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For this game you can use life preservers, jelly beans or any round candy with a hole in the middle. For some of the games that don’t involve colors, you can also substitute lolly mints or any candy or donut-shaped breakfast cereal (eg Fruit Loops) with a hole.

Games that use Lifesavers

• Blind chicken – Each team is assigned a specific life jacket color. Blindfolded, one member of each team should pick up a life preserver from a table and carry it to the team in their mouth. If the candy is the wrong color, the player has to start over. The team can shout instructions to their team member.
• Candy Introductions – Get enough life jackets so that each person can have at least five pieces. Pass out the candies and tell each participant to choose between 1 and 5 life preservers of the color they want. However, tell them not to eat it yet. After they have chosen their candy, tell them what each type / color of candy represents. (Example: red = favorite hobbies, green = favorite place on earth, blue = favorite memory, yellow = dream job, orange = wild card, tell us something about yourself!)
• Cut it close – Fill a teacup with flour, pack it tightly, then turn it over on a plate and place a Lifesaver caramel on top. Each youth takes turns cutting the flour with a knife. Whoever drops the life preserver has to catch it with their mouths! Hands are not allowed!
• Guess the color – Divide into groups of 8 to 10 with the same number of young people in each team. Teams line up for a relay race with the first member of each team blindfolded. With the instructions from their kit, the blindfolded person must find their way to a hanging bag filled with individually wrapped life preservers or gummies, open one, and put it in their mouth. They should then shout the color to a judge with their mouths open so that he can identify if the color is correct. If it’s correct, they go back to their team and sit down. If it is incorrect, they return to the end of the line on their team and must continue. The first team where everyone identifies the correct color of the candy wins. Or for a little more fun, place a tart or sour candy among the life preservers and watch the lucky person who receives it.
• Roll away lifesaver – The objective is to roll a LifeSavers candy on the ground as far as possible. Conditions: The candy cannot leave the ground and must roll over its edge.
• Lifeguard Horseshoes – Build two pegs to throw rings by placing a toothpick vertically on a slice of bread for each team. Youth try to toss LifeSavers candy on their team’s toothpick to score points. Each player receives two tosses. The lifeguard closest to the stake counts as one point. If a player’s two lifesavers are closer than the opponent’s, that player scores two points. If the life preserver lands on the peg (called a buzzer), three points are scored. In the case of a closer buzzer and lifeguard, both lifeguards are scored with a total of four points. If a player throws two bells, that player scores six points. If each player throws a buzzer, the buzzers are canceled and no points are scored.
• Life-saving measles – Young people should stick licked life preservers on someone’s face. For a more hygienic version, provide a saucer with some water to wet the life jackets. Anyone who falls off during play must be put back on. Win the first to make everyone sick in front of team members or to have more stuck in the face after a certain time limit.
• Lifebuoy on a rope – Sit the young people in a circle and cut a piece of string long enough to cover the whole group. Thread a Life Savers candy onto the string then tie the ends together. All players should place both hands on the supporting rope so that each hand makes a fist around the fort. Select a young man to be “him” and have him stand in the middle of the circle. You must close your eyes as the players pass the candy ring from fist to fist around the circle. When it says “Freeze”, players must stop passing the life preserver. The person in the center has three attempts to correctly identify who has the life preserver hidden in his fist. If he guesses correctly, select the next player to be “him”.
• Lifesaver puzzle – Choose an equal number of lifesaving candies for each team. If you want to make it more difficult, use candies of the same color. Break the life jackets into several pieces and place them on a saucer. Teams must reassemble the parts. The first to do it correctly wins.
• Life-saving race to the middle – Two contestants face each other with a long piece of rope between them and a life preserver tied to the exact center of the rope. The rope is placed with one end in each player’s mouth. At your signal, they should pull the string in their mouth and move towards the candy in the center of the string. Hands are not allowed. The first person to put the candy in their mouth is the winner. Watch out, there may be some accidental kissing involved.
• Lifesaving relay – Give each player a toothpick to hold between their teeth. The leader places a life preserver on the player’s toothpick at the beginning of each line. Then it goes from one toothpick to another until it reaches the end of the line. If the candy falls, it should be quickly shipped by hand to the beginning of the line and starting over. Have some extras in case they break when falling. The winning team is the one whose Lifesaver reaches the end of the line first. Instead of toothpicks, you can also use hard, raw spaghetti or coffee stirrers. Drinking straws are often too big to fit in the life preserver.
• Lifesaving ring toss – Place an apple on a table so it does not roll and then place one or more toothpicks on top of the apple. From a designated distance, the youth must throw life preservers at the toothpicks to score points. The highest score in a given time limit wins.
• Lifeguard treasure hunt – Each group of young people has 1 minute to collect their own color of life preservers that are scattered around the room. You can hang them on almost anything. Just watch out for the ones you never meet are great at attracting ants.
• Lifeguard finders – Fill two cake tins or plates with flour. Drop several life preservers into each can and mix them so they are not visible. Smooth the surface. Two young men must race to see who can retrieve the most Lifeguards, using only their mouths, in one minute.
• Lifesaver team colors – Give everyone life preservers when they enter the room so that there is an equal number of each color. Players can either suck on the lifesaving candies or simply place them on their tongue. Without speaking, they should gather in teams based on the color of the life jackets, sticking out their tongues so that others can see the color.
• Lifeguard towers – The youth are given a stack of life preservers and must stack them on the highest tower possible in 60 seconds. Players can rebuild their tower if it falls within the time limit. When time is up, the player or team with the tallest candy tower wins the game.
• Lifesaver Toss game – Place six cups of tea in a vertical row, facing each other. Mark a starting line about 4 feet from the first cup of tea. Give each player six Lifeguards to try to drop the teacups. Players must make a candy in each of the labeled buckets. Award a prize to the player from the first team who places all of their sweets in the individual teacups. If you want it to be easier, use bowls or saucers instead of teacups.

TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL

MAKE IT SPIRITUAL

Lifesaver’s Candy is known for the hole in the middle. At its center is emptiness. Unfortunately, this also describes many young people. Outside everything seems sweet, but inside there is a void.

In the Bible, Solomon had the opportunity to taste everything that is supposed to make us happy and bring pleasure to life. But everything he tried left him empty inside. (Ecclesiastes 2: 1-11)

• What was Solomon’s goal in this passage?

• What are some of the things Solomon mentions in his quest for happiness?

MAKE IT PRACTICAL

Inside each of us is a God-shaped hole that only God can fill. If God is not the center of your life, everything in life will leave you feeling empty.

• What are some of the nonsense that young people and adults do to find pleasure and happiness?

• Why should our meaning, our happiness, be Christ-centered?

• What can a person do to make God the center of everything in life? To your goals? To your happiness? In your searches?

• What makes life meaningful?

MAKE IT PERSONAL

• What are some of the accomplishments you are most proud of? Why?

• What things in life seem significant to you? Why? Are they things that will stick with you for having meaning for a long time? For an eternity? Why or why not?

• What things do you sometimes find meaningless in life? How can you find meaning in them?

• How can you make Christ more central in your life this week?

ADDITIONAL VERSES OF SCRIPTURE

• Mark 8:36 – “What good is it for someone to gain the whole world and lose his soul?”

• Galatians 2:20 – “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life that I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself. for me”. . “

• Philippians 3: 7-9 – “But all the gains for me, I now consider loss for Christ’s sake. Furthermore, I consider all a loss because of the immense value of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whose sake I have Lost all I consider them garbage, to win Christ and be found in him, not having my righteousness that comes from the law, but that which is by faith in[a] Christ, the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. “

• 2 Corinthians 5:17 – “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old is past, the new has come!”

• Romans 14: 8 – “For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord; if, therefore, we live or die, we are the Lord’s”.

• Paul says: “I believe that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy of being compared with the glory that will be revealed in us.” (Romans 8:18) That tells me that by being crucified with Christ, having our meaning from Him makes time irrelevant because we are eternal in Him.

• Matthew 22: 37-40 – “Jesus said to him: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is similar to him: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and the prophets depend on these two commandments. “