who makes the most juice. For a tiebreaker, have the guys drink the juice. Have a measuring cup and big glasses.
Added by Young Life

Green Oatmeal
This is a fun game if you have the ability to shoot and show video.
Get 3 or 4 brave volunteers who race to eat a bowl of green oatmeal the fastest.  This is best if recorded on camera and projected on the big screen.  Award a first, second and third place so all contestants keep eating till done. When they finish have one of your staff ask, "Hey ‘Jonathan,' where do you get green oatmeal?"  You answer, "That's a good question, and show them.
Play a pre-recorded video of you and another staff member in your office, home, wherever, with a large (very large) pan or bowl of oatmeal.  Drop green food colouring in it and then dialogue about how to stir it.  "Do you have a big spoon?"  "No.  Do you?"  "No."  "Then what are we going to use?"  "HEY!  I got an idea!"
Each person in the video takes off his shoes and socks.  This is a great opportunity to show close-ups of your feet when the socks come off. (Pre-dirty your feet with some grease (PAM) between each toe).  Then stick your feet in the oatmeal and start sloshing around in it to mix it up.  As the camera tilts up to your faces, both can say, "That's how you make green oatmeal!"
(Note: for obvious health reasons, don't use that oatmeal as the oatmeal they eat!)  The look on their faces and reaction from the audience is priceless.  
(Thanks to Rux down in Southern CA for the idea!)

Gross Balloon Volleyball
All you need is a Volleyball court or something close to that, water balloons, and lots of gross liquids and sauces (NO Tabasco). What you do is you add things to all of the water balloons like ketchup, mustard, syrup, chocolate syrup, and salad dressing, anything you want. The grosser the better. Fill the gross stuff first - then the water).
The object is to throw the balloon back and forth over the net. (If you don’t have a net, you can do this like an egg toss). The higher you throw it the more likely it is to break when the person tries to catch it. Make sure that you tell people to wear old clothes in case they get splattered! Original idea by Matt Johnson

Gum & Flour
Gum, flour, cake pan and 3 to 4 kids.
Bury the gum in the flour. Without using their hands, students find the gum and blow a bubble.
Added by Young Life

Gummy Worms/Chocolate Pudding
Bring 3 or 4 volunteers up front. Each student has a pan with chocolate pudding or Reddi Whip and 15 gummy worms mixed in. Have them go face first into the chocolate pudding and pick the gummy worms out with their teeth and drop them on a plate. First one to get all 15 or the person who gets the most in a designated amount of time is the winner. Added by Susie

Happy Shake
File this up front game under the "fun with a blender" category!
Go to McDonalds and pick up 3 Happy Meals (the manager may even donate them if he appreciates youth work).  Pre-pick 3 willing contestants and bring them up front.  (Make sure you follow "Jonathan's Seven Sins of Game Leading" tips here- especially #2- being prepared and #7- making sure the entire crowd can see clearly)
Blend the Happy Meals together (burger, fries and drink) in front of them. Then, fill up equal CLEAR cups for each person. The rest is a race to see who can drink their "happy shake" the fastest.
You might want one or two trash cans near the front for participants who don't like the shakes.

Hawaiian Punch
Choose 3 two-person teams. Each team is given a bag of fruit, a clear drinking cup that has a line drawn across it to indicate a minimum amount of juice to be squeezed into the cup, and a chair.
The object of the game is to squeeze enough juice from the fruit into the cup to reach the line and for one team member to drink it. The gross out factor is that the only way that fruit can be squeezed is either in the armpit, the back of the knee or with the feet.
On team member sits in the chair and does the squeezing (with the help of the drinker) while the other team member catches the juice. Once predetermined level is reached, the drinker has to run up front and drink it.
Award prizes, dumb like a can of bean dip or an old soccer trophy, or good, like a cd or demo from your local Christian bookstore.
Tips:
Cut the fruit in half before the teams get it b/c it juices easier. Grapefruits are good b/c they have tons of juice, so are tomatoes because they are gross and have a ton of juice. Plastic cups are safest to use. We used tape on the cup to indicate the level of juice. Be sure and keep the level low enough and use tons of fruit b/c each piece yields very little juice.
Added by Chris Chamberlain.

Head Paint
Bring 3 guys with way short hair up front. Have them dip their heads in tins filled with chocolate sauce. Others hold large pieces of cardboard for them to draw of write on. Write words. Draw pictures. Use your imagination.
Variation: Use bare feet (standing, sitting, or lying down).
Idea from Young Life

Ice Cream Mayo Surprise
Plan ahead to do this. Buy cheap vanilla ice cream and a jar of cheap Mayonnaise. Put the mayo in a Tupperware dish and freeze. (Mayonnaise when frozen looks exactly like vanilla ice cream.) Before the contest, scoop out some ice cream into a bowl and do like wise to mayo. Keep frozen until the last minute.
Set the contest up as just a typical ice cream eating contest, hands behind their backs, etc. The look on the person who eats the frozen mayo is priceless.
Added by Randy

Jell-O Twister
Very messy: best done when it’s warm outside so kids can hose down after.  Get a square of cheap plastic and attach pie tins in a 4 x 4 grid by pushing a pull clip through the bottom of both the pans and plastic. Then spread out the clips under the plastic to hold them down. Fill them with already made Jell-O right before youth group. Have a good spinner and kids who will go for it. Play in bare feet.
Added by Young Life

Jello Slurp
Easy as it sounds. Several contestants, each with a bowl of Jello in front of them. You can give them each a straw, or put their hands behind their back and have them bury their face in it. First one done is the winner.

Jello Slurp and Spit
Have a huge bowl of Jello up front, 3 students, and 3 small jars. Each student gets a straw. The object is to see which student can get the most Jello into their personal jar by slurping it out of the mother bowl and spitting it into their jar. Give them a certain amount of time, and then compare jars to see who has the most. Added by Young Life
Joust - Sick & Twisted
Just like joust, only played outside over a baby pool filled with gross ingredients  (oatmeal, instant potatoes, etc.). You can either use buckets or a 4x4 plank of sturdy wood long enough to reach across your pool. (Prop up the ends of your plank so the pool is not crushed).  
Two contestants with Nerf joust sticks (or pool noodles) and helmets battle on the plank to knock each other off into the pool.
Lots of preparation required and safety consciousness on this one. Make sure the board doesn’t get too slippery. You might even want gymnastic mats around the pool.
Play near a bathroom and have towels handy for clean up.
Added by Young Life

M & M Scarf
Six students on each team (2 teams) must divide out colours of a pound bag of M&M's and eat them in order of colour. Example: First person opens the bag and sorts out all the red colours then passes the bag to the next person while scarfing (eating) his colour! The team with all the M& M's eaten first is the winner.

Marshmallow Drop
For this game you'll need:
1 Bag large marshmallows
Chocolate syrup
2 bowls
2 chairs or step ladder
You will also need 3 students: one to hold the bowl, one to stand on the chair/ladder, one to lay down on floor. The object of the game is to see how many chocolate marshmallows can be dropped into the mouth of the person lying on the floor. The person on the chair/ladder dips a
marshmallow into the chocolate and tries to drop it into the mouth of the person lying on the floor. Person on the chair cannot bend over but must stay in upright position. The person on the floor should spit the marshmallow out of their mouth, to catch the next marshmallow.
The winners are the group that catches the most marshmallows in a given amount of time. You set the time.
Added by Stan Bell

Marshmallow Splat Ball
This is a messy adaptation to Splat Ball.  Make sure students wear clothes that can be thrown away. Divide into 4 or more teams and arm each person with a small Styrofoam plate, and 4 marshmallows.
Give each team captain (adult) a different colour dipping sauce (we used Mustard, Red & Green Catsup, and Chocolate Syrup, but use your imagination). Then map out the boundaries, and send each team to a corner of the playing field as a designated area to load up. Fill each plate with the splat substance. Then tell them to dip and on your signal begin throwing them at the other teams. The team with the most hits wins, but once the slime pellets start to fly no one cares. It was a blast. When they run out of mellows they can either pick one up from the ground, and re-dip, or run back to the supply station until the ammo run out. When the fun was done we had a contest to see which team could pick up the most mellows. The prize was dumping a bottle of maple syrup over a leaders head, (stolen from the 10 bags of doom) the ground was spotless. We serve a fun God!
Added by Jon Nowlin

Mess Mix
Get 30 cut up pieces of paper. Have 10 blank and on the other 20 put different types of “Mess”. Ex: Pie in face, Syrup on head, etc.). Be prepared for a big mess. Tell kids to wear old clothes and be ready to hose them off after. Put the papers in a bucket. Pass the bucket around and tell people to get 1 piece out. Ask one person what their paper says. Whatever it says, they have to do it. Go around until everyone has been called on. The 10 with the blank pieces win a “big prize”. What’s the prize, you ask? Why, it’s a Big ole Bucket of Green pudding over their heads! Have fun and get the hose!
Suggested Mess items:
2 eggs smashed on head
Choco Syrup on head
Pie in Face
Pudding on Head
Cake on Head
Shaving cream Hairdo
Ranch Dressing Hairdo
Water and Flour Slime
Wild Card (Your choice)
Mix of all the stuff in a slime form
Peanut Butter (Gets real sticky!)
Apple sauce
PB and J Sandwich on head
Coca Cola
Butter
Water
Mud
Honey
Toothpaste
Pizza Sauce
Ice Cream
Mayonnaise
Spaghetti
Syrup
Ketchup
Pancake Batter
Added by Aaron Headly
Also see Messy Message, Messy Plexi, & Slime Twister

