Project ideas exchange

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What do we mean by a project?

Project programs aim to meet the needs and interests of teenagers, or simply to pursue certain activities over a longer period of time, whereby active participation / design is required.

So it's about:

  • Needs and interests of teenagers
  • Continuous work towards a goal
  • Active co-planning and cooperation by the teenagers as far as possible

Semi-annual to annual projects

Movie

  • Filmed race
  • Youth book
  • Daily news
  • Movie clip
  • Filming a story/bible verse/proverb
  • On the trail of nature
  • Hidden camera
  • "Portraits" (A day from Mrs. .../Mr. ...)
  • Commercials
  • Writing your own story/screenplay
  • Film hits (watching films, understanding the message, evaluating, classifying, making a film review)

Theater

  • Youth book
  • Rehearse and perform a Punch and Judy show (proceeds for the mission)
  • Rod puppet theater
  • Shadow theater
  • Puppet theater
  • Black light theater
  • Musical, incl. stage decoration, music, choreography, etc. (performance in the village, retirement home, community, on the lake, etc.)
  • Theater incl. stage decoration, clothes etc.
  • Spoken motets
  • Sketches
  • Realizing a parable
  • Entertainment evening/quiz evening
  • Cabaret

Music / singing / dancing

  • Building instruments
  • Form a band
  • Choir (performances for evangelistic events)
  • Dance group (creative, jazz, folk, expressive dance)

Photography

  • Photography (incl. shooting techniques and development)
  • Photo story / photo picture story
  • Book publishing
  • Reportages
  • Developing and enlarging photos yourself

Sports

  • Get to know new sports
  • Night tournament
  • Organize a sports tournament
  • Beach volleyball tournament
  • River rafting with rubber dinghy, raft, canoe (watch out for safety!)
  • Cave expedition (Attention: use a guide)
  • Organize a cross-country race
  • Streetball tournament
  • Floorball tournament
  • Swiss Action (as many means of transportation as possible in the most interesting places, e.g. raft, horseback riding, roller skates, scooters, grass skiing) as a camp through Switzerland
  • Board games

Circus

  • Design of program items, technology, clothing, tent construction, music, announcements, advertising

Parties / open events

  • Beach party
  • Teen evangelization days
  • Mega festival for teenagers
  • Movie weeks
  • Black and White Party
  • Lords-Party/Lords-Meeting

Miscellaneous

  • "Pile-dwelling village": building a village in the marshland
  • Bazaar
  • Bible Panorama
  • Inventions - Discoveries
  • Gelateria
  • Design, sell and try out a cookbook
  • Organize concert (small project with only 10 teenagers)
  • Project week in the village (camp)
  • Build a skateboard track (Attention: authorization)
  • Build solar mobile - advertising for teen group
  • Offer social work: Cleaning windows (stores), shopping, visiting the sick, clearing creek beds, cleaning the forest, visiting the children's hospital, looking after children during Advent, washing cars
  • Expand TC room
  • Design teenage newspaper
  • Floorball training
  • Four seasons project
  • Workshop project: working with various materials such as wood, metal, clay, stone etc: Wood, metal, clay, stone etc.
  • Organize weekend for other teens: Looking for a house, organizing food etc.
  • Sponsored run
  • Re-styling an old bike with a disk wheel as TC advertising
  • Graffiti

"Short-term" projects

  • Organize swimming fun
  • BMX race
  • Chilbieeinsatz / market deployment
  • Children's festival (play festival)
  • Cooking in the forest
  • Nature project/environmental protection e.g. creating a biotope, feeding station, forest clean-up
  • Project church service
  • Planning and holding a neighborhood festival
  • Soapbox race
  • T-shirt printing
  • Environmental beautification: painting a bare underpass
  • Floorball tournament
  • Forest day week
  • Christmas tree recycling
  • Circus (camp)
  • Cycling dinner
  • Organize hike / excursion
  • Organize party

Sources:

Content: Working group Teenie, Margrit Hugentobler, BESJ

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