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…
Girls Camp Secret Sisters
Have a camp mail box made from vinyl shoe holders, the kind that fit over doors (They are quite inexpensive). Label each pocket with a girls name and insert a small note pad and pencil. Each girl has a secret sister that she writes to each day before 4:00 pm. These notes should be something that they admire or look…
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…
Young Womens Camp 2006
Young Womens Camp,theme: “Our Royal Family of Heroes”To help the girls understand they are princess, and they came from a royal family.That they are important to Heavenly Father and to help them to have better role modles to follow, to Return Home with Honor.To also stay strong in their faith and values.The Tents are called Castles(Different Temple pictures are placed…
CPR
I had a scary experience happen last month when my 18-month-old fainted in my arms and wouldn’t come to. I had to perform rescue breathing on him. I am so grateful for the guidance of the Spirit that helped me remember from high school (10 years ago) the way to do rescue breathing so that I could save his life.…
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…
Clothes Swap
We ask all the girls to go through their closets and bring clothes that they don’t wear any more to mutual. The girls get to go through eachothers clothes and take home what they like. We also have a table set up for letter writing to missionaries from our ward. That way the girls have something to do after going…
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…