Escape the Great and Spacious Building – Escape Room
By Bekah I’ve seen a lot of interest in escape rooms… so I thought I’d share what we did for our combined activity last night. We had an “Escape the Great and Spacious Building” themed room. The kids gathered in the foyer and received instructions, then we sent them to the cultural hall, where there were clues set up all…
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Lip Sync Battle Ideas
Check out these fantastic tips from LDS leaders on how to plan a lip sync battle! Set up Here is how one unit set up a “stage”. It looks like they used plastic tablecloths from the dollar store and pinned them to a chalkboard in a classroom. Awards Look at these cute microphone awards made from tinfoil and spray painted…
LDS Escape Room – Personal Progress Activity for Good Works
Shared by Korina M. “Tonight for Mutual we made a escape room. I didn’t tell the girls tell they were [doing personal progress, too!]. But when they were done they had either finished or started all of the Good Works value experiences for personal progress! Anyways not overly complicated the girls had fun. ” Editor’s note – an escape room is…
50 Tried and Tested Delicious Girls Camp Meals
Girls camp meals can be a pain to plan, and if the food at camp isn’t good, well … mutiny! These tried and tested camp meals are favorites collected from camp leaders all over the world. You’re sure to find some that will work with your girls: Camp Meal Ideas Hawaiian haystacks Mexican stackups Walking tacos Dutch oven cheesy potatoes and…
Ideas for Mutual with the Missionaries
Ideas for Mutual with the Missionaries: Q&A style “We did a panel. We had questions in a basket. We sat in a circle (around a table would work … we did dessert afterwards) and they could either ask a question, or pull one from the basket. We just randomly chose who would answer the question and sometimes another person would…
Flour Wars
Flour wars is a fun activity that most any youth group can play. It’s kind of like dodge ball. If you get hit by a flour bag, you have to step out of the boundaries, so honestly is involved too. Everyone is divided into teams. The team with the most still in wins. It’s not boys against the girls either.…
Ding Dong Ditching – Mormon Style
Ding Dong Ditching (somtimes called Ring and Run) is a neighborhood prank that’s been around for ages. Kids ring the doorbell of a random house and run away, trying not to get caught. But when members of the #MormonMafia do it, we leave a plate of cookies, note, or other small treat at the door. Often ding dong ditchers will hid where they…
Prepare Every Needful Thing – Back to School Mutual activity
I’m a new young women’s president, and I’m planning mutual this week so that I can learn to do it in order to teach the young women to do it later. This week it’s class activities and I’m teaching Laurels. Since school started two weeks ago, I’m doing a class on organization that I’m calling Prepare Every Needful thing. We…