These are some of my old YSA's favorite activities. We are located in Utah so that makes some of these possible.
Favorite traditions:
o *Christmas party- Joseph Smith Movie, lights at temple square, and dinner at the Noodle Company
o End of the year party- dinner at church with slideshow of the year
o Thanksgiving Dinner
o New years Eve at Bishops starting around 1am and they made us breakfast
o Sat morning session of conference at bishops with waffles
o Conference Jeopardy (the Monday after conference we’d play a jeopardy game)
o Relief society overnighter Priesthood overnighter
o Volleyball wednedays! (costume volleyball in October)
o Super Summer Activity
o Welcome new graduates barbecue
o Talent show
Favorite Activities
o Rescue- we’d frost cookies or have some other treat and take plates around to inactives in our ward at least once a season.
o Layton Surf and Swim- surprisingly inexpensive, we’d swim and rent the walleyball courts
o Amazing Race
o Cultural Dinner
o Ultimate Frisbee
o Flag football
o In the summer we constantly met at parks and played games ( volleyball, badminton, kickball, soccer, bocce ball, croquet, four-square, tetherball, etc)
o Lessons for FHE with treats and games after
o Games- catch phrase, the name game, signs, stop/pounce/nertz,
o Hikes
o Corn maze
o Raptors game
o Ice Skating
o Boating at pineview
o FHE lesson on patience and then make ice cream in bags (takes about 15 min)
o Gladiator (tables are shields and throw tennis balls at each other
Service
o Humanitarian center @ di
o Call city and do what they need volunteers to do
o Toy drive for bishops storehouse
o Indexing Night