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Service Games & Activities – LDS.org
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Friend May 2022 “Find It” The Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, opened 100 years ago this month. Primary children collected coins to help the sick children who stayed there. Can you find the hidden items below? How many coins can you find?
Friend February 2022 “Neighbor Puzzle” Mei wants to show love for her neighbors by giving them pineapple buns. Use the clues to help her find out who lives on each floor.
Friend September 2021 “Service Challenge Origami” Make the origami folding craft and write kind acts underneath the flaps. Do the activity until it lands on one of the kind acts. Do that kind act for someone.
Friend December 2020 “Gifts of Love for Jesus” Make a service snowflake using pattern below. Write on each person the name of someone you can serve.
Friend November 2018 “Family Night Fun” Make these soft animals for kids who need some cheering up!
Friend June 2018 “Food and Fun: Day Brighteners” Make these fun bottle cap magnets and give them to people who need their day brightened.
Friend July 2017 “Prayers and Butterflies: Helping Others” Look for people who are helping others feel better in the hospital. How can you help someone feel better when they are sick or sad?
Friend June 2017 “Family Night Fun” Make a candy poster for someone
Friend February 1982 “Join the Secret Service” Every time you do a secret service for a family member leave a cut out heart at the site of your service. Make a string necklace and add a felt heart each time you do a secret service for somebody other than family.
Friend May 2017 “Miles of Smiles” A smile can help someone who may be having a bad day. Complete the smile by drawing the rest of the face.
Friend April 2020 “Hi Friends” When I’m at the store, I like to smile at people to see if I can get them to smile back at me. I call it the smile game! Sadie Age 4
Friend May 2020 “Doing What Jesus Would Do” Care Package Ideas
Friend August 2017 Secret Service: Write a nice note for a friend or family member and leave it where they’ll see it.
Friend Jan 2015 “You Are the Savior’s Hands” – Story and activity idea. A family could make a goal to do a specific amount of helping hands in a certain amount of time, maybe for a special event.
Friend Dec 2014 Activity with scriptures about service on links
Friend December 2020 “Find It” The members of Sister Mendez’s ward are helping her paint her fence! Find 11 paintbrushes or rollers and 11 paint buckets or pans. Then find the other hidden objects.
Service Ideas
Friend March 2021 “Find It” The Primary invited the elderly in their branch to a game day activity. Find the hidden objects.
Service Projects
Friend March 2019 “Food and Fun” Ideas for making birthday bags to donate to a hospital or crisis center.
Friend March 2019 “Find It” These friends are putting on a pet talent show and collecting food for the food bank. Find the hidden objects!
Friend September 2018 “Find It!” Find the hidden school supplies for refugees.
Friend November 2020 “Find It” These children volunteer to keep the shoreline near their home clean and beautiful. Find the hidden objects. (Bonus: Find 12 seashells and 10 crabs.)
Friend January 2017 Making a no sew fleece blankets.
I read in the Friend how to serve by making a tie blanket (Jan. 2017). I decided to donate my quilt to a family in our small town that was affected by flooding. (Link includes photo of Evalette and her quilt) Evalette M., age 6, California, USA
Friend February 2019 “Friends by Mail”
Friend June 2016 President Monson wrote letters to military members of his ward. We can write to someone too.
Friend March 2016 How to make easy fleece blankets and also a sunshine cookie card.
Friend March 2020 “Funstuff: A Goal to Serve” These friends decided to help their neighborhood by picking up trash at the park. The pathways show were the friends walked. Follow each path! Who picked up the most trash? Who saw the most squirrels?
Friend October 2020 “Funstuff” These kids are volunteering at an animal shelter. Use the clues to figure out each cat’s name!
Serving Others as a Family
Friend September 2023 “Find it!” This family is serving together in a garden to grow food for others. Can you find the hidden items?
