Wire Family Tree with Pictures
The Final Project: Wire photo tree Tools silver medium gage galvanized wire (make sure the wire is pliable) hot glue and hot glue gun spool of silver, 28 gage galvanized wire collection of small family photos (copied or scanned and printed) silver craft foil needle nose pliers dull or old scissors Craft Instructions: The Tree Frame 1. Print Mormonchic’s family…
Remembering the Birth of our Savior
Last Christmas we had a wonderful activity to help us remember the birth of our Savior at Christmas time. Only a few leaders knew what was going on. I’m a leader and I didn’t even know the plot, which actually made the activity mean that much more to me in the end. We had some leaders bake some cookies prior…
You’ve Been Heart Attacked!
The youth in our area love this activity, they don’t even think of it as service! Make a large heart out of posterboard and put a message on the heart like “Welcome to the Branch” , “We love you” , “Get Well Soon” , “Good Luck” , “We’ll miss you”, etc. Cut out many hearts of different sizes, and make…
Christmas Shoppers’ Babysitting Service:
Choose an evening or afternoon to sit any children in the unit whose parents would like to do some Christmas shopping together without children. Set a time limit for the baby sitting (2-4 hours), and bring lots of toys and treats to entertain the children in your building’s gym or multi-purpose room. You may also wish to collect names and…
Food Bank Scavenger Hunt
Take the youth around a SAFE neighborhood in GROUPS inviting people to donate canned items or unperishables to the Food Bank from the list (accept items not on the list as well if the charity will take them). The group with the most items wins a prize or gets to pick treats from a box first. Note: Our local Food…
The Suzie Homemaker Awards
Set up stations with homemaker skills, such as ironing, folding towels, cooking a pancake, sewing on a button, and diapering a baby doll. Have the girls go to each station and race to see who can accomplish each task first. The winner at each station gets a “Suzie Homemaker Award” — a ribbon or paper gold medal on a string…
Learning about your Community
Attend a town meeting, a public school board meeting, or other public civic event. Volunteer to help out at a polling location during voting season.
Christmas Card Delivery and Caroling
(Works best in an smaller geographic area, and takes one class activity to prepare, and a combined youth activity for card delivery.) Announce in Sacrament Meeting or on your bulletin that the youth will be delivering Christmas Cards to members of your ward or branch. Our unit collects the cards in a box in the foyer that is decorated and…
Awesome Activities for LDS Church members
