M&M Night with Mom
……M&M Night with Mom is a blast ! You get M&M’s and put them in those little dixie bathroom cups and give one cup to each person filled with M&M’s. Everyone sits in a circle on the floor. (I put quilts on the floor) Then , one person at a time a person takes an M&M out of her cup with her eyes closed. Depending on what color it is once you pick an M&M you have to tell something.
Red M&M ……..something scary that happened
Blue M&M……….something no one knows about me is ….
Green M&M………a dream I have is ….
Orange M&M……something I like about me is …
Brown M&M ……….something I am afraid of….
Yellow M&M ………..an embarrassing moment….
After you share you get to eat your M&M !!!
Whatever you want to do with the colors you can come up with your own, as long as you make sure the moms and daughters sit next to each other. The bonding is really neat to watch as they laugh and share. This activity turned out so well and I have like 18 girls and EVERY mom came !
DAUGHTER’S QUESTIONS:
Round 1 – Correct answer worth 5 points each
1. What is your favorite color? (only one, please)
2. Who will your Mother say is her favorite actor?
3. What is your favorite school subject? (Not Lunch!)
4. What will your Mother say is her favorite scripture story?
5. Which fairy tale does your Mother think you like the best:
Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, or Snow White?
Round 2 : Correct answer worth 10 points each
1. What is your Mother’s maiden name?
2. What is the name of your favorite band or singer?
3. Would you say that the time it takes you to get ready to go to school in the mornings is:
a) Less than 15 minutes, b) Less than 30 minutes, or c) More than 30 minutes
Round 3 – 1 Question, correctly answered, worth 25 points
1. How many vehicles would you say your family has driven since you were born?
In the event of a tie, this is the Tie Breaking Question:
** What would you say is your mother’s best quality?
2nd Tie Breaking Question:
*** Has your mother ever been T.P.ing?
MOTHER’S QUESTIONS:
Round 1 – Correct answer worth 5 points each
1. What will your daughter say is her favorite color?
2. Who is your favorite actor?
3. What will your daughter say is her favorite school subject? (Not Lunch!)
4. What is your favorite scripture story?
5. Which fairy tale do you think your daughter likes the best:
Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, or Snow White?
Round 2 – Correct answer worth 10 points each
1. What is your maiden name?
2. What is the name of your daughter’s favorite band or singer?
3. Would you say that the time it takes your daughter to get ready for school in the mornings
is: a) Less than 15 minutes, b) Less than 30 minutes, or c) More than 30 minutes?
Round 3 – 1 Question, correctly answered, worth 25 points
1. How many vehicles would you say your family has driven since your daughter was born?
In the event of a tie, this is the Tie Breaking Question:
** What would you say is your best quality?
2nd Tie Breaking Question:
*** Have you ever been T.P.ing?
We did this activity just a few weeks ago and invited them to bring either parent, or a relative if a parent wasn’t possible. We have a small group so whoever showed up got to play. I copied the questions on transparency paper and used the overhead in the game, uncovering the questions as we went. Here are the questions I got off of one of my bookmarked YW sites. It was a very successful activity with a lot of laughs.
Questions for the Daughters
1. If your mom/dad were a shoe, what kind would they be?
A. A work boot
B. A sneaker
C. A wingtip
D. A slipper
2. If I could throw away anything of my mom’s /Dad*s, it would be this*
3. My Mom’s/Dad*s idea of a perfect vacation is:
A. A rustic cabin in Aspen, Colorado
B. A beach front bungalow in Mexico
C. Having everyone else on vacation so he can laze around the house, camp in front of the TV, play on the computer, sleep and eat.
