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OK my Sun Devils got snubbed and missed out on the big dance. I know they were a bubble team but oh well. At least they are a #1 seed in the NIT. Did I mention that our arch-rivals at the University of Arizona missed the tournament for the first time 25 years… and didn’t even get invited to the NIT. They got invited to some tournament lower then that and then turned it down. That makes me feel a little better.

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Here is our plan for tomorrow. Should be interesting! I’m most excited about the skit.

I’m sure some of you have used YouTube creatively for club. If you have any ideas, let me know!

Here is the file and all the videos you need for this club:

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My good friend Jen from Williams, AZ, yes that Williams, AZ that has Lost Canyon… sent me this club plan for X Games Club.

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I’m so thankful that I’m getting more and more emails and suggestions from all of you out there! You are all really helping everyone out a ton. Including my clubs!

Patrick from Wooster, Ohio sent me his plans from last semester. They include song selections too. I recognize pretty much all the games and mixers, but not everything on the list. If you have questions, I recommend looking at YLPlaybook or asking the comments section. Maybe Patrick can chime in as needed. Read the rest of this entry »

The Olympics have always been a strong theme in YL. I’ve seen plenty of programs at camp utilize this theme. One of my favorite was “Speed and Power”. Speed was an overweight guy and Power was a super skinny guy. Gotta love that. I remember my first club skit in high school was me running through the crowd with a fake Olympic torch before every club game in a toga. Read the rest of this entry »

Here is our “Blue” club. All the kids dressed in blue, good times!

We used the cheap popsicles and just had blue ones at the end. Also we couldn’t find all blue M&Ms, so we had all the colors, but they only got “points” for blue ones.

A lot of our kids dressed up as super heros. I didn’t have much time so all I did was a cape, so that might work for you if you are pressed for time. The kids were talking about the donut game all week long! Also I was a little worried because our leader who did the “amazon women” type game had the guys pull apart the girls, something I always avoided for obvious reasons, but it actually went really well!

Here is a game from my friends Keith, Shey and Rick… I like keeping these on “backup” for an unexpected low turnout.

Go to Walmart, Target or some place like that. Get teams of 5 or so and send them off to get 10 items in a shopping cart, then set a time and place to meet and exchange carts. The first team to return all of the items to their appropriate place wins.

Few rules I realized afterwards:
Teams must stay together
Give a time limit for getting the original 10 items
Threaten the walking thing so you don’t get kicked out. I threatened that the first team to get kicked out had to buy ice cream for everyone else.

Good times, goes quick.