Children's Activities
Activities for Children
Missionary
Beforehand, we invited the children to bring one or more items that would be useful or fun to a missionary. Suggestions: stamps, envelopes, cereal, socks, snacks, non perishable food, stationary, etc. or pictures they had drawn for them. We told them we would give these to the missionaries as a surprise. The activity was done in 3 groups because our…
Journey Through the Scriptures
We did this as a Primary Activity Day. We wanted the children to feel a stonger connection to the scriptures, and to get to know some of the scripture heros, therein. We had the children come dressed in Biblical, Book of Mormon attire. We seperated them into four groups, and set out to journey through the Book of Mormon, Doctrine…
Testimony Gloves
My mother is currently working with Sister Oaks (Elder Dallin Oaks’ wife) on a project called “Testimony Gloves.” These are a simple tool that Sister Oaks is using to help leaders teach the concept of a testimony to children across the world. Each finger of the glove has a picture of the five basic elements of a testimony: 1. I…
Camelot Night
We began the night by handing out crowns (purchased at a local party store) for each of the youth. After opening exercises and a brief welcome we had dinner.After dinner, we had games. The first was “jousting” with tricycles and water noodles. (We also thought skateboards may have worked) The second was “pumpkin chucking”. We purchased small pumpkins (several to…
Box Car Drive-in Movie
We did this for a Primary Activity day in our ward, but can easily be adapted for youth or even young single adults, on…We did this for a Primary Activity day in our ward, but can easily be adapted for youth or even young single adults, on a ward or stake level. Pre-Activity: The kids were notified of the activity…
Achievement Days – Mummy and Me
Achievement Days“Mummy & Me” Activity. The girls got together and made the invitations. We colored them and handed them out. The night of the activity we painted “Mummies” on small wooden spoons (just eyes and nose) and when the spoons dry, you wrap them in gauze to make the mummy. Then you make a pack of candy corn in cheesecloth…
Primary Activity Water Party
I am the Primary President and a firm believer in having fun with your Primary children. For our summer quarterly activity we had a water party. We split the children up into three groups. 1) we cut the 1 gallon milk jugs bottoms off (prepared a head of time) and the children deocrated them with markers. We had a tub…
Primary Quarterly Activity
Spiritual Quarterly Activity. We call this activity a PJ’S Party (PJ’S= Prayers, Journal and Scriptures). We made Prayer Rocks, a Journal for each child and read scripture stories. We had our activity early on a Saturday morning …had the children come in their PJ’s and fed them pancakes and bacon!
