Flour Wars
Flour wars is a fun activity that most any youth group can play. It’s kind of like dodge ball. If you get hit by a flour bag, you have to step out of the boundaries, so honestly is involved too. Everyone is divided into teams. The team with the most still in wins. It’s not boys against the girls either.…
Ding Dong Ditching – Mormon Style
Ding Dong Ditching (somtimes called Ring and Run) is a neighborhood prank that’s been around for ages. Kids ring the doorbell of a random house and run away, trying not to get caught. But when members of the #MormonMafia do it, we leave a plate of cookies, note, or other small treat at the door. Often ding dong ditchers will hid where they…
Prepare Every Needful Thing – Back to School Mutual activity
I’m a new young women’s president, and I’m planning mutual this week so that I can learn to do it in order to teach the young women to do it later. This week it’s class activities and I’m teaching Laurels. Since school started two weeks ago, I’m doing a class on organization that I’m calling Prepare Every Needful thing. We…
72 Hour Emergency Supply Kits
From a post that no longer exists, but is archived here: http://web.archive.org/web/20140814220547/http://www-suares.stanford.edu/72hour-kit.html From: dorothy@cogsci.berkeley.edu (Dorothy Heydt) Newsgroups: ca.earthquakes Subject: 72 Hour Emergency Supply Kits (**LONG**) Date: 6 Nov 89 18:39:20 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 713 I have just been taught how to post. Here is the information that I have put together from a number or sources…
Progressive Dinner Organizer
From Lela L: Our ward does a yearly progressive dinner. I was talking to the lady that organizes it and she was telling me how much work goes into it. I thought– I wonder if there could be a spreadsheet that would do all the work? Well, now there is. I created this spreadsheet– all you have to do is…
Life sized PAC MAN combined activity
By JOLLY ROGERS For a recent combined activity, we needed to make decorations for a dance we were hosting the following weekend, but we knew it wouldn’t take the entire time and wanted to have something fun to look forward to after the work was done… We decided on a Life-Sized Pac-Man game! I originally saw the idea on a…
Video with Clothing Instructions for Trek
The Ashburn Virginia Stake made a great video with ideas on how to make or alter clothing when preparing for Trek. The video includes instructions on fabric types that are safe around fire, skirt lengths, and how to make a man’s shirt for trek. It also has information on what to read to prepare for trek.
Time capsule activity idea
We have a really fun Laurel activity planned for this upcoming week that I thought I would share! The girls wanted to create time capsules that they could use to capture their senior year. We decided to do a slight spin on the time capsules, by using these cute sandwich bags I found at Target (I found them in…