Primary Goals Activity - Brain Teaser Challenges while Brainstorming Primary Goal Ideas

 There are a lot of goal ideas/examples listed in the Primary Personal Development book. I wanted to go over those with our youth, but didn't want it to feel boring or like we were just reading together from the book. Really this idea can be adapted to any game, but this is what we are going to do - 

First, I will pass this page out - so while we are playing the game and going over ideas, the youth can maybe jot down a goal that they heard that they liked, or one that they thought of themselves. 

I will have at the front of the room/on the chalkboard. It has all the ideas listed in the book on its own paper facing down, and as we play the game the youth can come up to the board and uncover these goal ideas/examples. The youth will read out to everyone what idea they uncovered. 

I think you can use the idea of uncovering the ideas as you play a game with just about any game (maybe play a card game like spoons if that's easier for ya), but this is the game we are going to play cause I like the idea of "brain teasers while we brainstorm". Just need two dice!

There are 15 brain teaser cards, and 45 goal ideas. I will have the youth turn 3 ideas over each time they come to the board. 

Once all the brain teasers have been played and ideas turned over, I will go over the Primary Personal Development Program by sharing the scripture and components of the program. I will put these papers up on the chalkboard. 

At the end of the lesson, I'll pass out this Primary Goals page. Hopefully they were able to brainstorm a few ideas from each category, but now using this page they will pick just one and commit to work on it. I recommend laminating this page so they can change their goal as they complete them. 

Get my files for this activity HERE

Get To Know You Questions Cards - Social Activity

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Primary Activities

 Hello 2022!!

So my understanding of the new program from when they first presented it and did away with Faith in God was that the biweekly activities were meant to help children with their goals. NOT that we as leaders would be tracking them, but helping with a goal here and there. Seems like that is not being pushed as much for the children as it is for the youth, but if you are in a ward that is hoping to use activities for goal development, this is for you! 

In our ward we are having a planning meeting dedicated to just teaching what it means for them to be in charge of the activity and giving them some ideas/direction. 

At the meeting we will finish filling out this calendar, where we will allow the youth who want to to sign up for a date they would like to be in charge. We have quite a few youth in our ward so it will take the whole year to pencil just some of them.... we are going to start with those that want to. I prefer to plan a year at a time so I chose to split it by 6 month calendars, but I also made calendars that are 4 months at a time in case that works better for others :)

4 month-

At the end of the meeting we will give this handout to each person that signed up as a reminder for when they are in charge and hopefully give the parents some direction to help their child. 

I have included all these files for the "planning meeting" in the Activity Days Starter Kit available here. 

Articles Of Faith Trivia Cards - Spiritual Development, Primary Activities, Family Home Evening, Primary Teacher Aid

Articles Of Faith Trivia Cards!

SO MANY uses for this! Perfect for a Primary Activity - divide your group and have a competition, awesome for any Primary Teacher to put in a church bag to have as back up for any extra Sunday School time, for family home evening or even in a Sacrament bag (made these for my 8 year old son to look at during sacrament if he gets restless). 

 45 trivia cards & 3 answer cards. Takes about 10 minutes to prep (unless you choose to laminate, I laminated mine). 

There are 5 question categories:

 Fill in the Blank

 Name the Person

 Which Number?

Finish this Phrase

 What's Missing

If a player gets the Article of Faith question wrong, they must complete the "Wrong Answer Challenge" all of which are quiet brain teasers. Some examples: "Rub your tummy and pat your head at the same time", "Circle your head in one direction and at the same time try circling your tongue the opposite way" and "Make a clockwise circle with a foot, while drawing a “6” with a hand. Did your foot stay clockwise?

Some trivia card examples: 

Get the files for these Trivia Card HERE

 

Articles of Faith Sports Camp - Spiritual Development - Primary Activity Days

Articles of Faith Sports Camp - Spiritual Goal Development 

Divide group into two teams. Each team picks one player to compete for each round. The winning team earns one point and picks an articles of faith card.  If answered correctly,  the team earns an extra point. Everyone on the team can help answer the Article of Faith card. Winner chooses the next activity.

SPORTS MENU

ARTICLES OF FAITH CARDS

Get these files HERE :)

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!.

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: