This is a popular ‘just for fun’ skit.  You need anywhere from 6-10 people, depending on how much time you have.

In a nutshell it is a skit where there is one line of seats at the movies and a couple arrives a little late in to the movie and there are only two seats available, one at each end of the row.  So the skit is about the couple trying to communicate during the movie.  The order you set people up and how you develop the characters is essential to making this skit hilarious.

A Basic order for the chairs that work out well is.

Seat 1 – Guy (nice guy, in love with girl)
Seat 2 – Old Lady (married to old Man, pretty normal, but talks like an old lady)
Seat 3 – Old Man (married to old Lady, very hard of hearing, find the things his wife does very cute)
Seat 4 – Geek (irritated by old man, very scared of Jock)
Seat 5 – Tough Jock (very mean, impatient, attracted to girl)
Seat 6 – Girl (normal girl, in love with guy)

So, starting with Seat 2, have the old couple come in and start watching the movie, then the geek, then the jock.  Use this time at the beginning and while each person finds their seat to start bringing out some of the characteristics of each person.  They can meet each other and talk a bit.  Once the movie starts than have the couple come out.  They can ask the jock to scoot down and he says no.  So they politely sit separately.

After everyone is seated the main theme is that the guy tries to communicate and send things to his girlfriend.  The theme is to draw out the awkward situations that it brings up.  Everything that is passed down is passed one person at a time.

You can do whatever you want but here is what we typically do.

First – Guy asks how the girl is doing, she sends back ‘fine’
Second – Guy asks if she wants food, she sends back ‘fine’
Third – Guy sends down popcorn or food and it is eaten by the others before she gets it
Fourth – Do the same for a drink
Fifth – The guys puts his arm around the old Lady and asks her to pass it down.
Sixth – The guys sends down a kiss.

How we typically end it is when the girl is kissed by the jock, she slaps him and walks out.  Then that gets passed all the way down and people get up and walk out each time, leaving the guy alone.  The guy can shrug his shoulders and walk out too.

A great skit for any youth ministry.

Please comment below with any other ideas or ways you have done this skit!

This is probably my favorite ‘anytime’ skit there is.

You need about 4-5 people to be the caterpillar, one person to be the owner of the caterpillar, and a volunteer. You will also need a glass of water.

To make a caterpillar have the 4-5 people stand behind each other, put their heads down, and put a blanket over all of them so you can only see from their knees down.  Have them practice walking around a little bit.

The skit is like a talent show or circus where the owner is showing off the many tricks that the caterpillar can do.   To start off since the caterpillar will need to warm up a bit, the owner can say how sometimes the caterpillar gets a little nervous when doing his tricks.

So have the caterpillar do the tricks like walk forward, walk backward, raise all of it’s right feet, left feet, etc.  You can do several tricks and make some up as you go.

For the final trick the caterpillar is going to jump over one of the volunteers from the audience.  So get a volunteer (someone you know will not mind getting wet) and have them lay on the floor.  The owner will let the audience know that this is the hardest trick for the caterpillar and remind them that he does get nervous and that he hasn’t done this trick too many times.

When the caterpillar walks over the volunteer, someone under the blanket (towards the back) has been holding the glass of water the whole time.  They spill the water all over the volunteer making it look like the caterpillar went to bathroom all over them.

That’s it!

This is hide and seek type of game with a twist.  Best used in a large building or outside area with lots of hiding places.

(.pdf) Crammed For Space

This game lasted about two hours and was great for high school and junior high!

I found a game link this and adjusted it to make it a bit more fun and added a couple little twists to it. In a nutshell, the entire hunt is done through texting. Youth are given one task at a time that must be texted back and then they can receive the next clue. Some things were very difficult to find on site so we set up a secret phone that could be figured out by a math equation. This phone would give keywords that could be texted in place of doing or finding out up to three tasks.

Enjoy!

(.docx) – Texting Scavenger Hunt

Please discuss any other twists or changes you made below!

We were doing a lesson on Sin for the High School students and we used the video clip of the Skit Guys called “God’s Chisel.”  I wanted to do a less intense discussion for the Junior High students and here is what I put together.  We combined this with the “get to know you” questions and a little game to make it a bit more age appropriate.  Enjoy!

Written for Jr. High

Things We Do Not Need – Quick Discussion