| Contributed by: Debbie
in Texas blackner5@email.msn.com We are planning an "Earn Your Dinner" (it may turn into an
"Earn Your Dessert") evening along the box social idea, but with a definite
twist.
The girls will bring a dinner (or dessert if we decide to keep it simple). They will
decorate brown paper bags and put their food in it.
Meanwhile, the boys will go on a canned food drive for an hour. When they come back, they
will use the food they collected to bid for the paper sacks. They can look and smell the
sacks, but not lift them. The girls names will not be on the sacks--it will be anonymous.
The boys will eat with the girl whose sack they "purchased" and the canned food
will be donated to a local food bank.
Contributed by: Lynda in AZ beachjoys@deseretonline.com
Our ward did a similar activity recently. The Priest quorum
was in charge - They asked all of the YW to bring a meal for 2 & the YM brought a
blanket & drink for 2. The YW leaders provided ice-cream sundae makings for everyone
for dessert. The YW mostly took pasta type dishes- spaghetti, lasagna, bow tie, & one
girl purchased some Burger King. The YW were not asked to decorate a box or anything like
that. The YM shot baskets and as soon as they made a basket they went to a line. When all
of the YM were lined up then they chose a YW name from a can of folded names of girls that
were actually there. It was a nice, noncompetitive, "round about way" to get
them into couples.
A fun game that we played was "What Qualities are You Looking for in a Wife or
Husband Bingo". I believe that our YM Pres. kind of came up with
this idea. It was fun even for our younger Beehives & Deacons.
The Bingo card consists of 4 empty squares down & 4 empty squares across on letter
size paper (81/2 - 11). A small place at the bottom of the paper for their name to be
written on. I wish that I had one to scan & show you, but they were pretty simple, so
I hope that you can picture it from this description.
To play- Everyone (Leaders included) went to
others and asked them what qualities they were looking for in a wife or husband. Then
write the quality or qualities in the empty squares and also write the persons name that
said that quality or qualities. ( some said more that one quality, which was great, just
write small and fit it into one square so that there is one square per person). After all
of the squares are filled with qualities and names (this seemed to take our group about 20
min.) then each person writes their name on the bottom of the paper & tears it off.
Then their name goes into a container of some sort to be pulled out one at a time. So when
the name is called everyone crosses that square off on their Bingo card. When the first
person gets 4 in a row crossed off then they stand and read the four qualities that were
written on those squares. We kept playing for awhile, so there were many winners
& we had the chance to hear what everyone said. It was a great reminder to all about
the most important qualities in our lives. I hope that you can get somewhat of a
picture of this game & I'm sure that you can think of some improvements too.
Youth
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