Spiritual Hike

-Ask people to bring their scriptures and a Sack Lunch

-Go hiking together.

-Have cooler full of peoples sack lunches.

-Once you get to a nice spot have a song , prayer and short lesson.

-Then have people go off to read their scriptures and pray privately for 30min

-Then come back together and have a quiet lunch and more Hymns

-Keep the feeling of the Spirit and truly feel the beauty of the Earth Heavenly Father Created for us.

Fast Food Progressive Dinner

Get together and have a progressive Fast Food Dinner 

Go to a different fast food place for each of the following 

-Large Drinks

-Snack (nachos or onion rings etc) 

-Main dish (burger and fries or chicken sandwich etc) 

-Dessert 

EXTRA 

If this is a group date switch dates at each restaurant so each people can get to know each other 

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. 

"The Social Network" Dance

Decorations 

-App Icons

-Old FB pictures ( kid pictures of leaders) to play a guess who game

-Fun colors

-FB Photo Booth

 (Make a poster with Empty spot for people to faces and a white board poster for people to write statuses) 

Food

-Fun Finger Foods

-Skittles

-If you do this on a Holiday have theme candy '

Dress

-Casual 

- Colors to represent relationship status

--Red-- In A Relationship 

--White--Its Complicated

--Green or FB Blue-- Single and ready to mingle

-- Black-- Mission bound or Just cruising don't want a relationship right now 

Team Night

Play different games that must use all team mates to do.

-Obstacle course
-Relay Race
-Blind maze (some blindfolded team mates- other team mates are guides)
-Make dessert each person in team has 1 or 2 ingredients -- Can't make correct dessert without all the ingredients and working together to make it.
-etc

Have fun learning strategies to complete each task . Learn importance of each person. Find that each person has a strength.

At end of game night have fun snacks. or if you did dessert challenge eat the desserts.

Dice Game Night

There are a lot of fun games that include dice.

Here are some Math Games to do with giant dice to help kids get excited about math.

--You can even make giant dice with throw away coolers or taped boxes.

GAMES
Can be one player or have two kids or teams compete to get the answer

( For teams if they answer correctly they receive a  point if they answer incorrectly the other team can answer it)



*Addition
-- Roll both dices and have kids add it.

*Alligator
--Have an alligator symbol or for extra fun a toy alligator
--Roll both dice have the child put the toy or symbol on the dice that has more

*Subtraction
--Roll both dice have the children subtract the small number from the big number. (k-3 grades)
--same have them answer both ways adding the negative symbol (3-5)

*Multiplication
-- Roll both dice and multiply

*Division
-- Roll both dice divide big number first (2-3)
-- same but have them do both sides (4-5)

*Middle and Highschool

--Have 4 or 6 # dice
-- Have symbol dice
-- Roll all and set up an equation and solve


*EXTRA after math games
-play a fun dice game -- monopoly, sorry, etc
-Have activities to do written on slips of paper in a list roll # and choose the activity that matches the number -- Young kids it can be do jumping jacks, touch your toes, get a piece of candy.
For teens, get snacks, play wii, ipod music, etc

Duct Tape Night

-Have food set up,
-- Ask people to bring favorite snacks.
-- Have drinks and paper products provided. 

-Have Craft tables set up

-Have people donate duct tape
--Have 2-3 weeks to collect (have a box for donations) 

-Have stations 
--At each table have person or instruction papers of how to make wallets, bracelets etc out of duct tape. 

**EXTRA EXTRA 

--Turn this event into a fundraiser by asking people to pay $1 for each craft 

--And have plain duct tape- 

people can buy 

1 strip for a $1 each 

to duct tape a person to the wall.

IDEAS

--Librarian

--Bishop or Youth Group Leader

--Principal or Coach 

etc'

Krazy Karnival

If you are bored in the summer do this activity to go out of your comfort zone and kick boredom IN the Butt!

Have fun stations and games set up all along your yard or another approved area 

***MAKE SURE PEOPLE WEAR CLOTHES THEY DONT MIND GETTING GROSS IN

Stations

*Toe Painting

--Paint a master piece on a poster on the ground only using your toes 

*Pie eating 

-Get hands tied behind back 

--You and others race to see who can empty the pie tin full of whip cream first 

--Whoever wins gets a small prize (candy or something) 

*Obstacle course balloon race 

-Choose a partner

-Have to hold a balloon between each other with hands behind your back 

-Go through the course 

-What ever team finishes course first wins a candy bar for each 

*Blind folded make overs 

--Choose a partner 

--Then receive a blindfold and a make up kit 

--Have assistant blindfold you and your partner

-- Then create a master piece on your partners face 

--Keep make up for the fashion show 

--Crazy Hair and Clothes fashion SHOW 

---Get hair done up 

---Choose clothes from a basket of weird clothing Articles

---Line up for the fashion show

---Have weird music playing while everyone struts their stuff 

---Whoever looks the weirdest wins a prize

HAVE FUN!!! 

Kungfu Panda Day

*Activities 
- pool noodle fight 
-Obstacle Course 
-Dance Lesson (teach line dance to the song "Kungfu Fighting") 
-Sparklers 

*Service Project
-make tie blankets for orphanage or shelter

*Food 
-Noodle soup 
-Fortune Cookies
-Rice
-Bean Buns
-Other Chinese food

(fun for a date) 

To use for a YSA activity or part of Youth Conference add the following lesson Ideas 

-"What are your dreams?"

