I can be A PEACEMAKER -Youth/Child activity and craft to learn about what PeaceMaking is.

"I can be a Peacemaker"

Activity and Craft - Gather all 8 hearts and complete your peacemakers board to earn an "I can be a peacemaker" bracelet. 

Lots of talk about "Peacemaking" from the bethren lately. When Gary E. Stevenson talked quite about it this October conference, I knew I had to make an activity all about being a peacemaker. 

The idea is children/youth collect each heart (trick or treat style or maybe hide and seek). Then they have to cut out the heart and glue it to thier peacemakers page. If using candy, I would fold the heart in half and use provided candy wrappers. 

Before the activity, the leader prints 1 set per child. Then once hearts/candy wrappers/bracelet page is cut up, put all similar hearts together. For example, if 12 kids will be at the activity, put all 12 number "1" hearts together in either a bowl or bag or whatever, all together. If I were doing this activity trick or treat style, I would put all number "1" hearts in a bag and in a room in the church. Then instruct the children to only get 1 of each. So they end up with one of each of the 8 hearts. 

Added twists: trick or treat for your hearts, or leader hides hearts well for a game of hide and seek. Candy optional, not inlcluded.

First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles PowerPoint Lesson and "Jeoparty" Activity. Great General Conference prep activity.

A few years ago I made a first presidency and quorum of the 12 apostles worksheet and decided I wanted to revamp that just a bit. This new worksheet has the bethren's picture right next to their information and I made a "Jeoparty" game where all the answers can be found on the worksheet. 

 

Latter Day Saint Hope Crafts - Bookmarks AND a Hope "garden" using uplifting quotes from LDS apostles.

 

 

Heaven knows we could all use more Hope and Faith these days! Thought this would be a good activity to hear words of hope and faith. Bookmarks AND a "Hope Garden". 

Latter Day Saint Apostle Hide and Seek - General Conference Activity for kids! Primary or Valiant Activity to get to know the Apostles

This activity took me about 20 mins prep to cut and prepare two page spread, then time to hide puzzle pieces. 

Plan for during the activity: 

1. Find hidden puzzle pieces around church (or wherever) 

2. Match puzzle piece with correct apostle and spot on poster 

3. Read and Seek to follow their counsel

You can run this where you have all the kids spread out at once and come back and put thier puzzle piece on the poster right away, or you can have them hang onto thier puzzle peice and fill in the spots one bye one. 

Another idea is to have younger kids pick up the puzzle pieces with pictures and the older kids pick up the quotes. Then when the older kids put thier quote puzzle peice in, they can read the quote.

Save this pic to your phone and add information with photo editing tool :)

Files for this activity are available HERE 

Pictures from our activity :)

Pages fit on a large chalkboard perfectly 

It was a nice day, so we hid the pieces around the outside of the church under rocks 

My daughter finding her peice. We had about 40 kids show so we told each kid to go find one peice, then we had the older kids grab an extra until they were all found.  

Putting all the peices on the board was a little nuts but I think the kids had a blast. We had the whole primary (not just valiant ages) and we didn't want to lose thier attention... so we ended up only reading     quotes for the first presidency.... but we decided we will keep this up for a while for the kids to look at. 

After the "hide and seek", we had a pizza party and had time left over to play a little soccer. Bonus- the missionary showed up and played soccer too :)

Look Unto Christ SURVIVOR - Girls Camp Activity, Youth Activity, 2025 Lds Youth Theme Activity

 

Those that have followed by blog for a minute have probably seen a few of these type of activities. I finally got around to updating it with the 2025 theme and wanted to share. If your new here.... this blog post explains this activity just a bit better :)

Latter Day Saint Temple Activity : Take a "trip" to a temple or host in a church and learn about the covenants we make in the temple.

We did a primary activity at the Temple and I loved it!! Loved it so much I wanted to create this sort of activity guide so others could do this activity too! You should be able to use these files at any temple... and if you don't meet at a nearby park, you can perhaps meet on the far side of the stake center and still have a little walk to the temple together. 

My boys at the activity :)

So we met at a nearby park and told all the parents to meet us there. There was a little playground and some parking in the shade and we let the kids play there until we were ready to start the activity. Then we all walked to the temple together (like a few blocks). 

Then we had a different leader be in charge of a "stop". So I talked about Baptism for the dead, another leader talked about Endowments and another talked about Sealings.

 I got to give credit to one of the leaders for this idea... she was darling and had signs for each covenant we make during the Endowment and I thought it was so great! She also talked about how a heart is a symbol. The heart in our chest that beats and gives us life isn't actually in the shape of a "heart". And there's a lot of symbols in the temple that represent Christ and the covenants we make with God. Loved that analogy!!  

So then I made these "signs" that a leader can hold up at each station with a script on the back for what you can share at each place. All the information can be found online. 

BUT since I know not everyone can make it to a temple to have this activity, I also made it to have at any church, with a couple extra signs to put on doors. 

If you want to use these invites, you can save this picture on your phone and with an editing tool, add your information! 

The files for this activity can be found HERE

Zion Bands - DAILY BOOK OF MORMON VERSES - Just scan your bracelet and be taken to a scripture! Latter Day Saint Scripture Tool, Latter Day Saint gift idea

 

Momentarily interrupting my primary activity posts to share about Zion Bands! 

All you do is tap your bracelet on your phone and it automatically pulls up a daily Book of Mormon verse that looks like this... 

A friend of mine started making these and I think it's such a great idea! I've already seen this be so so good for my 12 year old. He wears his bracelet everyday and seems excited to get to scan to read a scripture. I also got one for my nephew as a birthday gift... he's about to leave on a mission and thought this would make an awesome farewell gift or even baptism gift. My son doesn't have his own phone but uses mine and I totally love when I reach for my phone and the Book of Mormon verse pulls up. 

Anyway, wanted to share because I think these are great and might be that little extra tool that someone's looking. 

You can get them HERE or learn more about them on instagram @ lds.zionbands :). 

"All About My Mom" and "All About My Dad" - Happy Mother's Day + Happy Father's Day - Easy to print and FREE Mother's Day Questionnaire and FREE Father's Day Questionnaire

 We are celebrating Mother's Day in primary this week so I made this questionnaire to pass out to the kids during singing time (or maybe class time) and thought I would share it. 

I know there's a ton online but I made my own because I plan on photocopying it at the church (black and white) and wanted to slightly conserve paper.... this is what I came up with :)

AllAboutMyMom.pdf

And while I was at it, figured I'd make one for the dads too and have this ready to go for a couples months from now. I like that they will be kind of similar :)

AllAboutMyDad.pdf

Articles of Faith Matching Game

KIDS LOVE THE MATCHING GAME! In my everlasting attempt to make the Articles of Faith more fun to learn... this idea comes after our whole primary was fighting for a chance to make a match. The files for this can be found here... and since kids also love festive activities, I made these in a few themes too :)