Articles of Faith

When the LDS Church published Joseph Smith’s journals, I read them from cover to cover, thinking that it would be a profound spiritual experience to study the life of our founding Prophet. The things I found in his personal accounts were disturbing, confusing, and highly contradictory to modern church teachings. I could not maintain my integrity while also continuing to teach the specious modern narrative of Joseph Smith’s life to these precious girls. So, in June 2017, I resigned from my calling with a very heavy heart. I am still willing to post new activity ideas from whoever wants to contribute. I appreciate your compassion and understanding in this matter.

Implementing this Activity Days requirement will have a lot of variation from ward to ward depending on the learning abilities of your girls and the differences between them. Do what is best for your ward, even if that means that you do very few Article of Faith activities together. The Faith in God program is a team effort. Consider leaving it up to parents to “pass off” the Articles of Faith to the best of their child’s ability.

For the star colors, green = completely planned, blue = link to another site, red = just an idea.

A MEANS THE COST IS LESS THAN 25 CENTS PER KID!

Learning Games

Article of Faith Basketball
Shuffleboard
Suck it!
We Seek After These Things
Article of Faith 4 in morse code: key and code
Easter Egg Hunt (do any time of year without the eggs)
Fly Swatter Game
Jeopardy 1
Jeopardy 2 (same questions as #1 but using Power Point)
Jeopardy 3
Jeopardy 4 (three versions for this one!)
Keyword Memory Game
Matching Game from The Friend
Scavenger Hunt
Scripture Mastery Ball (adapt for Articles of Faith)
Scripture Relay (adapt for Articles of Faith)
Seek After These Things
Skateboards and Scriptures (adapt)
Tic Tac Know (adapt for Articles of Faith)
Articles of Faith in Sign Language
Get one remote control car per team and put papers numbered 1-13 all around the gym. Give an A of F clue and they have to get their car to the right number first to win a point!
Name that Tune (with Article of Faith Primary Songs)
Pudding Pictionary
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Recitation Games

Carnival Fun
Ice Cream Sundaes
“Life Walk”
Spoons (adapt for Articles of Faith)
Scavenger Hunt (adapt for Articles of Faith)
Samurai (adapt for Articles of Faith)
Punch Out (adapt for Articles of Faith)
Muffin Tin Bounce (adapt for Articles of Faith)
Chase and Dive (adapt for Articles of Faith)