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Discover 40+ LDS Primary Activity Days ideas for youth. From crafts to lessons, find activities that inspire and enrich their spiritual path.

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Looking for fun LDS primary activity ideas for kids? Here's a list of some of the most creative ones we have done. Scout activity ideas too!

🌎 Read This Post In: English | Español 🇪🇸 | Português 🇧🇷 Disclaimer: These ideas aren't all my own. Most are from past fun activities I have been to, all of which have been team efforts. I hope all my current and former leaders know how much I appreciate everything they planned for us. So... A year of activity ideas!! Pin your favorites. 📌 👉Want these in a PDF? Check this out in the shop. INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITIES 1. Cook for the missionaries Choose a target dish for the youth to learn to make. Bring supplies and tell missionaries dinner's on y'all for that night. Instruct them on making, serving + setting up the meal. Add time limits for suspense! 2. Photography night A photographer in the ward shared her tips on posing, selfies, lighting, group pictures, cameras, and more. It ended with a big photo shoot for practice. 3. Paint night One of our young women was close with her art teacher, so we brought the supplies and the expert showed us how to use them. So much fun that we've done this several times. You don't need anyone good at painting to lead the activity, though -- Pinterest and YouTube have so many tutorials as well! 4. Outdoor survival night We split into teams in the church parking lot and had to "fight to survive" through three stations: making a lean-to with a tree, rope, and tarp, building a fire without matches, and using a compass to find hidden treasure, and enjoyed s'mores. 5. Cake decorating night A sister in the ward is a professional caterer + baker and she showed us all the different icing and frosting mixing and piping techniques! It was sweet. 😉😋 6. Traveling Etiquette Dinner We went to three houses with different lessons and food at each one. First, we had appetizers and a lesson about dinner behavior, then we drove to the next house where we had dinner and talked about place settings. Finally, we went to the last house and talked about dating while having dessert. 7. International Foods Night Our youth group is so diverse and we have a lot of amazing girls that have joined us from different countries around the world. We set this up to let them teach us about their culture...and yes, to have lots of amazing food. It doesn't get better than that! 8. Friendship Bracelet Night We all wished we knew how to make friendship bracelets but felt intimidated by complicated techniques. So we learned to make them soooo easily, with cereal boxes!! All credit goes to this blog from Pinterest, we enjoyed using her tutorial. 9. Iron Chef Competition This was so fun it became a ward tradition. Gather mystery ingredients. Missionaries make great judges. The teams have an hour to make a master meal with what they have, learning resourcefulness and cooking from the older kids along the way. 10. DIY flip flops Relief Society tablecloth flat lay 🤣🤩 Cheap, useful, and cute. We bought $1 flip flops for each Young Woman, and decorated them with fabric ties, as per here. The goal was for everyone to have a pair of inexpensive flip flops they didn't have to worry about getting dirty at girls camp. 11. Tie dye night Everyone brought a white shirt and we folded and dyed them. Pretty easy and quick, try the tutorial here. We bought tie-dye colors but I've seen food coloring used before, from Pinterest ofc. 12. Band night Our bishop got each of the members of his band to teach a different "clinic" based on each instrument - voice, piano, guitar, drums, etc. The youth signed up for which instrument they wanted to do in advance. Instruments were borrowed. We all learned the different parts to one song and had a performance in the gym. 13. Time capsules night I've made printables for cute individual time capsules! What would also be so cute is a group time capsule - each class could make one with group photos of them, positive things they write about each other, their favorite church things, etc. 14. The Game of Latter-Day Saint Life We brought a Game of Life board and played, pausing for devotionals from different people at each spot (college or work first? marriage? kids? home ownership? money?) You can also make a custom Latter-Day Saint themed game board or a life sized game of LIFE. 15. Babysitting skills night A bunch of primary kids were invited. We were given a babysitting lesson before, and then put our knowledge into action as we played with the children. 16. Make-up Know How In a group of young women and their leaders, people qualified to teach makeup techniques it won't be scarce. This was fun for the younger yw who were just getting into makeup and for the older yw who could show off their talents. 17. Bread Making We learned how to make our own bread. We each had index cards to write the recipe on, but we did it step by step as the leaders demonstrated the process with us. Bread making can be intimidating, but thankfully Pinterest exists! Here's an idea to get you started. 18. Hairstyle night Learn to do Dutch, and French braids and have each girl bring her own brushes and hair ties so everything is sanitary. You can also go over curling and straightening hair, products everyone swears by, dos and don'ts, etc! 19. Modesty night We cut out paper dolls and made modest outfits for them with scrapbook paper. We discussed standing out from the world and being a light as we cut, pasted, and taped. A modest fashion show could also be fun! 20. Song night We've done this to prep for musical numbers, or to learn to sing a song. A way to make this more fun is to get a ukulele involved. Chances are that several of the youth know how to play (this has always been true for us at a given church activity) and gets them involved and everyone having fun. PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES 21. Sledding If you have the weather and location, enjoy some fun in the snow and then some hot chocolate back at the church building. 22. Youth Pool Party This one is a classic, along with a BBQ! 💦 The leaders bring the most essential items (burgers, buns, plates, paper utensils) the young women bring the kind of essential items (salads, desserts, appetizers) and the young men bring the items that won't be too unfortunate for us to miss (sodas, chips, condiments etc) and it always works out. 🍔 23. Yoga Night We did this one outside + got some low impact exercise + fresh air. Dual yoga is also fun! 24. Cultural Dance Night A dance teacher from the ward taught us traditional dances from different world cultures. 25. Nutrition Night We learned how to make healthy green smoothies. You could also expand this to healthy meal ideas. 26. Color run We got everyone white shirts that said "let your colors shine." Then we sprinted around the church parking lot while the leaders tried to make us as colorful as possible. 🎨 27. Outdoor/backyard games night We played kickball + Spud, but other outdoor games are, of course, fair game. Ideas include Mother May I, What Time Is It, Missionary Tag, Blob Tag, Ghost in the Graveyard👻, Werewolf/Mafia, Sardines, or whatever y'all enjoy. 28. Glow In The Dark Volleyball This is what it looked like during the activity! 👇 For the first fifteen minutes, everyone got glowsticks + put them together as necklaces, bracelets, anklets, etc. We put glow in the dark paint on our volleyball and really enjoyed this fun twist on a classic game. 🏐 See the glow in the dark dessert table below! 29. Church gym sports When nonmembers ask why we all have gyms, this is one of the reasons. Volleyball, basketball, dodgeball, soccer, and more are all easy to plan + play inside in those cold winter months. 30. Self defense skills night One of the young women does karate + invited a member of her dojo to give everyone tips on basic moves to defend themselves and stay safe if attacked. 31. Nerf Wars The young men thought this would be fun. Tie in doctrinally to "avoiding the fiery darts of the adversary" or the "Samuel the Lamanite" story. 