Baptismal Covenants "Jeoparty" - Teach primary kids about My Baptismal Covenants - Primary Activity Days Latter Day Saint Activity Days, FHE, Youth Activity

This baptismal covenants "Jeoparty" should be a fun way to review the covenants we make at baptism!

There are 5 categories with 6 questions in each category: 

1. Fill in the blank

2. Translation?

3. Who Covenants?

4. Baptism Trivia

5. Finish this

I made this into a printable/pdf version that can be hung on a chalkboard or wall AND a PowerPoint version that's very user friendly... all you have to do is click the number and the question shows up, then click again to clear the question :)

 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

Primary Trick Or Treat Halloween Activity - Teach the Latter Day Saint Personal Development Primary Program - Primary Activity

 

HEY Primary Leaders!!

I hope it hasn't been as hard for you getting back into the swing of primary activities as it has been for me! Such a crazy year... but hopefully we can all get back to it!

So I know so many are confused about the new program. I stemmed this activity off of a treasure hunt from a couple years ago (when the new program came out) in hopes to help teach the program not only to the kids, but the leaders too!

For this activity, you can get my files HERE on my Etsy and you will also need: 

-  10 pieces of candy per child

-  1 bag per child (I used brown paper bags) 

-  Tape

-  Bowls to put the candy in

Primary Trick Or Treat - Print one for each child. 

You can set this up anyway you want to really. One option is to have the trick or treaters go from classroom to classroom in a church, you could have them go from room to room of a house or if you would like to get out and have ward members involved (or parents) you could ask them to pass out the candy and travel around a neighborhood. It would just take a little extra prep work to distribute the candy to the homes beforehand. If you do that, I recommend using these included door signs so kids know which houses to go to :)

You will want to put all the candy with the taped candy covers on it in one bowl for each category. So for example, all the candy with "spiritual goals" written on the candy cover will all go in one bowl, behind the "spiritual goals" residence. 

After collecting all the candy (10 pieces total), the children will remove
 the candy cover from the candy and place it on their map. They should be
able to use the same tape that was used to tape the candy cover to the candy. 

And Voila! Hopefully a super fun way to teach the new primary program!.

Goal Board Achievement Board

As I was working on goals with my littles, I wanted them to be able to mark off when they completed their goal or progress towards their goal. I got a metal board from IKEA and some small achievement stickers from Amazon (okay, I also got a laminator but I've wanted one for a while and it is an investment!).

This is how my board turned out and I LOVE IT. I put it right outside their bedrooms and they pass by it everyday, reminding them to work on their goals. I laminated the background page to make it easier to switch out goals.

 These files can be found HERE on my Etsy shop :)

I've actually updated these files... here is the NEW and IMPROVED goal board....

How it came together for me: 

Youth Activities and Goals Kit for 2020

Momentarily interrupting this primarily Primary blog with a YOUTH Activities and Goals kit. Very similar to the Primary kit, I tweaked a few things to make this work for the youth. Hoping this can be helpful in organizing goal-oriented activities and helping leaders and parents support the youth in their goals :)

To use this invitation (anyone can use this anytime): Go to this blog from your phone, select this picture and "save image" to your phone. Then open it in any photo editing app and add text with your information on it. Save the new invitation with your information, and send your invitation to anyone VIA text (or e-mail)!!

Primary Activities Planning Meeting

So I have these pages available in the "Primary Activities Kit', but wanted to explain them a little more. If you are a little confused about where to start with this new program... you are not alone! While I am no authority on how this should all be done... I thought I would share how I would go about being a Primary Leader and holding activities. 

1 - Host a planning meeting with all the youth. Go over the 4 categories and read their descriptions. Have them brainstorm goals they would like to work on and jot down a bunch of ideas ready to share with the whole group. 

2- After brainstorming lots of goals, have each child decide on one for each category and start thinking about ways they want to accomplish it. This does not need to be shared and can be personal. Also give each child a parent support sheet to take home. Please note there are extra spots under each category. The children were told once they completed their goal, they can choose to work on another one. They may want another copy of the "Personal Development Goals" page, but the parents can keep track of all the goals the child worked on that year in one place. Also, if a child wanted to keep a goal private, a parent could just write "private goal". 

 3- Once the youth have decided on their goals, you can ask if there are any that would like to complete their goal during a Primary activity. They would be in charge of that Primary activity and would plan and organize everything. Have them choose a date, describe the activity and tell you which category their goals falls under. You can start to fill in this calendar and build what your activities will look like together. If there are activities that a youth is not in charge (depending on how many youth you have), then the leader can decide what the activity will be and fill in where needed.

Calendars are also available in 4 months 

 Hopefully this gives some direction on how to get going with Primary Activities! I also have a list HERE of activities to help with your brainstorming :)