5K Run/Walk

You could have a 5K run walk/ with donuts and juice afterwards. The sisters loved getting up on a Saturday morning and walking/jogging/talking together. It’s a tradition now!

How to decide on mini classes and teachers to teach them!

You can send around a clipboard in relief society asking sisters to write down a skill or a subject that they would be willing to teach. Then choose a day during each month to have these little half hour-hour classes (keep it simple) that sisters can come to. Rotate a different person/class each month.
Examples: Cooking, budgeting, crafts, story telling, nutrition for small children, scripture study, family home evening, etc.

We also had our sisters fill out this TALENT SURVEY. That way we knew what they were skilled in and what they were interested in. This helped us to form enrichment activities....and it was a fun way to find out new things about the sisters!

Click here to get the survey...

Hymns

This activity evolved around Emma Smith’s first hymnbook. The sisters sang hymns together and were able to sing words of one hymn to the melody of another hymn with the same meter.

Local Church History Ideas

Local Church history….
Find some church history about the area in which you live.
This group started out at their old tabernacle with a homemade breakfast including homemade breads and jams. They had a speaker talk about the historical site. Then they went on tours of some of the old and historic homes in their area. For lunch they had a chili cook off. That afternoon they had mini classes.

Another ward wrote a play in which they incorporated how to teach your family about their local church history during family home evening. A packet was sent home with the sisters.

This Little Piggy - Mini Classes

Started off with a dinner of “ham” etc. Then they had different sisters teach mini classes to go along with the nursery rhyme of “This Little Piggy.”
This little piggy went to market: Smart shopping ideas, coupon clipping, etc.
This little piggy stayed home: How to bring the spirit into your home, etc
This little piggy had roast beef: A cooking demonstration
This little piggy had none: (No physical food) But spiritual food – how to study the scriptures effectively
And this little piggy cried, “Wee, wee wee!”: How to find happiness when in adversity.

Good, Better, and Best - Visiting Teaching

This revolved around visiting teaching. The committee went around to sisters and had them act out different situations of “types” of visiting teaching. They taped little skits of visiting teachers running into their sisters at the grocery store, and counting it as a visit… or….driving by a sister’s house, dropping off cookies, mailing the message, etc. They put all these little skits together and showed it at the activity. Everyone loved it! They were laughing and empathizing, but then went away from the activity more motivated to do their best!

Mini Class Ideas

Gardening
Canning
Colors class- what colors look best on you
Vinyl lettering
Purses out of placemats
Finance class
Table Settings