-"There are no accidents" God Blesses our lives in interesting ways

-" Yesterday is history tomorrow is a mystery today is a gift that is why it is called the present"
-- Family History or Journal writing
-- Setting Goals for future
--Using the "Now" wisely-- time management 

ABC Hunt at Mall or Walmart

Fun for date or Activity or hang out

-Have 2 Teams

-One team starts at A other team starts at Z

-Each team takes picture of item that starts with each letter of the alphabet

-Each team has to follow order

-Load pictures to computer at end or if each team has an iPhone have an outside judge choose winner. What ever team wins they receive small snack, candy or prize.

Family letter Night

-Have the ward provide stamps
-Have people donate 
--cute paper
--stickers
--stamps
--colorful pens
--colorful envelopes

-Write fun letters to 
--Siblings
--Parents
--Grand Parents
--Cousins etc 

-Then send the letters
-Or give them to people if they are in the home 

Super Scripture Saturday

-Great for YSA or Ward Activity 
-Purpose is to read (not deeply study) the entire Book of Mormon from Start To Finish 
in one day 
-Bring comfy blanket and or chair to read in 

-Before activity have people sign up to bring food items for 
         -- Brunch
        -- Dinner
 (crock pot soups or meals, have it made but not totally cooked can cook while everyone reads, also bring extension cord so more people can cook at the same time) 
        -- Snacks 
       -- Extra drinks 

-Have everyone bring their own sack lunch. Provide coolers for people to put lunches in. 

-Have branch or Ward provide some drinks and paper supplies. 

-Have activity on a Saturday from 9am-11pm - (if you want you could start earlier but if you have this at a ward building you need to be out before midnight.) 

-Example Schedule 

9am - Welcome, Song, Opening Prayer, Explanation of activity and brunch
                      --Brunch= Doughnuts, fruit, breakfast wraps, milk and OJ etc 

10am-12pm Pray then READ 

12pm Pray on Lunch - Have picnic outside (if weather permits) and eat sack lunches. Have people who are doing crock-pot to have them start warming the food. 

1pm-5:30pm  Sing song to get back into spirit then READ 

5:40pm Set up dinner 

6pm DINNER - Line of crock pot meals. 

7pm Clean up everything but blankets and scriptures 

8pm-11pm Sing song to get into spirit READ 

11pm-11:30pm Clean last bit of items, pack up, Testimony by bishop or Branch Pres, Closing song and prayer. 

If you do this activity please share how it was. 

FunLympics

Have a FunLympics (Olympics) 

Events: 

Hula Hoop

;Guys do the girls make-up

;Jump Rope

; Cheer leader tryouts (Guys)

; Pie eating

;Bubble Blowing gum contest

, Root-beer chug-a-lug

: Manicure have girls do guys nails with clear nail polish.

; Piggy back race

; etc go to familyfun.go.com for more great games to add to FunLympics

Make cheesy Bronze, Silver and Gold medals by spray painting old CDS. 

Have Healthy Snacks and water or Gatorade during the events :) 

September 13th "Fortune Cookie Day"

-Order Chinese take out

-Buy A LOT of fortune cookies from dollar store

-Write funny fortunes on tiny pieces of paper 

-Watch a Chinese movie (Mulan, etc) 

Food Fight Fun

Food Fight

-Wear Grubbies (wear swimsuits underneath) bring extra clothes

-Go to a food stand and ask for expired and bruised fruit and veggies

-Go to a vacant field or some ones back yard.

-Have a food fight

-Take off grubbies and hose off while in swimsuits

-Change clothes and either go home or continue activity by watching movie etc

July 9th- National Sugar Cookie day

This is a funny Holiday and can be used for any Group. 

-Make sugar cookies together (can have ready made dough from store or for extra fun make the dough together from scratch)

-Decorate the cookies

-Eat creations (Save a few)

-make plates to give to friends or Neighbors.

Mud Day

This can be a fun and satisfyingly gross  date, party or hang out
 (do in the summer or spring for a fun way to cool off and be crazy)

*Prep
-Make a pit of mud
-Ask people to wear swimsuits under grubby clothes
-Have people also bring towel and extra clothes for after for movie
-Have walmart bags for people to put muddy clothes in

*Food
-Cup of dirt (Chocolate pudding, crushed oreos and gummy worms in a cup)

-"Mud Pies" (Chocolate oreo pies)
(For extra fun give each person a slice and say no hands allowed for eating it)

-"Muddy Water" (Chocolate milk in punch bowl with label "muddy water")

-"Stick of mud" (Fudgesicles/ for extra fun write on wrapping with permanent marker "stick of mud")

-"Muddy popcorn"- ( Popcorn covered with chocolate)

*Activities
-Tug of war

-Relay race (Finish line in mud)

-Mud foot prints
 ( Put feet in mud then put foot prints on card board- set in sun and see how it dries
- write name by each foot print)

-Play in MUD

-foot fishing (At end hide plastic toys, and coins in mud- have people dig it out with their toes)

-After games are finished have people put grubbies in walmart bag (they should have swimsuits under) and hose everyone off

-Change into new clothes and either go home or watch a movie and eat some more snacks

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

Collage

Make a collage together

*You can use pictures of

• Church stuff
• Family 
• Activities
• friends 
• etc