Extreme Make Over
We had a woman in the ward who is a beautician come and demonstrate a hair cut. I called all the moms and got permission to cut hair, then at the Activity day, we put all the names of girls who had permission into a bowl and drew a name of a girl to get her hair cut. Then we…
Family History Mother/Daughter Party
we had a “mixer” game where we had the girls bring a current picture of themselves and a picture of their mom at the same age the girl is now. The pictures were mounte onto construction paper with numbers on them, then pinned to a bulletin board. Each girl and mother was given a paper with a list of the…
Service project
The girls in Activity days washed and disinfected all the toys in the nursery.
Easter Program
We asked the girls to wear their Sunday clothes and we told them we were flying to Jerusalem to visit the Garden of Gethsemane. On the “flight” we had a flight attendant (one of the girls) pass out pkgs. of peanuts…and we had a pilate (the second counselor in the Bishopric) and a co-pilate (the Primary Pres.). The inflight movie…
TENSION! (A 3-hour acting workshop)
Leaders should prepare or find a resource person for acting. The youth should bring extra clothes for acting drills. Leaders should remind the youth for this or else they will suffer the consequence of going home so dirty and messy. This workshop will help the youth of the church develop their inner confidence. Also, they will use it in church…
Apple pie
We tought our activity day girls how to make an apple pie from scratch, crust and all. They did all the work and took a pie home ready to bake in thier own oven so the whole family was able to share in their labors. They were so proud of themselves and the pies turned out great from what their…
Heart Attack
write nice things on your hearts about a certain inactive member (like “we missed you at young womens” or your the sweetest”) and glue your hearts to pop sickle sticks or string and go to their house and tie them to trees or put them in the lawn using the pop sickle sticks, and leave a plate of heart cookies…
Mutual – Olympic Night
Have olympic events like the disc toss(paper plate), or the Javoline throw(straw), and a bubble blowing contest(bubble gum)…be creative. This works great as a joint activity because the girls have a chance to win also(throwing a straw takes no muscle, just a lot of luck).