Faith Factor
by Melissa Cass
 

My Beehive counselor presented a fun combined activity based on faith. She had the girls bring their scriptures and divide into two teams. She tried to split up the seminary students so that the teams would be more fair. She had the teams look up a scripture. The team that had all their scriptures opened to the correct page got a point. Then the counselor talked about that scripture and how it relates to faith, etc. The team that won that point got to choose a challenge. She had paper grocery sacks with a title - giving a slight hint to what the challenge might be. The teams played the challenge and whoever won the challenge got a point. It was a great way to use the scriptures but still have fun. The seminary girls were really good about helping the other girls find their scriptures.

The counselor discussed what faith is, is faith all you need, what is the opposite of faith and more. She had some quotes and stories to go along with each point. You could do scripture stories that show faith instead. The point was to get the girls in the scriptures and talking about faith.  Here are a couple of the challenges the girls had. Maybe it will spur other ideas -

Black hole - (2 girls from each team, blindfold one and she has a couple of balls, the other is holding a can or bowl, the one blindfolded has to throw the balls into the can, the one to get 3 into a can wins)

Holding on by a thread - (how many fish can you pick up in 30 seconds using a fishing pole, the one with the most wins)

Drop Zone - (2 girls from each team, one stands on chair while the other lays on the floor, the one standing drops popped popcorn or goldfish into the other ones mouth - the one laying down could use a cup, first one to get 3 into the mouth or cup wins)

Slime Ball - (team effort - give every one a grape, the first team to have all their grapes skinned wins)

Breathtaking - (2 girls from each team - each team is at the end of a table and each has a straw, drop a cotton ball in the middle of the table the first one to blow the cotton ball off the other end of the table wins)

Creepy Crawly - (team effort - everyone has a cup and chopsticks, the girl at the first of the line has a bowl of gummy worms, she used her chopsticks to pick up one gummy worm at a time and places it in the cup next to her, each girl uses her chopsticks to pass the worm to the next cup, the one with all the gummy worms to the last cup wins)

  Ice Melt - (the first team to melt an ice cube holding in their hands wins)