Relief Society Birthday - March 2014

We celebrated the birthday of the Relief Society this month.

Decorating:

We decorated the tables with empty gift bags and balloons to go along with the birthday theme.

We tried to set the tables up around the stage we created for the nights entertainment so that everyone could see.

Dinner:

The Relief Society provided a taco bar dinner. We had people sign up to bring desserts.

Entertainment:

We had 12 sisters play/act out Relief Society Squares, which is a spin on the TV show Hollywood Squares. Here's a quick summery of the game.

9 sisters were asked to dress up and pretend to be past RS presidents.
1 sister, who was very comical, was our game host.
2 sisters were our contestants.

The two contestants took turns choosing which past RS president they wanted the host to ask a question to. The nine sisters pretending to be past RS presidents had the option to tell the truth or make up a false answer when responding. The contestant would then have to decide whether the past RS president was telling the truth or not. That was the funny part.

We had a 9 square tick tac toe board too. The names of the 9 RS presidents were on the poster. Each time they were asked a question their name would be covered up by an X or an O depending on which contestants turn it was.

Another thing we did, was give the sisters who pretended to be past RS presidents a paragraph or two of information on the RS president they were impersonating. They selected highlights from the information and used it to introduce themselves when they came on stage, before the game started.

Here is the trivia and game information we used. We gave the trivia questions and answers to the 9 RS presidents and game host, prior to the game. Note - The trivia is a little outdated. So, one of the questions "who is the current RS president?" needs to be updated.

Here is another picture of the stage we created, since our gym doesn't have one.

I should mention that the idea for this game came from a previous ward where my husband and I attended in Illinois.