Our class presidency (we only have one for all of our YW) decided to have a back to school activity where we have two teams compete in the following:

LABEL MAP

We will have blank maps printed out (one for each team) and the two teams will have to compete to see who gets all fifty states labeled correctly first.

CEREAL EATING

We will have bowls of cereal for each YW. Each YW will be blindfolded and have to eat it that way. This represents how sleepy they are in the morning when school starts.

OBSTACLE COURSE (Relay)

We will have two obstacle courses set up with chairs that the YW have to navigate around (one from each team at a time). They will be wearing a backpack with books in it and carry their jacket and purse and have to keep a pen/pencil behind their ear as they go through it and back and give the stuff to the next person in line.

RELAY

We will have two notebooks, pencil sharpeners and pencils sitting on a table. There will be a garbage can at a distance from the table. One person from each team will run down, sit at the table, sharpen their pencil, write their name and the date at the top of the page, tear out the page, crumple the page and make a basket with the paper. Then run back and tag the next person in line.

TIE BREAKER

If we need a tie breaker we will do the shoe game. In this game everybody puts their shoes in a big pile in the middle. The shoes are mixed up and then the teams must race to get all their shoes back on their team first.

PRIZES

We will have notebooks and pens for each player on the winning team.

Before the games, we will have a speaker talk about the importance of education. This can be an activity with an emphasis on the KNOWLEDGE value or an emphasis on For the Strength of Youth, EDUCATION or both. :)

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Egg Relay Game Party Supplies

This week we played life-sized Battleship in mutual. This is what we did:

1. We prepared questions for the game. You can download ours here or do your own! We used For the Strength of Youth, but you could do this as a conference review, scripture mastery, etc.
2. We filled some socks with flour and put rubber bands around the openings to keep them closed.
3. We set up a volleyball net out on the field by our church. We covered the net with sheets so that you couldn't see from one side to the other.
4. We had the youth divide into two even teams.
5. We had the youth lay down on their side of the net and pretend to be battleships (they were told they couldn't move around at all).
6. We had leaders be judges to see who raised their hand first and to make sure the youth didn't move around, etc.
7. We had one leader assigned to read the questions.

Game Play:

1. For the Strength of Youth books were distributed to all youth (open-book game).
2. A question was read and anybody could raise their hand to answer. The first hand in the air got to answer.
3. The first team to guess the correct answer got to toss a flour sock over the net in hopes of "sinking a battleship."
4. If you were hit, you were sunk and had to sit out for the remainder of the game. You could still raise your hand with answers and help your team.
5. The first team to sink all of the other team's ships won the game. We let our winners have their refreshments first (while the losing team helped clean up) but you could do prizes!