Clothes Swap
We ask all the girls to go through their closets and bring clothes that they don’t wear any more to mutual. The girls get to go through eachothers clothes and take home what they like. We also have a table set up for letter writing to missionaries from our ward. That way the girls have something to do after going…
Cultural night
Cultural night where the group can learn about different cultures or they can share their heritage with others. The assigned groups set up their displays around the room. Each group can bring information, maps, books, pictures, clothing, every day items, plants, etc for their display. We also had a food table where each food was listed and displayed with their…
Missionary Olympics
Divide the participants into teams of reasonably equal age, abilities and Church knowledge. The teams or companionships then work their way round a series of workshops spending 10 mins at each task before moving to the next one. The six workshops we had were: Oops! It Came Off. In this workshop the team was required to sew on a shirt…
Individual Worth
You make cards or posters useing stamps, stickers, pens or markers, and card stock.You write your self what your Individual Worth is and or draw it with stamps or what ever you want.You can put it in your journal or on your wall where ever you need it The girls I did this with seemed to enjoy this and asked…
Hymn and Hers – YM/YW Combined Activity
Our YW value for the month was knowledge and our “Be” was “Be Smart.” So I came up with an activity that would help the kids learn about the hymnbooks, how to use them, and how to conduct (this also helps the young women with one of their personal progress activities and the young men with their duty to god).…
72 Hour Kit Contents List
This is the list of 72 hour kit contents for my family of 4. Each of us has our own backpack (I’ve tested to make sure the kids can carry theirs), and we have one big black duffel bag we use for the less essential shared items. I put a copy of the items in each backpack in each bag.…
72 Hour Bucket Kits
These 72 hour kit lists were emailed to me by Mrs. Haws. Each of these bucket style kits uses the 5 gallon buckets from a hardware store. She uses a special tool called a Gamma Seal Lid to make her pails twist off and waterproof. – Jenny Mrs Haws says the following: I have a list of items of a…
Chili Cook-Off and Pie Bake-Off
We had a chili cook-off/Pie bake-off with our ward, which turned out great. People sign up to bring their chili/pies and you assign each person a number. We had the bishopric be the judges and we came up with some creative awards with silly prizes I.E. “The Not For Kids” Award for the hottest with a Hot Tamale necklace. The…
Awesome Activities for LDS Church members
