Youth Fundraiser Ideas
Youth can only hold one a year in very specific circumstances (ask your Bishop or Branch President), but here are some ideas that sound much better and less financially opressive than service auctions or food auctions: Our ward once did a fancy fundraising dinner with an interesting approach: The bishop announced that it would be “dinner out” and the cost…
My Name Is Icebreaker
Great for any group – even birthday parties for kids Pass out papers and pens and have each person write their first name vertically. Then, they pick a word or phrase that describes something about them for each letter. For example: K – Kids, I have 4R – ReadingI – I actually just finished Isaiah (the WHOLE book!)S – Songs…
YW mutual night activity
This activity is just for the Laurels. We had it set up like a wedding reception. We had a small wedding cake, wedding pictures of the leaders and a wedding vedio playing. We started the night by having one of the advisers speak for 10 min. on preparing to go to the temple then we had all the girls make…
Let your Light be a standard for the nations: 2006 YW Theme
“Let Your Light Be a Standard For the Nations” Flashlight ActivityBy Amy Gorgueiro, Frisco 4th Ward, Carrollton, TX Stake Setting: One by one all girls enter dark room guided by a leader. Perhaps put brown paper bags over windows to make it darker. Leaders seat them in a V formation, next to people they don’t normally hang out with. Make…
Missionary Olympics
Divide the participants into teams of reasonably equal age, abilities and Church knowledge. The teams or companionships then work their way round a series of workshops spending 10 mins at each task before moving to the next one. The six workshops we had were: Oops! It Came Off. In this workshop the team was required to sew on a shirt…
Hymn and Hers – YM/YW Combined Activity
Our YW value for the month was knowledge and our “Be” was “Be Smart.” So I came up with an activity that would help the kids learn about the hymnbooks, how to use them, and how to conduct (this also helps the young women with one of their personal progress activities and the young men with their duty to god).…
Baking Contest
Orginaize a couple of groups and give them pedetermined ingredients without instuctions. Have them try to make something in a half an hour. Warning: the taste testers may suffer!!!
You Can Do It, He Can Help
For Youth Conference, our youth came up with the theme, “You Can Do It, He Can Help,” deriving from the Home Depot motto. Many activities can be planned around this theme. One activity that was effective was each youth were individually given the same directions(go North 20 steps, then South 15 steps, etc.) to follow without a compass and without…
Awesome Activities for LDS Church members
