over one hundred fifty Youth &YSA activities/service projects

 Over one Hundred Fifty Youth & YSA Activities/Service Projects

●       72-hour kits

●       3^rd Nephi read- in/testimony meeting

●       Act out scenes from Book of Mormon or other scriptures

●       Aerobics class

●       Anger management class

●       Auction

●       Badminton tournament

●       Ball hockey

●       Basic mending

●       Basics of reading music

●       Basketball

●       BBQing (how to; recipes, eating/sampling)

●       Beauty tips

●       Beach party

●       Bingo using a theme (Christmas, prophets, individual books in each canon of scripture)

●       Board games/Clue, Monopoly, Checkers, Chess, Settlers of Catan; small groups rotate people from their game to different combinations of people at the next table

●       Bon fire (hot dog/marshmallow roast)

●       Book of Mormon party with activities (Great & Spacious Building/ Samuel the Lamanite/ Crossing the great waters)

●       Bubble blowing contest

●       Budgeting class

●       Building self-esteem class

●       Car wash (as a group go to a less active person and offer to wash their car for free)

●       Camping

●       Candy making

●       Car maintenance: how to jump start a car/change a tire/change oil

●       Card making

●       Career days (go as a group to learn about a certain vocation)

●       Career planning class

●       Characters from scriptures dressed up and enacted by members

●       Charades using scenes and characters from scriptures

●       Christmas advent calendars

●       Christmas sugar cookies- decorating

●       Christmas Caroling

●       Christmas nativity production

●       Christmas white elephant party

●       Christmas piñata party

●       Christmas gingerbread house making/ graham crackers, make icing and candy

●       Community Christmas musical/nativity production/invite neighbors

●       Christmas secret Santa

●       Christmas service project: make stuffed toys/scrap fabric dolls for children

●       Christmas letters/ send to Trinidad missionaries

●       Christmas sub for santa

●       Christmas handmade ornaments/goodies/take to a widow or less active

●       Christmas tree delivered to a needy family at Christmas time/string popcorn & make colored paper ornaments

●       Clean someone's car (inside and out)

●       Clean someone's home

●       Clean the church (inside and outside/grounds)

●       Cook meals for needy/elderly

●       Coloring book/crayons night/copy a coloring book page, have a race to see 1^st, prettiest, most creative, sit at tables and visit while coloring

●       Computer class

●       Cookbooks/collect recipes from branch members

●       Cooking with beans

●       Cooking with chocolate (melt, add milk and dip fruit, cake, marshmellows)

●       Crafts

●       Cricket

●       Creative writing (select a subject/write poetry/read them together)

●       Crochet (have someone teach and everyone make a hot-pad or dishcloth)

●       Crime prevention class

●       Cross-stitch

●       Cultural event (food/items from other countries/invite non- members from a different culture to present their traditions and foods)

●       Dance

●       Dinner/Dance

●       Dessert contest (judged by bishopric)

●       Do someone's laundry

●       Donate clothes/toys/household items to needy family (gather unused items from ward/branch families & from non-members)

●       Drama/play/musical event

●       Drawing class (set up a still life arrangement; fruit, pitcher &napkin etc. and have everyone sketch it with either pencil or charcoal)

●       Easy hair cutting class

●       Eating contests (pie, watermelon seed spitting, most # of marshmallows in your mouth, # of pancakes, # hard boiled eggs)

●       Excel spread sheet training class

●       Family history (genealogy class)

●       Family Home Evening kits (cut out pictures of scripture stories online, color, glue on flannel, cover cardboard with flannel/ write lessons)

●       Fireside: invite a returned missionary from Trinidad to speak

●       First aid class

●       Fishing

●       Food storage

●       Food Cook-off (chose a type of food, e.g., pie,  and hold a contest for best tasting

●       Football

●       Frugal living class

●       Games: Puzzles, capture the flag, dominoes, checkers, clue, Settlers of Catan

●       Get-to-know-you activity: each person bring something that is an interest or hobby and tell the group about it

●       Goal setting and achieving

●       Gratitude night – share what thankful for

●       Guess the picture of each person as a baby

●       Carving: soap, (ivory soap is best) pumpkins, balsam wood, carrots, apples

●       Health & nutrition class

●       Help out at shelters/hospitals/nursing homes

●       Hike/picnic

●       Hold a free musical concert (instruments/choirs/bands)

