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So this might be a little late. Maybe you could pull it off this week or next? We had a gobbling good time at Turkey Club. I love Turkey Bowling. Adding finger holes in front of the kids added a nice, and gross, touch to it all.

FYI… I have an exciting idea I’m working on for club and campaigners in the Spring that we can all share. I’m really interested in what your biggest needs are. Let me know if you can.

Get ready to hang ten on this club. OK that was lame to say. My friend Joey did this club the other week and it went really well… Also a chance to revive the Homey the Clown skit… if you are old enough to remember it. Enjoy!

Our school just had their Prom. What better to do than a Mock Prom! Have people come in hideous outfits. Get a punch bowl, a backdrop for pictures (I got one a a party store for $5) and a disco ball and you are all set. Enjoy!

Here are two more clubs for your junior highers. Again, these come from my super smart and organized YL friend Amber.

Dive In Movie Club

Grosser than Gross Club

At our club we use a video projector every week. It adds to the setup and work but it has some nice benefits. We normally brings a Playstation and the kids play games before club, especially during our brief team meeting and prayer before club.

One game they play is Rockband, which I know you know is incredible.

So we did Rockband Club. It was awesome. The main feature was doing our clubs songs through Rockband. You can see what songs we used on the file below.

We could have done it better. If you wanna see an incredible adaptation of this LOOK HERE. Go Chad and team!

Junior High clubs can be a different beast all-together. My motto with WL is, "choose for them when you want them to spend their energy or they will choose to when you don’t want them to." Embrace their energy!

My friend Amber passed along some WL Clubs you can use right now. Thanks Amber!!

BTW… this picture looks like my YL friend Sam P in Tucson.

I have to be honest. I’ve never seen one episode of Hannah Montana. But I know that it is crazy popular. What does YL do with silly trendy pop stars… we make mock skits of them of course.

With Summer Camp around the corner, let me suggest the following idea which you can tweak to work for yourself.

In case you don’t know, Hannah Montana is the alter-ego of Miley Stewart. Miley is an average girl by day but a famous pop singer by night, Hannah Montana.

How about this. Riley Stewart is a normal high school student by day, but a bigger than life star by night, Banana Montana.

Two characters played by two leaders (or maybe one). Each club they come out one at a time and talk about their favorite parts of camp. Riley highlights the normal part and Banana takes it to the next level.

For example: the blob. Riley says how he is excited to blob his friend, maybe he will blob her 10 feet in the air, “oh and be sure to bring your sunscreen”. (Kinda the nerdy side). Then Riley walks out the door and Banana Montana comes in to loud music. “Waaaaiiit a second… The BLOB… I’M GONNA GO CRAZY ON THAT THING!” You get the idea. You play off the low key to crazy contrast. Maybe, if you have a host or leader who is being interrupted, the leader can play both parts with a super fast costume change. Then the leader give Banana the boot.

Then each week, change the part about camp to highlight. Maybe you show up as Banana Montana on campus and sign autographs.

Did I mention that Banana Montana is in a Banana suit and hands out bananas? Yeah, that should help. The Banana song too.

Last Monday we did Pillow Fight and PJ Night Club. The key event was the pillow fight to start club. We bought about 25 pillows as extras from Savers/Goodwill just in case. Most kids brought their own.

We went outside on the street, broke into two teams and lined up about 30 yards from each other. Then when the music started (O Fortuna… this song) we went at it.

One kid sat out because he had a couple concussions due to football. You should check with your kids about safety.

The rest of the club was a blast.

Here is the plan if you are interested… pillow-fight-and-pj-club.doc

So tonight we did Pizza club. Not Pizza Olympics, we’ll do that one later. This was just a pizza theme. Psychic Bambi was hilarious, so was smell, touch, taste.

One of the things I did in the talk was to show a picture of Jesus out of focus and then I focused it as an illustration of getting a more accurate picture of Jesus at YL.

Click here for Pizza Club

Another club plan you can use… Fear factor club! It went off without a hitch. We forgot the carrots for the goldfish part but it still was great. Some kids took the extra goldfish home as pets. Wow.

 Enjoy… (Click for pdf)…

Fear Factor Club