Sorry, I spaced starting this thread.

What groups has your Relief Society held which have been successful?

Some of my favorites:

Book club, we read a book for 4-6 weeks, depending on the length, and then meet to discuss with snacks provided by whomever is hosting.

Craft-n-Chat, bring a snack to share and an unfinished project. We sit around and work on projects while we talk. That one is fun.

Play groups for moms with little ones, sometimes a different park each week is fun.

Temple groups

Meet for lunch groups

Cooking Club, bring a dish and copies of the recipe. We would usually have a theme for the night.

Our ward has a walking group...part meets early in the morning before work, and part meets later in the evening after families are taken care of. (this works here because we are geographically very close together)

We have play groups with pre-schoolers and toddlers.

We have a group that makes greeting cards, and exchanges...you make enough cards of one design for each member of the group to receive one. Then you get a packet with a different card from each of the other group participants. They don't even meet together every month...there is a sister that coordinates it all and most months you simply have to get your cards to her by a specific date. They have agreed on a theme for each month...thank you cards, bridal showers, baby showers, birthdays for different ages and genders, blank cards...whatever general design you want to create.

Our book club is quite popular.

We have a group that gets together once a month, or every other month sometimes, to play games together. Visit and play Scrabble!

Our quilting group will start again in September.

We have a new group starting to teach basic sewing skills for anyone interested.

We have several local theater groups that can be counted on to have uplifting presentations. There is a group that regularly attends those performances together. They always announce what they are going to see, because everyone is welcome to attend with them.

Today, there was an announcement of a group that wants to meet two mornings a week for yoga...during the summer it will be at a nearby park.

We also have had success in the past with dinner groups. These are coordinated through the Elders Quorum and/or the High Priests Group and the Relief Society. Four couples are assigned together. They meet once a month, at a different home each time. Each couple has a food assignment, to help with dinner, with the hosts providing the main dish, and then the host couple plans something simple for after dinner - a game, or a getting-to-know you question and answer time. One month, the group that we were in asked each couple to come prepared to tell how they met - his version and her version!

These groups are done on a volunteer basis - only those who want to participate are assigned to a group. Even though we have lived here for quite some time, it has been a fun way to get to know some of the ward members better...when you work in different auxillaries, sometimes you don't get to visit too often.

All of our groups are for people with kids or they're during the day. There's nothing for the person who works during the day and doesn't have kids.

They do have lunch groups and bringing old craft/quilting to finish why you chit chat. I think it would be fun to do an organized recipe activity, maybe meet and have someone show you (like a cooking show) how to make their favorite recipe and have everyone take turns.