Youth room renovation challenge

Something to try in order to stir things up a bit: Make redecorating a youth room or complex a contest.

• If it is a single room have randomly selected teams submit designs to be voted on by the whole group. You can allow or disallow adult help, as feels right
  
• If there are multiple rooms that can be included, have teams assigned to specific rooms and submit designs for those rooms
  
  • If you are really brave, you can, in TV reality show fashion have teams actually do the redecoration in secret and then have one grand “reveal.”
    
  • You might assign an interior decorator from the congregation to each team, with the instruction that they are to advise and help with technical items but the youth must do the actual design.
    
• Control over the projects can be had by establishing in advance spending limits and any out of bounds activities (removing walls, putting in a hot tub...)