Whispers from the Dust- a play -women from the book of mormon
The script and play are a step back in time to hear from the voices of the women in the book of mormon. We often concentrate on the men and forget that women were around. We had a narrator read the script and one by one different women…Lehi’s wife sang and talked about her humerous journey into the wilderness singing….ARE…
Youth camp fundraising idea
For our youth camp fund raiser last year we held a garage sale at a members home during their town wide garage sale. It was very successful. We earned almost $900. Enough to send all of the youth in our ward to camp.
Keep Your Eye on the Goal
We tried this at our Singles ward family home evening. What I did was split up the group into pairs. We then told everyone that we were going to have a staring contest. All participants needed to keep a straight face at all times without laughing, giggling, ect. and you could not CLOSE your eyes or blink at anytime which…
New Era Basketball
We used the March New Era which focused on Missionary Service. Each member of the presidency came up with 5 questions based on the articles within the Era.(About 20 questions) We divided the youth up equally into two teams based on athletic ability, gender, age and church knowledge. The two teams then took turns either shooting baskets or looking for…
Times and Seasons
We had 6 tables set up by birthday months (Jan/Feb, Mar/Apr, Jun/July etc.) We had sisters volunteer to decorate a table and one to make the birhtday cake for that table. People brought fun dishes and things from home to decorate the their table and then we used the birthday cake as the centerpiece. As the sisters arrived they were…
Value Fruit Salad
For New Beginnings, we used a modified version of the Virtue Deli. We made and served the sandwich but we also showed the recipe for a “Value fruit Salad”. We had fruit for each value color and a little blurb on how the fruits were like the values. We assembled it in front of the group and served it up.…
New Beginnings Skit for 2007 Theme
This skit talks about Personal progress, the young women theme, this years young womens theme, and ties in the song Daughter of a King which is our focus this year for our Young Women.Girl 1 is sitting down just quietly thinking when her friends come in one at a time to talk to her. When girl 1 is thinking, someone…
Mission Possible: Operation Unconditional Love
Girl’s Camp Theme: Mission Possible: Operation ULUL stands for unconditional love. Urge the YW to strive to show Unconditional Love for everyone. The love that they show will truly impact your camp expercience. You will truly see the love of God throughout the whol week of camp. It is truly amazing.