Happy New Year!
We had an interesting activity where we had a game about the year 2006. It was similar to the Jeopardy. We had labels on the wall with different month names and on other sides were written questions about the year 2006. Questions were spiritual and regular, e.g Which famous presidents visited Estonia this year? or Which scriptures were taught in…
BYU Tour
Ask a person in your ward to give your group a tour of a college that they go to or work at. Take whoever you like. Have them talk about some career choices that are good at that school.
Musical Fireside
At Girls camp we always have a testimony meeting the last night of camp. We wanted to do something spiritual for the girls before the meeting, this is what we came up with and it is great. We have a musical fireside right before the testimony meeting starts. We start with a very breif talk about music and how it…
New Beginnings 2007, YW Sisters Cooking Show at the Virtue Deli
This is a New Beginnings Program specifically for 2007. It is a take on the theme (Let virtue garnish thy thoughts…) It is a Cooking Demonstration Show set at the Virtue Deli. It is presented by the YW Sisters. It spotlights the YW theme, the For Strength of Youth Booklet, the Young Womens Personal Progress Program, as well as the…
Balloon Pop Game
Bring large balloons and blow them up. Tie string to them (about 2 ½ feet long) and then tie the other end around your ankle. Each person playing does this. 1st game: Two people stand in a circle (approximately a 15 foot circle) if you step out of the circle, you are disqualified. Object: to pop each others balloon by…
Memorize “The Living Christ”
Kick off the challenge by having each leader memorize a paragraph of “The Living Christ.” Each leader recites her memorized paragraph. After this the YW president will give the challenge of following the prophet’s counsel to have spiritual experiences, to know our Savior through study, and to be a light unto others. Memorizing “The Living Christ” will fulfill all of…
America’s Top MODEST Model
…for our New Beginnings we are going to do America’s Next Top Modest Model” Theme for ours. Since we will probably have 7 girls- we will give each of them a value that will be their model name. Like one girl will be Faith. (Cheesy I know) We’re going to make a powerpoint slide show thing with pictures we’re going…
Missionary
Beforehand, we invited the children to bring one or more items that would be useful or fun to a missionary. Suggestions: stamps, envelopes, cereal, socks, snacks, non perishable food, stationary, etc. or pictures they had drawn for them. We told them we would give these to the missionaries as a surprise. The activity was done in 3 groups because our…