Midweek Enrichment Activity Ideas
We were doing several midweek activities in my prior ward. We had a playgroup, a lunch bunch, a book club, a craft club,and sports night. The playgroup was at a park, the lunch bunch was at a sister’s home or a restaurant, and the other two were at sisters’ homes. So there was no need for priesthood. Each club/group had…
Trading Faces
This is a brief description of a fun personal hygeine activity: Just this past Sunday the Beehives (the one Beehive actually) decided on doing Trading Faces (makeover each other with makeup, and no one can have any input on their own face). Include a short lesson on personal hygeine tying in the importance of modesty in makeup and appearance. Sounds…
Service Project~for less active members
We made “School Survival Kits” for all of our less active girls (5 out of 6 are less active in our ward) and took them over to them. Included was a welcome letter from me sharing my testimony of the young women’s program and how I feel about working with each of these girls, an invitation to an upcoming “Get-to-know-you-party,”…
Modesty Fashion Show
Drive to a thrift store and divide your girls up into groups. Give them a set amount of time and a set amount of money. (We gave the groups 20 minutes and $15 each from the budget) We told the groups that they needed to find a modest outfit that they would want to wear, keeping track of their money…
Modest Snow Family
Divide the youth or families into groups and make snowman families and dress them in modest snow attire. Spice it up and make the snowmen look like each other.
Service Auction
The night of the event, hand out the survey as the members arrive. Give them some time to fill out the survey. I have seen several variations of the survey. One is to have questions like “Have you read your scriptures every day this week?” 15 points. “Did you do your visiting teaching this month?” 10 points. There should be…
Young Women in Excellence ~ 2005
For decorations we used: 7 skinny 8″ clear glass vases, 7 single flowers, one for each Value color (we used silk, but real may also be used)thin ribbon in each Value Color, and a large bouqet of “wildflowers” in the 7 Value colors, nicely arranged. A large Vase for the bouquet. ~ We took bits of each colored ribbon and…
Learning and Living the Gospel Jeopardy
I did this for Activity Day girls and used the categories – Temples – Joseph Smith – Faith in God – Articles of Faith – Book of Mormon – Ward Leadership and made questions 5 questions up for each category. I divided our girls into two groups and had them take turns at answering the questions. The girls had blast.…
Awesome Activities for LDS Church members
