Children's Activities
Activities for Children
Disability Awareness Activities
disAbility Awareness Activities by Ande HaymoreDescription: Having a child with a disability as part of our familyhas been a great blessing to us. He has brought a spirit of love, patience, andacceptance that wouldn’t have been there without him. With that great love andacceptance came a clearer understanding of all of God’s children and theirimportance. I know that many other…
Service List
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. Park/Neighborhood Cleanup: Contact your city or community park commission or recreational directors to find out what locations can use your donated labor. You can also clean out drains or ditches in…
Racetoration
For the mother daughter activity this year we did a version of the amazing race. We called it the Racetoration. All teams were given a airline ticket as an invitation. Then they were given their first clue. Different rooms in the church had answers on the doors. They had to get to the correct room and do the task inside.…
President Hinckley birthday party
We divided the children into 4 different groups. 1st group decorated cupcakes and topped them off with a photocopied mini (1″) picture of the Prophet glued to a toothpick. The 2nd group played pin the tie on the prophet. The third group Listened to stories about the Prophet when he was a child and played old-fashioned party games. The 4th…
Conference quiz night
The mutual after conference, have a quiz night on what that recent conference was about and what people spoke about. Have a few leaders or other people carefully listen to conference and write questions about the talks given, songs sung, statistics etc… Organize everyone into groups on the night of the activity, and have them each have a piece of…
Prayer Rock
Poem that goes along with this activity: I’m your little prayer rock, Here is what I’ll do; I’ll remind you that Heavenly Father likes to hear from you. It isn’t always easy to remember saying prayers and so…each morning when you make your bed on your pillow I will go. At night if you forget to pray and climb into…
Meet Your Teacher–Primary New Years Party
Invite each of the primary children to a breakfast or lunch to meet their new teacher. Have their new teachers deliver colorful party invitations to their children individually. Design a poster using bright paper, clip art, glitter, etc. announcing the activity. On the morning of the breakfast/lunch, set up round tables, one for each class and two long tables to…
Primary Music Time: Using Pictures
1. Pick the song 2. Photocopy the song chosen. 3. Get Xerox copy of Gospel Art Picture List 4. Break up the song into fragments. 5. Once the song is broken in fragments think of stories in the scriptures that comprise that fragment. 6. Check the Gospel Art Picture List and find the picture that closely matches the story you…
