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 

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. 

Life Is A Highway YSA or Youth Conference

*Decorations 
-anything cars (pixar cars balloons etc)
-Road Signs with Scripture/Spiritual things
-Maps with spiritual city names and temples

*Food 
-Fast food
-Rocky Road Ice Cream
-"Cups of Road"
--chocolate pudding
--with crushed chocolate Oreos
--Chocolate chips
--yellow sprinkles
--and cars gummies

-Snacks with Highway names
-Sandwiches cut in shape of cars (use cookie cutters)

*Lessons
-Scriptures- are like road signs - Signs and Warnings
-GPS - Guiding, Prompting, Spirit, (Holy  Ghost)
-Parts of a Car
--Wipers-Keep negative things out of sight and mind
--Lights - Be a light to guide
--Rear view mirror - Family History
--Locks - Keep the world out
--Spare tire - Be prepared , Food storage, family emergency etc

-Bumps in the road= Trials, may slow us down, make it hard to drive, but yolu can keep going
-Tickets,= Consequences
-Speed limits/ Guard Rails= Standards that if followed keep you safe.
--etc

The Heavenly Network

YSA conference or Youth Conference
Theme "The Heavenly Network" from the Social Network

*Decorations 
-App posters (make posters look like app Icons)
-Fake iPad and iPhone etc

*Lessons
-Screen your screen time (New Era article)
- Virtual VS Reality (General Conference Talk)
-Apps = Application does not work unless you use it and apply it
             --Prayer -- Scripture -- Church etc

-Screen time vs Scripture time- (John Bytheway Challenge to turn off tv for an entire month)

-GPS App= Guiding Prompting Spirit- You only know where to go if you listen to the promptings

-"Friends" VS True Friends -- Have more reality friends than people you talk to online

-Use internet to serve - Indexing (Talk by David A Bednar)

-Use network to share gospel (Facebook mormon.org etc)

*Service Project
-Make "Busy Bags"
--donate canvas bags
--fill with coloring books, crayons, picture books and other quiet activities
--Donate them to the missionaries to give to new member families that have young children

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 :) 

Seasons Photo Shoot

This would be fun to do for a date or hang out

Get clothes that match each season. 

Winter -Blues, Whites, Frosty colors

Spring- Light purple, pink etc 

Summer- Bright vibrant colors red, pink, blue etc

Fall- Browns, greens, oranges etc

Have make up and hair match the seasons. 

If available use a green screen and add background later. 

If you dont have a green screen (or even a green sheet to hang up) Then just have fun poses at a different location for each season. 

Examples
Winter- Cafe
Spring- Garden
Summer- Park or Beach or Lake
Fall- Woods, or Sport area 

For Green screen ideas( or have different colored sheets for background) 

Winter- Snow or blue
Spring- Flowers or Pink 
Summer- Sun or Red or Yellow 
Fall- Autumn Leaves or Dark green or Orange 

You could then go eat together after the pictures are taken. Load them up to your computer or get hour developing and check out your work.