Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Be a Strong Link Family Reunion


Gather together.  To help get everyone comfortable with each other split into the following groups one at a time.

  • Month Born
  • Sock type
  • Hair color
  • Eye color
  • Groups of 4
  • Shirt color
  • Tallest to shortest
  • Age order oldest to youngest
  • Calendar order
Tallest to Shortest


Family History minute to win it games

Have tablecloths on each table with different colors for each table.  ($1 from Walmart)

Give everyone a card with rotation 1-7.  Each rotation will have a color attached to it.  Rotate after each activity.  Have everyone switch groups each activity, so that they are with new people each time.  We also had a rotation for the meal, so that they sat with a different group of people at one meal.

Things needed:

  • Scrabble or Bananagram tiles game #1
  • 6-8 Pictures of a family member for game #2
  • Balloons for each group--match them to the tablecloth color.  Inside each balloon put a task to complete (ex Do 5 pushups, Do 10 jumping jacks, Do 3 frog hops, Sing “I’m So Glad When Daddy Comes Home”, Twirl around 3 times, Give everyone in your group a high five) or a family members name. game #3
  • Pictures of 6 family members for game #3
  • Map of United States game #4
  • Pen/Pencil for game #4
  • Jenga blocks game #5
  • Bowl of get to know you questions for each table game #5
  • Baby picture of each family member game #6
  • Cards/envelopes for game #7

1. Familygrams  3 minutes

    Give each group a bag with Bananagram or scrabble tiles.

    Each group turns over there tiles when the timer starts.  They need to form names of people in the family and connect them Scrabble style.


2. What age?

    Arrange photos of one family member from youngest to oldest.


3. Balloon Pop!!





    The teams have to pop the balloon and perform the task or match the family members name with a picture of them.






4. Where is the world?

    Label with a dot and the name on the map where each sibling in the family was born.  Bonus points for labeling where their spouse was born.

    

5. I know you!  3 min.

    Remove a Jenga block and answer a question from the bowl of questions.

    Stack the block

    If the blocks fall, cannot restack the blocks.

    Tallest tower at the end of 3 minutes unsupported by humans wins.


6.  Identify the baby

    Distribute baby pictures to each group.  

    Identify as many pictures as you can in the allotted time. 

Figuring out the baby pictures that they didn't know



7. Miss you!

    Send a video or write a letter to two people from the family not in attendance

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Marriage

“Marriage isn’t any big thing, it’s a lot of little things. Acts of kindness every day create a happy marriage” (John Bytheway, What We Wish We’d Known When We Were Newlyweds).

Friday, April 15, 2016

Conference Quote

 “Please remember tomorrow, and all the days after that, that the Lord blesses those who want to improve, who accept the need for commandments and try to keep them, who cherish Christlike virtues and strive to the best of their ability to acquire them. If you stumble in that pursuit, so does everyone; the Savior is there to help you keep going. If you fall, summon His strength. Call out like Alma, “O Jesus, … have mercy on me.”7 He will help you get back up. He will help you repent, repair, fix whatever you have to fix, and keep going. Soon enough you will have the success you seek.”   

(Elder Holland, April 2016 conference) 

Monday, March 28, 2016

Conference Quote

"Our direction is ever more important than our speed."

Elder Lawrence

Monday, March 21, 2016

Conference quote

"We have the power to choose belief over doubt."

Elder Stanfill

Monday, March 14, 2016

Conference quote

"God's commandments are not given to frustrate us or to become obstacles to our happiness.  Just the opposite is true.  He who created us and who loves us perfectly knows just how we need to live our lives in order to obtain the greatest happiness possible."

President Thomas S. Monson

Monday, March 7, 2016

Conference Quote

"The companionship of the Holy Ghost makes what is good more attractive and temptation less compelling."  Elder Eyring