I CAN BE Qualities - Primary Activity Days Idea to teach empowering qualities - Develop goals and ambitions, Qualities Craft or Card

I have so much I want to say about this activity I don't even know where to start! 

So I have been struggling with anxiety recently - you know, that thing that my brother said he has and I've always believed him and tried to give him the space he needed, but it wasn't until recently (as an adult) that I've dealt with it myself. Conference talks and inspiring messages have a whole new meaning to me! Then when I had a friend share with me that her child has anxiety, I about lost it and still can't quite handle the idea of children dealing such hard feelings! 

I honestly hope everyone does an activity like this. Since I did this with my daughters and a couple of her friends, we have already used these words multiple times to inspire and teach. I really hope these words and their definitions were impressed into their minds and when faced with a situation (like going off a diving board) they can remember just who they CAN be. 

So I did this activity with a group of girls, but this would be great for boys too! 

I made two different "Qualities Worksheets" with slightly different words. 

“Qualities Worksheet Activity” 

Everyone will have their own worksheet in from of them. As each person takes a turn choosing which quality to learn more about, everyone fills out their own worksheet - either "I am doing great" OR "I could be better" as the leader reads the definition. Then the person who chose which quality to learn about  shares a time when they or someone they know has shown that quality - allowing everyone to get to know each other a bit better and share positive stories about themselves and others (this was my favorite part of the activity) Then, have each person chooses 3 words that resonate with them - whether is a quality they are already good at or one they want to work on. They can use these three words to make t-shirts or if you're not planning on making shirts maybe they can use the words for a different craft. 

FOR THE SHIRTS-

If you are budget conscious, think you can make these shirts for about $6 each. I got our stuff at Walmart and they had shirts for cheaper but my daughter came to the store and picked these. If you can catch the shirts on sale a Michaels, I'm pretty sure you can get them for $3.50 each, or the girls plain shirts at Target recently were $4. 

For the iron-on vinyl - we got the pack that was $3.12 from Walmart. The pack came with "86 pieces" and the letters are .75 inches. I think you can get very similar pack on Amazon and pretty much any craft store. Walmart only had 2 packs left so I bought them both and got three shirts out of it, with lots of extra (what's hard is the common letters!). I think you can definitely let 2 girls share 1 pack and should have plenty! 

 

ALTERNATE IDEA - if you aren't up for making shirts, another idea is to let them make a "YOU ARE AMAZING" card for someone in their life... anyone they consider to be their role model. Whether it's a friend whose at the same activity or someone at home. Or they can make an "I am amazing" craft for themselves to remind them how awesome they are!

MOTHER'S DAY IDEA- After learning about the 28 qualities, have the girls make their mom a "You are amazing" card. 

This flower pot craft has petals for every quality in the lesson, plus a bunch extra. 

It was SO much fun seeing what words these girls chose. What's crazy to me is not one quality repeated and they all suited these cute girls so well. 

At the end of the activity, I also handed out these bookmarks so 

hopefully these girls can remember these qualities after the activity!

You can the files for this activity  HERE. 

***If you would like to do this activity and teach kids about empowering/inspiring qualities but don't have it in your budget, please e-mail me. I would love to work something out with you!

Goal Development Sports Camp - Learn the Latter Day Saint Primary Program - Primary Activity

 

Teach the Personal Development Program while playing sports! Seems like many are still a bit confused on this new(ish) program that replaced Faith In God. This activity is a great way to teach the program to everyone (leaders included) while being active and hopefully keeping younger kids attention!

The only prep work for this activity is to print these files, hang up them up, but out the inserts and gather sports supplies. 

You will need:

- a soccer ball

- two baseballs

- two footballs

- a basketball 

- a volleyball

- two water bottles 

- gluesticks/tape

- scissors

ACTIVITY ONE

Place lesson posters on a wall or chalkboard with the missing parts nearby. Once a game has been won, a team may choose which lesson piece to unveil and place in the correct place. This does not have to be in order. 

Once all the part of the lesson are unveiled, the lesson should look like this: 

ACTIVITY TWO

“Idea races” Place all the cut up “idea” papers on a table near the lesson posters with tape or gluesticks.  Players must run to the other side of the gym (or backyard or room), return and choose an idea paper and while placing it on the correct category, they must yell it out. The person to place the most until they all run out first, wins. 

Then explain the "My Primary Goals" page and explain how they can choose different goals to work on. This is a handout for the end of the lesson. I recommend laminating this page and getting each kid a dry erase marker so they can continue working on their goals at home. 

Included in this listing is this invitation - comes as four to a page for easy printing :)

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!.