101 DeMolay Month Activities



(In Celebration of Our Cardinal Virtues)

Here's a list of event ideas that will help you plan a great DeMolay Month. Ideally, you should plan one event in honor of each Cardinal Virtue.

Filial Love

Perform the Flower Talk.
Host a dinner for parents.
Hold a special meeting to honor parents.
Have a DeMolay "Parent of the Year" banquet
Use certificates available from the DeMolay & More Store to recognize parents.
Hold a free car wash for parents.
Have a father and son breakfast.
Tell your parents how important they are to you.
Sponsor a special tour for parents to a loca1 art museum.
Take the time to get to know your parents better.
Have the chapter raise funds to take parents out on the town (dinner, theater. etc.)
Hold a babysitting/child care night for younger brothers and sisters. This will allow for a "Parents' Night Out."
Clean your house.
Plan and execute a DeMolay family activity (picnic, tour, etc.)

Reverence for Sacred Things

Attend a religious service as a chapter.
Donate time to a local church, temple, or Synagogue.
Provide DeMolay bulletins, covers, or inserts to local houses of worship, along with "DeMolay in a Nutshell" brochures.
Invite local clergy to speak at a chapter meeting.
Provide transportation for elderly people to the church of their choice.
Hold a discussion on the merits of differing beliefs.
Provide refreshments after a local service.
Ask local clergy to deliver a sermon based on the Seven Cardinal Virtues of DeMolay.
Take it upon yourself to learn something about another culture or religion and report back to the chapter.
Donate time, food or clothing to a local mission for the needy.
Act as ushers for church.
Form a DeMolay/Rainbow Girls/Job's Daughters choir to sing at church.
Purchase flowers for a Sunday church service.
Have a DeMolay read a selected passage at a local worship service.

Courtesy

Have a guest speaker attend a meeting and give a workshop good manners.
Hold a dinner to thank your sponsoring body.
Strive to improve your own personal manners.
Visit a retirement center or senior citizen home.
Do something nice for your advisors.
Sponsor a free auto safety inspection at school.
Work toward improving Masonic relations with your sponsoring body or groups that meet in your building.
Tell your friends and family how important they are to you.
Offer assistance to another service group and their charity.
Prepare and present a class on "Good Manners" to a local elementary school.
Hold a canned food drive.
Hold a prospect party to recruit help for the Adult Leadership Team.
Help a small chapter plan a prospect party.
Send corsages and boutonnieres to teachers with a "DeMolay in a Nutshell" brochure and a "Thank You."

Comradeship

Hold a Brotherhood Dance and invite other chapters.
Host a Brotherhood Weekend and go camping.
Help another chapter put on an induction ceremony.
Take yourselves to the movies.
Have an Honors and Awards Night.
Host a Dance including all of the groups that meet in your Masonic center to celebrate the comradeship of the Masonic family.
Organize a skating party.
Go bowling as a chapter.
Host a "lock-in."
Visit another chapter.
Give DeMolay & More Store gift certificates.
Write to a chapter in another state or country.
Host a Senior DeMolay and Alumni party.
Learn more about DeMolay by signing up to take the Leadership Correspondence Course.
Tell someone about the Brotherhood we share in DeMolay.

Fidelity

Hold a special class of new members.
Perform a ceremony for your sponsoring body.
Hold a round table discussion on what our Cardinal Virtues mean.
Have the current chapter officers and members raise money and donate a new banner, Bible or something else to the future members of the chapter.
Invite Senior DeMolays and Alumni to perform the DeMolay Degree.
Host a Past Master Councilor Night.
Review and re-memorize the Obligations of a DeMolay.
Get a local government official to proclaim DeMolay Month/Week.
Bring a new member into DeMolay.
Publicize DeMolay at every opportunity.
Have the chapter participate in a fundraising event to benefit and support the operations of the DeMolay International Service and Leadership Center.
Donate a copy of Hi, Dad! to a local library.
Hold a fund-raiser for the chapter.
Set up a DeMolay information booth at a mall.
Learn a public ceremony, such as the Flower Talk, Ceremony of Light, etc.

Cleanness

Scrub the Masonic Temple from top to bottom.
Clean a city park.
Have all chapter members wear shirts and ties to school one day.
Clean your room!
Provide for the upkeep, cleaning, and repair of the chapter robes, altar cloth, etc.
Work in your yard.
Offer to clean up after a Lodge function.
Adopt a highway!
Wash city police cars or fire trucks.
If need be, keep your language in check.
Start a recycling program at school.
Plant a tree for the environment.
Offer to do yard work for an elderly person.
Hold an environmental awareness day at school.

Patriotism

Present an "Outstanding Citizen" certificate available from the DeMolay & More Store.
Donate one or more flags.
Hold a memorial service.
Ask your mayor or other government official to speak at a meeting.
Clean a veterans' cemetery.
Personally read a book about one or more of America's patriots.
Visit a veterans' hospital.
"Take over" city government for a day.
Host a government awareness day at school.
Recognize a local veterans' group.
Have a military speaker at your chapter.
Have a member sing or play the National Anthem at a sporting event.
Write to members of the chapter who may be serving in the armed forces.
Present the "colors" at a local high school basketball game or other sporting event.
Visit your state capitol.

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