32. Life Sized Games Our ward has played life size Hungry Hungry Hippos and Battleship.The latter was when we did life size Battleship. We split into teams, put up a blanket in the middle, and everyone lay in different areas on the gym floor. While lying down, we would throw a light ball at each other over the barrier and if someone was hit, they were out. I found so many other cute life sized game ideas on Pinterest y'all could try, including Foosball, Clue, Guess Who, Connect 4, Operation, Angry Birds, Chutes and Ladders, Candyland, Jenga, Pac Man, Scrabble, Tic Tac Toe and Kerplunk. Woah, 15 weeks of creative combined youth activities. 😉 33. Group bike route In my old ward, there were SO many of us (easily 30+) and I still laugh out loud thinking about this one bewildered man walking his dog who saw this procession of dozens of women and girls zooming by on their bikes, and was like "who is this?" Having enough bikes for everyone can definitely be a challenge, but if you can round up a lot of extras or consult with parents first before planning, you could make it work! SPIRITUAL ACTIVITIES 34. Watch Face2Face Addresses We always do this whenever they come out because our time zone has them dropping at 10 pm on a school night. You can even do this with old ones they've made. Give one of these a try. 35. Scripture canvas bags These are great for when your youth need to have + transport their heavy, irl scriptures--and y'all need a cute and crafty activity idea! We created ours with fabric markers + canvas bags. 36. General conference prep night We made trail mix to enjoy with our families and DIY notebooks -- dollar tree journals, with cut out pictures of the general authorities that we taped to the pages and used as tabs. 37. General conference review night I'm planning to blog about some fun games to do for this. For now, try a themed Kahoot or General Conference race! 38. Teach the Theme activity Every year we get a new one and every year I put together a package to help you make teaching it to your youth a fun and memorable experience! I ended up having to take the 2020 one down 😢 but I'll be back with another one when the creating-resources-for-the-theme-in-4-months frenzy returns. 39. FamilySearch Workshop Everyone brought a dessert from a country of their heritage and we enjoyed treats while our Youth Family History consultant gave us pointers on how to use the Family Search indexing program. We also did our best to make it fun by incorporating the "Find My Famous Relatives" database that BYU has. I also suggest this Coco family history activity I made! 40. Spiritual Journal Jars Talk about the importance of writing down your "Spiritually Defining Memories" (recently coined term, classic concept.) We decorated mason jars with washi tape, scrapbook paper, Mod Podge, and acrylics and then filled them with journal prompts + ideas. 41. Church escape room This photo is from a St. Patrick's day escape room I created for the group and let me tell you...never again!! The activity went well, and staying up so late working on it every night and going crazy making every detail perfect did not go to waste. But you don't have to become a martyr to host a good activity. Which is why I would suggest using a pre-made church themed escape room like the Hope of Israel one (we've tested and enjoyed) or this general church themed one that is sure to excite, amaze, and promote teamwork skills! 42. Primary song helps Make cute visual aids to help the kids learn their primary songs, helping your busy chorister save energy and time. Win win! 43. Cleaning the nursery We got on our gloves, turned on our Disney music, and disinfected every last nursery toy. This was pre-corona, but I have a feeling this might become more frequent when we're back at church again. 👀😂 44. Family History Campfire Everyone shared one funny/entertaining story from their family history, in the RS room with the lights off and flashlights and lanterns on sitting around this fake fire--which was so hilarious--red, orange and yellow tissue paper crumpled up in a casserole dish. 45. Missionary life skills night RMs set up a bunch of different stations with rapid fire lessons on missionary (but honestly also) life skills they wanted the youth to review/learn--ironing, shining shoes, cooking, sewing (for repairs)--and talked about their mission experiences while we did those chores. 46. Pioneer life skills night Set up different stations with different pioneer skills (making butter, hauling firewood, milling flour, grinding wheat, pulling a handcart) and honor their sacrifice and legacy. 47. Investigator Trailer Night We were put into companions and a bunch of the leaders went into different classrooms around the building, acting as the different stereotypical types of investigators when we "knocked on their doors." (Golden, nice but not interested, angry, etc). Discuss how missionary work is hard but rewarding and your converts, baptisms, results etc don't determine your success but your perseverance and positivity do. SOCIAL ACTIVITIES 48. Personality Party We decorated with Disney Princess Personality Posters, and had everyone take a free MBTI test. We played games that helped us to know how to better minister to and get along with our fellow leaders + young women. Posters, handouts, activities, etc, are here! 49. Speed Friendshipping Everyone writes creative, funny, or even deep questions on slips of paper. Create concentric circles with the folding chairs, and have one circle rotate so everyone gets to "friendship" everyone. They get a time limit to go through as many questions as they can. 50. Caroling for the elderly Every year at Christmas, we sing carols at an assisted living home and enjoy hot chocolate afterwards. 51. Heart Attack This has always been received so well and is a Valentine's Day classic. Spread the love! 52. Cookies + Cards We made valentine's day cookies and cards and delivered them to our ministering sisters. 53. Friendship Dinner We did this over the span of three activity nights and it had a Valentine's Day theme. The idea was to make a dinner connecting youth with those who were old/lonely in the ward for a night of ministering and fun. First, we delivered invitations with cookies to the invited. The next week, we decorated the gym for the event. The final week was the dinner. 54. Make fleece tye blankets Service projects really don't get much easier than this--buy some fleece, cut two equal pieces, and then a fringe. Tie each fringe together while you chat, and donate the finished blankets to a good cause. 55. Gratitude scavenger hunt I created a Thanksgiving themed escape room/scavenger hunt activity that is so cute and will be available in the shop when the holiday approaches. 56. Daddy-Daughter Showdown Super fun Father's Day activity with three main events: the dads stood behind a chalkboard and we had to guess whose was ours, we drew pictures of them they had to guess which one was them, and then the big finale was us having to tie their tie and them having to paint our nails. 57. Disney lip sync battle One of our favorite activities EVER. Young women versus young men -- we rehearsed separately to face off and ended up choosing the exact same song! Super fun, easy, and hilarious. 58. Taking Photos of Graves Easy service project to organize -- index graves for BillionGraves, which has an easy to use mobile app. 59. Mall Scavenger Hunt We split into teams with leaders as the captains and were dropped off at our local mall. The team to take group photos with every item on the list and make it back to the church first were the champions. 60. Making gift boxes for Samaritan's Purse In this Christmastime activity, everyone brought cute gift items from 5 Below, Dollar Tree, etc. We got our assignments from Samaritan's Purse Ministries and put together and decorated boxes for them. 61. Bulletin Board Making Putting together a bulletin board, whether organically or with a printable kit, is a lot of work. We did it together for one of our activities. You could also do it as a service project for a busy (primary, rs, etc) leader at the beginning of the year. Bonus points if you use one from the shop! _____________ Whew! We made it. But before you dash, I want to make sure you know that this is NOT the only resource I have to make your life easier as a busy Latter-Day Saint. 💛 To easily see & have all my free Latter-Day Saint resources at your fingertips, follow me on Pinterest! Again, if you want to have a list of these activities in PDF form, check out this product!

