4 Ways to Help Your Teens and Tweens Engage with General Conference
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General Conference is definitely some of my favorite times of the year, but I know it's not for everybody. Let’s chat about four ways that we can engage our teens in tweens with General Conference so it can be something that they look forward to as well.
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Large Printable Fun
Try our Old Testament coloring poster. It's a giant page full of different stories from the Old Testament that you can color all weekend long. We still have ours up from the last General Conference. As people come to our house, we invite them to add to it. It's been really fun for us to see those stories as we read throughout the year. One great thing about this one is it has additional activities that you can do with that coloring page beyond just the obvious coloring including ways that you can use it for Conference weekend.
Or try one of our other coloring posters. We have one for each year of Come Follow Me studies plus more fun themes like our Animals Go to Conference poster.
We tape ours up on the wall. it's out of the way there, but it's easy to see. Sometimes you need little breaks while you watch General Conference. It’s a whole lot of watching and sitting still. Being able to get up and walk to a new encouraged activity is very helpful! It’s a great break but still allows you to stay involved with General Conference.
Conference Bingo Games
You can, of course, print out Conference Squares game from the Church. We used it for years but my kid got tired of the same old ones so…
We made one that’s more challenging. It’s called Mystery Words Bingo because you first have to solve the picture riddle to figure out which words you are listening for. It’s a great two in one activity and more of a challenge for those older kids.
Laminate your boards for a long lasting tradition plus you can then use washable markers to x of your squares. We also like to use cereal for the markers or goldfish, something that they're going to snack on anyway, then they can eat their markers when they're done. We don’t usually do candy but obviously, it worked.
Our tradition is when they get a bingo, they get a small prize or to eat their markers. Sometimes it’s a piece of gum or candy- something that they can easily have multiples of if they play all weekend long. Then they can also go for blackout and we'll give them a bigger reward, like a thing of Pringles or something. They can only do the blackout reward once. Mine like using multiple boards- at least on the second go around.
The goal of bingo is to help them focus (and be excited about it). We tell our kids that they're not allowed to share with each other. If you heard “prayer”, the person next to you can't ask if you heard “prayer”. They need to hear each word for themselves. The point is for them to figure it out on their own and to focus. We tried to go without the bingo boards one year and got in all sorts of trouble.
Play with Your Food
Use the food that you're already going to eat that weekend in a way that makes it more of an activity. For example, you could do snack necklaces where they have to string the food on the necklace first, then they show it off and then they eat it (think Fruit Loops, gummy Lifesavers, Red Vines, etc). Our favorite food activity is General Conference Houses, like a gingerbread house for Christmas time. It doesn't have to be the Conference Center, but it does have to relate to General Conference. The great part is you can see what your kids are actually paying attention to and what they're picking up on. It’s a great opportunity to review some of Conference before it ends.
Keep it simple (save the crazy for Christmas). Give yourself your own challenge of using up some items in the house that everyone is ignoring like the last bit of that cereal box. Stick to just a few bags of dollar candy. Build it, then invite them to explain their creation to you (great photo opp), then they can eat it.
A Notebook Built for Them
Help your teen stay engaged, listen more closely, and remember what they hear during General Conference with the help of a notebook build just for them. Our thoughtfully designed notebook gives teens a place to think, write, and interact with the messages instead of just passively listening. With meaningful prompts, activities, and plenty of room for notes, it helps them notice patterns, record impressions, and recognize how the Lord may be speaking to them.
And the best part? This year they can make it their own. Teens can write their own title right on the cover, something meaningful, funny, or personal that makes the notebook feel like theirs from the start or get the print and ship version to choose which sticker to add to the cover.
Engaging without feeling childish, these notebooks give teens enough structure to guide their listening, but plenty of space to write their own insights.
Because when teens start noticing the Lord speaking to them during Conference, something powerful happens, they begin to look forward to it.
Bonus Idea: General Conference Drawing Review
Between sessions is where things really stick.
You’ve got this natural window to bring the messages back up while they’re still fresh. This is where some of the best conversations happen. It builds connection and helps those ideas hang around longer than just Sunday afternoon.
One of our favorite low-effort ways to do this? A simple drawing game, basically Pictionary, Conference-style.
We usually focus on stories from the talks since they’re easier (and funnier) to draw. In the photo above, it’s a drawing of Christ healing the blind man with mud (from President Jeffrey R. Holland’s October 2025 talk).
Take turns drawing and guessing. If you guess it, you’re up next or just have one designated artist and let everyone else shout guesses. No rules, no pressure.
It’s simple, a little chaotic, and somehow turns into one of those things your family keeps coming back to. We’ve been amazed at how much this has helped our teens.
