Preparation
We wanted to teach the children that the Lord uses his Prophets to help prepare his people.We used stories in the scriptures to help teach this. We asked someone to play the part of each Prophet. They told the story and explained how the Lord helped them to prepare for what was to happen. After the story the children did…
Family History & Temple Work
Have the girls waiting at the door not allowed in till you lead them as a Forest Ranger. Tell the girls that the lights to guide them our like faith in the gospel. Tell the children that they are entering the woods and we have to silent so we dont’ loose the way. Have them take a chair and start…
Celestial Summer Camp Theme
We choose the theme “Celestial Summer” last year for a ward YW camp. It is more broad in topic, so really anything can go. Song ideas: “You are my Sunshine”, “For the Beauty of the Earth”, “Walk Tall Your a Daughter of God”, “How Great Thou Art”, “Beautiful Zion, Built Above” etc. Hike idea: We did a spiritual hike where…
Mother’s Day Plates
We have used white glass plates for Mother’s Day. They turned out really nice and the Mother’s were so excited to get them. We first made sure that the children had an old tshirt of some sort over their good clothes! Each child had a white glass plate. We used gold foil acrylic paint but you can use any color.…
Egg Drop
I used the Idea for an egg drop, gathered up different items to build a protection around the egg and placed the same items in ten different gallon sized ziploc bags. I divided the girls into teams and gave them time to build sometype of protection around their eggs. Then we dropped them from a tall ladder. To give this…
Parable’s Iron Chef
We divided the mutual into 6 groups: priests, laurels, miamaids, teachers, beehives, deacons. Each group had 45 minutes to decide on a parable or scripture story that they would demonstrate by decorating the cake. Some of the ideas our mutual came up with: Noah’s ark (make an ark out of cake, had fish in the water, made animals out of…
Create a short video on a Gospel Story
This is a combined YM/YW mutual activity that I created, and we participated in last night. We started a little after 7:00 PM and we were done at 8:30 PM. We had about 30 youth, and their leaders from YM and YW. After the usual mutual opening, the entire group was given the purpose of the night’s activity. They were…
Modesty Activity
I specifically chose actresses that are near the age of our girls, role models that they may idolize. I then went on line and found paper dolls with clothing that was not modest. At the meeting we gave the girls the paperdolls that we had collected and after a short lesson on modesty asked them to take the immodest clothing…
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