Youth Ideas - String Connections

Youth Ideas
- String
Connections
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Almost everyone has some string
lying around the house. Most
often, string is used to connect
things. As such, the string games
below can be used to introduce a
great object lesson on being
connected to Christ and others.

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What You Need
• Lots of string
Games Using String
All Inside – Lay a circle of string on the
ground and ask a team of youth (6-15
people) to stand inside the circle.
Everyone must be touching the ground
inside the string circle in some way.
They must stay inside the circle for the
amount of time it takes them to sing
the chorus of a song familiar to the
youth. No one can touch the ground
outside the shoestring circle. Then tie
an 8 inch loop in the string and try
again. Team to fit inside the smallest
circle of string wins.

Loop Groups – Create a loop of
string about the size of a hula
hoop. Ask the youth to stand in
a circle and hold hands. Then
have one pair of youth release
their hands reach through the
string circle and then re-connect
hands. The shoestring circle
must travel in a clockwise
direction and return to the initial
starting position without anyone
letting go of hands. The youth
must stay in one location while
the shoestring circle moves
around the circle. Fastest time
wins.

Polygon – Tie a long piece of
string together at the ends to
form a circle. All the youth hold
onto the circle with both hands
and then asked to form a
specific shape without letting
go. (e.g.: Perfect circle, square,
equilateral triangle, Letter C,
etc). Stage 1: No talking. Stage
two – Can talk but eyes closed.

String Introductions – Take a
pair of scissors and cut pieces of
string or yarn into various
lengths. (12-30 inches in length)
Then bunch them all up in one
pile. Each youth pulls on one
piece of string to separate it
from the others then introduces
him or herself as he or she
slowly winds the piece of string
around an index finger. Some of
the strings are extremely long,
so sometimes a person must
keep talking for a very long time!

String spelling – Played like
charades, youth must guess a
series of words or items from a
list, but instead of miming
them, they try to spell them
out with the piece of string.

Tennis Ball Transport – You’ll need
some large washers (or a curtain
ring), some string, and some tennis
balls. Tie five to eight long cord
pieces (4-6 feet long) to a washer
(or curtain ring). Place the washer
on the ground with the cords
coming out from it like rays of
sunshine. Place a tennis ball on top
of the washer. The challenge is for
the youth to pick up the washer and
tennis ball by hanging onto the
strings only without the tennis ball
falling off. Need more of a
challenge? Switch strings with
another group without dropping a
tennis ball.

A String Game and a Lesson
1. Sit the group on the floor in
a circle with everyone facing
inward toward the center of
the circle.
2. Tell everyone your name and
one characteristic about
yourself.
3. Holding firmly to the end of
the string, toss the ball of
string to someone in the
circle who has not yet
received the string.

4. The youth receiving the string
gives his/her name and one
characteristic.
5. Then, holding firmly onto the
string, he or she tosses the ball
on to another person.
6. The string should be held
tightly and above the ground at
all times.
7. Continue until everyone has
received the string at least
once and has told the group
their name and shared one
characteristic.

TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
GENERAL DISCUSSION
• Have someone in the group
pull the string – What
happens?
• Have everyone pull the string
tight then cut the string in
the middle. What happens?
• In what ways does the string
represent various
relationships in the youth
group?

(Sample answers: Our
relationships are intertwined
and connected. If a single
person pulls the string it affects
everyone in the group to
varying degrees, depending on
how closely they are
connected. If one persons
string is cut the relationship is
broken, it affects all. We need
to support each other and not
let others down)

MAKE IT SPIRITUAL
John 15 speaks of the Vine and
the branches and the
connectedness we must maintain
with Christ! The Bible says we
have a friend that sticks closer
than a brother – Jesus. Scripture
tells us that like this string, Jesus
connects us all together. He is the
head of the body and we are all
connected though him.
(Colossians 1:15-20, 1 Corinthians
12)

Next, tie the string to an object with
some weight and start to spin it.
When spinning the object, ask the
audience what will happen when you
let go. Will the object continue in the
path that it is currently traveling? Let
go. The object will travel in a straight
line away from where the center
used to be. The same thing happens
in our walk with God when we
discontinue our devotional and our
personal time with Him. We grow
farther apart from Him. We need to
be connected to God to grow
spiritually or we will fall away.

MAKE IT PRACTICAL
• What are some ways that a
person can stay closer
connected to Christ?
• What are the benefits a
person gets in staying close
to Christ?
• What are some ways that
Christians can draw closer to
others in the church?
• Why are relationships,
connections in the church so
important?
• What things ties us together
as Christians?

MAKE IT PERSONAL
• What do you need to do to
be closer connected to
Christ?
• What are some ways you
can be closer connected to
other Christians?
• How can you draw those
who have fallen away or
strayed from God to be
closer to him?

SCRIPTURE
Colossians 1:15-20 – “The Son is
the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn over all creation. For
in him all things were created:
things in heaven and on earth,
visible and invisible, whether
thrones or powers or rulers or
authorities; all things have been
created through him and for him.
He is before all things, and in him
all things hold together.

And he is the head of the body,
the church; he is the beginning
and the firstborn from among the
dead, so that in everything he
might have the supremacy. For
God was pleased to have all his
fullness dwell in him, and through
him to reconcile to himself all
things, whether things on earth or
things in heaven, by making peace
through his blood, shed on the
cross.”

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