Caroling

We had a few new families move into our ward recently and also our Primary Chorister had a new baby. We decided to deliver Christmas cookies and sing carols to them. All the girls wore santa hats and they picked out some of their favorite carols. Since we were driving to the various residences, we had to get permission slips from all the girls (make sure you get permission from ward leaders before doing an activity where driving is involved). The girls had fun and in the end we ended up going a little over our time because the girls wanted to keep singing for people.

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Christ Centered Christmas

I was giving this calling just before the Christmas activity last year (that I had no part of planning). There was a white elephant gift exchange and lots of candy and in the end there were some super hyped up girls running amuck and a few girls with hurt feelings because their gift got swiped per the rules of the white elephant gift game. In the end I felt like we had almost completely driven the spirit away. I did not want to ever go through that again so for this year we decided to keep it Christ centered, no gifts, no candy, and actually learn something.
First we watched the nativity video the church put out. Next we talked about all the symbolism in Christmas. Finally we made baby Jesus ornaments. The girls still had a lot of fun (a couple said it was their favorite activity of the year) yet we kept the spirit very strongly there. Win!!!
The instructions for the ornament can be found here:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/518758450799096270/

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