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Parenting Resource Round-Up

By | October 13, 2011 | Parents | Comments Off
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  1. What Kind of a Leader Are You?: Amanda, from Impress Your Kids, shares some great devotional books to help you get into God’s Word. 
  2. Why Family Dinner is So Important:There’s something kids can learn at every age while around the dinner table
  3. Pasta Thursday: Speaking of family dinner, here’s some pasta ideas from Wegmans! 
  4. Who’s Watching You?: One of my favorite hip-hop artist LaCrae raps about the importance of male role models
  5. Veggie Tales Games: Now that looks like fun!
  6. Christmas Planning free e-book: Focus on what’s really important this year!
  7. Courageous Parenting: A Call to Action!
  8. Talking to Your Kid About Online Safety: How to spot a creeper and more
  9. Making a Parenting Manifesto: What do you want your kids to remember?  What do you want them to become?
  10. It’s Playtime: Ideas with Apples!

3 Games from Family Fun Magazine

By | September 5, 2011 | Games | 10 Comments
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While browsing through this month’s edition of Family Fun, I spotted a few fun relay that would be perfect for Children’s Ministry.  You can check them out on their website:

  • Wacky Waiter: A fun relay using paper plates and a ping pong ball
  • Sneaker Scramble: The kids in our ministry are always taking their shoes off — why not make it a game?
  • Grab Bag: Get the camera ready!

You can often snag a whole year’s subscription for #3.89 at Best Deal Magazines with a coupon code.  I’ll let you know when I see it available again.  As it is, I think I have 6 years already.  They’ve got great ideas!

Have you stumbled across a great idea?  Leave a comment and let me know!

Minute to Win It: Million Dollar Redemption

By | June 8, 2011 | Games, Minute to Win It | 1 Comment
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In this episode of NBC’s hit game show “Minute to Win It” (Season 2, Episode 30), former contestant Heather gets a second chance at the million. I wasn’t able to catch the first half of this 2-part special, so these games will be a bit harder than usual.  Use them for adults or your youth group!

Level 5 Challenge: On the Hook

In this game, contestant must hold a chopstick in their mouth, attached to a string and open paper clip.  She has to fish 4 keys of a stand (or stool) in front of her.  Heather got a bonus 10 seconds for this game, and it’s good thing too — she finished with just 4 seconds of her 70 seconds to spare!

Level 6 Challenge: Laying Track

In this game, contestant must use staples, flipped upside down to build a track for a marble on a tilted table.  The track must go over 3 pairs of erasers and drop into a glass at the end of the table.  The lady nailed this one for $75,000!

Level 7: Caddy Stack

Heather is starting to get pretty worked up, but she feels confident about this game.  For the next level, she has to stack three golf balls and they have to stay for 3 seconds.  Sounds easy right?  Go ahead, try it at home!  She nailed it quick. Way to earn $125,000!  Now, will she go on?

Level 8: Mag-Nutstacker

Of course she will! This classic nutstacker game gets spiced up a bit at this level. Contestant must alternate stacking nuts and magnets with a chopstick.  The whole pile must be then moved to a different table before winning a  quarter of a million dollars!  And she does it again!  Amazing!  With $250,000 in the bank, of course she’s moving on!

Level 9: Get Forked

In this nearly impossible task, contest must roll a quarter 15 feet towards a fork.  The object is to get the coin catch a coin in the prongs of a fork.  This tough task did Heather in, but she still walked away with quite a wallet-full.

That’s it for now!

 

 

Minute to Win It: The Family that Plays Together

By | May 31, 2011 | Games, Minute to Win It | 3 Comments
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What a family!  In this unique episode of Minute to Win It, the whole Canter family (mom, dad, and four daughters!) compete for the million.  Here’s some games that might be good for your family or kids ministry (lot of classic games in this episode):

Knock It Off: Click on the title to watch a video about this one.  I’ve always thought this game was ridiculously hard (especially for a level two!), but this 12 year old girl nailed it in 30 seconds, so it might be worth a shot!

