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, glue on gems, fall colored ribbon and let the girls decorate however they liked. Each girl got to decorate one pumpkin and later on that week I delivered them to some of the senior single sisters. They always love getting stuff from my girls.
Sorry some of these are a bit fuzzy. I was rushed and using my phone for these.

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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 for the scarf:
http://nancyscouture.blogspot.com/2011/03/fringe-benefits.html

Instructions for the headband:
http://maggiesmoments91.blogspot.com/2012/08/diy-t-shirt-headband.html?m=1
(except we knotted ours instead of gluing it)

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