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

Discover 40+ LDS Primary Activity Days ideas for youth. From crafts to lessons, find activities that inspire and enrich their spiritual path.

If you're looking for some March Activity Days ideas, I have some super fun ideas for you! It can be tricky to find an activity that the whole group of girls will love, but any

Learn FUN FACTS about the First Presidency and Twelve Apostles while playing the popular game Don't Eat Pete! Perfect for Primary, Youth, or FHE.

If you're looking for some easy activity ideas for LDS Primary Activity Days, then look no further. Here's 80 ideas to get you started.

So my friend did a taste off activity and said it was a huge hit (I mean, aren't activities centered around food usually?!) So I wanted to make this "placemat" to make this activity just a little more cohesive. I made four different "placemats" depending on how much food you want to use and whether you want the placemat to include the Gospel Standard or not. 1. Room for 8 pairs of food & Gospel Standard is included (great for a healthy eating lesson) 2. Room for 4 pairs of food & Gospel Standard 3. Room for 8 pairs of food & no Gospel Standard (great for just a fun activity) 4. Room for 4 pairs of food & no Gospel Standard Room for 8 pairs of food AND Gospel Standard Room for 8 pairs of food and NO Gospel Standard I was sharing this activity with my sister and she said having the Gospel Standard on there and then serving Oreos and Root Beer and chips might have some mixed messaging, haha... so that's why depending on how you want to use this placement it may be better to leave if off. Here are some examples: fun to really evaluate what kinds of healthy foods you like :) fun to see if they can even taste a difference between the two To make a "placemat" from the PDF, just trim the margin and tape who pieces of paper together.

