Summer Scripture Splash
Before each activity we briefly discussed the background for the scripture on the poster or explained how it applied to us or the activity. 1. Squirt guns “The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.” Proverbs 13:9 Two to four people race to put out lit candles by squirting the flames with…
International Cuisine Night
We assigned various members of young men and young women a country. (Some of the youth we chose were the ones that had siblings in YM or YW–so two of them could make something together). We asked them to prepare a dish (dessert, appetizer, or main course item,etc.) that is from that country. We gathered information from the Internet about…
Youth fundraising activity
We are into our second year of this activity. We sell tickets to a ward family dinner and after dinner we hold an auction. People from our ward have donated most of the items/services. We hold a live auction for these items and a silent auction for the items donated by the kids (in this instance, the girls going to…
Parable’s Iron Chef
We divided the mutual into 6 groups: priests, laurels, miamaids, teachers, beehives, deacons. Each group had 45 minutes to decide on a parable or scripture story that they would demonstrate by decorating the cake. Some of the ideas our mutual came up with: Noah’s ark (make an ark out of cake, had fish in the water, made animals out of…
Youth camp fundraising idea
For our youth camp fund raiser last year we held a garage sale at a members home during their town wide garage sale. It was very successful. We earned almost $900. Enough to send all of the youth in our ward to camp.
Keep Your Eye on the Goal
We tried this at our Singles ward family home evening. What I did was split up the group into pairs. We then told everyone that we were going to have a staring contest. All participants needed to keep a straight face at all times without laughing, giggling, ect. and you could not CLOSE your eyes or blink at anytime which…
Suprise for the Missionaries at Chirstmas Time!!
Schedule two mutual nights for this activity. On anytime before Chirstmas (in December) and the other close to chirstmas. The first mutual, go to the grocery store giving each class $10 or however much is in your budget. They had that $10 dollars (or however much) to buy food that the missionaries do not normally have to eat. After buying…
Snow Day
Take all the kids to a big room such as a gym. Make snowflakes, do a relay race where they have to dress into their snow clothes and do something such as an opstical course, and play out side. (optianal) When you are finished give them their treats and maybe play one more game.
Awesome Activities for LDS Church members
