Individual Worth
You make cards or posters useing stamps, stickers, pens or markers, and card stock.You write your self what your Individual Worth is and or draw it with stamps or what ever you want.You can put it in your journal or on your wall where ever you need it The girls I did this with seemed to enjoy this and asked…
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).…
Getting to Know You
We wanted to get to know the sisters that had moved in better and let them learn about us. We had potato bar. Then had them choose a miniture candy bar of their choice after everyone had chosen their favorite we had everyone that choose the same bar and come up and answer a question (like favorite place to visit)…
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…
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…
Survivor Challenge
Invite the youth to sit on the chairs and in front of the chairs (campfire style). Explain that they are now a part of a reality show called the Survivor Challenge. Explain that they will be taken to remote parts of the church to participate in both physical and spiritual challenges. Explain that it will be difficult but that you…