Congrats to the cutest Sherry and Kathy on being the winners of my Favorite Things Giveaway! Winners have been contacted and will be receiving all their fun things within the next few weeks. Thank you so, so much for everyone who entered. Stay tuned for more fun giveaways in the future! My Mom is seriously the cutest, most creative lady I know. If you've followed this blog for any amount of time you probably already know that. She is currently serving as an Activity Day Leader in her ward and of course rocking it. She just had the most adorable Manners Matter Feast and I'm so thrilled she's letting me share all the details. This doesn't just have to be for Activity Days either, my older sister is the Primary President in her ward and was going to do a few of these things with her Primary, it would also make a perfect and easy family night leading up to Thanksgiving! She started her Manners Matter Feast with a story to introduce the topic. We couldn't find one we liked and that fit the theme and purpose of the activity so I made one up! You can download the story at the bottom of THIS post. She blew up the turkey we were using and used colored paper for the different feathers, and added the feathers along with telling the story. The story is all about a turkey named Maggie that finds out how manners make life more colorful. She gets a new colored feather every time she masters a manner. To go along with the story I made a worksheet that they could hang in their room to remember what manners they should be working on. Here's one I made for an example. They could color the feathers the different colors they liked and add the specific manners they need to work on, on each feather. Hopefully reminding them that manners really do matter! My mom said this was a huge hit and the girls loved working on this page. My mom found the cutest, colorful feather suckers that fit perfectly in her little turkey stand. I made a tag to remind them of the story when they took home their little treat. You can find the free download for these cute little tags at the end of this post! Next came learning some table manners. She found the cute place mats and Manners Matter packet at Dating Divas! She also found the cute little turkey treat holders on Etsy from Jessicas Prints HERE! She filled these cute turkeys with a fun fall mix of marshmallows, candy corn, M&M's, Honey Nut Cheerios, pretzels, and Swedish Fish. She went over some Table Manners Do's and Don'ts to prep the girls for their feast ahead. She found this sheet from a church idea book that she has had for years. If you know where it came from please let me know so I can give credit where credit is due! My mom even made the cutest paper turkey full of popcorn! She told them she had been working in the kitchen and cooking it all morning! ;)  Then to setting the table! My mom already had it set as pictured above. She then taught the girls how to set the table-perfect for Thanksgiving Day prep! Then came eating! She had mini pudding cups, turkey slices, rolls, veggies, fruit, chocolate covered popcorn, and chocolate rice krispy treats with a white chocolate drizzle. We tried to stick with either brown or colorful foods to go along with the theme! We can't quit this super easy and addicting white chocolate popcorn! I tossed in some regular M&M's to add that pop of color! Find the recipe HERE! The girls were told to use their manners while having their feast. The girls absolutely loved it and learned so much about manners. At the end of the activity they passed out the feather suckers (find more about those HERE) and gave back the worksheets they had done earlier. You can find all of the other info on her Manners Matter Feast and the FREE printable for the Make Life Colorful with Manners Tag-HERE Credits Page Here are some links you may be interested in: -Chocolate Turkey Sucker/Candy Molds-HERE -Burlap Table Runner-HERE I have all the Maggie the Well-Mannered Turkey Story printables including a copy of the story, worksheet and tags in this post HERE! And don't forget manners really do matter! This post may contain affiliate links, all opinions are my own.

Teach your kids about having the right attitude with this family night lesson inspired by Nephi and his bow and arrow. Get all the details on the blog!

Our Stake Primary wanted to start the year off getting the children excited to learn about the Book of Mormon. The activity was a huge success! We kept the children moving and busy with short classes, crafts and fun activities at the end. We planned for 100 and had about 75 children attend. INVITATIONS & POSTERS: SETUP: I find it is always helpful to have a map and instructions for number of tables and chairs that are needed. That way, I can hand it to the helpers setting up and they know exactly what is needed. ACTIVITY SCHEDULE: 9:00 Divide into 5 groups with colored hand stamps 9:15 CHAPEL: Welcome, Prayer, Talk by Joseph Smith about finding the plates, Testimony from Stake Presidency Classes - 20 minutes each. We had brethren from the stake dress up as Book of Mormon characters (pictures coming soon) and tell their story in first-person point of view. Then adult helpers did a craft with the children. Story: Brother of Jared Craft: Jaredite Barges (2 bowls stapled together with a door and glowing rocks inside.) Story: Nephi Craft: Liahona (Decorated gold Christmas ornaments with stickers and jewels. There is a toy compass in the ring on the bottom.) Story: King Benjamin Craft: Tower (Built out of popsicle sticks and glued with glue gun) Story: Ammon Craft: Missionary Formula Card (Decorated cards with points from Alma 17-18) Story: Moroni Craft: Title of Liberty (Wood dowel with torn fabric.) We had a 10 minute break between Classes 2 and 3 where we served Rice Cereal Treats and let them get drinks and use the restroom. 11:30 CULTURAL HALL: Book of Mormon Games - 8 stations 1. "Amalickiah's Poison Darts" Blow darts into boxes with picture of Amalickiah 2. "Ruins of Ammonihah" - Blow a ping-pong ball through a wood maze. 3. "Samuel the Lamanite" - Knock Samuel off his wall (with paper arrows) 4. "Waters of Sebus" - toss arms (made of nylons and stuffing) to 2 partners who will try to catch them in a towel. 5. "Characters of the Book of Mormon" - matching game 6. “Nephi’s Bow” – String a bow and shoot an arrow at stuffed animals. 7. “Laban’s Sword” – Use sword to gather up cups (Lamanites). 8. “Tower of Babel” – Stack plastic cups as high as they can. After each class we gathered the crafts from each room and put them on tables in the Cultural Hall by colored group, so all the kids from that group only had to search one table for their crafts. These tables were setup by the doors so they would pick up their crafts as they left. We also provided plastic shopping bags for them to carry their crafts home. We also included this letter to Parents so they would know what their children learned and incorporate their visual aides in their family scripture study. If you want to do this activity and would like any of the files, please let me know. Special thanks for ideas from: https://abfoxden.blogspot.com/2011/01/book-of-mormon-challenge.html and http://hollyshome-hollyshome-hollyshome.blogspot.com/2017/12/book-of-mormon-minute-to-win-it-games.html

