50 Fun
things to do a Sunday? (adapted
from the internet. Author unknown)
Children and adults could read their Church magazines
from cover to cover.
Prepare any future talks or lessons.
Prepare Family Home Evening lessons for the next day.
Visit those you know who are in the hospital.
Attend temple classes.
Make a dinner to someone who is unable to cook for themselves
Make a list of members who may need a ride to sacrament
meetings. Invite them to ride with you.
Find a unique way to fellowship less active families.
Have family scripture study.
While doing family study, younger children may want
to draw representational pictures beside their favorite scriptures.
Visit the temple grounds as a family or bring a non-member
friend.
Give time to a nursing home or to others who may need
help reading letters from loved ones or writing them.
Check out filmstrips from the library and view them.
Talk as a family about what you heard in church today.
Read material that is Church-oriented or uplifting.
Read children's scripture story books to them.
Pair children up in separate rooms together with games
or books, etc. This allows each child time to build a one-on-one relationship
with each of his/her brothers and sisters. Partners are rotated each Sunday.
Label and catalogue the family picture journal (photos,
slides or videotapes of family.)
Record personal profiles for Book of Remembrance or
journals.
Take a walk as a family. Discuss the blessing Heavenly
Father has given us through nature.
Decorate a Sunday "Things to Do" box and fill it with
ideas. Draw one out each Sunday to do.
Make shadow portraits or silhouettes of family members
or of the prophets. Include them in scrapbooks or use to decorate cards.
Tape a special program for a missionary or loved one
far away. Include talks, stories and songs.
Make phone calls or write letters to those special friends
and loved ones to let them know you're thinking of them.
As a family, invent a design, crest, emblem or logo
to display on a family banner. When it is complete, unfurl it during family
home evenings or other special family occasions.
Have a "Hands Across the Water" day. Let return missionaries
in the ward help you select a country. Help family members to become familiar
with the customs of LDS around the world.
Customize copies of the Book of Mormon for the missionaries
to give out by marking important scriptures and adding your personal testimony.
Produce a puppet show depicting a historical Church
event.
Dramatize events from the Bible and Book of Mormon with
family members. Be sure to dress for your parts.
Construct an "I'm Grateful For..." mobile to hang in
children's rooms.
Make a set of paper dolls representing the members of
your family. Use them in flannel board stories or at Family Home Evening
to demonstrate proper reverence, behavior at Church, manners and attitudes.
Have each family member make a personal scrap book.
Include pictures, important letters, certificates, school and Primary papers.
Learn the missionary discussions (you never know when
you may need them).
Make puzzles from pictures in old Church publications.
Clip and file favorite articles from Church publications
for future reference.
Make personalized, handmade cards for birthdays, I love
you, thinking-of-you or get-well cards.
Invent a Church-related game or play one you may already
have.
Make dot-to-dot pictures of objects like the golden
plates or the start of Bethlehem to keep little ones quietly entertained.
Memorize scriptures, hymns, stories, or poems.
Listen to tapes of conference or talks of the General
Authorities.
Look at books containing great works of art with children.
Discuss each painting with them.
Set missionary goals whether they are full-time, stake
or personal.
Invite a family in the ward you would like to know better
to your home for a family fireside.
Set genealogy goals.
Have personal family interviews.
Write a family newsletter to send to friends and relatives.
Write a giant letter to the missionaries from your ward.
Each person writes his letter on the same large piece of butcher paper.
Play Hang Man, or Word Scramble on chalkboards. Use
Church-related words.
Each Sunday, feature a different family member in a
"Why I Love You"spotlight. Display a picture and a hobby or craft of that
person in a prominent place for a week. Write a brief history of the member
and list all of their qualities and strengths.
To encourage family to know who the current prophets
and apostles are, photocopy their picture from the center of the conference
issue of the Ensign. Make enough copies for half the members of your family.
Play a simple game by putting a small treat (M&M, small marshmallow
or nut, etc.) on each individual's picture. Divide into partners. One partner
decides which one of the individuals pictured is going to be "it", and
either writes it down, or tells mom or dad. The other partner tries to
not
name who was picked. He will call each apostle or member of the First Presidency
by name. ("Was it President Thomas S. Monson?") For every person he names
who was not the name picked, he gets to eat the treat. Once the
person picked is named, the other partner gets to eat all the remaining
treats. (our children call this game "Don't Eat the Prophet.")