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…
LDS.org’s Guide to planning an LDS Handcart Trek
The Church has come out with specific instructions for leaders planning handcart treks: June 2009 Pioneer handcart treks for youth are a local option. Stake presidents and bishops decide whether handcart treks will be held in their area. The following guidelines are provided for stakes and wards that choose to hold a trek activity. Handcart treks require significant planning and…
Planning a Successful Youth Conference or Handcart Trek
Planning a Pioneer Trek can be a very stressful experience, but it doesn’t have to be that way. If you find yourself called to plan and lead a group of young LDS Pioneers on a pioneer handcart trek, just follow these simple guidelines and you’ll have a wonderful journey along the trail. 1. Have Bishops assign Ma’s and Pa’s from…
Find Someone Who
This is a good activity to do with students at the beginning of a course. It provides a quick way for students to connect with one another and helps them overcome initial shyness in a new situation. Introduction Tell students that they are going to play a game to find out things they might not know about each other. They…
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…
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Get to Know You Questions
What did you do on your first date? What is the best book you’ve read lately? Describe what your favorite church song is and why. Describe what your favorite non-church song is and why. Describe your activity in a sport. If the TV is on, I’m watching…. If the refrigerator is open, I’m grabbing a…. A general conference talk I…
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…
Journey Through the Scriptures
We did this as a Primary Activity Day. We wanted the children to feel a stonger connection to the scriptures, and to get to know some of the scripture heros, therein. We had the children come dressed in Biblical, Book of Mormon attire. We seperated them into four groups, and set out to journey through the Book of Mormon, Doctrine…
Awesome Activities for LDS Church members
