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Inline skating offers many ways to make physical education fun and attractive.

You never have enough games, so here are some more games!

Petroleum lamps are easy to use and really bring out the boy's spirit in camps.

Petrolamps can be ordered online.

Here's a quick guide on how to use a petroleum lamp.

This petroleum lamp is also called storm lantern or lantern.

At a family retreat, you can play AUTODORF-RALLEY for a change.

Finally in a few lines you can discover evangelical scouts. A viable alternative. See:

https://youtu.be/l5mI9nUNkjA

The sheet hitch is a suitable knot to connect unequal thicknesses. It is related to the Samaritan and the bowline.

+ The game requires no props.

+ Pleasant and fast gameplay.

An amusing race "for the food"

If glycerine is added to potassium permanganate, it ignites spontaneously after a while. Numerous biblical passages with fire can be illustrated with this.

A devotional concept for eight afternoons on the semester theme of football.

This book holder is guaranteed to catch the eye and is also very practical and inexpensive, because it prevents the books from falling over.

A carousel for 2 or 4 children is to be set up as an attraction on a camp site for 2 or 4 children

See also Build carousel

Brother Yun is a Chinese evangelist who has strongly influenced the house church movement in China over the last 4 decades.

Here you can find a semester program.

Here you will find a spiritual concept, a semester program on the topic of "Ernst Tanner Helimission" and other interesting information (including videos).

Ernst Tanner is a Swiss missionary and helicopter pioneer who has had many exciting experiences with God, people and helicopters over the years. His lively stories can be found in the books Todesschatten and Mehr als ein Abenteuer (both on the Helimission homepage). There are also video clips of various stories to match the afternoon's theme.

The stories are ideal for a semester with a focus on young adult technology (see semester program).

Adventure with the EXPLORER youth group, Uznach

Jungschar program, invited: non-believing youth

This is a semester program on the theme of Joseph

Here you can find an overview of over 850 boys' choir names, collected at the BESJ Team Weekend Ideas Market with over 1000 boys' choir leaders from Switzerland.

Here you can find an overview of all the ideas that were presented at the BESJ Team Weekend Ideas Market.

Quarterly program for 9 boys' afternoons and 8 devotions

Spiritual concept of a semester with 9 devotions on the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7).

The children learn about the standards of Jesus and how to apply them.

They read independently in the Bible and share about it.

11 Afternoon Programs re: ABRAHAM

Drink cups are stacked on top of each other. Who can build the highest tower?

The ladder game in large format works similar to the normal one. 

How do I build a raft for water activities with my children/teens? Find instructions with all the information you need here!

See also: https://www.youngstarswiki.org/de/wiki/art/flossbau

Brief instructions for setting up a carousel in pioneering work.

See also Building a carousel

The well-known "Werwölfle" has been reinterpreted and placed in the context of youth choirs.

We have conducted a pirate camp in the Cevi in 2022. Led by the pirate legend Anne Bonny, who with us restored a ship and then went on a treasure hunt.

Track Mister X by bike using coordinates.

Strong magnets offer many possibilities for interesting effects such as displaying magnetic fields, illustrating the invisible power of God, showing attraction/repulsion and much more.

This outdoor-sauna is run by a fire with a pressurized pot on it, that is providing steam to heat up your sauna.

If a balloon is filled with air and held over a flame, it will burst immediately. If you fill it with water, it will survive the flame unscathed. The experiment serves to illustrate various passages from the Bible.

A juice made from red cabbage has a completely different color in an alkaline and acidic environment. This shows how the smallest influences can have a big effect and how creative God is in creation.

A PET bottle is filled with hot water, emptied and quickly screwed shut. It soon contracts, although no external force is visible. The experiment can illustrate the invisible power of God.

If pepper is sprinkled on the water, it remains on the surface. If liquid soap is added, it is pushed to the edge, further added pepper sinks. This can be used to illustrate deliverance from sin or Peter sinking.

When steel wool is between the poles of a battery, it starts to burn. This can be used to illustrate many biblical passages where fire occurs.

If potassium nitrate solution is used to paint something onto the tissue paper and the tissue paper is dried, the letters or symbols slowly burn from the center to the edge after lighting. In this way, hidden things can be made visible.

During the telling of a biblical story, the children are each given a drink that suits them. This allows them to experience the story and immerse themselves in the feelings of the characters.

Here is a little tutorial on how to make up three different types of wounds. To spice up any paramedic course or in the afternoon. (Caution! For people who cannot see blood)

Heat the tin over a camping stove until it becomes liquid. Then pour into the prepared mold. After cooling, sand the pewter figure with files until it fits.

It works in a similar way to normal floorball. Instead of field hockey sticks, the players have a fly swatter and the game is played with a ping-pong ball. The playing field, group size and goal size can be freely adapted to suit requirements.

Make your own chocolate candy. The way it works is that you dip grissini as a "wick" in various types of liquid chocolate and enjoy them as a dessert at the end.

Find all the important information about Morse code as a transmission technology here.