CATHOLIC DOUBLE DARE A MESSY GAME SOCIAL LIFE NIGHT LIFE NIGHT OUTLINE KEY CONCEPTS

CATHOLIC DOUBLE DARE A MESSY GAME SOCIAL LIFE NIGHT LIFE NIGHT OUTLINE KEY CONCEPTS

GOAL OF THIS NIGHT The goal of this Life Night is for the teens to learn about their faith, grow in community, and get to know one another in the group. ABOUT THIS NIGHT This Life Night combines trivia questions with messy physical challenges in the style of the popular 90 s game show, Double Dare. Teenagers will have no idea what Double Dare is but they will after this Life Night. The Life Night requires advance preparation and organization; ask several parents to help with set up and preparation. The Life Night begins with prayer before the group is broken up into teams that compete in trivia and messy challenges. The Life Night concludes with a challenge for teens to continue to grow in their knowledge of faith and love of the Lord. Prior to the Life Night, everyone should be instructed to wear old clothing (e.g. something that they don t mind getting dirty or ruining completely). Have old retreat t-shirts, ponchos, or garbage bags with holes cut in them for teens to wear if they forget. PARENTAL NOTICE ENVIRONMENT The game portion of this Life Night should be done outside, since things will definitely get messy. Set up the game field (tarps and soap) prior to teens arriving. If you have plastic bins, it is helpful to keep all the supplies in the bin so nothing gets misplaced or the Core Team can find items easily. This makes for smoother transitions between games. If you have an outdoor sound system, this is a great time to bring it out for music during the challenges.

GATHER WELCOME & INTRODUCTION (10 min ) The youth minister welcomes teens to the Life Night and recognizes any teenagers that are attending for the first time. He or she leads an opening prayer, and transitions into an explanation of the Life Night. CATHOLIC DOUBLE DARE INTRO (5 min ) Explain to the teens that at Life Night they will be playing Catholic Double Dare, a trivia game with a messy twist. The youth minister introduces the host for the game, who should be dressed up in a goofy looking suit and holding a microphone. The host welcomes everyone to the game, and proceeds to divide the teenagers into their separate teams.

PROCLAIM () TEAM DIVISION The host divides teenagers into groups of six to ten with one Core Member assigned to each group. These will be the teams that compete throughout the rest of the Life Night. TEAM NAMES & HANDSHAKES Every team chooses a name and creates a team handshake to start the night off. Allow each team five minutes to come up with a team name and then create one specific team handshake to use before challenges. During the games, the host will refer to the team by their name. RULES AND DIRECTIONS The host asks each team to introduce themselves along with their handshake, and then explains the basic outline the Life Night and provides rules for the teams: Welcome to Catholic Double Dare! It is going to be an exciting game, and this is how it is going to work: all the teams will be asked two questions each worth one point. After each pair of questions, teams will participate in a physical challenge in the designated challenge area. At this point, the host motions to the tarp area, which is being covered in soap and water by a Core Member. Looks fun! The winner of each challenge will be awarded three points, the second place finisher two points, and the third place finisher will be awarded one point. The team that finishes last in each challenge may choose to either a) lose one point or b) receive a shaving cream pie to the face. Any questions? Let s get started! CATHOLIC DOUBLE DARE Use the following questions as a starting point for the question and answer rounds. Add additional questions if necessary: Name one parable that Jesus tells his disciples Name three out of the ten commandments (See Catechism of the Catholic Church between #2051 and #2052) What does the word Eucharist mean? (Thanksgiving) What is our parish Saint the patron saint of? (If your parish is not named for a saint, ask a question about your parish history here) What are the three vows someone in a religious order takes? (Poverty, Celibacy, Obedience) What are the seven Sacraments? (Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Reconciliation, Anointing of Sick, Marriage, Holy Orders) What are the Sacraments of Initiation? (Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist) Name three Holy Days of Obligation. (Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God; Solemnity of the Ascension; Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Solemnity of All Saints; Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception; Solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ) What is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception? (The day Mary was conceived) Who was Mary s mom? (St. Anne)

Have a large white board or piece of butcher paper hung on the wall to keep track of points from trivia and physical challenges. Every two questions there will be a physical challenge. All members of the team participate in each challenge, unless otherwise noted. 1. Cheesy Beard Teens choose a partner from their team. One partner needs shaving cream put all over his or her face by his or her partner in the area where a beard would be (not all over the face). The other partner stands across from them; Core Members hand out three cheese puffs to this partner. When the game starts, the teen with cheese puffs tries to get them to stick to the partners face. The game lasts for 60 seconds; the team that sticks all the cheese puffs first will be the winner. If no team sticks all the puffs, the team with the most cheese puffs stuck on their teams faces will win. 2. Chocolate Syrup Relay For this challenge, the teams will need to be set up in relay lines. Each team will have a bucket of packing peanuts on one side of the room near the line, and an empty bucket on the other. The goal is to get all the packing peanuts from one side to the other. However, teens may only use their forearms to pick up the packing peanuts and transport them. Players will cover their arms with chocolate syrup and dip them in the bucket to collect packing peanuts, and then will need to get as many of the packing peanuts into the empty bucket as possible. At no point are players allowed to use their hands even to get the packing peanuts into the goal bucket. Teams will have three minutes to transport as many packing peanuts as possible. 3. Ice Cream Sundae Each team will elect two members to participate in this challenge. The two members of each team will be partners for this game. One partner needs to sit on the tarp while the other partner starts at a supply table full of toppings for an ice cream sundae. Partners will have 60 seconds to make the best ice cream sundae they can on top of their partner s head. Have two Core Members selected to judge this competition. 4. Human Seal Teams line up at one end of the tarp with a playground ball in front of them and a cone across from them on the other side of the tarp. Each team member must flop along the tarp on their stomach while pushing the playground ball with only their nose and head. They must keep their hands and arms at their sides. Team members must push the ball to the other end of the tarp, around the cone, and then flop back to their line to tag the next person in. The first team to get through their entire line will win.

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SEND CLEAN-UP AND CLOSING PRAYER (15 min ) Gather all the youth and provide towels for them if that is necessary. Have awards available for teams with the most overall points, for most courageous performance, and for best overall trivia score and best overall messy game score. Close the Life Night by challenging the teenagers to dive in deep to their faith and not be afraid to get messy. There is a lot to learn, far more than can be talked about in a single game of trivia. If this is your first Life Night, invite and encourage the teens to return for the entire semester. Finish the Life Night by praying a Hail Mary and Ave Maria.

CONCLUSION ADAPTING THIS NIGHT If you have a larger group, set up two more tarps to allow for plenty of space during the activities. Invite your parish priest to be the game show host. Have him ask questions about your parish history during the game as well. For smaller groups, consider breaking into teams in unique ways, such as guys vs. girls, seniors and freshmen vs. juniors and sophomores, or dividing the group into three teams instead of several. GOING DEEPER