●       Homemade pizza (make the dough/ every person put on their own  toppings)

●       How to choose flattering clothing class

●       How to braid, cut, and care for hair

●       How-to classes: make bread, fish, tennis, make repairs; use experts in ward/branch

●       Hymn/testimony meeting (pick favorite hymn and explain why meaningful to you)

●       Internet-use class: gathering information for family needs and church callings

●       Jewelry making class

●       Job preparation (resume writing, interviews, looking for work) class

●       Journaling class 

●       Knitting class

●       Learning to listen and communicate class

●       Litter cleanup service project (roads/parks/neighborhoods)

●       Magic tricks (shared and learned)

●       Make a book (story/coloring book/activity book)

●       Make a video (many digital cameras take video clips, WinXP comes with video editing software, phone video)

●       Marriage preparation class

●       Meal planning class

●       Mechanics (have someone come demonstrate and teach from ward or branch)

●       Miniature putt-putt golf (make your own course; each person makes one hole)

●       Miracles in our lives (share experiences when blessed in extraordinary ways)

●       Missionary letters

●       Missionary night (acquire Books of Mormon from mission; each person write testimony in front and gives it to someone by a certain date and tell group of experience)

●       Missionary open house (for friends and family to get to know church members)    

●       Money management (budgeting/saving)

●       Mormon Carnival party/costumes, music contests, food

●       Movies/clean wholesome church standards i.e., Man from Snowy River, Pirates of the Caribbean, Princess Bride, Chariots of fire, Cool Running, Miracle on Ice, Crocodile Dundee, Rudy, Field of Dreams

●       Music conducting class

●       Nutrition class

●       Organizational class (how to get organized)

●       Painting/acrylic/finger or face painting class

●       Paper folding/airplanes/origami (making animals &birds out of paper)

●       Patriotic class/history of your country

●       Photography class

●       Picnic

●       Plant tours (Coca-cola, Hershey’s, Nestle’s, oil refinery)

●       Poetry class (learn to write/read poetry)

●       Poetry readings

●       Pool party

●       Potluck meal

●       Power dating activity (long tables with men on one side, women on the other, generate a list of open ended questions for them to interact; timed movement to the left for the men after 5-7 minutes)

●       Power-point or excel training class

●       Preparation for patriarchal blessings class

●       Puzzle party

●       Reading class

●       Read to elderly people

●       Scavenger hunt

●       Scripture study course (Resources in the scriptures and internet & how to use them)

●       Scripture sharing (pick topic: everyone brings favorite scripture and explains why)

●       Scripture memorization relay (two teams; sacks with individual words from scripture; race to see which team can put together scripture first)

●       Self-defense class

●       Sign Language class

●       Singing at hospitals/nursing homes

●       Skits in a bag/ divide into groups (2-3 min) have a bag with a few random items & come up with a skit using them

●       Small plates of Nephi night: journaling sacred personal experiences

●       Snow ball fight with paper snow balls/ make ahead/teams

●       Softball

●       Soccer

●       Spaghetti eating contest (sit at a plastic covered table, hands tied behind back sitting across from someone- race person across to eat the plate of spaghetti with no utensils)

●       Story telling (Suggest themes i.e., something you were afraid of as a child, your first memory, funniest memory, happy family memories, the best day of your life so far, who is your favorite sibling and why, what was your most embarrassing moment, what was your favorite family pet)

●       Story telling to children service project

●       Sugar cube Temples (build temples with sugar cubes, take Photos)

●       Surprise visit (with treats or gifts) to less active

●       Talent Show night

●       Tell stories from personal history night

●       Temple preparation class

●       Temple trip (including baptisms for dead for unendowed)

●       Themed parties; (medieval, Hawaiian, retro, backwards)

●       Treasure hunt

●       TV game shows: jeopardy, family feud, wheel of fortune

●       Ultimate Frisbee/set up a course and throw the Frisbee as in Soccer

●       Video game night

●       Vocational training visits (contact leaders, ask them to come present their profession)

●       Wash windows (members/church/other buildings/homes)

●       Watch sunrise (tell stories/share testimonies)

●       Wood working/whittling, refinishing or painting furniture

●       Yard cleanup (grass/weeds/leaves/trash/etc)

●       Yoga (or other types of relaxation/exercise/stretching)