Prophets & Apostles Jeoparty! Great "SOCIAL" activity - Primary Activity Days

Need a fun way to learn about our Prophet and Apostles? Play Jeoparty! The idea is to give your youth an info sheet before the activity (maybe the Sunday before or even just right before you play the game)  and ask them to memorize as much information as they can. Using facts from the brethren's biography's on LDS.org, this info sheet has just a few bullet points so they can get to know them just a bit without being too overwhelmed. 

I would also recommend printing this quote sheet on the back of the info sheet...  

This game of Jeoparty has the following categories, and each of the questions come from the info sheet. 

Where in the World - Questions about where they were born
Smarty Pants - Questions about their education
Called to Serve - Questions about their missions
Bring Home the Bacon - Questions about their careers
Wise Counsel - A missing word from their quote

Divide your group into two teams, and the team that has the most points at the end, WINS!

Sweet Kids - Sour Patch Kids Box Cover + Service List - Serving Others

After having any service activity (make someone cookies, visit old folk home, babysit for new mom etc.), give the youth this "Service List". If they complete all the items on the list, they can earn a box of sour patch kids! OR you can give them the box of candy after your service activity, give them the list and tell them to continue serving others. 

Notice the cute little Sour Patch Kids are holding hands? Serving others can bring us together!

I wanted to make these versatile... so whether you are using this for an Activity Days, for a Primary activity, Family Home Evening, Sunday School activity etc... one of these titles should work. I made four different box covers/service list: 

PRIMARY ACTIVITY INVITATIONS that YOU Edit!

You may think I was shouting with my ALL CAPS headline... and I was! I've been working on these for a while now, and I've been super excited to share!

Anyone ever use Red Stamp before it shut down <insert cry-face emoji here>? I loved it! I used it all the time... for invitations, thank-you cards, thinking of you cards.... anything I could think of, and really having an app that made making those things easy (and adorable) made me a nicer person. Ain't nobody got time to print+pay for invitations!

Since I loved Red Stamp so much, I wanted to do something similar for Activity Days (the best way I know how). These are all FREE and on-your-own time editable invitations. I'm going to call these Invitations + Text: Invatexts! Hopefully this makes sending out invitations and reminders for Activity Days easier and can help with getting more youth to come out!

 To use: Go to this blog from your phone, select which invitation you want and save it as a picture on your phone. Then open it in any photo editing app (my favorite is sketchbook... it's free and really great) and add text with your information on it. Save the new invitation with your information, and send your Invatext to anyone VIA text (or e-mail)!!

  I tried thinking of Activity Days that are pretty common. Drop me a comment below if there's an invitation you'd like to see... I'll be updating my "Invatexts" tab and adding more as I make them )

Halloween Pizza Party Ingredient Labels + Invitation - Developing Talents

One of my favorite activities for Activity Days is a Pizza Party where we made our own pizzas! All the girls LOVED it and it was fun for them to make their pizza just how they like it. We just used Rhodes Rolls for the dough so really it was super easy!

 I made these labels for a family party forever ago, and thought how awesome it would be to have a Halloween Pizza Party for Activity Days!! Hopefully no one gets too grossed out!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/642126451/halloween-pizza-party-ingredient?ref=listings_manager_grid

Awesomest list of ideas for Activity Days!! Activity Day Ideas Galore!

I recently added a new link on my blog to a list I plan on continually adding to (you should see a link above) ! If you are new to the calling, hopefully this can get you off to an awesome start! Please comment below any ideas I can add to this list :)

Also check out my free "Invatexts" HERE :)

Temple Date Night Sign-Up Sheet & Babysitting Coupons - Serving Others

Help the youth serve others with babysitting for the temple! Since Activity Day aged youth are not old enough to do temple work, help them allow others to do temple work.

Here are two ways to do this - with "babysitting coupons" and with a "babysitting sign-up" sheet:

Babysitting Coupons: After visiting the temple grounds and walking around the temple for an Activity Days activity (maybe also have them bring their journals and give them some alone time to write in them, sing songs, and if possible watch a temple movie in the lobby), give each youth the "babysitting coupons" that they can take home with them, fill out and then give to whoever they choose/are comfortable with.  If you have a younger group (8 may be too young to offer babysitting) maybe have them team up and pass out the "babysitting coupons" in couples.

Babysitting Sign Up: Make this the activity for activity days. Maybe plan on using the Nursery Room at the church, or maybe even the gym. Print the sign-up sheet ahead of time and allow it to circulate in Relief Society, Primary and Young Women's so the moms in the ward have a chance to sign-up. This will also give you an idea on whose planning on coming. You'll need to schedule your Activity Days for a little longer on the day you do this. Please note the sign-up sheet says "a leader will also be there", so the leader should plan on attending, but allow the  youth to primarily be responsible.  If doing this for Activity Days, this will allow the younger youth to babysit with a supervisor, a good way to start babysitting. Maybe have each youth come to the activity with a different game or song they will be responsible in leading.

** When filling out the time on the sign-up sheet, I recommend putting a time frame. Ex. 4pm-7pm... so the parents know they should plan on being back around 7pm.

I also made sign-ups for Young Women's and Young Men's. 

You can get my files for this HERE.