Primary Carnival - Latter Day Saint Primary Activity - Games and Gospel Learning

 

                                                                          

I wanted to make an all-encompassing primary lessons, super easy and cheap but BIG fun activity and I think this might just hit the mark! 

This activity has 5 carnival games that are super easy - I did not have to purchase a single material for this... I already had everything at my house! 

Basically there are 5 games, each with a different gospel topic and before a participant can play the game, they have to answer a gospel question. 

The 5 games with their gospel topic are:
1. Article of Faith - Egg Crate Toss
2. My Gospel Standards - Ladder Toss
3. Baptismal Covenant - Bottle Toss
4. Book of Mormon - Ball and Cup Toss
5. Alpha and Omega (Christ) - Tower Toss

For each game:
1. Player must first answer a gospel question.
2. Player gets 2 turns at the carnival game plus a bonus turn if they answered their gospel question correctly (with or without help).

Suggested use:
Divide your group up and send to each game (if you had 10 players, you'd have 2 at each game). Have them take their turn and then wait for the others to play. Then have each group rotate. 

The 5 Games: 

You can get the files for this activity on my Etsy here

Articles of Faith Tournament - Learn the Articles of Faith in a fun way! - Primary Activity

I recently re-vamped this "Articles Of Faith Tournament" that was already pretty popular and I believe made it even better! Now it has 8 stations, a scorecard, awards and would only take a leader printing time and about 20 minutes to make flashcards/matching game and then you're ready for a super fun Articles of Faith activity!!

Before the activity you will just need to print the right amount of pages (depending on how many players are coming) and make the flashcards/matching game and grab 2 dice. Then separate the stations in the room you're in. 

To start the activity you'll want to give everyone a scorecard. Instruct the players that they will be doing an activity with 8 stations and at each station there is opportunity to earn points. They will need to keep their own score. I would separate the players and have each player to go a station to start. 

I would plan about 5 minutes at each station but you can totally tweak that for what works best for your group. This activity can work for any amount of players. If you only have one kid show up to the activity or if you have a bunch... you can just have more than one kid at each station at a time. If you have like 10 kids show up, I would pair them off (always more fun to do this kind of activity with a buddy) and just have some empty stations. 

At the end of the activity, you can choose to award the players with the most points!
 

*awards not shown in this picture

Articles Of Faith Charades - Primary Activity Days - Fun Article of Faith Lesson!

Such a fun way to have an Article of Faith lesson!! 

Hook the computer up to a TV and you are ready to go! 

Most church building have TV's, but this activity would also work at a home! 

I tried to have each Charades word at least somewhat relate to something in the Article of Faith. Here's the leader key (answer key) that shows the PowerPoint slide with the Charade word under it... some are more intuitive than others but all the Charade words are "easy" and perfect for kids  :)

 

There files are available HERE

Latter Day Saint Halloween Primary Activity - Witches Brew - Learn ways to stay on the covenant path while making cookies - Activity Days for Latter Day Saints

This popular activity used to be the "recipe" for the Faith in God award, but since the program changed I tweaked it just a bit to be "Learn ways to stay on the covenant path". Makes for a fun Halloween activity for little witches!!

Takes about 10 minutes of prep (mostly making the banner, which is optional anyways). All you need are these pages and ingredients for the cookies. You'll need a "Witches Brew" paper for each person and just 1 set of the ingredient tents. If you want to add some extra fun, ask all the activity days comers to dress up like a witch or have a witches hat for them!

So I figured that the children could learn about how to "stay on the covenant path" by making "Swig" cookies (if you live in Utah, you probably know how fantastic these sugar cookies are).

Synopsis: Invite the activity participants to dress up like witches for this activity. Then when they arrive, they are given a swig cookie recipe without the ingredients. They must hunt down hidden clue cards that give them the correct ingredients! You can gave these in different classrooms, hidden around your house.. whatever works for you. If you have extra time you can even have little activities at each recipe answer (there's 10) that they have to complete in order to get the correct ingredient/ingredient amount. Once they have found all the ingredients, they can make the cookies!


Once  the kids arrive, give them this print-out that they can fold in half, so on either side of their half sheet they have a recipe:

On the first side, they have the "recipe" to the covenant path...