Mission Call Letter (in Microsoft Word) During the month leading up to the activity we issued "mission calls" to each of the children (we divided them into three groups and gave one group each week). We asked the bishopric to announce that we were handing them out and encourage the families to open them and go over the packet together. The packet included their call letter, a My Gospel Standards sheet, and a simple missionary family home evening. Missionary Family Home Evening (in Acrobat Adobe/pdf) I have two versions of the My Gospel Standards sheet. The one I made for our activity has a picture of the new Ogden, Utah temple because that's our closest temple. For those of you that live in other places, I made one that matches the rest of the clipart I've used this year. It's a beautiful picture of the Salt Lake City temple made by artist Susan Fitch. My Gospel Standards - Ogden Temple (in Adobe Acrobat/pdf) My Gospel Standards - Salt Lake Temple (in Adobe Acrobat/pdf) To decide which children were going on which mission we had to decide how many groups we wanted to have. This was partly determined by the size we wanted each group to be, the space we had available in the building and the different languages people in our ward spoke on their missions. This is where that Mission Survey came in handiest, we looked it over and tried to pick those who had children in primary (to insure greater attendance) and who spoke the language we'd decided we wanted. Although, we really didn't care which language, as long as it was something other than English. Next we had to divide the children into an even number of groups. And while there may have been an easier way to do this, to divide the groups as evenly as we could, we decided to put together a puzzle. We printed out a list of all the children in our primary and then cut them apart (we already have our own list, which I talked about on this post). We sorted them into family groups (usually families come together) and then assigned them into their mission groups in stages. Stage one was our children and those who faithfully come to every activity, stage two was those whose parents we'd asked to help out at the activity, and stage three was everyone else. We tried to assign each stage equally across all of our groups and, at the same time, give each group the same number of junior and senior primary children. It sounds a little complicated, but it went smoothly. Primary Children Mission Groups (in Microsoft Excel) The week or two before, we took "mission calls" around to all the children who hadn't made it to church yet (or who don't normally come) along with a short flyer explaining what the call was for. The adorable clipart in the flyer is from melonheadz illustrating, it's ADORABLE. Instruction Flyer (in Microsoft Word) Remember, this one reason I LOVE activities, it gives me a chance to make contact with those families and children I don't get to see all the time. I feel very strongly it is my job to offer. I can't do anything more than that, but I can sure as heck do that much. Just like before, if you click on the link below each picture, you can download an editable version to make planning your activity that much easier! If you'd like to check out the previous post, I talked about the other things we did to get ready for our FANTASTIC activity. Next, I'll be talking about our opening activity (I know, four posts in and I'm just getting to the ACTUAL activity). You know, the one you plan so that when half the kids are late, it doesn't interrupt anything else. Or, to see any other posts, you can click back to the overview page. Leah

If you're looking for some easy activity ideas for LDS Primary Activity Days, then look no further. Here's 80 ideas to get you started.

Are you reading Crankenstein by Samantha Berger to your students this year? I have a Crankenstein craft and writing activity that you can use with your students after reading this story.

