Make Your Own Mormonad
Gather your group together and determine how many small groups to form. Each group should have at least one camera. Digital cameras make this activity more affordable as you can take as many pictures as you want and then print only those that you will use. Go to your location and everyone goes where they want, with adult supervision. We…
St Patricks’s Day Progressive Dinner
Each of the Young Women leaders made something that was green for a progressive dinner. We started at the first leader’s house and had green salad. Then we went to the next leader’s house and ate green Jell-O with green rolls. Then we had green chicken enchiladas at the next leader’s house. Finally, we finished with dessert at the last…
International Cuisine Night
We assigned various members of young men and young women a country. (Some of the youth we chose were the ones that had siblings in YM or YW–so two of them could make something together). We asked them to prepare a dish (dessert, appetizer, or main course item,etc.) that is from that country. We gathered information from the Internet about…
missionary activity from premission to the mission field
Pre-mission – focus on exercise, healthy eating, saving money, studying the scriptures etc. Show a piggy bank – saving money. Scriptures – learning the gospel. Shoe =missionaries walk a lot. Serve refreshments here we served apples, carrots and grapes with water to drink. Took about 15 min. We had the children write letters or draw pictures for the missionaries in…
Youth fundraising activity
We are into our second year of this activity. We sell tickets to a ward family dinner and after dinner we hold an auction. People from our ward have donated most of the items/services. We hold a live auction for these items and a silent auction for the items donated by the kids (in this instance, the girls going to…
Preparation
We wanted to teach the children that the Lord uses his Prophets to help prepare his people.We used stories in the scriptures to help teach this. We asked someone to play the part of each Prophet. They told the story and explained how the Lord helped them to prepare for what was to happen. After the story the children did…
Family History & Temple Work
Have the girls waiting at the door not allowed in till you lead them as a Forest Ranger. Tell the girls that the lights to guide them our like faith in the gospel. Tell the children that they are entering the woods and we have to silent so we dont’ loose the way. Have them take a chair and start…
Celestial Summer Camp Theme
We choose the theme “Celestial Summer” last year for a ward YW camp. It is more broad in topic, so really anything can go. Song ideas: “You are my Sunshine”, “For the Beauty of the Earth”, “Walk Tall Your a Daughter of God”, “How Great Thou Art”, “Beautiful Zion, Built Above” etc. Hike idea: We did a spiritual hike where…