Wire Family Tree with Pictures
The Final Project: Wire photo tree Tools silver medium gage galvanized wire (make sure the wire is pliable) hot glue and hot glue gun spool of silver, 28 gage galvanized wire collection of small family photos (copied or scanned and printed) silver craft foil needle nose pliers dull or old scissors Craft Instructions: The Tree Frame 1. Print Mormonchic’s family…
Primary Meet Your Teacher Pajama Breakfast
We did this at the beginning of the year. Kids, parents and teachers came to breakfast in PJ’s. We introduced the year program. This year Dora the Explorer was exploring the Book of Mormon as well. Had handouts to the parents, of their responsibilities. Kids saw their Primary room. Bishop gave a talk in his PJ’s, and it was a…
Remembering the Birth of our Savior
Last Christmas we had a wonderful activity to help us remember the birth of our Savior at Christmas time. Only a few leaders knew what was going on. I’m a leader and I didn’t even know the plot, which actually made the activity mean that much more to me in the end. We had some leaders bake some cookies prior…
New Member/Inactive Welcome
Have the youth make cookies or assemble treat bags to take around to new members of your ward/branch or to inactive members of their class. We’ve also done this as a ‘kidnapping’ where we notify the youth’s mother ahead of time, show up after opening exercises, blindfold the less-active youth, and take him/her to the park for games and treats.…
Bicycle Rodeo
Host a bicycle safety clinic for the children in your area. Children bring their bikes and helmets to the Rodeo, and traverse an obstacle course, color pictures, and listen to instructions on bicycle safety. Bicycle Rodeos are usually conducted by local police departments. Here is a website about how to plan tand organize a Bicycle Rodeo, and here’s information on…
You’ve Been Heart Attacked!
The youth in our area love this activity, they don’t even think of it as service! Make a large heart out of posterboard and put a message on the heart like “Welcome to the Branch” , “We love you” , “Get Well Soon” , “Good Luck” , “We’ll miss you”, etc. Cut out many hearts of different sizes, and make…
Music Concert or Music Festival
Attend your local High School Community College or University music concert or festival is always fun, and if you have a less- or in-active member that is involved in the event, can be a great reactivation tool. A good resource for events in larger US cities is http://www.citysearch.com/. Also check your local paper, or ask your class presidencies if they…
Christmas Shoppers’ Babysitting Service:
Choose an evening or afternoon to sit any children in the unit whose parents would like to do some Christmas shopping together without children. Set a time limit for the baby sitting (2-4 hours), and bring lots of toys and treats to entertain the children in your building’s gym or multi-purpose room. You may also wish to collect names and…
Awesome Activities for LDS Church members
