Institute Fun and Games

We had a great activity with the students in our Lelu Institute class.  The night was actually planned for the showing of the latest CES Fireside for young adults, but due to some delays in getting the DVD ready to be sent out to our island, we had to come up with an alternative plan.  Most of the activities that we have done so far usually include the seminary class also.  It was pure fun to do something that only involved the institute age youth along with a couple of older members who joined with us. We started the evening off by showing the DVD  of "Joy to the World."  With Christmas just around the corner this was a perfect DVD to watch.

 When we finished watching this we taught them how to play a game that we called the "M&M game."  This is a very active dice game where everyone takes turns rolling two dice and when you get a double you try to suck up m&ms from a larger bowl using a straw and putting them in your own personal container.  All this is done while the dice is rolled by the other players and if anyone gets a double then whoever is in the process of sucking up m&ms has to stop and give the bowl to the person that just rolled doubles.  The play continues until all the m&ms from the large bowl are gone.

The faster the dice are rolled the quicker doubles are found and everyone tries to prevent any one player from getting too many m&ms.  They got laughing so hard that they could not suck up the m&ms at one point in the game.  When we exhausted this game we then played another dice game.

This time is was "Farkle".  No one had played this before so we had to teach them and they really enjoyed playing it also.  It was not quite as rowdy a game as the other one.  I think everyone had a great time.  We ended up eating cinnamon rolls when we were finished.  What a great way to end this first semester of Institute!