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Here is the club we are doing tonight. We will have different kinds of cereal out when kids can arrive to make their own bowl of cereal. Kids are dressing up in PJs. We also might have on some cartoons. We’ll see how it goes!

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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’ve posted Christmas club ideas in the past HERE and HERE.

But I dug up some more stuff too. Enjoy!

Who might be thinking, “jerk club”? I have a bunch of jerks in my club. Well, no I am talking about the dance called, “The Jerk”, or the “Reject” is what I think it is technically called.

When I was at camp this summer, I noticed that tons of kids would do this dance. So we had “Jerk Club” and it was a ton of fun.

I ’m sure many of you already know all about YLPlaybook, but if you don’t, you should check it out! It is a growing collection of games, mixers, run-ons, and all kinds of stuff. They are all tagged for easy review.

One thing I’m really impressed with about YLPlaybook is they really keep adding to their content. Some resources lose relevance of usefulness if they never add anything new, but YLPlaybook is doing a great job adding new content.

Here some games I saw recently that I thought were pretty good:

You’ve Got Something On Your Forehead Game

Sponge On The Chair Game

Hobby Hoax Game

Thar’s A Bar Game

Caramel Onion Game

Psychological Sit-Up Game

Wheel Of Misfortune Game

Face-to-Face Balloon Relay game

Slurp and Spit Game

String Mania Game

Clothes Relay Game

Back To Back Mixer

Pockets Mixer

Here are some resources that will jump-start your planning if you haven’t already…

My preliminary semester club plan:

Some plans from my friend Hugh in NC:

Also, a great resource for club games, mixers, run-ons, etc. is the YL Playbook. Aaron and his crew have done a great job with it. 

Very random, but here is our tic tac toe club! One the mixer we had kids hold up their hands over their heads in an "X" or an "O" to keep it a little more organized and obvious.

I hope your summer was great. I hope to post some ideas and lessons learned over the summer from camp, assignments, campaigners, etc.

In the mean time, the Fall semester is upon us. In my area school started this week and I have been meeting and catching up with leaders non-stop.

With club looming, I know we all are having team club planning sessions. My club had one last week. I’ll be posting our new clubs as we prepare them.

I took some time to put together a club planner with Monday club dates and an entire semester of clubs planned. I did this using some of the clubs we used last year. If you are looking for ideas, I suggest you print this out and bring it to your team meeting. If you have ideas or clubs from last year, send them my way so we can share them.

Enjoy!

Fall Club Planner and Full Club Plans

(Note: some of the details on each club may not perfectly fit the week. For example the club talks are not in order on the individual club sheets.)