help: need fhe ideas for ysa ward

[bonanzafan]

what are your favorite activities that you've done for family home evening in a young single adult ward?

[WmLee]

May sound a little cheesy but once we sent groups of four out, each person had $2.00 on them, that's all they were allowed. They had 30 minutes to go to the grocery store and purchase one item for dinner, and then bring it back to the church with the receipt. If they were late they were disqualified.
Once back they turned in their food item and the receipt was checked. Then the items from one group were given to another and they were given 20 minutes to prepare something edible from what they were given.
The group that did the best dinner won. A local pizza place had given us a few gift certificates and that was the winning group’s prize. Oh, and the groups were formed by a drawing, not by friends! We had a problem with clicks and groups that didn’t mingle!

[mormonmusic]

One way of getting this information might be to send an online survey out to your single adults asking them these questions -- try Online Survey Software Tool - Create Online Surveys - Zoomerang for a free account. Or, you could do a paper and pen survey when you see them at Church.

One activity I really liked was when everyone brought pizza ingredient stuff to FHE, and then we put everyone in groups to make the pizzas. There wasn't much competiton or anything, we just enjoyed working alongside each other. I met my wife in that activity and fell madly in love with her.

[annamaureen]

The coolest thing I've ever done in a singles ward was a "service auction." A month or two in advance, people signed up with various items, activies or acts of service - everything from guitars to a homecooked meal to math help - and at the auction, people bid on them. The money went to charity. I paid seven bucks for a motorcycle lesson!

Whatever you do, remember the guys! I've had so many experiences with activites that are supposed to be for everyone, but intead cater to just the girls (chick-flick movies, that sort of thing) and it's pretty annoying.

[kileyizzle]

PHOTO SCAVENGER HUNT!

makes everyone work together and allows the clicks to dissolve, also fun to see the end results, you can set it to a theme or not, or just have something completely random, as long as you keep it legal!