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.

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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 :)

Getting to Know The First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Activity

In the Faith In God Book, it reads: "Read a recent conference address given by the prophet. Decide what you can do to follow the prophet, and do it".

I thought this would be a great activity before General Conference for the girls to get to know the brethren a little better. I made a PowerPoint using facts from their biography's on LDS.org... just a few bullet points so they can get to know them just a bit without being too overwhelmed. 


Depending on how many participants you have, assign them each brethren to look up BEFORE you look at the "Getting to know the first presidency & quorum of the twelve apostles" PowerPoint. Have them use their devices (phone, kindle, iPad) to fill in the blanks on the worksheet for their assigned brother. Once everyone is done, allow the participants to present the brethren that they researched to the group... in which they could also add anything they would like that's not listed on the PowerPoint but they learned during their research. Hook your laptop up to a TV so that everyone can see. Have the girls fill in the blanks in the worksheet while others are presenting so their worksheet is complete. 



Once they have completed the worksheet, you can pass out the quote handout. This has a famous quote from each of the brethren.  I would recommend they fold this and put it in their scriptures. Now that they are more familiar with who these brethren are, you can instruct them to go home and read a conference address, choose something they can do to follow the prophet, and do it. 

Then once everyone is brushed up on their apostle facts, you can split everyone into two groups. Have these trivia cards cut up and choose one at a time. Have one person from each team come to the front and face each other with a small table in between them. Place a spoon on the table. The first person who thinks they know the answer grabs the spoon. If neither of them know, they can get help from their team. Each correct answer is a point :). 
  

I updated these files a bit... the old ones are still available but the new ones have pictures included on the worksheet and this new listing also comes with a "Jeoparty" game :)