BINGO - A Latter Day Saint Primary Game

Recently the Primary President asked for us as leaders to keep track of what requirements each girl has checked off. I racked my brain for the best way to do that... felt like it would make for a pretty boring activity if we spent the hour just going through everyone's Faith In God books (and that's even IF we could get all the girls to bring theirs!) We decided to make it into a Halloween Party. We invited all our girls to dress in their Halloween costume, we blew up some balloons, had some treats and some Halloween games.  

I wanted a fun game to play for our Halloween party that was related to what we were doing. This Faith In God Bingo has all the requirements for the Faith In God award... making it a great way for the girls (or BOYS!) to review what it takes to get their award. 

While most the girls were playing Bingo with one of the leaders, one girl at a time met with me so we could go through their book and I could update my tracking sheet (shown below). We went through each of the four categories, making sure the "Faith in God Achievement Record" at the end of their book was also updated. I had candy at my table, too ;)

After the Bingo game and once all the girl's books had been updated, we played a little gummy worm game. I put four gummy worms on a paper plate and covered the gummy worms with whipping cream. The first girl to finish finding and eating all four gummy worms, with their hands behind their back- WON. This was super fun and everyone's faces had whipping cream all over. 

I figured this "Faith in God Bingo" could be great at just about any holiday party or activity, so I made them for Valentines, St Patrick's Day, Christmas and 4th of July as well. That way if anyone is looking for a quick, fun, but also very related to Faith in God activity... this is a great fit! 

  

  

UPDATE!

I changed this a little to fit the new 2020 Personal Development program. The new cards good like this: 

My Baptismal Covenants Fitness Camp - Physical Goal Activity - Easter

I love spring. It’s finally warm enough to play outside! I wanted to make something that was a little more active, but with Easter coming up I also wanted to make something about our Savior. 

Each Sunday when have an opportunity to reflect on Jesus Christ and we partake of the sacrament, we are renewing our baptismal covenants. By reviewing the Baptismal Covenant, we learn that it is a promise between us and the Lord and we can evaluate if we are doing what we covenanted to do – being a member of the church, taking upon His name, helping others, testifying of Christ, serving God and keeping his commandments. If we do our part, Heavenly Father will forgive our sins, poor his Spirit more abundantly upon us and redeem us.

This activity would fit great under a "physical goal" for the fitness activity, but also under Learning and Living the Gospel: “Explain how taking the sacrament helps you renew your Baptismal Covenant. In a family home evening, teach others about things we can do to remain faithful.” 

You’ll need a bag/sac/basket for each girl, 8 bowls and 8 pieces of Hershey’s Nuggets (If you choose to use candy- you don’t have to. If you are doing this around Easter time, you can use an Easter egg, or you can use chocolate AND an Easter eggs J).

There are eight stations. I made table tents for each station that you can just place on the ground or if you’re in a backyard with furniture you can put them on chairs or tables. The table tents have the name and pictures for each exercise. You'll also have a bowl next to the table tent with the "missing word" chocolate nuggets/eggs/paper. One per participant. 

The “missing words” are designed to wrap around a Hershey’s nugget, but can also just be folded in half and/or placed in Easter Eggs.

 

Once everyone has all of their "missing words", they can use them to complete their very own "My Baptismal Covenants" handout. This handout is a great size to fit into scriptures after the activity. 

Before they go home, give them this reminder, so they can complete the Family Home Evening part of the requirement. 

You can get my files for this activity HERE.

Tithing and Budget Game - Awesome St Patrick's Day Activity - Personal Development Tithing Activity

For this activity, you'll need about 10 minutes before the activity to cut and glue the "clover cards" and 2 dice.

 The idea is that every time a participant rolls a 7, they can choose a "clover card".  You can choose to have these clover cards just on the table (as shown below) or if you want to make it a bit more fun, you can hide them around the room and they have to "work" for them. However- there are 42 clover cards... so if you make them work for the cards, you man want to hide them in bunches or else it would take a super long time to get them all.  Also if you hide them, you'll want to make sure they find them all.... the amount of credits/debits works out so there's just a bit of savings left (which they can trade in to the leader for a prize). If it's taking too long for them to get all 

 the cards, you can say that if they roll a 7, 8 or 9 then they can choose a clover card to speed things up a bit. 

The clover card will either have a yellow coin or a green expense. I tried using expenses that most typical 8-12 year olds would use in any given week (for example: toothbrush and paste - $5,  toilet paper - $10, dinner - $20). When they choose a coin card, they'll place it on the credit page. When they choose an expense card, they'll place it on the debit page (apparently this is banking use of the terms credit/debit and not accounting... either way it introduces them to some financial terms :).

