yw combined “purse”-onal progress night

[Anonymous UserParticipant]

I need help coming up with one more idea for our “Purse”-onal progress night. We are making purses out of capri sun juice pouches & learning to sew them on the sewing machine then using the bag for our scriptures or whatever. I was hopeing to get some sort of “Purse”-onality color game- where we figure out what color our personality type is or something else. Does anyone have any ideas?

[Jenny SmithParticipant]

Not to shoot anyone down, but I don’t think I would do an activity with a “personality” analysis. Even if you eliminate any possibly negative results, if someone gets a description of themselves that doesn’t fit with who they want to be, it could be devastating.

My personal opinion is that the purpose of any mutual activity should be to emphasize good values, not just to stick with a theme. I’d just play off the PURSE-onal progress idea and play some games that relate more strictly to personal progress.

Here’s a fun idea from another website:

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HIGH CHAIRS: – A fun activity we have done is called High Chairs. We did this at Youth Conference. We were focusing on the June’s New Era special edition about Friendship. We had a list of 40 questions from the different articles. To start the game we divided into 5 groups. Then we gave the ANSWERS to all of the questions to each team. Each answer is on a separate strip of paper. The team then divides the answers among themselves. On the opposite side of the room you have five chairs numbered 1-5. (To help avoid confusion, we also had each team put a tag on so that we knew which team they were from) Now the game begins. Someone reads a question, the person from each team that has the answer runs across the room to sit in a chair, the first one there will sit in the chair with the #5 on it, that means they have just won 5 points for their team. HOWEVER, if they have the wrong answer, they LOSE 5 points for their team. The kids love this. We did it with the girls focusing on Personal Progress one night also. We did the scriptures that go with the values, the colors, the Motto’s for each group. Everyone gets to play. I always have one of the youth tell everyone what the answer is so that it reinforces what you’re trying to get across. For Youth Conference I had a group of four youth put this together. They were the ones that came up with the questions, read them and kept score. After one of the boys briefly reviewed what the activity was about and why choosing the right friends really is important. High Chairs Game

I really like that there’s no pressure for those who are less active or non members in this game — especially important in mutual — and that you can work as a team.

A leader once did a personal progress Jeopardy game with the categories being the 7 values. I thought it was a lot of fun. I don’t have her questions, but here is an old CTR Jeopardy game I made when I was in primary. Here are the ]rules.

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