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 Trip Itinerary with Temple Lesson Aids and Future Temple Recommend

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. 

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 :)

Personal Development Lesson Pages + Powerpoint for Latter Day Saint Goal Development Lesson.

So somewhere between Covid and our ward splitting (a couple times) I am sad to say we hadn't really taught the children in our ward properly about the Child Development Program. 

We decided to hold a special meeting with parents right after sacrament during senior primary's usual class time to go over the program, make sure everyone had a development book and we passed out a personal development handout and give parents and children some right to brainstorm and right down goals. 

I used the papers for this lesson, but since I know a lot of people would much prefer a PowerPoint, I also whipped that up. 

Here's the flow of how we taught the program: 

At the end of the lesson, we gave parents and children about 10 minutes to fill this out. We had this laminated front/back and also gave a dry-erase marker to try to make it fun for the kids and so they can switch up their goals anytime they want to. 

And in case you're more interested in the PowerPoint... this is the flow on super speed. The animations are set to move forward upon the click of the mouse. 

ALL the files for this lesson (paper, PowerPoint, and handouts) are available HERE

Articles of Faith Bracket Tournament - Four Minute to Win It Games - EASY prep, BIG fun Article of Faith activity!!

Articles Of Faith Bracket Tournament: Easy Prep + BIG Fun “Minute to Win It” style games. 

All you need is 30 cups and cotton balls + 15 minutes to prep

Steps: 

1. Fill out a bracket with all the players. Start a new bracket for each game.

2. Play each game until there is a champion. 

3. Each match that is played, the loser answers an article of faith trivia card. 

We had 14 players and it took us about an hour to play all four games. You can ask the Article of Faith question while the next group is getting ready for their turn. 

Trivia cards come with 96 questions... 16 cards for each of the following categories: Fill in the Blank, 

Which Number, True or False, This or That, Guess Who, Finish This. Answers to the trivia question are right on the card for the leader to see (since the leader will read them). Keep and reuse these trivia cards!! These come in hand whenever there’s extra time.

The FOUR games we played: 

We had everyone do this game all at the same time. 

files for this activity are found HERE

Latter Day Saints Primary Basics Bundle - Timeless and Reusable year after year - The for the "no-actual binder" Primary Presidency Binder Bundle

 Latter Day Saint Primary Basics Bundle for the minimalist/practical Primary Presidency! 

While this is primarily an Activity Days blog, I know a lot of leaders out there wear a lot of hats... and this bundle can hopefully make it easier for all leaders, but especially those multi-taskers to have the practical basics of running a Primary program... without the stuff you don't need! 

I know of lot of Primary Presidencies utilize technology - google docs and texting and whatnot for how they operate. In this packet, I tried including everything we ACTUALLY USE outside of the google doc.

 I used colors from the Personal Development color scheme so it's still very on theme... but timeless. This packet can be re-used year after year, regardless of what the Come Follow Me topic is that year. 

Here is what I came up with for this packet: 

1. Room and Chair Signs

We really only use this for the first month or two of the year while everyone is getting used to their new classes. Designed to be cut, laminated and a magnet taped on... so these can easily hang on a metal chair in the primary room and then on the metal door frame of each classroom 

BUT if you don't want to go through that effort... where these are only used for a short time, tape and paper would work just fine. 

2. Assignment Bracelets

So the only assignment we actually hand out in our ward the week before is TALK. Then we just ask a volunteer for prayer and Article of Faith (or ward does Article of Faith and not scripture). But in case other wards prefer to assign all the things, they are all here. 

These are designed to be put taped on a child's wrist so hopefully the assignment makes it home to a parent to can help them with their talk for the next week. We also send a reminder text to the parent on Saturday.

 

3. Article of Faith Signs

I would laminate these and then each month pull out a different card. We have one child come up to the pulpit and say the Article of Faith before we all sing it together. 

4. Happy Birthday Cards 

I made 6 different cards so depending on what your ward decides to gift each month (if you do) you can pick which size birthday card works best. 

5. Child Development Handout

Whether you have an awesome Activity Days program or not... I think this tool is awesome to help get kids working on their goals! I would give this handout to all senior primary members each January. Bonus if you can laminate it and give a dry-erase marker with it.

That's it! I really couldn't think if anything else we actually use! You can get this bundle here.