Jenny’s Free Mutual Breakout Room: Missionary Escape
This is an escape/breakout room I created for a combined YW/YM activity a year or so ago. I set up six rooms in the building with identical clues so that each group of up to 8 kids could compete against each other and hopefully escape during the time allotted for mutual. The goal was to keep the supplies low enough…
Youth Conference Activity Ideas – Steadfast and Immovable
Youth Conference Activities Mosiah 5:15 Building Bridges (Adapted from “Activities That Teach Family Values”, by Tom Jackson) Materials: One bag of miniature marshmallows, 100 toothpicks per team, one soup can per team, a ruler Activity: Divide into teams. Give each team about 75 marshmallows and 100 toothpicks. (Leave the marshmallows out of the bag for about an hour ahead…
8 Healthy Food Options for Mutual Activities
Cheri V: “Our youth said they wanted more snacks or food at activities in one of our planning meetings. They often have extracurricular activities like band or basketball, ect. between getting our of school and mutual that stops them from really eating before they come to mutual so I can see a need for snacks in our ward.” You’ll love…
Flour Wars
Flour wars is a fun activity that most any youth group can play. It’s kind of like dodge ball. If you get hit by a flour bag, you have to step out of the boundaries, so honestly is involved too. Everyone is divided into teams. The team with the most still in wins. It’s not boys against the girls either.…
Ding Dong Ditching – Mormon Style
Ding Dong Ditching (somtimes called Ring and Run) is a neighborhood prank that’s been around for ages. Kids ring the doorbell of a random house and run away, trying not to get caught. But when members of the #MormonMafia do it, we leave a plate of cookies, note, or other small treat at the door. Often ding dong ditchers will hid where they…
Prepare Every Needful Thing – Back to School Mutual activity
I’m a new young women’s president, and I’m planning mutual this week so that I can learn to do it in order to teach the young women to do it later. This week it’s class activities and I’m teaching Laurels. Since school started two weeks ago, I’m doing a class on organization that I’m calling Prepare Every Needful thing. We…
Time capsule activity idea
We have a really fun Laurel activity planned for this upcoming week that I thought I would share! The girls wanted to create time capsules that they could use to capture their senior year. We decided to do a slight spin on the time capsules, by using these cute sandwich bags I found at Target (I found them in…
Modesty: Project Runway (Young Women Style)
We decided this week to incorporate the principle of “modesty” to our activity, and let me tell you, it was a blast! We called the activity “Project Runway- Young Women Style”. For the activity we split the young women up into groups of three (there were about 5 girls to a team… 4 designers and 1 model). The girls had…
Awesome Activities for LDS Church members
