Youth Activities
Youth Activities
Spudwood Derby Activity
Every year, Memphis singles enjoy their annual Spudwood Derby. After a great baked potato bar, singles are separated into teams that make a “spudwood” derby car out of a raw potato. Using a pinewood derby track, toothpicks, paring knives, and a set of pinewood derby tires, each team races in several heats to get bragging rights for the next year.…
Planning a Successful Youth Conference or Handcart Trek
Planning a Pioneer Trek can be a very stressful experience, but it doesn’t have to be that way. If you find yourself called to plan and lead a group of young LDS Pioneers on a pioneer handcart trek, just follow these simple guidelines and you’ll have a wonderful journey along the trail. 1. Have Bishops assign Ma’s and Pa’s from…
YW In Excellence — School of Excellence
This is a School theme. You decorate the whole thing like a school class room up front and leaders come dressed as teachers with suits, hair buns, whistles, glasses, etc. Invitation ideas: Mini chalk boards, box of crayons, something apple, brown sack with pull out, ruller, hall pass, invitation to Parent Teacher conference Decor: Chalkboard with our theme on it,…
Temple Trip Activity
For our Primary Quarterly Activity we attended the Houston Texas Temple. We met in the waiting room of the temple and had an opening song and prayer then listed the ‘dos and don’ts’ / rules while at the temple. We then divided the children into two groups (each child received a colored sticker upon entrance). The entire group walked to…
Find Someone Who
This is a good activity to do with students at the beginning of a course. It provides a quick way for students to connect with one another and helps them overcome initial shyness in a new situation. Introduction Tell students that they are going to play a game to find out things they might not know about each other. They…
The Amazing Race
We invited parents to come with the children. We divided the kids and adults into 3 groups (because we have 3 lobbies that needed to be cleaned). We made sure that each group had at least one adult in it. Your building needs may be different. We had color coded teams (Plastic tablecloths in Primary colors) cut into strips to…
Value Trail Mix- refreshments for New Begginings
Our theme we chose was keep your values with you along the path of life. We decided to have them make their own trail mix. We called it Value mix and made our own labels which we put on clear plastic baggies. Each bowl was lined with tissue paper of the appropriate value color and then the bowl was filled…
Simple Service / Charity activity
Give each person in your class a quarter. Tell them that they can use the quarter for themselves or place it in the jar where the jar will go to a good cause (food shelter, ophanage, etc.). Then leave the jar in the class for a week, and challenge others to help others and to give to the needy. (This…
