I am planning an activity for a jr. high and high school youth group, what are some bonding activities?
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How about the trust catch thing.  Someone stands up higher than everyone else and the group or just one or two catch the person as they fall?  I don't know.
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My teacher had a great way of doing this. Tell your students to collect various household items and a few bags. Make sure each kid picks out two specific objects. When everyone returns, teach union and intersect using the kids' "sets".
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If it's a big high school you could fundraise and start a high school radio channel, and get sponsorship from local businesses in return for mentioning them during adverts and between shows.\nYou could start making something useful and sell it off for less than the usual price. In my school we made pot pourri sachets and ornaments. They sold very well. \nYou could get local businesses to sponsor a group from your school to do a play or a mini marathon or something. That way you would be promoting the local businesses and would be making money for charity, and would be keeping health and wellbeing in the project.
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I don't know what kind of ideas you are looking for,  but when I have gone to church picnics in the past, some of the best included flag football games that pitted youth and 20 somethings against the 30 and 40 somethings.  Believe it or not, the youth team lost 3 years in a row!\n\nUpdate your question if you are looking for a different kind of idea.  I wanted to make sure you had an answer other than Godshew's.
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find a common ground.  Family, weather, sports teams, the day...\n\njust make some humor and they'll open up...
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Be kind to one another. Practice patience, kindness and tolerance.
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Try Classmates.com.  There you can join groups for grade school, secondary, high school, college, military and work place as well.
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The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America do these types of things frequently.  Check out one of their websites.
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throw pic nics, class reunions at the parks , maybe even a tournemet, tennis, softball etc. in the gardens hve guide school tours, bird and butterfly watching... with easter comming.. easter egg hunts, concerts, small plays/ poetry readings, baseball/ basketball clinics
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Get some friends together -get a bag of balloons put water in them ( Water grenades) and start a battle - even get the hose out - have fun \n\nGet out your camera and take picures of stuff for fun \n\nGo to the Mall and try on expensive clothes or crazy looking clothes -that you have no intention of buying just for kicks to see what you look like in stuff you normally dont wear (I did this one year (alot) cause it gave me something hilarius to do that no-one else could see -I was LMAO in the dressing rooms )- I did bring a friend with me one of the times and she got a kick out of it and started doing it herself - we would put on wacky looking  formal dresses and freaky stuff we were even asked to leave one store cause we were laughing too loud !!!\n\nGet a summer Job or VOLUNTEER \n\nGo to a park and go for a long walk\n\nSince you want to go to school why not \nTake a yoga, dance or karate class \nor art or pottery classes or other class like learn to speak Spanish or other language to occupy your brain -until school resumes\n\nDo some spring cleaning & put stuff aside to have a yardsale\n \nRe-decorate your room or just move your furniture around
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Speratically do things together, take hot baths, go for long walks, play around like you were kids sometimes. Find different things to make it fun for yall and keep the flame burning.
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Get some ideas from here: \n\nhttp://www.teenpartyideas.com/html/miscellaneous.html\n\nAlso, a day or so after the party, send out Thank You notes to each of your guests! =)
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You can meet people in school, activities/functions, parties, courses, church.etc.\n\nGood luck\n\nJoyce
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When I began going to church, I was the most quiet and shy person you could dream of.  I imagine I had a lot in common with the teens in your church.  One thing that helped me open up was all of the activities we got together for outside of church: bowling, hanging out as a group w/our youth ministers at someone's house. . . .   Doing this put me in a more comfortable setting and helped me to relax more.  Another thing was picking a discussion topic that you feel certian AT LEAST 80% of teens have had experiences with.  One topic I have been involved in discussing is online communities(such as MySpace) and how they affect your spirituality and thinking.  Be sure to make it clear that you are interested in everyone's ideas.  This will make them proud of what they believe, and they will be more willing to share ideas.  When I say show interest in their ideas, I don't mean "oh, that's a good idea".  My youth ministers always seemed oddly excited over anyone's ideas and made sure that comment led to the next part of the discussion so we didn't feel like our voice didn't matter.  We could see how our opinion affected the conversation.
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Turn it into a big family and friends event. Get both guys and girls involved. Have a cookout. That is what I did.
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You practice them.  If they are important to you, practice them.  Share them with the young.  Get others involved in them.  Write books about them.  Organized large groups of people  (even like your friends) to participate in them.
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Try joining a church and getting involved with the different activities they have for the youth and young adults.  Plus, have him think of things to do for fun as well.