Candle Night

-Have people bring snacks and or drinks 

-Make candles together and either keep them to add to your emergency kit or give them to Homeless Shelter or As Christmas Gifts 
( go to CANDLE MAKING  for help ) 

EXTRA 
--Watch the show Candle Shoe (nothing about candles but its a fun old movie) Or any other movie while you wait for the candles to dry 

Christmas Lights and Cocoa

Have fun with Christmas 

-Go somewhere in your City that has beautiful Christmas Lights 

-Then get some hot Cocoa from a Cafe 

-Or Go to someones house and make your own Hot Cocoa  

EXTRA 

-For extra fun go to someones house and make cookies together and watch a Christmas movie

-You could also make cookies and Go Christmas Caroling and deliver the cookies together. 

New Born Kits

Come together and make new born kits together. Ask people to donate the following items. Then when finished making donate them to a shelter or to someone who can take them to another country. 

New Born Kits

Use Canvas  bags to put the following items in. 

Contents (NEW items only, size 3-9 months)

• 2 gowns/sleepers (flannel or similar warm, soft material)

• 2 undershirts/onesies (short or long sleeves)

• 4 cloth diapers (flat-fold preferred)

• 1 receiving blanket (lightweight fleece or flannel; minimum 36 in)

• 6 safety pins(2 in)

• 2 large bar mild soap(leave in wrapper) or travel size baby wash

• 3 pair of socks

• 1 cap

EXTRA 

When you make the kits watch a movie then after kits are finished. 

Mom and Daughter Beauty Day Inside and Out

Have moms and their daughters come for a nice lunch or Dinner

-Then have lessons about inner beauty. 
-How are you and your mom similar ? Personality talents
-What personality do you have?
-What makes you beautiful? Talents, faith etc 

Outer beauty activities 
- Have hair stations
-- Up dos 
-- Fun clips for little girls 

-Have spa stations 
--Face masks
--Manicure 
--Lotion 

-Have make up station 
--Have tables set up by Age 
---5-12
--- Teens 
--- Adults 
--Have each station show make up techniques appropriate for that age. 

-Have a craft station
--Make Bracelets 
--Decorate Small frames
-- Decorate photo book 
-- etc 

-Have a photo booth 
--Have fun accessories like boas, funny sunglasses, wigs etc 
-- For extra fun have Polaroid cameras so it can be developed right then 
--If Polaroid is not available get the pictures developed at walmart 


-Have another short activity a week after for people to get their developed pictures and have light snacks 

*** EXTRA EXTRA 

-To have a really fun memory have someone that's

 part of the planning committee to be the 

"Camera Girl." Have her take videos and pictures during the activity. Then have her edit and make a movie and slide show. Show the movie at the second activity. 

Blanket and A Movie

-Have fabric donated 

-Cut and make tie blankets 

-Watch a movie while you do this 

-Either donate blankets to shelter or New moms or family 

Missionary Letter Night

-Have everyone write letters
-have people donate small gifts and candy 
-Put letters and small gifts in boxes
-Send the packages to missionaries serving from your ward. 

Service "Story Time"

-Come together and create books (Some write the story line and others illustrate)
-Laminate pages and bind (Can do this at a school or office)
-When finished take the new books to a children's hospital
-Read to the kids
-When finished reading give books to the hospital to keep

Service "Yard and Cookies"

-Wear grubbies-- Bring Extra clothes
-Clean a yard together (Elderly, school, church etc)
-After finished with yard work change clothes and bake cookies together ( use store bought dough to make it faster)

-Make plates of cookies with a card to send to people that could use a friend or a better day

-Save some cookies for group

-After you deliver cookies chill together and watch a movie

(Do this activity in spring or winter so it is not too hot)

Service idea -Make cute hospital gowns for teens

Service idea

-Make cute hospital gowns for teens

-ask people to donate cotton fabric (With cool and mature patterns)

-Ask Hospital for gown patterns

-Sew Gowns together (Ask RS to donate machines) (sew for a couple of nights)

- After teen gowns are finished donate them to a children's hospital

--This would be a good service because teens either have to wear adult gowns that are too big for them or pediatric gowns that have kiddy material. It would be nice to give them something "Stylish" and their size to wear while they are dealing with the trial of being in a hospital. 

"No Socks Day" may 8th

May 8th "No Socks Day"

-Have a party

-No socks allowed

-Wear Flip Flops

-Donate nice new socks to children hospital or shelter 

Service and fun day

Service and fun day

-Do a free carwash

-Then eat ice cream sandwiches together 

Simple last minute date, hang out, activity etc 

Lucky Penny Day (May 23rd)

This is a funny holiday from the internet

-Play Penny Games
--shoot pennies into a cup
-- hide pennies around and then have the people do a hunt

-Snacks
--chocolate coins
--tiny cookies with icing that says 1cent

-fun service
--have people bring extra change and donate it to a coin drop for Ronald McDonald House or Children's Hospital.

Cupcake Tin Crayons

Fun for anyone. Can be made as a simple service project for nursery or other child care. Also good for reusing lesson.

*items needed
-broken peeled crayons
-cupcake tin
-cooking spray
-wax paper

*To do
-spray cupcake tin with cooking spray
-place peeled and broken crayons into the cupcake tin
-melt in oven at 275 for 4min
-take out and stir place back in oven for 3 more minutes
-place in freezer till hard about 5min
-pop out new crayons unto wax paper. Tap on back to get them out

You now have new fat crayons for little kids, made from old broken crayons :) you have reused and helped kids

Sock Hop Dance

*Decoration
-Any 50s style
-Fun Old Pictures
-Elvis etc

*Food
-Candy Stand
-Root Beer Float Stand
-"Old Fashioned" Candy

*Songs
-50s songs randomly through dance
-"At The Hop"

*Dress
-50s clothes

*Extra
-Have people donate new socks and toys to go with the theme "Sock Hop"
have the donations go in a cute basket. Donate to an Orphanage, homeless shelter etc.

MESSY DAY

-Fun random activity to do in the summer

-Everything outside, wear grubbies - Bring change of clothes

**Extra if you do extra activity have people wear swimsuit under grubbies and bring towels and change of clothes 

** Activities

- Watermelon toss ( See how far you can throw a very ripe watermelon watch it explode)

-Whip Cream fight (Have cans of whip cream have a battle)

- Spaghetti toe fishing( Have kiddy pool filled up with spaghetti and fake bugs. Have people fish out fake bugs with toes :P )

- Water balloon fight do Guys VS Girls

-Paint something for a service project before activity.

EXTRA

Have this activity in a neighborhood or house that has a pool. Have people wear swimsuit under paint clothes. Then after messy day have people hose off and take off paint clothes and jump in pool with their swimsuits. 

Then after swimming change into casual clothes and go home 

Have Fun ! 

Can collecting

Good for thanksgiving or any time. Good for any age.

-Split into teams

-Go to Neighborhoods and ask for 1can donation  

-Meet back at ward - play games

-have root bear or sherbet floats 

-Donate the cans to a shelter 

Blankets and Songs Service Project

Great to do anytime of the year and for any age group

-Make tie blankets together at one activity
-At next activity deliver the blankets to a nursing home or children's hospital and sing hymns or primary songs.

This will really brighten their day and strengthen your testimony of service and the Love that Heavenly Father has for each of his children