Circle games: Wa & Kumja

Two great circle games: Wa & Kumja

[@aprilzeta]

I appreciate your existence. I'm not creative enough to come up with these myself but I am enthusiastic enough to lead them.

[@renukap3662]

What a great appreciation... "I appreciate your existence"

[@martasswimming]

Amazing!! best circle game ever!!

[@jananibaskar6936]

All your games are really amazing...

[@JenniferHarperCTFAC]

My 4th graders are in love with Wa. They ask to play as a brain break all of the time!!! I told them that you had this super challenging game that usually fails with elementary students (Kumja) and they wanted the challenge. They are really good at it and have lots of laughs with the Toki section. Thank you so much for sharing these games with us.

[@manuelitotacay7317]

Awesome activity across all ages! Kudos!

[@vianadara778]

You're great 😊 I'm gonna try this game w/ my students. Hoping it will work 😊😊😊

[@keziajiao9306]

This is great! Thanks a lot.

[@JuanRuiz-sl3jd]

very good game, you can have lots of fun!!!!! thanks for the video and congratulations for the amazing activities.....

[@ilf6090]

Students and teacher are having with as a circle. Like in the middle, we hear the work Toki, Kumja, and Wa many times. It looks like this is an enthusiastic game.

[@teachvida]

Thank you for sharing!

[@user-nc1nu5hf3y]

Thanks! It was so fun! Especially, Toki, toki. 😂😄

[@sailahxiong]

lmbo! Kumja seems fun. I bet I could use it for my class to jump start them after lunch.

[@emiliandiac3093]

Genius!!

[@keinemaetzchen]

And this is why it's sometimes hard to convince people that my church isn's a sect 😂😂 Love it!

[@ShawnCothran]

My crew got really good, even with elimination mode, and we added another layer around the toki toki, which says EEPIE EEPIE. I believe we tried with a 4th layer and failed. When you have huge groups of kids (that are familiar with the game) it gets really fun.

[@lizbowman8830]

I've played this minus the "kumja" part; I like it!

[@CutieRingoJoy]

Will be using some of your vidoes for my cell group

[@shaheenanazir4545]

thats great can we do this in training like with leaders

[@gianna1198]

I love the bunny part

[@awakenwithcarly]

I feel like i'm watching an espisode of the office when it pans to the leader explaining it :D but thanks for these will use them with my students!

[@labanmuruthi7578]

very exciting ice breaker

[@CutieRingoJoy]

Does this work for adults, I'm the youngest like 21 so might be why I like it but the rest at in their 26-30ish I don’t know how to choose games for much older people

[@kylestehura4241]

Did Wa in college, and hated it so much.

[@ifrathjahan6089]

Hai Sir,I played your Kumja Bunny Toki game today in the class and it was a huge hit.I can't thank you enough.Hope you are doing great and well.🌻

[@YouthMinistryGreatGames]

That’s great! I honestly have mixed success with that one, but if you’ve got advanced students they can do it!

[@shaylas.5819]

😂 that was funny

[@ashleyhuff3289]

I've 100% played Kumja with large groups of elementary school kids and they love it

[@YouthMinistryGreatGames]

Ashley R. It can work, but teaching it to large groups of elementary kids who have never played has been tough. They have to already know the game I’ve found. I’d keep it under 20 for sure, too.

[@ActuallyFun]

Imagine someone walks past and sees you playing Kumja 😂

[@ericzubyk2329]

Some guys in school actually when they did the Kumja game they said the person that was the bunny said bunny bunny (2x) while the people on each side of the bunny said Carrot Carrot in halftime of the bunny bunny. I wonder if that would've worked in the Kumja game

[@YouthMinistryGreatGames]

Eric Zubyk Yep! Sounds like just a different variation! Whatever is fun!

[@8900maru]

And who wins?

[@markdaniel3449]

Nice game

[@sophiaeleni5431]

OMG I FOUND THE GAME THAT MY SUMMER CAMP COUNSELOR TAUGHT ME! were pros there okie. yes professionals.

[@dilipwaghmare148]

Nice

[@sdubs]

im korean and i've been playing bunny bunny since i was a kid in the 2000s. i can't believe it made it's way to american churches haha

[@YouthMinistryGreatGames]

Love it! I wonder how much it’s changed from its roots!

[@mediatarq1407]

Cool haha

[@jhonfgutizar5319]

I didn't catch it verry well..

[@MissMaris2016]

oh, I like wa. I'm going to try to change it into a name game. So instead of wa it will say the name of the person you are pointing to and the ones on the side repeat. I hope it works

[@YouthMinistryGreatGames]

What a cool idea!

[@vitriciusroven1795]

Kumja has been around a while at least since 1997 in Pohang Korea....The character passed is not bunny, it's toki.....To the left and right of the toki....people said "tangun" which is carrot and they swung their arms like popeye walking....everyone else said ....la..la...la and flapped their arms like a chicken....Just saying....

[@rebeccafuentes8327]

When you say large group, about how many people in the group do you mean? Hoping to implement this during youth tonight!

[@YouthMinistryGreatGames]

Typically a small group game is 12 or less, sometimes up to 20. Kumja I like to keep small because it's difficult to learn and with a larger group, it only gets more difficult. Large group games can be over 20 to 100, or sometimes even more!

[@Lysa122]

Is this a church?

[@user-oq1un1pj7t]

Yep!!

[@issacrobin758]

Swahili word for slave is mtumwa

[@YouthMinistryGreatGames]

Issac Robin Then I was lied to! Not sure where I originally heard that

[@wangag2663]

@@YouthMinistryGreatGames Or another word for servant is mtumishi. If you were refering to the word Kuja, this means "come"

[@TheRabbitpaws]

"Wha's UP!"

[@DanLee8884]

R u sure kumja isnt gamja? Korean for potato?

[@YouthMinistryGreatGames]

I like it! And that would actually be true, as I’m finding out I was lied to about its Swahili origins in the first place.

[@njerisanyu]

East African here: kumja is Not a Kiswahili word. Kuja is though and it means come.

[@YouthMinistryGreatGames]

Αβγθε Oh man, I’ve been lied to for years then! And spreading lies on the internet. A far worse crime! Apologies!

[@brett.travels]

Nice