The Wizard of Oz New Beginnings January 2006
by Melody Dunn SUMMARY AND NOTES AFTERWARD: I had some Wizard of Oz figurines from my g’daughter and some posters, and we served lemon bars (yellow brick road) and green sherbet with sprite (Emerald City) although we didn’t talk about that. I spoke on the parallels of the Wizard and YW, values, resisting temptations, etc. Then we had each of…
Eternal Rescue Mission
Determine the number of participants. For large groups, break them up into 2 or 3 separate groups. Groups of approximately 10-12 people work best. You will need fewer boards than people so if you have a group of 12 people – use 9 boards. Use masking tape to mark a start and finish line. The starting area is “earth” and…
Backwards Manners Dinner
We recently had a combined Young Women’s activity were we had a mini lesson on table manners and then we had a spaghetti dinner, with a twist. We first gave all the dishes and utensils a number, plates #1, cups #2, Forks #3, etc… As the girls arrived they were given a number of 1 – 5 (we wrote it…
Hair/Spa Night with RS
We invite Relief Society to this Activity. So, Choose big room or your cultural hall to accommodate both Young women & Relief Society. We decorate the like its really a spa salon with flowers all over and then with scented candles to feel relax. MATERIALS: Hair spa Hair Dryer Towel
Outside Movie
For a Beehive activity we set up a movie projector (Hooked to Lap top and Speakers)and projected a movie on a screen. We started the movie a 9:00 p.m. (Must do activity in summer) and we layed on chairs and blankets. The movie we watched was Charly (Movie of your choice) This activity was free and it was one of…
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.…
The Wonderful You
Shared by Sharon C. Updated 2017 with file. We wanted to emphasise the Individual Worth of all of our Young Women. Each member of the YW Presidency had to run one activity (we found later that it was way too long and parents became a bit upset because the next day was a school day). 1st Activity – The Young…
Anchors of Testimony
We did this at Youth Conference in June 2008. We combined 2 talks-“Good, Better & Best” and “Anchors of Testimony”. I started with “Good, Better, & Best”. A trip to Lake Powell was discussed and how the house boat was occasionally anchored from the front of the boat and latched behind a rock (good), other times it had the front…