Fun Primary Singing Time Idea: Smash the Bug, This month, I've been able to sub as music leader in a couple ward's Primaries (I serve in our Stake Primary Presidency, so when a primary needs some help & is short handed, we love to be there to help them. Plus, I 've subbed a couple times in my own ward). Is there anything greater than listening to Primary children sing their testimonies of Christ and the gospel?!? In one of the wards, we were reviewing the songs that they have been learning this year. So, to choose which song we would sing, I brought some bugs and a fly swatter. We began by singing the song, "I am a Child of God". Before we started to sing the song, I told the Primary children that my special fly swatter could sense who was singing the very best and that, that person would be who would get to come up and swat a bug on the board. I used the printable below to print the bugs onto card stock, I then cut them out and laminated them and cut them out again. So I can reuse the bugs, I used masking tape and wrote the songs on the masking tape, then taped it onto the back of the bugs. With the bugs being laminated, I should be able to easily remove the masking tape. I've also done it where I have used erasable markers to write on the back of the laminate. If you don't care about reusing, you can just write on the back. Click Free Download button for Bug Printable: I then taped the bugs with masking tape onto the board. The primary child would come up and swat one of the bugs with the fly swatter. We would then sing that song that was written on the back, as we sang that song I did a few things. One, my fly swatter would be watching for the best singer (whoever you could tell was really trying to sing the song). I also before hand asked the primary children to put a thumbs up if they felt they knew the song really well, side ways if they kind of knew the song, and thumbs down if they didn't really know it. Then we would sing and after I would ask the teachers to rank how they thought they did. Thumbs up really well. Side ways, was that they could use some work. Thumbs down was that they really didn't know they song. I tried a couple other things. With the first primary I let the primary child that was chosen to come swat the bug, I let them use the fly swatter to help me lead the song. The second time, I just used the fly swatter to lead. It really went better with me just using the fly swatter to lead. Another thing you could do, is wear some silly glasses. This is one of my favorite things to do. You explain to the primary children that the silly glasses are your super singer detector glasses. That they help you to see who is singing really well. I've done this several times and it's surprising how well it gets the primary children to sing. Anyways, back to the activity. We just continued, choosing someone to come up to swat the bugs and sing the song, until time allowed. We were able to go through all of the songs in the allotted time. It was a great way to gage, how well the primary children knew the songs and what they needed to work on. Since, I was just subbing, I forwarded the information onto the music leader of which songs they could use more work on. The kids loved this activity!! They also sang so well :) I also feel like it is so important as you sing each song to point out the doctrine found in the song. For instance, I brought items that would go with each of the songs. We sang, "Search, Ponder and Pray" so I brought my scriptures and shared my testimony of how we can know the scriptures are true as we search them and ponder and pray about them. I also had a picture of Christ being baptized, that we talked about how we follow the Savior's example when we are baptized. I think that if we are not discussing the doctrine in the songs as we sing them, we are missing out on a big opportunity for the spirit to teach the primary children. I love hearing them share their thoughts and testimonies about the songs as well! These Primary songs will stick with these primary children all of their lives. I remember clearly standing when I was a primary child and singing, "The Lord needs valiant servants". If you'd like another fun singing time idea, check this out: Fun Punch it Activity for Singing Time

Fun way to learn about My Gospel Standards!! Complete primary activity that should take about an hour. PREP: Should only take about 2o mins to prepare flashcards and matching game (trim paper & glue) and then spread stations around a room. If you're doing this at a church you can even go from room to room or if you're just in a cultural hall you can set up some tables. I did this with my 2 kids just around our kitchen table and that worked too! TOURNAMENT: 1. Start the activity by giving each player a scorecard. Tell players the goal is to get as many points as they can within a certain time at each station. They probably won’t have time to finish everything at each station, but they can take it home and finish later if they want. 2. Next divide into groups and assign a starting station to each group (depending on how many players). I would pair players up so they aren’t alone at a station. 3. Directions for each station are included... this page is designed to be folded in half and made into a table tent with directions on both sides. I would give about 5 minutes per station and then rotate. 4. Once players have a turn at each station, the players with the most points win.

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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 :)

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 :)

This post contains affiliate links to products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Learning to add money, make change, and compare money amounts are skills that are coming up in our money unit. I've been working on putting together lots of fun games and engaging opportunities to practice. Here are some money activities for second grade