Messy Message
This game works well if you have a laminator, buy the laminating pages, or use clear mailing tape. Print or write a phrase or scripture out on a piece of paper. Then cut it into separate words. Laminate it or figure out some way to protect the paper
from the elements it will be exposed to. Then put the words into balloons and fill the balloons with gross things like ketchup, salad dressing, or salsa, etc.
The object of the games is to pop the balloon with your feet, find the words, and spell out the scripture or phrase.  
Added by Chad (Big Daddy) Deetz
Also see Messy Mix, Messy Plexi, & Slime Twister

Milk The Latex Glove
2-4 kids race to see who’s the best at milking rubber gloves. Set up the gloves on sawhorses for the cow. Make very small pinholes in the tips of the fingers of the gloves. Have a measuring cup to see who wins and a container for each to milk into. Play cow sound effects and country music in the background.
Added by Young Life

Mud-O-War
The ever popular Mud-O-War is simply tug of war in the mud, through a Jello kiddie pool . . . you name it!
Added by Naomi

Musical Baby Food
Have the whole group of kids sit in a circle. If there is a small group of kids you only need 1 can of the worst baby food you can find. If you have a larger group of kids you can get a couple of cans of food. Play music as the cans of food are being passed around, but when the music stops whoever is holding the can of food has to take a big spoonful! (Have a staff person supply a clean spoon for each person- no double dipping)
Added by Krystle

Oil Ball
Get a plastic tarp, about 20' x 25', and lay it down. Pour and smear about 5 to 6 bottles of baby oil all over the tarp. Make the outline of an oval track with about 6 cans of shaving cream. Now the goal is to "wheelbarrow" (this is when one kid stands while holding another kids feet in the air) with the kid on the ground pushing a tennis ball with his/her head around the track twice. The first one done wins! This game does have a cost, but everyone who plays is covered when done and you'll see some great wipeouts!
Added by Paul Butler

Pantyhose Jello slurp
Up front game with three to five contestants. Each contestant places knee-high pantyhose over their head, which is funny in its own right. Then place a drop cloth or tarp down and have each kneel on the tarp. Give each contestant a bowl of especially runny Jello in the most seasonal colour (green St. Patrick's Day, red for Valentine's, orange for Halloween, etc.). Place something seasonal in the Jello (peeled grapes for eyeballs at Halloween, Lucky Charms for St. Pat's) and give bonus points for those that can slurp seasonal items through their pantyhose. Winner gets a dumb prize.
Added by Benny

Pass the Brains
Here's a Halloween variation of the 'pass the parcel' game we typically play at kid's parties in Australia. Scoop out a pumpkin as you would to make a jack _o _lantern. Carve out a face, but don't make the holes too big otherwise the 'brains' will fall out too quickly. (Alternatively, you could just draw a face on the pumpkin with a black marker pen.) Fill the pumpkin with cold, cooked spaghetti hiding wrapped candy in amongst the 'brains'. There should be one candy for each kid playing. Play some spooky music as the pumpkin head is passed around. When the music stops, the kid holding the head feels through its 'brains to find some candy.

Pass the Spam
Divide students into teams (however many you want) and form a line. Give each team a can of Spam. Have the first person in each line open the can and place the Spam under his chin, holding it against their chest. When you say "Go" they pass it to the next persons chin. (No hands...except to pick it up off the floor!). A simple relay, but have fun adding creative twists...like "last person eats it!"
Added by Purple Chris

Pickle Spitting Contest
Buy a large container of dill pickles. You can go with whole pickles, you can cut them . . . the size is up to you! Roll out plastic on floor! Categorize you crowd by age, grade, and gender, whatever you feel like, and go to it. Anything from distance, bulls eye, goal posts, target, (skies the limit) and have fun with lots of recognition. We have done this in our harvest party and had takers of all ages.
Added by Dean Bohl

Pie Eating Contest
2-4 students (who won't mind getting messy) race, sitting at a table with a pie and a fork. Say, "On your marks, get set…" then stop and take away the forks. Repeat and add whipped cream. The last time, have them put their hands behind their back. Have a drop cloth and towels to clean up. Upbeat "pie-eating" music in background is a must! Idea from Young Life

