Developing Talents Activity

The focus of our church youth activity was developing talents.

The youth activity last night was really good. Scott S. created activities for the youth. These activities were focused on improving their talents and team work. This could be done for young men and or young women activities as well as a combined mutual. It could also be improvised to be done by primary ages and at Birthday partys.

ACTIVITIES:
1) A game where large (3 inch diam.) metal washers were tossed about 6 feet - the object was to get a washer to drop into one of three holes in a carpet covered board. Each team member had to make it in order to move to the next activity.

2) Make a basket with a basketball from two previously marked locations inside the free-throw area. Each team member had to make one of the shots.

3) The most difficult. The youth had to roll one of three balls across the floor and get it to stop inside a 2’ x 4’ taped rectangle on the floor. The ball had to be rolled from behind a line on the floor about 6’ away. When they were able to get one of the three balls to stop on or inside the area they could move to the next activity. [Balls used: beach ball, small super ball, and a larger super ball; any type of ball could be used.]

4) Find a scripture that names an animal. Each group member had a Book of Mormon and once a team member found a scripture the timer was stopped.

There are many other activities that could be substituted; we timed the teams to select a winning team. Prior to announcing the times we talked about what they learned; how team work helped them improve, and rewarded them with a treat.

The first team was given a 3 min. deduction from their time to help offset the learning curve.
The fastest team finished in 4 min. the slowest in 8 min. The activity lasted about 45 min.