4. How would you describe your Mom/Dad in the morning:
A. A squishy, warm teddy bear
B. Oscar the grouch
C. “Return of the Living Dead”
5. In the kitchen my Mom/Dad:
A. Is the “Galloping Gourmet”
B. Can prepare a few basic things
C. Really never sets foot in the kitchen
6. What sport does your Mom/Dad like to watch best on TV?
7. When it comes to sleeping, my Mom/Dad:
A. Is as quiet as a mouse
B. Thrashes about like a hurricane
C. Snores like a moose
8. My Mom/dad would prefer to eat:
A. Mexican food
B. Italian food
C. Fat, juicy steak
9. Where was your Mother/Father born?
10. Mom’s/Dad*s favorite type of music is:
A. Country western
B. Soft rock *n roll
C. Classical
D. Oldies
11. My Parents met at:
12. Dad*s favorite thing to wear around the house:
A. Baggy sweats
B. Jeans and a T-shirt
C. Slacks and a nice shirt/ dress or skirt
13. The thing my Mom/Dad worries about the most is:
A. Money
B. Having enough time to do everything
C. His/Her teenagers
14. The thing I love best about my Mom/Dad is:
Questions for the Mothers/Fathers
1. What best describes your daughter*s bedroom?
A. A File Cabinet
B. A tornado
C. A locker room
2. What is your daughter most worried about?
A. Her grades
B. Physical appearance
C. Relationships with friends
3. When it comes to “Home Improvement,” your daughter considers you:
A. Tim the Tool Man (does stuff, but makes it worse)
B. Handy Man (does stuff and does it well)
C. Clueless and has to “hire out”
4. Who is your daughter*s favorite male movie star?
5. Your biggest complaint about your daughter around the house is:
A. Talks too long on the phone
B. Doesn*t pick up after herself enough
C. Hogs the bathroom
D. Plays music too loudly
6. What I love most about my daughter is…
7. When it comes to wearing make-up, my daugher:
A. Is beautiful without any at all
B. Uses just the right amount
C. Needs 6 months of basic training
8. When it comes to eating, my daughter is:
A. A junk food junkie
B. A health nut and likes to eat fat free
C. So picky we never know what she likes
9. What is your daughter*s best talent?
10. If given 3 hours of free time, my daughter would probably spend it:
11. My daughter*s worst subject in school is:
12. My daughter*s personality is usually:
A. Serious and reserved
B. Giggely and lighthearted
C. Shy and quiet
13. If you were telling your daughter about what a “babe/hunk” you were in High School, she would:
A. Feel proud to be your daughter
B. Not believe a word you said
C. Laugh hysterically
14. Daughter*s favorite type of movie:
A. Love story
B. Comedy
C. Scary thriller
Good Luck! I hope this was helpful!
Deanna
We did this when I was in Young Women’s and it was way fun.
Some questions to ask the daughter:
What is the last thing your mother says to you before leaving the house
What she liked/disliked about school
What her grades were like
Name of your mother’s first boyfriend/kiss
Where and when did your parents meet
Mother’s hobbies
Some questions to ask the mother:
Daughter’s favorite subject in school
Who her best friend is
Her hobbies
What she wants to be when she grows up
Favorite YW activity
Favorite song/music group
Hope these help. Have fun.
Jennifer
Here’s one I created for the book “10 Terrific Programs for New Beginnings or Young Women in Excellence”
A FAMILY FOREVER
*Additional Activities*
The Mother/Daughter Game: Invite the mother of each young woman in advance.
1) Place mothers (and Mom Stand-ins) in a “soundproof booth” while young women sit in a circle of chairs. Skip every second chair for when moms enter. Young women are then asked a series of questions about their moms. Don’t answer out loud! Each young woman writes her answers (one or two words) on large cards, then places them in order in a face-down stack under her chair.
2) Mothers are invited to join their daughters and take the seat beside each girl. Moms are then, by turns, asked the identical questions about themselves. After the first mother answers, her daughter holds up the sign with the daughter’s guess of what her mother would say. If the two match, (hooray!) the mother-daughter team gets a point on the scoring chalkboard. Then the next mother answers the same question, compares with her daughter’s response, etc. This is repeated for each of the questions, beginning at a
different place in the circle each time. Check the half-time score!
3) Daughters and mothers switch roles, with girls going to the “soundproof booth” while the moms write down their responses to a set of questions about their daughters.
4) Daughters enter, and are asked the identical questions about themselves. Mothers hold up cards with their best guesses about their daughters. Matchers get points, non-matchers get educated!
Have a fun prize (Twix bar) for the winning team to share. Supplies needed: cards, markers, chalk and board, 2 question lists,
REFRESHMENTS!
Questions about Moms
1. Could your mom ever do the splits?
2. Did your parents first meet in grade school, jr. high, high school, or college age?
3. Is your mom a morning person or a night person?
4. What is your mother’s favorite color?
5. What will your mom say is her best feature?
6. What will your mom say is her worst feature?
7. Who is your mother’s favorite singer?
8. What is your mom’s favorite food?
9. How old was your mother for her first kiss?
Questions about Daughters
1. What is your daughter’s favorite color?
2. What grade was your daughter in when she first shaved her legs?
3. Who is your daughter’s favorite singer?
4. What will your daughter say is her best feature?
5. What will your daughter say is her worst feature?
6. Will your daughter say she is quiet or loud at school?
7. What is your daughter’s favorite food?
8. What book did your daughter most recently read?
9. Do your daughter and her friends talk about boys
25%, 50%, 75% or 100% of the time?
Good luck!
