Let Your Light Shine – pumpkin carving activity
Opening song:Jesus wants me for a Sundbeam (p. 60 children’s songbook)Opening prayer:Practice song:I am like a star (p.163 childrens songbook)Spiritual thought:Being a Christian is like being a pumpkin. Our Heavenly Father lifts us up, takes us in, washes all the dirt off. He opens us up, touches us deep inside and scoops all the yucky stuff out (like the seeds…
Guest Speaker
We recently had a family that participated in the Nauvoo Pageant. They will be giving a fireside talk at our ward about their experience. Have a family give a talk about their experience of participating in one of the church’s pageants.
Primary Activity Water Party
I am the Primary President and a firm believer in having fun with your Primary children. For our summer quarterly activity we had a water party. We split the children up into three groups. 1) we cut the 1 gallon milk jugs bottoms off (prepared a head of time) and the children deocrated them with markers. We had a tub…
Primary Quarterly Activity
Spiritual Quarterly Activity. We call this activity a PJ’S Party (PJ’S= Prayers, Journal and Scriptures). We made Prayer Rocks, a Journal for each child and read scripture stories. We had our activity early on a Saturday morning …had the children come in their PJ’s and fed them pancakes and bacon!
Dance Activity
It was an International theme. Each class pick a country and perform either a dance or a song from that country.It can be any theme Book of Mormon, Christmas, Halloween, Pioneer, Different time like 50’s, 80’s etc. At the end of performance we continue to dance and have refreshment.
Temple activity
For a special YW activity on the temple, we gave each one of the girls a white handkerchief brought back from the Philippines by my mother. They have a picture of the torch, the words “Stand for Truth and Righteousness” and each girl’s name embroidered on them. You can order these handkerchiefs from Sister Samson in the Philippines. They are…
Team Building/ Alien Hunt
We used this as a Primary quarterly activity, but it could easily be used for any number of groups (YW, YM, RS, etc). We split up all our primary children into 4 different groups. Then each group went to a variety of team building activities. In each, they had to solve a problem by working as a group. I got…
Don’t Forget Your Flip Flops – Giant board game
I made a gaint snakes and ladders board, 10 x9. Each square was taped together with parcel tape.On the board as well and snakes and ladders, were 6 different coloured shapes, 1 was deliberatly left out. Each colour had questions about that values, ie white = faith questions etc. If the answered incorrectly, they moved back a square.The final square…
Awesome Activities for LDS Church members
