Use your senses to identify common objects and items

1. Summer Youth
Camp - It Makes
Sense
Use your senses to
identify common
objects and items
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2. Game Materials
Lunch Bags, Small Household Items
(depending on which senses you
want to use in the game); Stapler;
Paper; Pen; Marker
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3. Game Preparation
Prepare several lunch bags with
one item in each bag. The number
of bags can be adjusted depending
on the time you have to play the
game. You can use items that can
be found around the house – (i.e.
comb, pen, etc) or items can be
according to a specific category like
office supplies, foods, tools,
cosmetics, etc to suit a party
theme. Fold over the top of the bag
and staple closed.
With a marker, number the bags on
the outside
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4. Game Play
1. Participants examine one
numbered bag at a time, and try
to identify the contents ONLY by
feeling the them through the
bag.
2. Ask participants to number their
paper according to the number
of bags, and record their answers
next to the appropriate numbers
corresponding to each bag.
3. When all the participants have
identified the items, reveal what
is in each bag. The winner is the
participant who correctly
guessed the most items.
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5. Game Variations
1. Touch - use items with various
textures (i.e. hard, sandpaper,
soft, bumpy, feather, cotton,
fur, felt, hairbrush etc that
have identifying
characteristics. You can also
use simple items like staplers
etc) You can allow them to
reach inside the bag, without
looking and feel the item inside
the bag or for simply objects
they just feel through the bag.
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6. 2. Smell - Use 2-3
tablespoons of spices,
fruits, or other items
with strong characteristic
smells. (i.e. orange peel,
pepper, cinnamon,
oregano, onion, etc.
These might be best in a
cloth bag or punch a few
very small holes in the
paper bag with a needle
so the scents can escape
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7. Bible Studies based on the book of Jonah
Only. This youth camp curriculum was
designed to teach the basic truths
of obedience in addition to evangelism in the
context of a Biblical character. The advantage
of going through a book and looking at one
man's story is that we see not only the
teaching but the example. It becomes much
more real!
Camp Curriculum - Whale of a Tale
-> Tell me about “Whale of a Tale”
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8. Creative Youth Ideas
Camp Bible Study Series
“Who Do You Say that I AM?”
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-> Tell me about “Who Do You Say that I AM?”
Jesus asked the disciples, "Who do others
say that I am?" It was easy to answer
because it required no conviction, no
commitment, and no risk. But then he
follows that question with another, "Who
do YOU say that I am?"
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9. Live the Fruitful, Abundant Life
Jesus Promised. Great for youth camps or
weekly Youth Bible Study. There are 7
Primary Bible study Sessions in the series.
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-> Tell me about “Fruit Of the Spirit”
Creative Youth Ideas
Youth Camp Bible Study Series
“Fruit Of the Spirit”
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10. "The Great Adventure" is western
themed Bible study series loosely based
around the song of the same name by
Steven Curtis Chapman. It was initially
written for a large Texas Church to use for
their Summer Youth Camp but has since
then proven popular around the world.
Camp Curriculum - The Great Adventure
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-> Tell me about “The Great Adventure”
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