Youth Activities
Youth Activities
YW mutual night activity
This activity is just for the Laurels. We had it set up like a wedding reception. We had a small wedding cake, wedding pictures of the leaders and a wedding vedio playing. We started the night by having one of the advisers speak for 10 min. on preparing to go to the temple then we had all the girls make…
CPR
I had a scary experience happen last month when my 18-month-old fainted in my arms and wouldn’t come to. I had to perform rescue breathing on him. I am so grateful for the guidance of the Spirit that helped me remember from high school (10 years ago) the way to do rescue breathing so that I could save his life.…
Cultural night
Cultural night where the group can learn about different cultures or they can share their heritage with others. The assigned groups set up their displays around the room. Each group can bring information, maps, books, pictures, clothing, every day items, plants, etc for their display. We also had a food table where each food was listed and displayed with their…
Missionary Olympics
Divide the participants into teams of reasonably equal age, abilities and Church knowledge. The teams or companionships then work their way round a series of workshops spending 10 mins at each task before moving to the next one. The six workshops we had were: Oops! It Came Off. In this workshop the team was required to sew on a shirt…
Hymn and Hers – YM/YW Combined Activity
Our YW value for the month was knowledge and our “Be” was “Be Smart.” So I came up with an activity that would help the kids learn about the hymnbooks, how to use them, and how to conduct (this also helps the young women with one of their personal progress activities and the young men with their duty to god).…
Getting to Know You
We wanted to get to know the sisters that had moved in better and let them learn about us. We had potato bar. Then had them choose a miniture candy bar of their choice after everyone had chosen their favorite we had everyone that choose the same bar and come up and answer a question (like favorite place to visit)…
Baking Contest
Orginaize a couple of groups and give them pedetermined ingredients without instuctions. Have them try to make something in a half an hour. Warning: the taste testers may suffer!!!
You Can Do It, He Can Help
For Youth Conference, our youth came up with the theme, “You Can Do It, He Can Help,” deriving from the Home Depot motto. Many activities can be planned around this theme. One activity that was effective was each youth were individually given the same directions(go North 20 steps, then South 15 steps, etc.) to follow without a compass and without…
