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<h3>Activity Ideas for Single Student Home Evening</h3>
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<li>Hold a planning/brain storming session at the beginning of the semester with your Home Evening Group.</li>
<li>Calendar activities into the weekly home evening gatherings, including scheduling lessons.</li>
<li>Counsel with your bishop to determine appropriate resources for lessons, including Student Living, the Ensign, etc.</li>
<li>Give assignments to apartments or group members to plan and carry-out the activity.</li>
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This takes some time and investment to be successful - last minute activities rarely have the same impacts and lasting effects as those well planned and thought out.
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Below are some ideas, including a few limited websites that you can utilize for meaningful activities.
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<h3>Service</h3>
<ol>
<li>Visit the Nursing Home or an Assisted Living Center</li>
<li>Volunteer through the City for the Tabernacle, Romance Theater, or Teton Flood Museum for cleaning, painting, or other projects.</li>
<li>Gather items for the Center for Domestic Abuse and deliver together.</li>
<li>Pick up trash along a complex, city street or on campus.</li>
<li>Contact the hospital for a list of patients who could use a visit/song/story time.</li>
<li>Write letters to missionaries or service men and women, especially at holidays.</li>
<li>Service scavenger hunt (wash windows, take out trash, etc.)</li>
</ol>
<h3>Practical Life Skills</h3>
<ol>
<li>Car Maintenance</li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.ehow.com/videos-on_436_basic-auto-maintenance.html">Basic Auto Maintenance</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nationwide.com/rss/car-maintenance-tips.jsp">Maintenance Tips</a></li>
</ul>
<li>Basic Home Repairs </li>
<li>Provident Living</li>
<ol type="a">
<li><a href="http://providentliving.org/self-reliance/health?lang=eng">Physical Health</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/finances?lang=eng">Finances and Budgeting</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/food-storage?lang=eng">Food Storage</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ldsjobs.org/ers/ct/?lang=eng">Employment</a></li>
<ol type="I">
<li><a href="https://www.ldsjobs.org/ers/ct/articles/writing-a-resume-or-curriculum-vitae?lang=eng">Resume building</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ldsjobs.org/ers/ct/articles/successful-interview-techniques?lang=eng">Interviewing skills</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ldsjobs.org/ers/ct/articles/effective-networking?lang=eng">Networking</a></li>
</ol>
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<li>Grocery Shopping</li>
<ol type="a">
<li><a href="http://www.smartmoney.com/spend/family-money/5-best-coupon-clipping-web-sites-23634/">Couponing</a></li>
<li>Best buy for the unit price</li>
</ol>
<li>Meal Preparation</li>
<ol type="a">
<li>Healthy meal plans</li>
<li>Basic cooking skills </li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://reluctantgourmet.com/cooking-techniques">Cooking Techniques</a></li>
<li><a href="http://allrecipes.com/recipes/healthy-recipes/special-diets/gluten-free/">Gluten free cooking recipes</a></li>
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<li>Time saving tips and substitutions</li>
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<li><a href="http://lds.about.com/od/preparednessfoodstorage/a/72hour_kit.htm">Make 72 Hour Kits or Grab Bags for Emergency Preparedness</a></li>
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<h3>Spiritual</h3>
<ol>
<li><a href="www.byui.edu/studentliving">Student Living Lessons</a></li>
<li><a href="www.lds.org">Ensign First Presidency Message</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.lds.org/pages/mormon-messages?lang=eng">Watch Youth Videos on LDS.org</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.lds.org/Static%20Files/PDF/Manuals/TheFamily_AProclamationToTheWorld_35538_eng.pdf">Study The Family Proclamation, study the doctrine and memorize it</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/english/pdf/36035_000_25_livingchrist.pdf">Study The Living Christ, study the doctrine and memorize it</a></li>
<li><a href="http://web.byui.edu/devotionalsandspeeches/speeches.aspx">Watch clips from past devotionals on a certain topic</a></li>
<li><a href="https://new.familysearch.org/en/action/unsec/welcome">Do indexing or family history search.</a></li>
<li><a href="www.createfan.com">Create a Family Fan chart for each group member.</a></li>
<li>Simple testimony sharing.</li>
<li><a href="http://mormon.org/create">Create a Mormon profile on Mormon.org</a></li>
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<h3>Fun</h3>
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<li>Take personality assessment tests or learn about your love languages. </li>
<li>Go on a bike ride on the bike path from Kmart to Sugar City and back. </li>
<li>Go on a hike along the Ririe nature path. </li>
<li>Have an ethnic night and bring foods from different cultures/missions. </li>
<li>Go geocaching in the local area.</li>
<li>Talent showcase of the members of the group.</li>
<li>Picture scavenger hunt. </li>
<li>Picture Scavenger hunt with a twist-someone takes close-up pics of things at a mall or wherever, and then you give the pictures printed out (maybe about 9 pics to a page, two or three pages) to two teams. Each team has a camera and has to run around and take a pic of someone on their team with the item. It's a twist on a scavenger hunt but can be really fun still.</li>
<li>Make a music video</li>
<li>Ultimate Spoons</li>
<li>Capture the Flag</li>
<li>Play Fugitive- (Pick two locations in a town. You have a group of people trying to sneak from Point A to Point B without getting caught. The other groups are in vehicles trying to find you.)</li>
<li>Soccer/Frisbee/Football</li>
<li>Play Sardines</li>
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<h3>Seasonal</h3>
<ol>
<li>Ice skating or sledding in the winter. </li>
<li>Rake leaves in the fall. </li>
<li>Do leaf imprinting on paper or canvas. </li>
<li>Gather/glean potatoes from the fields in the fall. </li>
<li>Make valentine cards for those who may need one. </li>
<li>Learn to fish on the Henry’s Fork at Beaver Dick Park. </li>
<li>Make Christmas ornaments. </li>
<li>Celebrate a different holiday (from another country, National Popcorn Day, etc.)</li>
<li>Secret Santa or "You've Been Boo'ed" (Halloween) to deliver a gift or treat to someone.</li>
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