YW Mutual Ideas

Thanks everyone for the great ideas. I loved them and they are so helpful. I am putting them all here, for others to read and for future reference. thanks again you are life savers!

decorating flip flops with strips of material or even water balloons. You just tie the different strips of material or balloons to the straps of the flip flops.

a frozen t-shirt contest is always fun. Just get the t-shirts wet beforehand, fold them like a department store and freeze them. Whoever can get their t-shirt on the quickest wins something. Then have ice cream or something to go with it.

Do a "by choice or chance" activity. Pick a special location (we picked the temple, but you could choose something closer to you.) divide into as many cars as you have. Flip a coin at every stop sign or stop light. Heads - turn right. Tails - turn left. Keep flipping a coin until you reach your destination. At the end, talk about if you are going to ... get married in the temple, graduate from high school, go a mission, (whatever you want to focus on for your girls) ... by choice or by chance. Talk about making decisions now so you reach those goals by choice!!! Good luck!

Sidewalk chalk the bishop's driveway...lots of nice notes, let the girls be creative and draw fun stuff.

Homemade pizza night - have each girl bring a favorite topping...you provide dough, sauce and cheese. (you can do the pop-open dough or make your own...)

easy service project - go to your local library and have the girls clean the children's books. (our library provided all the supplies - we just provided the girls!)

Take the girls to your nearest temple grounds (hopefully you have some nearby?), divide them into groups of 2-3, give each group a point and shoot digital camera and have them take photos of each other. (you can give them a quick photography lesson at the beginning) Each girl gets to pick 10 pictures to have printed. My girls LOVE doing this...and they don't have many inhibitions about posing for their peers!

We just had a mutual night where we introduced the girls to New Family Search. My beehives were the most into it out of the whole bunch! We spent 15 minutes introducing it to them on a large projector screen (at a memebers house) and then had several laptops all set up so that they could sign on create a username (member number and confirmation date needed) and then they entered in their pedigree chart they brought with them. Many of them now have names to take to our next temple trip and they are SO excited!

Ice blocking is always a hit! You just need to find a park that has some good hills but its a good time for all.

They could write letters to the missionaries serving from your ward and/or put little packages together for them

a food drive -- collecting canned goods from members of your ward (you could ask people to sign up and then leave the things on their porches for pick up).