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- Time: 10 - 20 mins
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Submitted by: Shorty
Materials: Chairs
This is a brilliant circle game!
Basically get a circle of chairs set up and get the whole group to sit in them, except for one person who starts in the middle. This person then has to select someone and gently sit on their lap and say "Honey, if you love me, please give me a smile" (or some variation on that sentence). If the person in the seat smiles or laughs then they have to swap with the person in the middle. It is then their turn to chose someone and start the process again. Obviously, if the person doesn't smile then the middle person has to get up and try it on someone else.
This game can be a fantastic icebreaker.
Comments
15 people have commented on Honey If You Love Me...
MrsTrivette says: (Submitted on 06-Apr-2008)
I believe that is quite innappropiate for Christian teenagers or any teenages!
katie says: (Submitted on 15-Apr-2008)
I do not believe that this is innappropiate; explain to me how this is in the slightest form unchristan like?
ee says: (Submitted on 22-Apr-2008)
abha,
i think for a Bahai Junior Youth Group this game would be fun, however perhaps we could chnage 'Honey if you love me' to 'If you are my friend.'
Also we would have to go through the rules
ab says: (Submitted on 16-May-2008)
really though, how is this game inappropriate?
Caleb says: (Submitted on 22-May-2008)
This game is great fun for youth... even a christian group! After all, aren't we supposed to love one another?
That being said, I would suggest establishing a No Contact rule. As that is what was done when we played with our group.
modest says: (Submitted on 13-Jul-2008)
because girls should not be sitting on boys laps give no place to the devil
Becky says: (Submitted on 20-Aug-2008)
we play this same game but we don't sit on anyone's lap! We just look at them and say "Honey, do you love me?" Then they have to respond back (without smiling) "Honey, I love you but I just can't smile" My kids love it!!! They ask to play it all the time!
Craig says: (Submitted on 30-Sep-2008)
I played this all the time in youth group, we always had the option of sitting in the lap and touching (as long as it was appropriate). Sometimes it was funnier to kneel in front of the person. The long and short of it is that it's not sexual, it is comedic, you aren't thinking of the girl on your lap, you're thinking about not smiling while trying not to burst with laughter.
stephen says: (Submitted on 07-Oct-2008)
Junior High Students love this game. It is not inappropriate at all.
Phariss says: (Submitted on 10-Oct-2008)
I AGREEE WITH FUNNY AND GREAT GAME NOT INAPPROPRIATE!!!!! Besides change it to "If you like me you'll smile" besides its way funnier when they say If you love me! ha ha ha ha. I mean come on what's inappropriate is people who are too uptight.
Samara says: (Submitted on 13-Oct-2008)
I actually played this as a game in year 11 on leadership camp. My experience of it was not of a 'sexual' nature, and i infact LOVED it, it was hilarious! As it was a large group, it was easy to only sit on the laps of people we felt comfortable with. As it is also in a stuctured environment where everyone is being watched, it hardly leaves room for inappropriate touching etc.
HOWEVER, as a youth leader now, i would play it with hesitance, as I understand that it does make some people feel uncomfortable. For this reason, it is best to judge the group and the dynamics of that group to discern whether it is appropriate to play the game.
I think Phariss may have a point though in saying that we are a bit too uptight with things sometimes. It only becomes a big deal when we MAKE it a big deal- after all, back in yr 11, i didn't think anything of sitting on everyone's lap...
What do others think?
Abs says: (Submitted on 17-Oct-2008)
It's a good game... the kids love it and the sitting on laps is optional... we make it so there is a boy girl rule - that if you are a boy, you have to ask a girl first, but if she say 'honey i love you but i just cant smile' without laughing, then that boy has to ask a boy, then a girl, then a boy till someone new is out... the kids dont take it seriously so as leaders, why make something into an issue that isnt an issue
Zachary Reeder says: (Submitted on 25-Oct-2008)
I rekon a great Variant of the Game is Saying "Honey I Love you so will you marry me" and the other person has to repley, "I love you to but i cant marry you" all without smiling, its funny just to watch and if you say its inapropriate just grow up because its just a bit of fun. :)
anonamous says: (Submitted on 25-Oct-2008)
people need to relax...its not a lusting thing..people need to be more open to teens having fun and stop thinking there crazy hormonal kids
Jason says: (Submitted on 19-Nov-2008)
We play, but you can say whatever you want, as long as it's appropriate, but you have 30 seconds. No touching, except of the hand. It's just as funny, and though students are not all hormonal kids, some are, and there is no extra need. If the need isn't there, there's no real reason to do it. I'm not being legalistic in the "no touching" rule, just being intentional.
