Poster Games & Activities
See how quickly you can find these items. Look up pictures of unfamiliar items online. Check them off as you go! Play alone, with another person, or divide into teams. The first person or team to find each items gets a point. Or take turns and use timers to track who finds their items fastest. (Please let us know if there are any items on the map that we left off the list!)
Sloth
Dancing Dragon
Two Jet Airliners
Huskies
Lobster
Temple Mount
Puffin
Hammerhead Shark
Kiwi Fruit
Rocket
Womb Chair
Ballet Shoes
Beach Umbrellas
Opera House
Bull Moose
Butterfly Fish
Seal
Flags of two nations
Lego
Viola
Taj Mahal
Platypus
Kiwi Bird
Sea Turtle
Wolf
Sheep on two different continents
Oil Tower
Banana
Narwhal
Parrot
Pottery
Trolley
Igloo
Great White Shark
Bengal Tiger
Round Hut
Jaguar
Monkeys on two different continents
Miura Bull
Asian Fishing Boat
Stilt House
Cobra
Walrus
Swordfish
Brown Bear
Bass
Reindeer
Leaning Tower of Pisa
Buhdist Temple
Wishbone Chair
Lime
Toyota Landcruiser
Kangaroo
Maple Syrup
Parthenon
Helicopter
Clownfish
Shovel
Soccer Ball
Shrimp
Christ the Redeemer Statue
Bayterek Tower (Astana, Kazakhstan skyline)
Tugboat
Saltwater Catfish
Viking Longship
Squid
Warthog
Pretzel
Toucan
Rubber Raft/Lifeboat?
Yueqin (or Ruan)
Shovel
Llama
Cello
Rice Bowl
Tree Frog
Log Cabins on two continents
Orangutan
Surfboard
Snake
Potatoes
Cheese
Balalaika
Lizard
Rooster
Hand Fan
Elephant
Skis
Sword
Message in a Bottle
Pan flute
Russian Nesting Dolls
Tiki God Statues
Ukulele
Container Ship
Yak
Fire
4-Leaf Clover
Camera
Dolphin
Lion
Goat
Lemon
Koala
Porpoise
Sinking ship
Polar Bear
Brahman Bull
Soccer Ball
Iceberg
Two pickaxes in different continents
Grapes
Axe
Penguin
Tomato
Rope
Zither
Snowcat
Violin
Shrine Gate
Let younger kids point out and name the animals they know. Teach them the names of the unfamiliar ones. Have older kids use colored markers to circle (or draw a dot next to) each animal on the map according to its classification:
- Mammals (indicate with brown marker)
- Hair or fur
- Warm-blooded
- Complex brain
- Feed babies milk
- Backbone
- Lungs breathe air
- Birds (mark red)
- Warm-blooded
- Forelimbs are wings
- Have feathers
- Scaly legs and beak
- Babies hatch from hard-shelled eggs
- Fish (blue)
- Live in water
- Gills to breathe
- Fins to move
- Have scales
- Have swim bladders
- Cold-blooded
- Reptiles (green)
- Dry scaly skin
- Lungs breathe air
- Cold-blooded
- Have backbone
- Usually lay eggs on land
- Amphibians (yellow--there's just one!)
- Live part of life on land, part in water
- Cold-blooded
- Unshelled eggs
- Breathe through lungs and skin
- Like moist environments
- Invertebrates (orange--see if you can find all three!)
2 species of Crustaceans...
- exoskeletons,
- segmented bodies,
- jointed legs)
...and 1 Mollusc
- soft, unsegmented body,
- muscular foot or tentacles
Kids can use tracing paper to copy animals, vehicles, houses, or other items and then color them using crayons, markers, or paint. Older kids can combine elements (such as several sea creatures and a boat or two) to create a scene. If they're up for a real challenge, have them draw and color items that they'd like to see included on a future map.
Next to each temple's spire, write the number (and date if you want) so that they're ordered by date of dedication. (Remember, not all of the temples in the world are included on the map, so this is just the order of those pictured.) This activity provides a vivid way to explore how the Church has grown and the Gospel spread across the globe over the years. You might discuss Joseph F. Smith's prophecy (in the early 1900s!) that temples would someday "dot the land." That statement may have seemed audacious given how small the Church was at the time, but it resonates more and more all the time as new ones are dedicated and put to use.
- (1846) Nauvoo
- (1893) Salt Lake
- (1919) Laie Hawaii
- (1923) Cardston Alberta
- (1927) Mesa Arizona
- (1955) Bern Switzerland
- (1958) Hamilton New Zealand
- (1958) London England
- (1964) Oakland California
- (1974) Washington DC
- (1978) Sao Paulo Brazil
- (1980) Tokyo Japan
- (1980) Seattle Washington
- (1983) Atlanta Georgia
- (1983) Apia Samoa
- (1983) Nuku’alofa Tonga
- (1983) Santiago Chile
- (1983) Papeete Tahiti
- (1983) Mexico City Mexico
- (1984) Boise Idaho
- (1984) Sydney Australia
- (1984) Manila Philippines
- (1984) Dallas Texas
- (1984) Taipei Taiwan
- (1984) Guatemala City
- (1985) Freiberg Germany
- (1985) Stockholm Sweden
- (1985) Chicago Illinois
- (1985) Johannesburg South Africa
- (1985) Seoul Korea
- (1986) Lima Peru
- (1986) Buenos Aires Argentina
- (1986) Denver Colorado
- (1989) Portland Oregon
- (1989) Las Vegas Nevada
- (1990) Toronto Ontario
- (1993) San Diego California
- (1996) Hong Kong China
- (1997) St. Louis Missouri
- (1998) Preston England
- (1999) Anchorage Alaska
- (1999) Madrid Spain
- (1999) Bogota Colombia
- (1999) Halifax Nova Scotia
- (1999) Regina Saskatchewan
- (1999) Billings Montana
- (1999) Edmonton Alberta
- (2000) Ciudad Juárez Mexico
- (2000) Cochabamba Bolivia
- (2000) Montreal Quebec
- (2000) Fukuoka Japan
- (2000) Adelaide Australia
- (2000) Melbourne Australia
- (2000) Suva Fiji
- (2000) Caracas Venezuela
- (2000) Santo Domingo Dominican Republic
- (2000) Boston Massachusetts
- (2000) Recife Brazil
- (2001) Perth Australia
- (2002) Monterrey Mexico
- (2002) Asunción Paraguay
- (2003) Brisbane Australia
- (2004) Accra Ghana
- (2004) Copenhagen Denmark
- (2004) New York City
- (2005) Aba Nigeria
- (2006) Helsinki Finland
- (2008) Panama City Panama
- (2010) Cebu City Philippines
- (2010) Kyiv Ukraine
- (2011) San Salvador El Salvador
- (2012) Manaus Brazil
- (2012) Calgary Alberta
- (2014) Fort Lauderdale Florida
- (2015) Córdoba Argentina
- (2015) Tijuana Mexico
- (2016) Sapporo Japan
- (2017) Paris France
- (2019) Rome Italy
- (2019) Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo
- (2019) Lisbon Portugal
- (2020) Durban South Africa
- ------ Winnipeg Canada
- ------ Bangkok Thailand