Scripture Mastery Scavenger Hunt
This is a fun way to get the kids moving to find their scripture mastery. The list of 100 items has the instructions listed on the top. I will repost them here to give you an idea of how to play. Old Testament Scripture Mastery Scavenger Hunt- Split into 2 teams. Find the scripture (ex-Lord looketh on the heart-answer is…
S’more themed Evening of Excellence
We based the evening of Excellence on Elaine Dalton’s Young Women Let’s Give Them S’mores talk. 9/17/2011 church news and based the program on Virtue experience #1. For the theme, we had a fake campfire in the center of the room (logs glued in a log cabin formation on a wood board covered with tissue paper and “lit” with a…
Music to FHE
We bought a Children’s Primary Songs Learning Keyboard from www.MormonMarket.com and our children have begun to play the songs to accompany the rest of the family when we sing to open and close FHE. We have even used it for one of our kids to showcase ‘their’ new song during FHE which always puts a smile on their faces. It…
Young Women Value Quest
In this “quest for value” the young women will be divided into two teams with at least one leader each. They will play 7 games relating to 7 of the YW values and, at the end, should emerge with 8 value-colored flags. The way to win is to complete all of the games and get all of the flags before…
Put Put Golf Acitivity
Combined Young Men, Young Women activates are a little more difficult in the winter. We changed A FHE activity to work for a combined YM/YW activity. 1st. We broke up all the youth into six teams 2nd: Each team was given a class room and building odds and ends like carpet rolls, duct tape, etc 3rd: Each team spent about…
The Prayer Bucket
A veteran Seminary teacher told me about this method of choosing prayers for class that helps avoid having the same few kids volunteer to pray each day. I have used a similar method in Young Womens classes, too, and it works beautifully. You’ll need : a wooden Popsicle-style craft stick for every person in your class (plus some extras in…
Salsa Night
We had sisters in our ward share their salsa recipes, make and bring salsa for eating, and even learned how to salsa dance. One sister demonstrated her salsa making skills and we had a pinata at the end to break with some yummy candy inside.
Daddy / Daughter game (Newlywed style)
We had a Daddy/Daughter date night for our Young Women. We started with dinner, ours was pizza and rootbeer floats. Then we played Know Your Partner (as some of our young women don’t have a dad, we borrowed Uncles and Grandfathers). Split the fathers and daughters and while fathers were making and enjoying their own rootbeer float, we asked questions…