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You’ve taught them the new song for the month…. now you need to REPEAT aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand REPEAT it!!! Children (and adults) learn best with repetition so we thought we’d compile a list of ways to repeat a song without the children hearing, “One more time” and “Play it again” or “From the top”. The best kind of Singing Time when repeating and reviewing a new Primary Song is the one where the kids don’t realize they’re singing the same song over and over again! This is also great for them the repeat the words again and again, learn and melody, and feel/understand the message of the song. So you wanna know the ways to do this for your Primary? We came come up with this list as a resource for you to draw from!!! Alright, here is the list, “from the top” : 1-Play Hot Potato. Pass an object around the Primary room as they sing the song to review. The child that ends up with the object gets to say something they love about Primary. Hot Potato Option 2 – Have the Piano play and children sing and pass the “hot potato”. Arrange for the pianist to stop suddenly during the song at different times. The child who has the potato when the music stops says the next word or line to the song (they can get help from the Primary, if needed). 2-Voice Changer. Let the children pick a different voice to sing the song. For example, have them change their voice to sound like: -Computer Robot (staccato) -Baby Voice (sweet and lispy) -Underwater (plug nose, or move pointer finger up and down in lips) -Grandma Voice (pinch a small piece of your neck and move away and then back toward your neck really fast) -Opera (self-explanatory - use hand actions too!) -Feather Voice (whisper) -Bee Voice (Hum) -Chipmunk Voice (sing high, tighten neck and show teeth) -Ninja Movie Voice (move mouth in between words and pauses) -Giant Voice (sing deep and low) -Cowboy Voice (like a country singer) These voices can be chosen from paper strips on the chalkboard, punch out board, rolling a dice (each number represents a way to sing), spinner wheel, or any of our holiday/seasonal pick-and-choose activity. For our Ultimate list of Different Ways to Sing (over 50 ideas) CLICK HERE. 3-Singing Meters. Most kids love a challenge. They like to see how well they’re doing, so Singing Meters are perfect for that. Singing Meters can control their speed, volume, and overall how well they all are singing. A helium balloon as a meter or Eddie Spaghetti, Billy Bubblegum are great for this. Also our Racecar Singing Meter. 4-Stop/Go, ooooo ahhh, boys sing/girls sing Signs. Hold up a sign that tells the children who or how to sing. Switch them during the song so they have to pay attention. 5-Different Lead Sticks. Bring a variety of leading wands/sticks and display them on the table. Choose a child to pick one and lead the song. Tell the children you will be watching to see who is singing their best, and you will pick another child to pick a wand and lead. 6-Hot N Cold. Choose 2 children. One is the hider and the other is the seeker. Have the seeker go into the hall. Have the seeker hide a small object in the Primary room. Call the seeker back into the room and have the children start singing the song. The closer the seeker is to the object the LOUDER the children should sing. The farther away from the object, the QUIETER. If they find the object before the song is over, KEEP SINGING! My Primary children never get sick of this activity! 7-Silent Singer. One child goes out in the hall. Another child is chosen to be the “Silent Singer” meaning that child “lip sings” the song. Have the child in the hall come back in and all children sing – except for the silent singer who is lip singing. See if the child that was in the hall can guess who the “Silent Singer” is. Finish singing the song even if they guess before it’s over! 8-Rubberband Primary Band. Have some recycled instruments displayed on the table. Pick a child for each instrument. Sing that song as those children with their instrument keep the beat. At the end of the song, have them pass their instrument onto another child. Sing the song until each child has had a turn. Some examples of instruments are, oatmeal tube as a drum, egg carton and stick as a Guiro, 2 paper plates as cymbals, comb (scratch fingers across), spoons back to back (hit knee and hand), tap 2 wood spoon together on the stick part, large and wide rubber band around an open box or Tupperware bowl, etc. You could also use bells, shakers, etc. and to finish the song, have a special helper be the finishing cymbal and clap two chalkboard erasers together!!! 9-Hat Review. Display different hats on the table. Sing the song and whichever class sung the best gets to pick a hat from the table and have their teacher wear it! You could also have different categories such as: The class who is sitting up the straightest and folding arms. The class that is smiling the most. The class that is the loudest. The class that is singing the most enthusiastically. Which class know the song the best without the visual? The class that is overall the best in all categories. 10-Missing Mystery. Send a child in the hall. Pick another child to be the “missing mystery” – meaning they hide behind the chalkboard (or piano) for the song. Call the child back out from the hall and have the children start sing the song. See if the child from the hall can guess who’s missing before the song’s end. If they guess who it is, too soon, keep singing until the end of the song! 11-Headbands. Choose some words that are sung in the song and write them on an index card size paper. Call up a child who is up for a challenge. Put a headband (like a basketball sweatband) around their forehead. Clip the index card with the written word to the band. The child should not be able to see the word. Have the Primary children start singing the song. When the word on the card is to be sung, have them skip over it (don’t sing that word). Have the child with the headband try to guess what word is on their forehead. If they don’t guess it the first time, sing the song again and this time have the children sing that word LOUD and obvious, make sure they sing all the way to the end of the song. 12-Musical Measles. All you need for this one is some small round dot stickers. Be careful the measles are contagious! Original post HERE. 13-Guess the Leader. Have one of the members of the Primary Presidency go out in the hall with a child (or by themselves, depending on the child). Choose another child from the Primary to be the “leader”. The “leader’s” job is the have the other Primary children follow their actions during the song. Have the child in the hall come back in and all start singing. The leader starts doing different actions such as clapping, rolling arms, pat head – all the children follow. Have the child who was in the hall try to guess who the “leader” is before the end of the song. 14-Class action. Each class is assigned a secret word (such as the, am, I, etc.) from the song. As a class, they decide on an action to do or sound to make when this secret word is sung in the song. Examples of actions are, jump up off their chair, clap, dab, meow like a cat, etc. Sing the song until all secret words are figured out for each class. Option 2 – Pick some different words that get repeated a few times in the song such as “I or to”. Tell the children NOT to sing that word but to replace it with an action or sound (examples are above). You can replace a different word every time, or have them build on each other each time to make it a fun challenge! 15-Mindful Singing. First, start by having the kids rub their temples on the head to get their “minds ready.” Next, have the children sing the song - to refresh their minds. Then, have the pianist play the song and tell the children to sing the song in their head (mind). Have the pianist stop suddenly and see if the children can say what the next word or line of the song. Have them raise their hand if they think they know it. Sing the song out loud again all together, then play mindful singing. Make sure to give your pianist a heads up on this singing activity before it starts! 16- Heads or Thumbs. Before you sing the song to review, have the children stand up and either put their hands on their head or give a thumbs up – whichever one they want to choose. Sing the song, after the song is sung, flip a coin. If the coin lands on heads, those with their thumbs up, sit down. If the coin lands on Tails, those touching their head, sit down. Start over with those still standing. ALL children sing. Flip the coin at the end of the song. Repeat and sing until there is one child standing! 17-Switching Seats. Have one child go out in the hall. Have another 2 children from the Primary switch seats. Have the child in the hall come back, primary start singing the song, and before the songs end, see if the child that was in the hall can guess who switched seats! Well, now there you go!!!! You have 17 ways to REPEAT a song in a fun way! We hope this helps you feel empowered to help the Primary children review any song. Keep in mind that not every one of these work for every song. Some songs are longer than others and may not work, or some songs are to be sung more reverent than others. Thanks for visiting our site and be sure to check out our other pick and choose review ideas and following our Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook pages!!! -iheartprimarymusic