Jeanni Gould
http://www.ldsmusicworld.com/artists/jeanni_gould.html
We are doing this tonight for our Combined Mutual activity. Here are the questions we are using:
DAUGHTER QUESTIONS
1. When your mom eats an ice cream cone, will she say she does most of her licking:
a. from the top down
b. from the bottom up
c. from side to side
2. What will your mom say is the one thing in your bedroom that she’d most like to send to the moon? Be specific.
3. What is your mom’s favorite type of movie?
a. A love story
b. A comedy
c. Action adventure
d. Scary thriller
4. Who will your mom say you look the most like in your immediate family?
5. If your mom was a shoe, what kind would she be?
a. High heels
b. Cross trainer
c. Flip flop
d. Slippers
Mother Questions
1. Last week at home, will your daughter say she had more in-coming calls or out-going calls?
2. What day of the week would you say is your daughter’s favorite?
3. What best describes your daughter’s bedroom?
a. A file cabinet
b. A tornado
c. A locker room
4. Who would you say is your daughter’s favorite male movie star?
5. When it comes to eating, my daughter is:
a. A junk food junkie
b. A health nut and likes to eat fat free
c. So picky we never know what she likes
We just had our annual Stake Mother & Daughter Activity last night and it went really well! I was extremely relieved as I was only called as Stake YW Pres 2 months ago and didn’t have a clue about the program up until then!!
We put on a ‘Pampering Evening’ which included:
– A Colour Analysist: For the first 45 minutes. Everybody all in together.
Then they could each choose 2 out of the following 3 workshops:
– A manicurist: She taught them how to do a complete hand and nail treatment on each other
– Head , Neck & shoulder massage:
– A Hairdresser: She talked about face shapes and hair styles, then did some demonstrations.
We blessed the refreshments (various cakes, platters of strawberries and grapes, various drinks) during the opening prayer. This meant that they could grab a drink or something between workshops, throughout the evening. This gave the whole activity a really relaxed an informal feeling.
Everybody had a fantastic time, and we had trouble getting them to go home at the end of the evening! I made some cute handouts for them to take home – on the front it was a cute picture with “Mothers & Daughters” written on it. When you opened it up, it said “. . . are ‘mint’ for each other!” It had an after-dinner mint chocolate slipped inside. Everyone thought they were adorable.
I also did some Chocolate bar wrappers which I wrapped around a 200g bar of chocolate for all the people who did the workshops. It had a big “Thank You!” on it, followed by a quick poem I made up:
“You’ve given your time on this Saturday night
To help mothers and daughters look and feel just right.
Whether it’s nails or hair, shoulders or feet.
Thank you for helping
– Please accept this treat!”
Needless to say, they all said they’d be happy to help again!! Love & hugs
Amanda
I just wanted to share with you what we did for our Mother-Daughter party last night. First of all, the mothers and daughters were instructed to come dressed the same. Some examples were: one pair wore jeans with a BYU sweatshirt and their hair back in a ponytail, another pair wore jeans, matching white shirts and maroon zip-up sweaters, my daughter and I wore tye-dyed T-shirts and matching chokers with peace signs on our cheeks, another pair dressed up western with hats. We had a “fashion show” with a photographer ( a sister in our ward) taking their pictures as they “modeled”.
A few weeks before the party we asked the mothers to give us a picture of themselves as a teen and then a baby picture of their daughter. We put them on posters and everyone had to match the mom and the daughter.
We also asked the moms to write something down that they did as a teen that was crazy or unusual or memorable. We then read them one at a time and everyone had to guess which mom it was.
We then had a sister in our ward who is a DJ teach everyone a line dance.
For dessert we had ice cream with dirt (crushed up Oreos) in a little flowerpot with a cookie “flower” standing up in the middle. (You get a skewer and put on a gummy mint looking leaf and then put a vanilla creme center cookie on and then a candy “dots” at the top) They looked really cute.
We also had a table with flowers on it where the moms and daughters posed and had their picture taken together. Everyone seemed to have a great time!
Sissy 🙂
Wanted to tell you about our fun Mother/Daughter party last night.
We started off with the mom’s and daughter trying to match up the baby pictures of everyone present. I was amazed how much the YW liked this. Then we had the mother’s stand behind a bedsheet and put their hand underneath. Then the daughters were to guess their mothers hand (no jewelry). This proved to be a funny challenge for them.
Afterwards we handed out letters to the Mom’s written by their daughters (done in a previous activity night). Then we handed out letter’s to the daughters written by their Mom’s. The girls really liked this because they knew about the surprise for their Mom’s but didn’t know we had been sneaky.
For dessert we had a fondue party. This was a HIT!!!! We had 3 fondue pots – semi-sweet chocolate (chocolate chips & evaporated milk), white chocolate (chips, evap. milk, almond extract), and strawberry (frozen strawberries w/ cornstarch). For dipping we used: pretzels, marshmallows, strawberries, bananas, apples, (could dip pineapple, mandarins, grapes, kiwi, graham crackers, etc.). Everyone like dipping, eating, and talking!!
Hopefully this will be useful to ya!!!
Naemikey