Then on the other side, they have ingredients to the "Swig" cookie. But just like witches have to hunt down ingredients for their "brews", the kids must hunt down and fill out the correct recipe for the cookies. Each Faith In God requirement is assigned a different food ingredient, with a clue to tie them together. For example:

Pray Daily = You "butter" pray, every day = 1 C Butter 

Work on your Testimony = Write your testimony down so it won't spoil, that will help your lamp stay full of oil = 3/4 C Vegetable Oil. 

These clue cards (there's 10 missing ingredients so there's 10 clue cards) that are hidden around a church building, around a back yard, whatever you choose have the ingredient answer. 

The participants, while in their witches costumes, have to go around and fill out the recipe by finding the clue cards. Once all they have found all the clue cards and have their "Swig" Cookie Recipe all filled out, then everyone can come together to make the cookies. 

While the cookies are baking, you can go over the Covenant Path and ask if they have any questions. 

 

PLEASE NOTE: This activity has the ingredients within the activity for the 

cookie base, you'll also want to plan on making the frosting :)

My files are available HERE

Articles of Faith Gymnastics Party - Primary Activity Idea - Review the Articles of Faith

So we did a gymnastics birthday party for my 8 year old girl. I thought it was pretty great!

Since I know gymnastics is super popular with this age, I thought it could also make a great primary activity! Add some balloons to a few signs and a banner, and you got yourself a party!

The idea is you give each person a "gymnastics challenge card". I put ours in name badge holders, but I think it would work great to just tie some yarn or something to each corner to make it a necklace. 

Challenges come in pink and blue!

I think no matter where you are ( church, home, park, backyard) this activity can work without any equipment! Equipment (especially mats) would be nice (maybe you can borrow from someone in your ward, I know many people in my ward have at least the IKEA one).  I did make event signs so if you are being creative with "equipment" you could at least label and that should help tie the activity together. Here are some ideas: 

• if you are in a gym, you can use the basketball lines on the floor as the "beam" and maybe bring some blankets to make a "floor"
• most any soft ottoman can work as a "vault"
• cut old carpet to make a skinny, long piece as a beam
• bar is a bit trickier, but a shower curtain might work 
•  you could host this activity at a park/in a backyard, using the monkey bars and grass as the "floor"

While gymnasts are waiting their turn at an event, or waiting to pass off one of their gymnastics challenges, they can pick an Articles Of Faith challenge. Once they answer that correctly, they can proceed with their turn. I would place just a pile of a about 10 cards at each event and let them rotate through the questions. 

It took me about 30 minutes to put this activity together - most of the time making the Article of Faith Challenge cards that once this activity is over can be used over again ( I would keep these for any future activity downtime as a filler). The "answer card" just has all the Articles of Faith written out. 

Then to end the activity, I would give each person this handout - an Article of Faith/My Gospel Standards scripture card. I call it a scripture card because it is sized to fit in standard scriptures. My kids both have one and refer it often during sacrament meeting. I laminated theirs. 

If you choose to do this activity, you can save this image below as a picture on your phone and then fill in using a text tool on your phone. Once it's filled in, you can text it out to parents as their invitation to the party. Our ward uses Group Me, so I would just post this on the Activity Days GroupMe thread. 

You can get my files for THIS ACTIVITY and many more HERE. Thanks for stopping by!

Article of Faith Cookies - Spiritual or Intellectual Primary Activity - Make cookies while learning and memorizing the Articles of Faith! Activity Days for Latter Day Saints

SO I know that making cookies is pretty exciting itself and most 7-11 year olds are all about making (and eating cookies) but this adds just enough of a twist that maybe it will get these kids working on their Articles of Faith too! Files for this activity are available HERE

You can either do this activity as more of a group, or have the children work on it individually... depending on what works best for your group. 

I used a "swig" cookie recipe from this website: 

https://vintagerevivals.com/swig-sugar-cookie-recipe-literally-best/

BONUS IDEA: If you have number cookie cutters, have the children make their cookie the number of their favorite article of faith. 

Examples of the "Riddles": 

Answer is butter

Answer is Salt 

Answer is Powdered Sugar 

Once all the riddles have been solved, you should have a complete recipe and be ready to make some cookies! While the cookies are baking, the children can work on this trivia page

To help encourage continued Articles of Faith memorization, I also made these Scripture Cards (sized to fit in standard scriptures)and  Articles of Faith Flashcards. The Scripture Card also has My Gospel Standards on the back (once it's folded)

If you don't have a laminator/key rings, I think stapling the Flashcards into a booklet works great too!