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Gah! I got the musical MEASLES!!!!!! This one is SOOOO fun, keeps the kids’ attention and keeps them singing well! Win, win, win. Tell the kids that singing can be contagious (songs can spread joy, peace, and feel the Spirit) just like the Measles!!!! Pass out red stickers to all teachers. Pick a song to sing. After the song, each teacher pick 2 kids from their class to get a stickers. Aaand the stickers get stuck on YOU (or the Pianist!) It’s so fun to see how many stickers “measles” you end up with at the end! Have fun with this one, but make sure to tell them, they only get a sticker if they’re singing their best!

The loud voices. The constant squirming. The screaming. And the crying. Oh, the crying. Every. Week.

The first of the year is just around the corner! And that means new teachers for those adorable kiddos, it's always hard... my son HATES it but here's some games to get you teachers ready for that first Sunday and get to know your new kids and learn something new about the ones you keep. M&Ms Game You will need a bag of M&Ms and a bowl. Create questions for each color from the bag (example below) Hold the bowl up so the kids can't see the color they pick If the kids pick: Red= tell us your favorite activity to do Orange= tell us your favorite thing at school Yellow= tell us the chore you hate to do Blue= tell us something you want to learn how to do Green= tell us your favorite treat Brown= tell us your favorite movie or tv show Don't forget to do it yourself so the kids can get to know you too! Toss n' Talk Game On a large ball (those balls you find at Walmart in the "cages") with a permanent marker write questions around the ball. (Question ideas are below) Begin class on the floor with all the kids and you in a circle, roll or gently toss the ball whatever question their right thumb (right hand/left pinky, etc) that's what they answer. Jenga On the blocks, write questions to get to know the kids (Question ideas below), set up the game on the table, have the kids and you take turns picking out the blocks and answer the question on them. Question ideas: 1)Who is your favorite scripture story character? 2) If you could have any animal for a pet what would it be? 3) What is your favorite breakfast? 4) What is your favorite movie or tv show? 5) If you could eat one food for a whole month, what would it be? 6) What is your favorite subject in school? 7) Would you rather cake or brownies? 8) Where were you born? 9) What do you think is in outer space? 10) If you were invisible for a day, what would you do? 11) What is the worst smell? 12) What do you want to do when you grow up? 13) If you had 1 million dollars, what would you buy? 14) What is your favorite Primary song? 15) What do you like to do when you play outside? 16) Do you have a lucky number? What is it and why is it lucky for you? 17) What is the best thing about being a kid? 18) What is your favorite color? 19) Do you have a favorite joke? What is it? 20) If you were president for a day, what would you do?

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ALL ABOUT EARTH Get ready for a month filled with so many fun activities to teach your kiddos all about our planet Earth . I teach this unit in April so it coincides with Earth Day. I’ve loaded up this blog post post with read aloud book ideas, free videos you can share with your students,

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This awesome Liahona is from the 2005 Primary Partners Sharing Time written by Mary H. Ross, Illustrated by Jennette Guymon-King. It is copyrighted so we didn't scan it in to share- but we thought it was so cool that maybe you could make your own! So this how it works (Quoted from the book), "Help children imagine having the Liahona today. Tell them, "If each of our families could have a Liahona today to guide us, how would we keep it going to get the help we need?" Have children take turns drawing a card #1-10 and reading the action on the card. Then dial the Liahona to see if that action makes us worthy of inspiration. If the correlating number on the dial says "yes," that means we would be worthy to receive inspiration. If there is a "no," this means the Liahona would not work as well because our choice was not a righteous choice." So for singing time choose a child to pick a card. On the card have a story about choosing the right or a story about not choosing the right. The card number correlates with the number on the Liahona and the answer is on the opposite side (refer to pictures above). Here are some story examples for you: -Mary was very sleepy and tired. It was late so she hurried and jumped into bed. Is that choosing the right? -When Joyce was sitting with her family at Sacrament meeting, she decided-I will sit reverently and try hard to listen to the talks. Is that choosing the right? -Kenneth wanted to play with Bill's puppet. He decided to sneak the puppet while Bill was not home. Is that choosing the right? -Jenny had some earned money. She wanted to buy a special toy. She discovered that if she paid her tithing, she would not have enough money to buy it. She decided to pay her tithing first and wait until she earned more money. Did she choose the right? After each card is picked and checked by the Liahona, review Choose the Right!!!

I am so excited to share these cute Primary Singing Time Cue Cards that you can use to review ANY primary song you are teaching!