Materials Needed – Lots of quarter sheets of scratch paper, pens/markers, chairs (optional) and a few volunteer helpers.

This has been one of my favorite youth group games to play.  It is a quiet game that draws great competition and requires team work.  The game is basically a mix of the three games mentioned in the title.

Directions – We use chairs that you can straddle while sitting on them.  For ease of explanation I will use 10 youth and 4 volunteers as the example.  You can adjust depending on your numbers.  For 10 youth, I would break the group in to two teams of five.  Have each team sit in a line in the chairs behind each other.  The game requires youth to write invisibly on each other’s back.

What will happen is the person in the back will be given a sheet with a number of pictures.  That will person will draw the pictures one at a time on the persons back in front of them.  That person will attempt to draw the same picture on the next person until it makes it’s way to the front.  The front person will have a pen and tons of scratch paper and will attempt to draw the original picture.  They will show each attempt to a volunteer in the front.  The volunteer will check off the pictures one at a time as they are done.

Each picture has a number and the volunteer in the front can communicate with the person in the back when each picture is completed.  Otherwise, there is no talking allowed.  The game is played until one team gets all of the pictures checked off.

Hint(s) – Be very strict with the no talking rule.  In my experience when teams start talking and anyone starts cheating in any way, it can ruin the game pretty quickly.  If the game takes too long (which is possible) then give them an amount of time they have left and the one with the most at the end of the time wins.

Lastly, be sure to have plenty of extra scratch paper and pens.  The game moves pretty quick once it gets started.

Materials

Of course we will not give you instructions to a game like this without providing you with great printable resources to help with it.  The printout includes the sheet with eight pictures for the person in the back and score sheets for the volunteer in the front.   It is sometimes helpful to have the sheet in the back cut up so they can throw away the pictures they have done.

Enjoy!

Pictionary Telephone Tag – Pictures and Score Sheet (.pdf)

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