Pie Roulette
Six kids in a circle pass a pie around. When the music stops, the kid with the pie has the choice of pieing the person on their right or himself. If the kid pies another kid he’s out. If he pies himself, he stays in. If they all pie themselves add honey to the pie, or Spam, or chocolate syrup, or whatever it takes. Use marshmallow fluff or whip cream for the pies.
Added by Young Life

Pudding Fling
Make a "Bulls Eye" hole in a large (door size) piece of cardboard or plywood (think refrigerator box). Give the one who volunteers to stick their head in the "Bulls Eye" sunglasses to protect their eyes. Have a mixing bowl full of pudding for students to spoon from. They will fling a pudding filled spoon at their target.
Added by Elise Hawke

Radioactive Spew
Good for a "Fear Factor" event.
Same as regular SPEW except set up your drinking area with black lights ahead of time. Use Tonic Water instead of 7-UP. (Tonic glows in a black light!) For added fear factor effect, rim the glass with clam juice and garlic powder (I think we used fish oil in there somewhere too)!
Added by Brett

Slime Twister
This is a MESSY twist (pun intended) on the classic board game Twister. Did we say messy? That's an understatement: play this version using pea soup, blue pudding, ketchup, and mustard.
Added by Elise Hawke
Also see Messy Message, Messy Mix, & Messy Plexi

Snoot Shoot
Bring 3 or 4 people up front. Give them each a certain number of Jelly Bellies, they're smaller than normal jelly beans- Good and Plenty's or Skittles work as well. Place a bucket a good 5 feet away from each contestant. You can guess the rest- they shoot the Jelly Bellys, cherios, or other candy out their NOSE into the bucket. A riot to watch- and not much fun to count the candy in the bucket.

Soda Slam Plus
This game is a cinch. Bring up a few contestants, give them each a soda and tell them the first one to empty the can wins. Option: have them belch when they're done to complete the contest. Another Option: Have each contestant turn their can upside down before opening. Take a pen and poke a hole in the bottom sidewall of the can. Have them place their mouth around the hole, tilt the can upright and open the top at the same time. All the soda will flow into their mouth in less than 10 seconds- very hard to keep from spitting it out (See the Rob Reiner film, "The Sure Thing" for a demonstration)
Variation: Have contestants stand up front, Coke can in hand. A split second before you say "Go!” say, "Wait, take off your sock and put it over the can and drink out of that." Then, just as you're saying "go" again, make them pass their can (with their sock on it) to the player beside them! Have paper towels and a paper (barf) bag handy, if necessary.
Added by Lori Zenker

Spaghetti Hair-do
Have 3 guys give 3 girls (or vice versa) a "haircut" by dumping (cooled) spaghetti on their heads. Give them scissors and a comb and let them create a hair-do. You may use a chef's uniforms and have background music (Italian, songs with “Respect” in them, etc.).
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Spelling Bee
This is designed to get you, the leader. You can use it as an excuse to let the kids have a good laugh at your expense, or offer it as a prize for a fundraiser (e.g., “Only those who raise $50 can challenge me to the Power Spelling Bee!”)  It begins by having someone challenge you to a spelling bee. Four kids come up front to challenge you one a time to a power spelling bee. The game goes as follows: one kid at a time steps up and is given an object - for example, an egg. The leader asks them to spell egg. If they do it correctly, they get to put the object on you. If incorrectly, they do not (Obviously, by now you will have an egg on your head). Then it is your chance to spell and put something on them, only you are set up each time. For example, your leader may hold up a can of coke to which you excitedly blurt out "coke…c-o-k-e…coke" only to have your leader tell you that is not the word, instead, they read the toughest ingredient on the can (phenylcarbonhydronate acid or whatever) you miss. The next kid steps up and spells another object (oatmeal, syrup, bananas all work). Each time you get drilled and each time you spell back you lose.
Whoever is running the game may trick you in other ways, for example, silent "p’s" whatever. A good ender is for them to give you one that you can get right, you in disbelief stare and take a minute to try to guess the catch…then you slowly spell the easy word…on the second to last letter your leader looks at their watch, interrupts saying "whoop, you time has expired, but thanks for playing" and takes off. Your reactions, facial expressions, and acting ability will make or break this one!
Idea from Young Life

Spew
The name says it all. Go to your local store and get some of the cheep Alka-Seltzer (enough for at least 4 tries per student) because they think that they can get better as the game goes on.
Get 4 or 5 brave volunteers.  Place one Alka-Seltzer tablet under their tongue (they can't taste it that way) Then you give each one about 4 or 5 oz of SPRITE or clear soda pop. When they put it in their mouth, the fun begins.  The one who can hold their mouth closed the longest is the winner. Don't stand in front of them unless you want to get spew on you.
Added by Allen Ballard