Mission Possible Activity List A
Low Tech and No Tech Options - Great for kids
1. Pray for a family history experience.
2. Draw a picture or write or have parents record you telling about how COVID 19 has affected your life.
3. Visit a grandparent or a great grandparent and ask them to share a story about when they were young, or what school was like for them.
4. Help bake/cook a favorite family recipe.
5. Participate in a then and now photo – recreating a photo from an ancestor – trying to match their pose, their clothes, their hairstyle etc.
6. Visit the cemetery with your family and do a headstone rubbing of names and dates of your deceased ancestors.
7. Go to the BYU website fhtl.byu.edu and play the Ancestor Matching Game (You must sign in to your Family Search account to access the games)
8. Go to the Gospel Library App> Temple and Family History> Inspirational Resources> and watch "The Promised Blessings of Family History".
9. Go to the Gospel Library App> Temple and Family History> Inspirational Resources> and watch “Their Hearts are Bound To You”.
10. Ask your parents about the story of how you got your name.
11. Find a box and put in it things that represent who you are and what you like to do, take a picture and share (write or record) why you chose that item.
12. Ask a parent to share a story of something they did at your age.
13. Answer the following questions and place in a journal or some other treasure holding place:
1. My favorite food is2. My favorite song is3. My favorite color is4. My favorite thing to do for fun is5. My favorite movie is6. My best friend is and why7. Something that I am really good at is8. Something that is hard for me is
14. Learn something about the country your ancestors came from.
15. Scavenger hunt in your own home – look for things that remind you of the past such as certificates, old photos, old family bible, old keepsakes - tools, records, wedding rings, wedding dresses etc.
17. Visit the temple grounds.
18. Hang a picture of the temple in your room.
19. Visit with cousins.
20. Make your own family tree and add pictures and names of yourself, your parents and your grandparents and great grandparents.
21. Watch the movie COCO. Then talk with your parents about a deceased ancestor and what you do to remember them.
22. Print a large picture of an ancestor and have parents cut it into puzzle pieces and then put it together – or use an app to create the puzzle.
23. Develop a hobby or talent that an ancestor had (art, music, skill, story telling, etc.)
24. Write a letter to a favorite aunt, uncle or grandparent and ask them about their favorite holiday.
25. Do a chore the old fashioned way – wash and dry dishes by hand, help hang laundry on a clothesline to dry, take a throw rug outside and beat it with a stick to clean it instead of using a vacuum.
26. Help make bread by hand – no bread machine, kitchen aid mixers etc. Try grinding the wheat with a hand grinder for another day’s activity.
27. Learn to make candles, or soap or learn how to knit or crochet.
28. Make an “About Me” collage out of pictures from a magazine.
30. Dress up and act out family stories.
31. Have a parent read to you their favorite story from when they were a child.
32. Ask your grandparents what kind of games they played as children and learn how to play them or learn to play old fashioned games such as marbles, hopscotch, pick up sticks, kickball, jump rope, hide and seek, etc.
33. Have family over on Sunday for ice cream sundaes and talk about your ancestors Sabbath day traditions and what your favorite things to do on Sunday are.
33. Have family over on Sunday for ice cream sundaes and talk about your ancestors Sabbath day traditions and what your favorite things to do on Sunday are.
34. Watch old home movies with grandparents and great grandparents in them.
35. Ask grandparents or great grandparents what their favorite songs were and have them sing them or play them for you.
36. Draw/paint a flag from the country your ancestors came from.
37. Ask your parents where they were when 9-11-01 happened, when the mission age changed, etc.
38. If you are 8 or older, create a FamilySearch account, put your password and username in a safe place that you will be able to find again.
39. Create a scrapbook of things you have done this past year (physical or digital).
40. Help another sibling accomplish one or more of these tasks.