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…
What’s In Your Backpack?
I printed clipart of a backpack on 8 1/2 by 11 paper, and cut them out. I then glued them to the paper sacks. I used ribbon ( paper will also work ) to creat straps on the opposite side to form my back pack. We gathered at a leader’s home and watched What’s In Your Backpack by John Bytheway.…
Life Relay
In this activity you teach the basic life skills that you will need as a young women or young men later on in your life. In this you set up many stations such as, folding socks station in this station you use many different socks and have people try to match socks in a very fast time, a pancake station,…
Breakfast with the Bishop
We gather the children the first Saturday of the year and have them meet for breakfast at the ward house. We have all the teachers come and meet their new classes (sometiems in PJ’s), so they each sit with their new class (we have done picnic style and tables). Then we have the bishop tell a story, sing a song…
From Laurels to College Freshmen
I was in a ward council meeting when our ward’s job employment specialist was informing the council about what services are offered at our local Deseret Industries (DI). One service is a class on how to prepare and apply for college and financial scholarships. They have pages of scholarships to apply for and great tips for writing good essays. The…
Summer Scripture Splash
Before each activity we briefly discussed the background for the scripture on the poster or explained how it applied to us or the activity. 1. Squirt guns “The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.” Proverbs 13:9 Two to four people race to put out lit candles by squirting the flames with…
Are You Ready To Be On Your Own? Budget Activity
YM/YW Combined Mutual LIFE Budget Activity – Tuesday, April 18, 2006ttttttttttttttttttttttttSchedule ttttttttttt6:00 PMtChurch open for Booth set-uptttttttttt7:00 PMtGet Bag of Life, turn in your white elephant gift – Opening Excercisesttttttttttt7:10 PMtBudget Class & Budget Worksheettttttttttt7:35 PMtStart by doing your Jobttttttttttt8:20 PMtAsses Accounts – Announce Winnersttttttttt8:30 PMtClean-up by alltttttttttttttttttttttttAssignmentstttEach Class is responsible for having at least 1 adult run their booth…
Smart Shopper
we discovered a family in our ward who could really use a meal. We also realized our YW needed to learn how to stretch the $ when grocery shopping. We gave each YW a certain amount of money to purchase specific items for a lasagne dinner we were going to make. Whoever found the items for the cheapest amount won…
Awesome Activities for LDS Church members
