Christmas Mingle Bingo: A Great Group Activity for Seminary, Family Parties, Youth or Relief Society!

 Christmas Mingle Bingo: A Great Group Activity for Seminary, Family Parties, Youth or Relief Society!

In the fall, I was teaching seminary every day and one of the activities I thought would be fun for my classes would be to do a Fall Mingle Bingo. I was very happy with how it worked in my classes!! It was a great way to get the students engaged, out of their seats and getting to know their fellow classmates. If you would like the fall one, here is the link: Fall Mingle Bingo

LIGHT THE WORLD BINGO 2022 WHO NEEDS YOUR LIGHT? GREAT FOR PRIMARY, YOUTH AND FAMILIES

 LIGHT THE WORLD BINGO 2022 WHO NEEDS YOUR LIGHT? GREAT FOR PRIMARY, YOUTH AND FAMILIES:

I look forward to this time of year every year. I have had great memories participating in Light the World each year. It helps our family, as well as myself focus more on my Savior and what he would be doing. It fills my life with joy to be thinking of ways to spread light and help others. I have loved the influence it has had on my kids.

Two Great Halloween Activity Pages That Are Essential For Your Next Party!

 Two Great Halloween Activity Pages That Are Essential For Your Next Party! 

Life has been so busy lately!! You should see my kitchen, usually I never let dishes pile up in both sides of my sink. But between teaching seminary again, planning a ward party and just life with kids, I've fallen behind a little on those every day house duties. With being so busy, I haven't been posting on here regularly. I had some much interest in both of these activity pages, that I really wanted to get them posted on here. So, if you can use them this year great! If not this year, make sure you save them or pin them for next year.

Random Acts of Kindness Pass Along Cards: Great for Schools and PTSA Groups to Promote Kindness and Unity

 Random Acts of Kindness Pass Along Cards: Kindness Activity for School,

For the past 5 years I have been an advisor to the PTSA student representatives at our local junior high school. With that, each month we try to come up with something fun for the students to do. A few years back we did these RAK (Random Acts of Kindness) pass along cards. We did them both at the junior high school as well as at the junior high school for Unity day. They were a HUGE success!! The kids at both schools loved doing it. It was such a hit that I had advisors from other schools who had heard about it, asking my for the idea and printable.

BRIGHTEN SOMEONE'S DAY WITH A SMILEY FACE CARD!

 BRIGHTEN SOMEONE'S DAY WITH A SMILEY FACE CARD!

A few month's ago I had this thought that I needed to write cards to my kids and leave them with a treat on their beds. I remember sometimes my mom would leave little notes on my bed growing up and how it made me feel. So, I made these smiley face cards and wrote some personal messages in them of how wonderful I think they are.

Temple Service Cards, Great for Family, Youth or Primary Service Activity

 Temple Service Cards, Great for Family, Youth or Primary Service Activity,

Years ago, when I was serving in Young Women's we did a combined Young Women & Young Men activity. It was a Random Acts of Kindness Race. One of the items each group needed to do was go to the temple, wash some windows and leave a card. It is one of the many service activities that I remember. 

Spreading Sunshine PTSA Student Rep Week Ideas

Spreading Sunshine PTSA Student Rep Week Ideas,

In February, we decided to do a Spreading Sunshine week, sponsored by our High School PTSA Student Representatives. I love the idea on focusing on spreading light within our schools, especially our high schools and junior high schools. 

Missionary Impossible Game Review: A Fun New Latter Day Saint Game to Add to Your Home

Missionary Impossible Game Review: A Fun New Latter Day Saint Game to Add to Your Home,

This post is sponsored, all thoughts are 100% my own, I was given the game in order to review it. See full disclosure.

Some families are big game playing families. I have to be completely honest, we are not one of those families. I'm not exactly sure why, maybe it's the competiveness. We do have a fair amount of games and when we do sit down and play together we have fun doing so. It's just the initiation that we struggle with.

So, when I told my kids we had a new game and that I wanted them to play it with me, let's just say they weren't thrilled. Like most teenage boys of these days, they wanted to be playing their electronics or basketball. It was so good though to gather together as a family and have some family time!!

The game Missionary Impossible, comes with score sheets, instructions and the cards you will need to play the game. After reading the instructions we played the game the best we could. I'm not sure we played it right, actually I'm positive we didn't. But, that's usually how playing a game for the first time goes. 

You can play the game as companions, we did not this first go around. There are trial cards, which you can give to the other players to thwart their progress. There are Blessing cards that help you overcome the trials. Missionary Impossible cards, destroys all of one of you opponents progress, but if they have a Golden Contact card they can overcome that as well! Transfer cards can help you overcome trials and they can get you some bonus points. I hope that I explained that all right. My kids loved to give each other the trial cards & they kept trying to guess who had the Golden Contact Cards and the Missionary Impossible cards. Which I had two of the Golden Contact Cards! I ended us winning, if my two youngest would have been companions, like they should have, then they probably would have won. 

This game is great for family game night or would even be great to play with a small youth group or friends. My hubby's family loves to play games especially my kids cousins, so I could see them playing this and having a lot of fun during one of our Sunday get togethers.