Speed Eraser: For this level three game, contestants must bounce 10 pencils on their eraser to get them to land in 10 glasses lined up along a table.  It is played as a team, so each contestant has to land 5 pencils each.

Spoon Frog: Similar to Speed Eraser, check out the video below for instructions:

Nutstacker: Using a chopstick, a contestant must stack 10 bolts on top of each other without making the tower tip over.

Cantagious: For $125,000, contestant start with three full cans of soda in the right hand and three empty cans in the left.  They must switch all the cans so they end up with the three full cans in the left and empty in the right.  They cannot use the body for leverage or set down any cans.   Much harder than it sounds!  On Youtube, I saw a kid use mini-soda cans.  Might be worth a try!

That’s it for now!  Catch you next week for more Minute to Win it games!   If you’ve got some great ideas for outdoor Minute to Win it games — great for summer fun, let me know!

 

Minute to Win It: Million Dollar Bromance

By | May 16, 2011 | Games, Minute to Win It | 6 Comments
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Welcome to another edition of Monday Minute to Win It, where you can find great games for your Children or Youth ministry or for a Family fun event.  Thanks for stopping by!

This Blows

Player blows up a balloon and then uses the escaping air (letting the balloon deflate) to blow 15 plastic cups off the table.  Simple enough, but you might want to reduce the number of cups or your kids will get a headache fast!  Or you could place the cups closer to the edge of the table like in this video:

Marbles Grande

Super-sized marbles game.  Players must use white ping pong balls to knock red ones out of a hula hoop 5 feet away. This is level two round game, so they only have to knock out 4 red ones.  You could increase or decrease the balls inside the hoop to fit any skill or level.

Kick Off

Neither contestant looked happy about this game.  Players must kick cans positioned in a circle around a metal tub/basin.  Cans look to be about 4 feet around the basin.  For round three, players must make 2 cans go into the basin. It must be harder than it sounds, but certainly worth a shot.  For some messy play outside, make them cans full of soda!

Floatacious

Check out the video for full instructions on this one:

This was a level one game, and the contestants already lost a life.  Might be a little too tough with 5 cans with kids. Three should be totally do-able though.

Puddle Jumper

In this level two game, contestants must cause a ping pong ball to jump from one cup filled with water to another cup filled with water about 4 inches away.  They must do this three times.

 

That’s it for now!  Let me know how you’re using these games!

 

Monday Minute to Win it: Mother’s Day Face-off

By | May 9, 2011 | Games, Minute to Win It | Comments Off
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In Episode #24 (Season 2) of this hit NBC game show, two mother-daughter teams will face off to win the million! This episode worked a little differently: first team to win four games banks $50,000 and goes on for the chance at the million. Let’s see what kind of games we can snag for children’s and youth ministry or some family fun nights!

Temper Tantrum

Check out Last Beauty Standing for the full instructions on this one.  A funny one to watch for sure!

Moving On Up

This is the first I’ve seen this game, and it looks perfect for a group competition.  Player must move the red cup (which starts at the bottom of a 50 cup stack) to the top of the stack by taking cups off the top and putting them below the red one.  Check out the video for a full explanation.  These players had to alternate hands, but you could nix that rule for children’s ministry (and you might want to reduce the number of cups too!) This was a tight race!!

Face the Cookie

Check out the Kids Try This at Home post for the explanation to this classic game.  This is a huge hit with kids.  When we played this last week with the kids at church, everyone was begging to be a contestant!

Noodling Around

Check out the video to see how to play.  Might be good for older kids, but it might be too tough for the little ones (unless you changed it to 2-3 Penne pastas)

This was a fun one to watch!  Catch it on hulu in the next few days (or anytime if you have Hulu Plus).  Hope you can use some of the games.  See you next time!

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