Once all the clover cards have been found, it's time to budget (well, kind of). Have them count up all the coins. It should total $300 (this is important because I made the coins so they can pay for tithing, pay for the expenses and still have some left over). 

Then teach them how to figure out 10% - To find 10% all we need to do is move/shift the decimal one place to the left. Thus 10% of 300 = 30. Now would also be a good time to read 3 Nephi 24:10-11. I put it on a table tent with the name of the game on the other side.  

Next, have them match each expense with a coin as if they are paying for it. For example, place it to the side once a "$5" coin is matched with a "$5" expense. 

Once everything is paid for, they should have some savings. I figured they could be rewarded for their savings with a surprise.... maybe chocolate gold coin or something.  

To end the lesson, I would share this story from "The Blessings of Tithing" by Henry B. Eyring.

Enough Money

By Fabiano dos Santos da Silva

I met the missionaries when I was 17. At that time my older brother and I lived together. Our mother had passed away the year before, and life was difficult. When the missionaries taught me, I could see that this Church was the church I had always sought. But the influence of my friends prevented me from going to church on Sundays.

One time I went to a Church activity during the week. Seeing all the young people laughing and playing brought me great joy. The missionaries, with the youth, took that opportunity to teach me a gospel lesson, and I felt so good I resolved to be baptized.

But even after I joined the Church, I faced challenges. I was the only member of the Church in that part of town and lived far away from the meetinghouse. My nonmember friends no longer wanted anything to do with me. When I felt alone, I prayed and felt the love of the Lord.

Each month, I received a small allotment of money from a fund my mother left. It was difficult to sustain myself with so little money. But I determined to be obedient. I paid tithing and also had to pay for transportation to seminary and Sunday meetings. I didn’t understand how, but at the end of the month, I found that there had been enough money to do it all.

I know that I have been blessed by paying tithing. Obeying this commandment helped me gain a stronger testimony, serve a mission, and recognize blessings so I can strengthen new members who are facing challenges.

You can get my files for this activity <HERE>

Aim For Virtue- Preparing for Young Women

In the Faith In God book under Preparing for Young Women, there's the following requirement: After studying the thirteenth article of faith, make a list of things that are uplifting and virtuous. Discuss with a parent or leader how you can seek after these things.

I wanted to make a Valentine's activity around this requirement since the thirteenth Article of Faith mentions love and being uplifting and virtuous. For this activity you'll also need either a Nerf gun or bow and arrow about 15 mins to cut out hearts and make scripture cards and candy (candy is optional).

1. Thirteenth Article of Faith Race

For the first part of the activity, divide the group into two groups and have in an envelope these slips of paper with the 13th Article of Faith written on them. The first group to get it in order, wins. I think this is an awesome way for the participants to familiarize themselves with the 13th Article of Faith. 

2. Scripture Word Guess

For the next part of the activity, I made 15 scriptures "cards" - The first side has the scripture with a missing word and the other side has the missing word. Choose a volunteer to go first (you could keep the teams from before and let the two teams compete to see who can guess the most words. If they guess the wrong word, the other team could steal). Here's how I put them together:

3. Aim for Virtue and Love

I think this part will be the most fun. The girls can be little Valentine cupids and with a Nerf gun or bow and arrow (dollar store normally has both of these) and "Aim for Virtue and Love" by trying to hit one of these 32 hearts with qualities/traits written on them. If you still have the two teams you could ask for a volunteer from each team and give them each a gun. The girl that hits the most hearts in 1 minute, wins a point for their team. OR- If they are taking individual turns, they can get a candy for each heart that they hit. There are also 15 smaller black hearts that if they end up hitting maybe they are deducted a point or have to swallow a yucky jelly bean or something.

*** I edited the hearts to be bigger and easier to cut out since the ones shown here***

 At the end of this activity, I would encourage each girl to choose a virtue they would like to work on (maybe they can pick a virtue heart from the wall and bring it home with them). Ask them to go home and discuss with their parent ways they can be better.

Article Of Faith Mastery Cards, Trackers and Article of Faith Posters

We were wanting to keep better track of which primary kids were passing off their Articles Of Faith.... so I made this Pass Off Tracking Sheet. Whether you are the activity days leader, in the primary presidency or a primary teacher, this could be used to help keep track of what's been pass off  :)

UPDATE!!

These files are new and improved!! Now comes in 3 different color schemes and sizes found HERE