ARE YOU CEREAL? A Social Life Night LIFE NIGHT OUTLINE GOAL GATHER 10 Minutes The goal of this night is to build community among the teens, and have fun playing games and eating cereal. WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS (5 min) The youth minister should welcome everyone to the Life ABOUT THE NIGHT Night. He/she should introduce any teens at Life Night for the Social Life Nights are an important part of semester planning. frst time. Not only do they break up the semester theme, they help build community within the group. Social Nights also give EXPLANATION OF NIGHT (5 min) the Core Members and youth ministers an opportunity to All the teens should be sitting at tables. Take a few minutes practice relational ministry. This social night is easy to create to explain how the night will work. The night has three games and pull off, even those with limited funds. within it. All the teens will play the same game at the same time at each table. The games will be played until there is a Who doesn’t like breakfast for dinner? This Life Night gives winner. After the game, the teens will move to a different the teens to snack on their favorite cereal while participating in table with new people for the next game. Try and have no games. The night begins with a brief introduction of the night more than eight people per each table. Encourage the teens and games. The teens will then have a chance to eat a bowl to meet new people throughout the night. of cereal and socialize. After, they will be able to play different games that all involve cereal. After a few contests, the night will close in prayer. PROCLAIM/BREAK 55 Minutes ENVIRONMENT DIG IN! (10 min) The environment of the room should be very simple. Cut Give the teens an opportunity to have a bowl of cereal before out of colored construction paper or colored butcher paper all the games begin. Take a few minutes to explain the games the shapes of different cereals like Fruit Loops, Coco Puffs while they are eating. or Lucky Charms and hang them around the room. Starting a few weeks before the night, collect as many cereal boxes as possible. In the front of the room, create a cereal box BREAKFAST CEREAL BINGO (15 min) pyramid or wall. Use tape to keep the boxes all together. Set This game works like regular bingo. Before the night, create up tables and chairs around the room for the teens to sit at. In bingo cards for all the teens. Each of the squares on the card the middle of the room, have a table with various cereals and should be flled with names of various cereals (use the list milk available for the teens to eat. Have spoons and bowls below). Each card should be different. A Core member should available as well. be the caller. The caller will call out different cereals and the teens can cover the cereals that have been called (with actual pieces of cereal). Once a teen gets a predetermined MATERIALS NEEDED pattern, he or she must yell out a slogan to a cereal (instead Milk, napkins, extra bowls, extra spoons, Breakfast Cereal of calling out “bingo”). For example “They’re great!” (Frosted Bingo Cards, Deserted Island Paper, “Cereal Trivia & Jingles” Flakes) or “Gotta have my Pops!” (Pops). The patterns can be handout, pens anything—up and down or diagonal, black out (every space flled), or the border. A blank cereal bingo card can be found on page 48. Sample Cereal List: Apple Jacks Franken Berry Corn Pops Cap’n Crunch Life Corn Flakes Raisin Bran Panda Puffs Cap’n Crunch Crunch Berries Reese’s Puffs SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT46 SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT Basic 4 Smart Start DESERTED ISLAND (15 min) Kix Cinnamon Toast Crunch Each teen will compile a list of their top fve cereals they Chex Frosted Flakes would like to have with them if they were stuck on a deserted Count Chocula Golden Grahams island. The teens should share their lists and then create a top Lucky Charms Trix fve list for the whole group. At the end of the night, they will Rice Krispies Peanut Butter Crunch share their lists with the whole group. Golden Crisp Total Nut ‘n Honey Cocoa Puffs Deserted Island cards can be found on page 50. Cheerios Frosted Mini-Wheats Oat Bran Grape-Nuts Honey Nut Clusters Wheaties 10 Minutes Honey Smacks Raisin Nut Bran SEND Honeycomb Cinnamon Life Smorz Cocoa Pebbles DESERTED ISLAND AND Lucky Charms Fruit Loops JINGLE PRESENTATIONS (10 min) Crispix Fruity Pebbles Gather all the teens back together and thank them for coming Honey Bunches of Oats Alpha Bites to the night. Invite one person from each group forward to Special K Special K Vanilla &Almond share the top fve cereals they would have on the deserted Honey Nut Cheerios Boo Berry island. After, invite each table to come forward to share their jingles. The rest of the groups should vote on the winner. Give CEREAL MASCOTS & JINGLES (15 min) the winner a special bowl and spoon. For this game the teens will each receive a list of cereals. The object is to remember and write down the names of the Close the night by praying the Hail Mary and Ave Maria. mascots associated with that cereal. The teens with the most correct answers should win a prize like a toy from a cereal box. After, give each table a name of a made-up cereal and instruct them to create a 5-10 second jingle for the cereal. They should be creative and funny. At the end of the night, each table will present their jingles to the rest of the group. “Name That Mascot” handout can be found on page 49. Frosted Flakes (Tony The Tiger) Trix (Rabbit) Lucky Charms (Lucky the Leprechaun) Rice Krispies (Snap, Crackle & Pop) Fruit Loops (Toucan Sam) Honey Smacks (Dig’em Frog) Captain Crunch (Capt. Crunch) Raisin Bran (the Sun) Cinnamon Toast Crunch (Wendell the Baker) Fruity Pebbles (Fred Flintstone & Barney Rubble) Apple Jacks (Bad Apple and CinnaMon) Honey Nut Cheerios (Buzz) SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT47 SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT SPOTLIGHT BREAKFAST BINGO! 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