Both of our activities in December involved making ornaments. I don't know if we were just out of ideas or too exhausted to do anything else.
The first activity, we made gumball machine ornaments.
Find it here:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/239113061439728313/
The second activity, we made glitter balls.
Find it here:
http://theornamentgirl.com/blog/being-crafty/how-to-make-glitter-christmas-ornaments-diy/
Side note... little girls + loose glitter = GIANT MESS BEWARE...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Thankful Dinner
The parents of my Activity Day girls are so supportive and so often jump in to help when we need it. We wanted to have a special dinner for them with the girls serving them dinner. We had a nice table set up with menu cards and pretty center pieces and tried to make it look like a nice restaurant. The girls got to be the waitresses for the evening and they thought it was the best thing ever. They started by serving them water and giving them the menu. It had three courses:
Course 1) Salad with...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Birthday Traditions Around the World
I love to learn about other cultures. At BYU Hawaii I took an international relations class and got to talk to students from other countries and about how they interact with one another, coming of age traditions, birthdays, holidays, family traditions, etc. It was so much fun. I wanted the girls to learn about how other cultures around the world celebrate both birthdays and coming of age rituals....
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Painting Mini Pumpkins for the Senior Widows
We have a large population of senior widows in our ward. On top of being a primary teacher and Activity Days leader, I am also the Single Adult leader for my ward. Consequently, I am always trying to watch out for these older sisters who need extra love.
Since Halloween was approaching, we thought it would be nice to do a little crafty service project. I got a bunch of mini pumpkins, some puffy paint,...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
T-Shirt Scarves and Headbands
I guess you could call this a lesson on how to take something old and worn and make it into something new and fun. It started out as just using old t-shirts to make scarves but it really didn't take very long and there was so much t-shirt left over that we quickly got online and found instructions on making headbands out of some of the rest of the t-shirt. We got a 2 in 1 project. I always love those.
Instructions...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Music that Invites the Spirit
We have an amazing music leader in our primary. She does lots of games and activities to encourage the kids to sing and learn new songs. She has no problem being silly with them or encouraging their imagination. She is awesome!!! We decided we wanted to do an activity about appropriate music and finding music that invites the spirit not only on Sunday but even during the week when we have the radio...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Pray Pillows
Sometimes it can be difficult to get little girls to do the daily testimony builders on their own. We decided to do a few activities over the course of several months that would encourage the girls to memorize their articles of faith, read their scriptures daily, keep a personal journal, and say their daily personal prayers.
This particular activity we focused on personal prayer. We talked about the...
Friday, July 25, 2014
Preparing for your Adventure
I had a hard time in the beginning. I didn't know what was required of me and I often felt as if I were in the midst of chaos those first couple months. It didn't help that the binder I got from the previous leader only had a couple handouts from previous activities and a more than year old outdated phone list in it (yikes!!!). There was also little to no planning ahead of time and activities were...
Thursday, July 24, 2014
What is the Activity Days Program?
If you are new to the program, it helps to have someone break it down for you. In the Activity Days Program, girls ages 8-11 are working toward earning their Faith in God award. In order to get their award they must complete 8 goals in each of 3 areas (this breaks down to 2 goals in each area per year):
1) Learning and Living the Gospel
2) Serving Others
3) Developing Talents
Most of the activities...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Modern Pioneers
Last summer we did the traditional Pioneer Day stuff and it was fun…but this year we wanted to go a different route. We decided to talk about modern pioneers and why they are important. While trying to figure out what to do for that, I remembered going to the Exploratorium in San Francisco as a kid. If any place could teach a kid about modern pioneers it is there. If you have never been, it is so...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Father Daughter Olympics
SO. MUCH. FUN.
4 fun filled events and everyone gets a gold medal in the end.
1) pool noodle toss
2) ring toss
3) beach ball / kid size golf club put put relay
4) giant marshmallow in a little spoon relay
Begin with a barbecue, work up a sweat playing games, proclaim everyone a winner, end with root beer floats for all.
Thank you to my amazing sister who took all these pictures (Alisa...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
5 Years From Now...
We wanted to emphasize the importance of setting goals. While they have goals they need to set in order to get their Faith in God Award, for the most part if they come to the activities they will pass most of them off. We felt that we needed to prepare them for bigger future challenges as well as all the goals they will have to work on their own once they get to the Young Women's program. We actually had the Laurel class come and help us with this activity. We talked about setting big long term...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Mother Daughter Tea-less Tea Party
Amazing girls all come from amazing moms and my girls and their moms are beyond amazing, they are spectacular. To celebrate Mother's Day this year, we decided to throw a little tea-less tea party on my back porch. I made mini muffins and scones, chocolate dipped strawberries, cupcakes and punch. We asked sisters in our ward to donate teacups and mini tea sets to use as decoration (reassuring them...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Kitchen Safety / Chicken Pot Pie
An educational yet tasty activity. I had the girls sign up to bring different ingredients (really the mom's on our Facebook page) like chicken, stock, carrots, frozen peas and corn, potatoes, butter, cheese, etc. If you do this activity, you may want to get the chicken in the oven first thing as this is what held us up at the end, waiting for it to finish cooking. We talked about rules of safety in...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Clay Pot Critters
It is always fun to get your craft on. Anytime we bring out the paint, girls get crazy excited. This time we made clay pot critters. Instructions can be found here:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/518758450797803641/
We just did ladybugs and butterflies to keep the variety of supplies to a minimum. In the end we had a wide spectrum of very different looking critters and a lot of very happy girls.
...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Sister Missionary Spotlight
We have some amazing Sister Missionaries in our ward and we asked them to come help out with this activity. We had them talk about what they did to prepare for their missions and the girls got to ask them questions. We got them missionary name tags and gave them ideas of how they can be missionaries now. A simple, yet fun activi...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Scripture Study / Scripture Journals
In preparation for our awards night, I asked each of the girls if they had read the Book of Mormon on their own. I was shocked to discover that not only had none of them done it but also that very few of them were having daily personal scripture study. We also only had one girl who had memorized the Articles of Faith. Needless to say, I was a bit concerned and became determined to do something about this. First, I made Articles of Faith memorization cards. I printed them front to back on card stock,...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Snow White Awards Night
For our awards night we decided to go with a Snow White theme. We thought that this theme would give us 2 different aspects we could focus on: inner beauty and the importance of hard work. We had 2 amazing sisters give talks on these two subjects and then the bishop came and brought them together. We handed out awards for completing a years worth of goals, for memorizing all the Articles of Faith,...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Love Chain
Sometimes you can take a simple craft idea, think everyone's will come out fairly similar, and be totally shocked by how different each one comes out. For this activity we made valentine love chains. The pattern was pretty basic. I could not find just white, pink and red pom poms so we went with pony beads instead. I made a variety of felt hearts in various shades of pink and red and we had a few shades of ribbon. I wish I had gotten pictures of all the finished products but I was a little busy...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Game Night
Here is something easy for when all your Activity Days Leaders are going to be out of town yet there is still an activity scheduled (as was the case for us this time). Have the girls each bring their favorite board game from home and spend the evening playing them. The girls have fun while the adults you ask to sub for you aren't stressed out trying to interpret your complicated plans....
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