Here is a little bit more about the game and how you can purchase it:

"Your Mission, Should You Choose To Accept It... Be the first missionary or companionship to complete 100 weeks of missionary service! But standing in your way are Trials ranging from Dog Bite to Dear Johns - while Blessings, Transfers, and Golden Contacts are there to help you along. Missionary: Impossible combines simple strategy and a measure of luck for a fast-paced, easy-to-play card game for 2 to 6 players, ages 8 and up. 

Amazon reviewers agree it's a FUN, CLEAN, game for the ENTIRE family!"

Here's how you can purchase it: Missionary Impossible by Aspen Books on Amazon

Thank you so much for stopping by!! 

Making Family History Fun for Families and Youth

 Making Family History Fun for Families and Youth,

The other day, my son came and told me that since he had a Family Search account, he was asked to doing their Family History activity for the Teachers quorum. His leader later asked me if I could help. So, our thought was to show his quorum that Family History Work can be fun!!

Brighten Someone's Day by Decorating Their Door with these Adorable Valentine's Day Door Decorating Printables

Brighten Someone's Day by Decorating Their Door with these Adorable Valentine's Day Door Decorating Printables,

At Christmas time and last Easter we went and decorated doors. My kids loved it!! It was probably their favorite thing they did at Christmas time. My middle kiddo said it was so much fun and my youngest wanted to do it to everyone's doors. The thing about service is that it comes full circle. It blesses the lives of those you serve as well as your own life.

Color and Play Valentine 4 in a Row Bingo

 Color and Play Valentine 4 in a Row Bingo,

If you haven't guessed, I love making Bingo cards & I love playing Bingo!! At the end of this post I'll share the different Bingos I have available here on the blog! 

Kindness Bingo A Great Activity for Youth, Families and School Groups

 Kindness Bingo A Great Activity for Youth, Families and School Groups,

I am a firm believer that kindness is contagious, but that kindness has to start somewhere. The other day, one of my friends shared a picture of her son's coat, who someone had put chewed up sticky candy in his hood. Why? Why do things like this happen? We hear too many stories of children and youth, being picked on, left out and even bullied. I know that there is goodness within each of us! There is a light that wants to come out and shine for others. Don't get me wrong, there is also so much good that youth do as well! I am so passionate about inviting our youth and children to focus on kindness and service often!

Light The World 2019 ONE BY ONE BINGO Printable and Family Activity Idea

Light The World 2019 ONE BY ONE BINGO Printable and Family Activity Idea,

Those who follow me on Instagram or Facebook, know just how much I love Light The World this year! I love the focus that it brings into our lives, of focusing on serving and loving one by one.

Young Women Activity Cupcake Wars Decorating Activity

Young Women Activity Cupcake Wars Decorating Activity,

When we had our planning at the first of the year, our girls really wanted to do a cupcake wars activity. We had done something similar in the past as a combined young women activity, Cupcake Wars Activity. We changed this one up a little bit.

Young Women Class Presidency Meeting Agendas and Newsletters

Young Women Class Presidency Meeting Agendas and Newsletters,

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I  love that the young women have the opportunity to lead. I have seen so much growth come from these young women, as they fulfill their callings. 

Below, are some resources we used when we held class presidency meetings. We also used this time, to help prepare the class president for her BYC meeting. The class presidency meeting is conducted by the class president, with each member of the class presidency being involved in the meeting discussion.

Young Women Value Bracelets, Perfect gift for the New Beehives: New Beginnings

Young Women Value Bracelets, Perfect gift for the New Beehives: New Beginnings,

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Up until a few months ago, my calling was to serve with the Beehives in our ward! What an amazing calling!! I loved going to meet with them as they were turning twelve and see their excitement. I loved sitting in class and listening to their amazing testimonies and insights! 

Everything You Need to Help the Youth Plan and Carry out Activities for The Year

Everything You Need to Help the Youth Plan and Carry out Activities for The Year:

Usually, January activities are planning activities!! There are some amazing resources on lds.org!! Here is a link to Strengthening Youth Through Activities. It gives the details about conducting activities, how long activities usually last and why we hold youth activities. 

Here are some tips, ideas and printables to help the youth plan out their activities for the year:

Young Women Virtue Personal Progress Activity: Toilet Paper Modest Wedding Dress Fashion Show

Below you'll find what we did for our Young Women Virtue Personal Progress Activity: Toilet Paper Modest Wedding Dress Fashion Show,

This is an activity our young women were super excited about. We actually did it as a combined young women's activity because so many of them wanted to do it.

Relief Society Fiesta and Friendshipping Activity

To find out more about how to pull of a Relief Society Fiesta and Friendshipping Activity read below,

This seriously was the funnest activity and my Young Women really wished that it was a YW activity! It really would make for the funnest YW activity too. The women who came had a blast!

The purpose of the activity was to have a great time, sharing and tasting each others salsa and guacamole recipes and just have a fun time getting to know each other.

YW Individual Worth Personal Progress Activity: Self Esteem Retreat

Ideas for YW Individual Worth Personal Progress Activity: Self-esteem Retreat,

For this activity I really wanted the girls to understand their importance and their individual worth.