Please remember:
Sydney S. Reynolds, said this in The Sharing Time, "Let Your Light Shine," Friend, Oct. 1999, 37:
"Recently Church members have been counseled to not have children pretend to receive callings as full-time missionaries or wear pretend missionary name tags. However, preparing for full-time missions and being "member missionaries" is encouraged."

Talk to the children about the importance of missionaries and why we have them in our Church.
Prophets have repeatedly said that every member is a missionary, regardless of age.
Split the children into a few groups and rotate to different areas doing some of the following activities:

• Learn to make a meal-----kids make their own peanut butter & jelly/honey sandwich (or cheese sandwich). We put it in a lunch sack with carrots & chips & a treat....to eat at the end of the activity
• Learn to sew on a button or tie a tie (we would use large cardboard buttons and yarn for the younger children).
• Learn about a mission experience/culture of where a missionary has served (or have local missionaries talk with the kids about their personal experiences).
• Learn to conduct: Younger children: Sing song "I Hope They Call Me On a Mission". Older children: teach them how to lead music to this song.
• Scavenger hunt: 1. Matthew 7:25 (rock) 2. Psalms 102:11 (grass) 3. Jeremiah 8:8 (pen) 4. D & C 45:37 (leaves) 5. Mark 10:38 (cup) 6. Ezekiel 37:16-17 (stick) 7. Matthew 10:30 (hair) 8. Exodus 3:5 (shoes) 9. Moses 1:41 (book)
• Mend a bicycle puncture: You have to be able to fix your bike as a missionary
• Missionary “dress up” relay: The first person in each team to begin would run to the end of the cultural hall where we will have clothes hanging on those portable coat racks and they would have to put on every item of clothing that missionaries normally wear on a day to day basis: white shirt, tie, suit coat and pants, socks, shoes, trench coat, backpack, umbrella. Once every item is worn they would have to run back to their team and quickly have the next team member wear them and so on and on....
• Write a letter/make a package to a missionary: Some things that missionaries appreciate and look forward to getting are:
1. Letters from anyone and everyone
2. Pictures of the people and local scenery back home
3. Food...if it can arrive before the mold and worms get to it.
4. Koolaid is a good thing to send if the missionary is in a foreign mission, ranch dressing mix is also good.
5. Missionaries love anything that reminds them of home....such as....hats, T-shirts etc from the local sports team.
6. Phone cards (see if they can be used in the country where they are serving)
7. Scripture stickers
8. The little green CTR rings that you can get from Distribution (to give out to the little children)
9. Film
10. Stamps (stateside only)
11. Sister missionaries love new pantyhose or trouser socks
12. Dr.Scholl's shoe inserts
13. New toothbrush.
• Make advents packet: A package with 24 envelopes for each missionary. In each envelope was a Christmas story or missionary thought or a letter from one of the children. The missionaries reported that it was like advents they did at home. They had a letter a day to look forward to and loved it. As far as something to make and take home, perhaps a small ornament, like a painted or glittered star, an angel or something depicting the nativity? This type of thing could be sent to the missionaries and not be too big or costly.
• Make a "necklace"/a bookmark : for Jr. and a bookmark for Sr. that was a candle and it said "let your light so shine".