Rubber Chickens Game and Devo on Proverbs 9:10

Here is a fun youth group game using rubber chickens and devotion on making good choices, based on Proverbs 9:10. After you purchase some rubber chickens on Amazon, you’re ready to roll.

Game: Ultimate Rubber Chicken

• Divide up students into two teams. Ideally, you would have 10-12 players on each team. If you have a bigger group, have multiple teams of two playing at the same time.
• You need a rectangular playing field or room. Normally, it’s similar to a football field. However, you can modify your game based on the size of the space you have available to you.
• Similar to soccer and football, players play the length of the field, defending an “end zone” behind them and trying to score in the “end zone” in front of them.
• You score by throwing the rubber chicken to a teammate in the opposing team’s end zone where they must catch it.
• If at any time a player has the chicken, they must stand still and find a teammate to throw the rubber chicken to. Only people without the chicken can run and move.
• You can set this up to play by time or points scored. (I recommend time to have the greatest control.) Team with the most points wins.

Devotion – Making Good Choices (Proverbs 9:10)

In our game today, we replaced the object you normally would use with a rubber chicken. That may have been weird for someone of you, It was obviously fun for others of you. When someone calls another person “chicken,” what do they mean?

(Allow students to respond)

Exactly. They are saying that person is scared for some reason, usually because they won’t do what the other person is asking or challenging them to do.

In life, you might be called a “chicken” when choosing not to go along with whatever everyone else is doing.

Read Proverbs 9:10 (NIV):

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”

Doing the right thing is easy, when everyone else is doing it too. But what about when it’s just you, standing there, choosing not to cheat, gossip, lie, or join in on whatever drama is popping off?

Awkward. Brave. Worth it.

Courage isn’t about being fearless. It’s about doing what’s right even when you are scared—of being left out, made fun of, etc.

Proverbs reminds us that real courage starts with trusting God, not just going with the crowd. Wisdom isn’t loud, but it does last.

(End Devotion)

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