Literacy Auction
Sisters read for three months to earn points. (Or however long your unit wants, we do July/August/September and let new sisters estimate–we have our auction in October.)Sisters keep track of their points in a booklet, then use their points to bid on items donated by other sisters at our Literacy Auction in October. This activity accomplishes two purposes. First, the…
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…
Relief Society Birthday Celebration “Something Extraordinary: Relief Society of the Past, Present, and Future”
This year for our RS Birthday Enrichment we chose the theme “Something Extraordinary: RS of the Past, Present, and…This year for our RS Birthday Enrichment we chose the theme “Something Extraordinary: RS of the Past, Present, and Future.” It was our best attended Enrichment in some time. Publicity: Our awesome Enrichment leader made beautiful invitations to send out to everyone.…
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…
Primary Quarterly Activity – Camping Theme
This “Camp Out” Activity was done last year. It was a huge success and thought I would share with others!! I am attaching the signs, handouts, invitations etc. from our activity. I will also explain a little about the Activity: Gather the children in the main room (gym). Have it decorated like a camp ground with a tent, chairs, sleeping…
Missionary-themed Ward Christmas Party
For Christmas this year, our ward held an awesome missionary-themed activity! The Bishop’s goal was to help each family prepare an attractive gift for a friend or neighbor that contained treats and missionary tracts, etc. We also had a station to write letters to missionaries serving from our own ward. Each family was given at least one gift bag to…
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…
The Wizard of Oz New Beginnings January 2006
by Melody Dunn SUMMARY AND NOTES AFTERWARD: I had some Wizard of Oz figurines from my g’daughter and some posters, and we served lemon bars (yellow brick road) and green sherbet with sprite (Emerald City) although we didn’t talk about that. I spoke on the parallels of the Wizard and YW, values, resisting temptations, etc. Then we had each of…