Family Proclamation Blocks

I have seen quite a few of these online but I wanted ours to be a little more classy yet easy enough for young girls to do. The writing can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6-SGz_Y1u-jYlpVdElkSGJNcDg/view?usp=sharing Instructions: 1) The blocks are on 2x8 wood (length depends on how many you are needing to make) cut into 10" chunks. Home Depot will cut them into chunks for...

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Bring an Ancestor to Activity Days

I forewarned the girls about this one. Each girl was to tell about an ancestor of theirs. They could dress up, bring an artifact, show pictures, tell a story, whatever they wanted. Each girl took a few minutes to show us what they brought and tell us about their ancestor. We learned lots of fascinating things about each girl's family and had a fun time in the process. I brought family trees for the girls to fill in if we had time but the stories ended up taking our entire ho...

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Zoo Trip

We like to have one all day field trip every year. This year we decided to go to the San Francisco Zoo. Even though Sacramento is closer to us, it is not as nice and we thought it would be worth the little extra time in the car. If you are going on field trip, be sure to get permission from your bishop and have permission slips for each girl attending. It is also a really good idea to make some...

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Father / Daughter Water Games

BBQ + water + dads + girls = too much fun to handle!!! We started off the evening with hamburgers and goofing off (I had one dad in a tree...sent photographic evidence to his wife). Then the real fun began. We had three events: First: Super Soaker Fill Up Each father/daughter team is given a large water gun and a cup. They each stand about 8 feet apart and they have 30 seconds to shoot as much...

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Flower Headbands

I had several design options for the girls but all gravitated toward this one... https://www.pinterest.com/pin/284078688965234307/ We kept it simple, just a few different colors and patterns of ribbon and a few different colored headbands. Simple...easy...do...

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Mother / Daughter Pajama Party

PAJAMA PARTY!!! You know any time you get a bunch of girls together in their pajamas, there is fun times to be had. We began with pizza and pajama ballets. I handed out ballets to each person and had votes for both moms and girls. There were categories like "best animal print" "most fuzzy" "best themed" etc. Once pizza and ballets were finished we had three games. First: Tin Foil Dresses Each...

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Mother's Day Gifts

I have some really creative girls. Giving them free reign over their project can be both scary and exciting at the same time. We decided to make necklaces for their moms to give them at our Mother/Daughter activity. I had a variety of beads and a few examples of what they could do and asked them to keep in mind that these were for their mom and not themselves but basically make what you want. We had...

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