Have a Heart youth meeting game

It's the week before Valentine's day and we've already been inundated with red and pink hearts, chocolate, candy and greeting cards. Instead of taking it all in stride do something new this year! At your next youth meeting play this game and focus kids on having a heart for others and a heart for Jesus.

Supplies

Red paper and scissors

Set Up

Cut out 15 one-inch hearts for each person.

The Game

Each person collects as many hearts as possible. Each person starts with 15 hearts.

Say: Each of you has fifteen hearts to start this game. Put any number of those hearts in your right hand and close your hand over them so no one can see how many you're holding. Keep the extras in your left hand. Then you'll walk up to someone and ask them to guess how many hearts you're holding in your right hand.

If they guess the right number of hearts in your right hand you have to give them all the hearts. If they guess wrong, they have to give you the number of hearts they guessed from their own hearts.

At the end we'll see who has the most hearts. If you run completely out of hearts you can ask people who still have hearts to give you some of theirs. Those people may or may not choose to help you out.

Start the game After time goes by and everyone has had a chance to play and exchange hearts (maybe 3-5 minutes) call "Time!" and ask everyone to sit down. Find out who has the most hearts and declare them the Have a Heart winner.

Discussion

What was it like when you started losing your hearts?

What was it like to win a bunch of hearts?

What was it like when you asked someone to give you some hearts and he or she would or wouldn't?

What are ways God wants us to share our heart with others?

What are ways we sometimes refuse to share our heart with others?

Luke 10:27 He answered: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"