Several weeks ago, God laid it on my heart to reach out to our church members and offer to pray. He lead me to start a prayer list and keep track of prayer needs as we are all still at home and "gathering" only via Zoom or Facebook Live. I am grateful for the Lord's leading as this is a tangible way I can serve our church family, which is often challenging when we meet in person and I have my 4 little blessings in tow. But prayer? I can do that! From there, He grew and nurtured a vision of having a women's group on FB where we could share and encourage one another. Then, the idea came for a weekly meeting where we could share, chat, pray, and play some kind of game together. It has taken some figuring to learn how to best use Zoom when the language being used is ASL and requires everyone to look at the one who is signing. Features like "spotlight" and someone to sort of lead the turn taking have been hugely helpful. After some weeks of playing Bible Trivia, I finally took time to research various game ideas for us to use to diversify our game options and thought I would share them in case others are out on the internet looking for the same kind of resources. These ideas are some my own and some pulled from sites around the web.
*NOTE: If you are a female who is Deaf or a proficient user of ASL and would like to join our FB group and participate in our weekly Zoom meetups, please message me on Facebook!
ZOOM Game Ideas
1. I SPY (using peoples'
backgrounds): -Scroll through the people in the group and whoever is
"it" says they Spy something that can be found in the room behind
someone. After a few rounds, have everyone do a 180 if they can (if
they're on a desktop they can't) so the background is different.
2.
BINGO: post bingo cards beforehand or, make it simple and have
them print the blank one and fill in numbers using 1 to 75. Use random BINGO
number generator online and one person leads the game.
3.
2 TRUTHS &
A LIE: Each person thinks of 2 truths
about themselves and a lie. Everyone else has to figure out the lie.
4.
“WOULD YOU
RATHER?”: Ask these questions and people
take turn answering.
a.
Quarantine
Version
i. Would you rather run out of TP or have your internet go
out?
ii. Would you rather run out of bread or run out of milk?
iii. Would you rather be quarantined with hot weather or cold
weather?
iv. Your car just ran out of gas, and you now magically live next
to a exotic farm. Would you rather your only mode of transportation be a
donkey or a giraffe?
v. A tragic event falls upon your utensil drawer. Would you
rather only be able to use a fork (no spoon) or only be able to use a spoon (no
fork)?
vi. You bought a big box of mixed chip bags. Some of the
bags are your favorite kind of chips, some of the bags are your least
favorite. Would you rather eat your favorites first and save the others
for later, or eat the others first and save your favorite for later?
vii. Would you rather have one shirt or one pair of pants?
viii.
Would you
rather have no music or no books?
ix. Would you rather all the dogs in your neighbor get out and
run around or all the cats get out?
b.
Christian Version
i. Have the super strength of Samson or wisdom of Solomon?
ii. Have to fight the giant Goliath or fight in a war against the
Philistines?
iii. Have to hide from your boss who is trying to kill you or have
your body covered in raw sores?
iv. Glean crop leftovers from a farmer’s field or make bricks out
of mud and straw?
v. Be cooped up in the ark for 377 days taking care of animals
all day or lay on your side for 390 days?
vi. Eat only homemade bread for over a year or eat only
vegetables and fruit for the foreseeable future?
vii. Be forced to marry a monarch and live in a palace for the
rest of your life or wander in the desert for 40 years?
viii.
Deceive your
father into giving you your sibling’s blessing or have your father believe you
had been killed by a wild animal?
ix. Live through a famine or live through the 10 plagues of
Egypt?
x. Be baptized by John the Baptist or hear Paul speak
to a crowd about Jesus?
xi. Eat a scroll (a piece of rough paper with writing on it) or
drink vinegar?
xii. Hide spies in your house or hide a baby from Pharaoh?
xiii.
Carry the ark
of the covenant across the Jordan River or carry Jesus’s cross to Golgatha?
xiv. Watch Jesus heal a blind man or watch Jesus walking on
water?
xv. Be imprisoned for over 2 years or be swallowed by a whale?
xvi. See Leviathan or see a dragon?
xvii.
Name the
animals or build the ark?
xviii.
Have to perform
an animal sacrifice or prepare a dead body for burial?
xix. Watch Lazarus be raised from the dead or eat with Jesus at
the Last Supper?
xx. Betray Jesus or deny Jesus?
xxi. Carry the 10 Commandments down from a mountain or help
rebuild the walls surrounding Jerusalem?
xxii.
Help rebuild
the Temple or help the early church grow?
xxiii.
Be carried to
heaven in a chariot of fire or have God add 15 years to your life?
xxiv.
Anoint Jesus’s
head with oil or wash his feet with your tears?
xxv. Be rescued from prison by an angel or see Jesus’s empty tomb?
5.
PICTIONARY:
a.
To play, divide
your group into teams. Open a Pictionary word generator online and each person uses their own or makes up a
word to draw. Choose a team to play first, as well as a designated drawer on
that team. The drawer generates a word and has one minute to draw that word for
their team to guess. If the team guesses the card correctly, they get a point.
Zoom has a whiteboard feature when you select “Share Screen,” making it super
easy for everyone to see the drawings. One person will use the whiteboard
feature of Zoom (or hold up paper and draw) while their teammates try to guess
what they are drawing. Play goes back and forth between teams. Don’t forget to
set the timer for each round and ask someone to track the scores.
b.
Supplies: Timer,
paper/pencil to track scores, drawing surface
Teams: 2 teams OR every man for himself (2+ players)Teams: 2 teams OR every man for himself (2+ players)
Online Play: Your goal is to act out your given word/phrase using only gestures – no talking or sound effects. To make play easier, use an online word generator (https://www.thegamegal.com/word-generator/) to choose the word you must act out for your team.
Examples: “Name 3 breeds of dog” or “Name 3 things that bounce”
6. ASL
HANDSHAPE GAME
7.
NEVER HAVE I EVER: Each person takes a turn saying,
“Never Have I ever…” and list something they have never done. If someone else
has done it, they put their finger up. The first person to get 10 fingers up
wins! You obviously want to try and prevent people from putting their fingers
up, so try and think of things that a lot of people in the group would have in
common. So if you have only lived in Colorado your whole life, and you are with
a bunch of people who live/have lived in Utah, you could say, “Never Have I
Ever Lived in Utah.”
8.
CHARADES:
a.
Supplies: Timer,
paper/pencil to track scores
b.
Charades is a
basic game that translates easily to Zoom. Split your group into two teams and
use a charades idea generator to choose your words and phrases. The person who's
acting out the charade uses the Zoom "spotlight" feature, and their
team has one minute to figure out the phrase.
9.
5 SECOND RULE:
a.
Can you name
three things that fall in a given category? Easy! How about in just five
seconds? Okay, there’s the challenge.
b.
Online Play: Set your
timer for 5 seconds (or use the one provided in the board game box) and name 3
things in the category that is listed on the card. Continue around the “circle”
of people and through the deck of cards until someone gets ‘X” amount of cards
answered successfully.
So there you have it - games to play for your next ZOOM meet up! I found MANY more online that would work for youth group or children ZOOM gatherings, but these seemed the most fitting for adult women from church (and things I enjoy!).
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| Woodhaven Women Zoom - May 2020 |
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