5 Family Fun Activity Ideas for Pioneer Day
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It's Pioneer Day again! Does your ward do anything to celebrate? It depends on the year where I live so I decided to make our own family fun Pioneer Day activities. The best part? I'm sharing it all with you.
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This page includes 5 great activities for your family to enjoy but yes, it also works great for ward parties if you happen to be in charge of that too. Pick one or two or do them all. Either way, enjoy your Pioneer Day!
Pioneer Day Banner
Start the celebration off right with some Pioneer themed decorations like this fun free Happy Pioneer Day! banner. Put it up in your living room or in the pavilion at the park for your ward Pioneer Day party.
Turn the banner into a game! You can hide the pieces around the house and have your children discover them as you string them together or come up with an adjective for each letter describing the pioneers. Get some ancestor photos to add to the banner too!
Then put on your Pioneer bonnets or get the white ones and decorate them.
Find A Pioneer Game
This is a fun game to play on Pioneer Day! Set up the pieces in a grid formation and try to uncover the 5 pioneers. Play parents against children and keep a running total of how many pioneers each team found. You can even play this more like Battleship where you have two people playing against each other. Each person tries to find the other's pioneers first. In my Pioneer version though, you lay each grid out and turn over the pieces as you go so each player can see both boards.
Pioneer Word Search
Do an individual challenge with this Pioneer Word Search. Discover all 20 words then discuss what all these words have to do with the pioneers. Bonus- cut the words into strips instead and play charades or Pictionary.
Pioneer Coloring Pages
Listen to some pioneer stories or music as you color some beautiful pioneer-themed pages like a covered wagon, hand cart, old Nauvoo, and more. As you color, talk about the faith, sacrifice, and hope the pioneers showed as they followed the Lord.
Then sing, "Come, Come Ye Saints" or listen to The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square perform it and talk about what "Fresh courage take" means to your family. How can the Savior help you move forward with faith, even when life feels difficult?
DIscover more pioneers
Dive into stories from the past with early church pioneers, and uncover modern-day pioneers and stories from across the globe. There are so many great stories to explore. The following are links to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint’s website:
Search for one of your pioneer ancestors in the Church History Biographical Database.
Watch videos and read stories about pioneers across the world on the Pioneers in Every Land page.
Browse by location on the Global Histories page.
Check out the latest updates on the Church History page.
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