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IDEAS FOR JOINT ACTIVITY NIGHTS Koosh Ball Wars: Purchase cheap sponges from the dollar store. Get at least one sponge per youth. Pre-cut the sponges into ½ inch wide long ways strips to save time. Have the youth group 6 strips together with one zip tie (available at Wal-mart) and an extra large rubber band (available at Staples) tightened very tight in the middle. Cut off the extra part of the zip tie. After making a ton a balls make your 2 teams and reenact a Book of Mormon battle out side with them wet if it is summer or in the gym with them dry in the spring or fall.
Holiday Project: Previously have the YW make seasonal cards (Valentines, St. Patrick’s,
Easter, 4th July, Thanksgiving, Christmas). Contact a local nursing home and arrange to visit during the joint activity night. Take the entire group to the nursing home to tape up the cards in resident’s rooms or ask if you can decorate their dining area.
Car Wash: Pass out a flyer to the members of the ward in the Sunday bulletin on the Sunday before your joint activity night. Tell that the youth are hosting a true service project of washing cars & that you need their cars! Have every youth bring a sponge, 2 towels & dress to get wet! Glow in the Dark Volleyball: Invite a speaker to talk about the principle of light &darkness. Doc. & Cov. 123. Explain that the "spirit of confusion" is something that Satan uses against us. Joseph Smith was surrounded with the spirit of confusion in the grove. Have everyone wear a white shirt. Use as many backlights as you can get a hold of. Buy a cheap, inflatable beach ball & some glow sticks at the dollar store. *Carefully, * break open a couple glow sticks (removing the small glass pieces- or strain it) and pour the liquid inside the beach ball. Turn out the gym lights and play volleyball.
Back Yard Drive In: Have someone in your ward with a nice backyard & large TV to set up the backyard as a drive-in. Or use a projector with a homemade screen of wax paper! It works great! Cut several 5 ft long strips laid horizontally, and several 4 ft strips vertically. Then weave the sheets in a basket weave like pattern, and then use a warm iron (with smooth towels on either side of the wax paper) to bond the double layers together. Black duct tape around all four sides was used to prevent rips and to provide a bit of strength for hanging. The top edge is popriveted through the duct tape edging to a PVC pipe, and lengths of wooden dowels are stapled to the bottom edge.
Set up your viewing area on the lawn with blankets and show a church film or another G rated movie at dusk in the spring or fall so the lighting is right for mutual time. Serve twizzlers & or popcorn.
Chain of Caring: First watch Johnny Lingo, the "old" version, it's about 25 min long. Talk about the movie, how there is always good things in every person and so on. Sit around in a circle. Give each youth a paper lunch bag full of colorful paper chain strips. Bring crayons and let everyone decorate their bag with their name and artwork. Then have everyone pass his or her bag to the right and that next person writes something on one strip positive about that person. After you go around the circle the youth will have a bag full of strips that they can take home to glue into a paper chain of caring!
Scavenger Hunt: Split up your youth & leaders into different groups. Send a digital camera and a list of things to take photos of with each team. They have 45 minutes to do this and take off points if they return late. When they return back to the church, the leaders switch cameras and tally up the points. Suggestions: think of service; washing someone’s windshield, scrub a tombstone or weeding a grave, take out the trash, changing a baby’s diaper, vacuuming one entire room of the church building, iron the sacrament cloths, Windex the mirror in a bathroom.
Holiday Project: Previously have the YW make seasonal cards (Valentines, St. Patrick’s,
Easter, 4th July, Thanksgiving, Christmas). Contact a local nursing home and arrange to visit during the joint activity night. Take the entire group to the nursing home to tape up the cards in resident’s rooms or ask if you can decorate their dining area.
Car Wash: Pass out a flyer to the members of the ward in the Sunday bulletin on the Sunday before your joint activity night. Tell that the youth are hosting a true service project of washing cars & that you need their cars! Have every youth bring a sponge, 2 towels & dress to get wet! Glow in the Dark Volleyball: Invite a speaker to talk about the principle of light &darkness. Doc. & Cov. 123. Explain that the "spirit of confusion" is something that Satan uses against us. Joseph Smith was surrounded with the spirit of confusion in the grove. Have everyone wear a white shirt. Use as many backlights as you can get a hold of. Buy a cheap, inflatable beach ball & some glow sticks at the dollar store. *Carefully, * break open a couple glow sticks (removing the small glass pieces- or strain it) and pour the liquid inside the beach ball. Turn out the gym lights and play volleyball.
Back Yard Drive In: Have someone in your ward with a nice backyard & large TV to set up the backyard as a drive-in. Or use a projector with a homemade screen of wax paper! It works great! Cut several 5 ft long strips laid horizontally, and several 4 ft strips vertically. Then weave the sheets in a basket weave like pattern, and then use a warm iron (with smooth towels on either side of the wax paper) to bond the double layers together. Black duct tape around all four sides was used to prevent rips and to provide a bit of strength for hanging. The top edge is popriveted through the duct tape edging to a PVC pipe, and lengths of wooden dowels are stapled to the bottom edge.
Set up your viewing area on the lawn with blankets and show a church film or another G rated movie at dusk in the spring or fall so the lighting is right for mutual time. Serve twizzlers & or popcorn.
Chain of Caring: First watch Johnny Lingo, the "old" version, it's about 25 min long. Talk about the movie, how there is always good things in every person and so on. Sit around in a circle. Give each youth a paper lunch bag full of colorful paper chain strips. Bring crayons and let everyone decorate their bag with their name and artwork. Then have everyone pass his or her bag to the right and that next person writes something on one strip positive about that person. After you go around the circle the youth will have a bag full of strips that they can take home to glue into a paper chain of caring!
Scavenger Hunt: Split up your youth & leaders into different groups. Send a digital camera and a list of things to take photos of with each team. They have 45 minutes to do this and take off points if they return late. When they return back to the church, the leaders switch cameras and tally up the points. Suggestions: think of service; washing someone’s windshield, scrub a tombstone or weeding a grave, take out the trash, changing a baby’s diaper, vacuuming one entire room of the church building, iron the sacrament cloths, Windex the mirror in a bathroom.
