Twice in my life I’ve been placed in situations where I suddenly needed to use CPR to save someone. CPR & First Aid Night – CPR is a critical skill for every person.Then hit the best ice cream shop where the college students hang out. Walk around the campus and show off the cool resources like the gym, science labs, dorms, etc. College Tour – Invite a university professor, or a college student to take the quorum or class on a tour of the local college.We did this as 4 activities in a row during one month. Ask the person to share a time in their career that was difficult or stressful, and how their faith helped to strengthen them. Think of small business owners, social media influencers, medical or legal professionals, or any other career that may be of interest to them. Select 4 people in the ward who can spend a night showing the youth their career to inspire them. Career Month – The church handbook lists one of the purposes of activities in the church is to “foster personal growth.” Many youth today have a lackadaisical view of career and goals.Take the opportunity to learn about self-reliance, saving, and budgeting as well.
They each place fake money into their stocks and then you have a follow-up activity a month or two later and see whose stocks went up, and who went down. The first activity, we had someone in the ward come and teach about how stocks work, and then we gave the youth computers so they could make a “virtual” stock portfolio.
For example, it could be about light and darkness, or how God looketh not on the outward appearance, but on the heart. Then, have a quorum or class member give a devotional related to the activity. Help them to learn to take a professional-looking portrait with their phones. Portraits and Perfection – Ask someone in the ward to teach photography to the youth.Could you have general conference trivia and then learn to make tacos? Could you do a service project in the park and then play frisbee golf? That’s often a way to make the youth excited about doing the activities that are “good for them.” A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down, as they say. The second suggestion would be to look for opportunities to serve more than one purpose in a single activity. Each activity–even the fun ones–should have a component which will give them a spiritual “breath of fresh air” before they dive back into daily life. If I may make two suggestions before the list, it would be this: Seeing the calamities of the last days, our Heavenly Father did not place our young men and women together in quorums and classes in order to form complete basketball teams, or just to play human foosball each Tuesday night. I’ve divided the list into ideas for intellectual, social, spiritual, physical, combined, or “other” activities so you can make sure each activity has an actual purpose. I decided today to make the ultimate list of ideas for youth group activities. I wonder how many hundreds of hours I’ve spent either as a youth or as an adult in presidency meetings trying to think up ideas for weeknight activities with the deacons quorum, or helping my wife think of ideas for young women’s.
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