The Teaching Burger: A fun activity about LDS Youth teaching tips

Do the youth in your LDS ward have a hard time teaching a Sunday lesson? If so, you’re not alone. That’s why I created this fun activity to show our youth how to teach a great lesson. It’s called the Teaching Burger and you’re going to love these LDS youth teaching tips. Check it out.

As an LDS youth leader for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I’m in charge of teaching the 12-13-year-old girls. It’s their first time in Young Womens and some of them are a little bit nervous about teaching a lesson on Sunday. So, my advisors and I thought it would be fun to have a teaching activity during the week that would help them prepare to teach. We called it the Teaching Burger and it turned out awesome. Here’s how we did it:

Step #1: Download and print your Teaching Burger activity

I designed this entire activity so that it can be downloaded and printed off at home. It includes 10 printable 8.5×11 pages that includes instructions, review questions and a take-home handout. Just click on the link below to download and print your own copy:

Click here to download the Teaching Burger activity

Step #2: Cut out and attach teaching tips

Included in the printable are seven pictures of different sections to a burger. Cut out each burger section and then tape the corresponding teach tip to the back of each section.

Step #3: Hide your burger sections

Depending on where you hold your activity, you’ll want to hide each section of the burger throughout the church, room or home. I tried to hide each section pretty good because I didn’t want them to find each piece right away.

Step #4: Find the burger sections and discuss the tips

On the evening of the activity, you’ll want to explain the purpose of the activity. I explained to the girls that just like you need the perfect toppings to make a really good burger, you also need the right “toppings” to give an inspiring lesson that will help people draw closer to Christ. Then, you’ll want to tell the girls to find their assigned LDS youth teaching tips. So one girl was in charge of finding a hamburger patty, another a tomato, etc.

Once they had all found their sections, we started with tip #1 (the top of the bun) and each girl read their individual teaching tips in numerical order. After they read their tip, they taped it to the chalk board. After all of the tips were finally read, we had completed a delicious, juicy burger. Make sure you take a moment to expound on each tip and add whatever else you think might be helpful for the girls.

Step #6: Give the quiz

Just to make sure that the girls really understood the LDS youth teaching tips that we talked about, I created a really easy multiple choice quiz. We read the questions aloud and whoever participated got some candy. After reading all of the questions, I really felt like the girls were feeling more confident about giving a lesson.

Step #7: Give everyone a take-home handout

Each of our girls went home with a handout that summarized everything that we had talked about that night. I encouraged them to put it in a place where they won’t lose it. Then, when they have to plan their next lesson, they can look at the handout to remind them the elements that they should include in their lesson. Then, as an added bonus, everyone got to have some Krabby Patty gummy burgers for refreshments. That was definitely a hit.

I hope this LDS youth teaching tips activity will help you with the youth in your ward feel more comfortable with teaching on Sundays. I know it helped our girls! if you didn’t see the link to download the activity, here it is one more time:

Click here to download the Teaching Burger activity

Also, here’s a little YouTube video that I made explaining how to do the activity as well. Cheers!

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