Articles of Faith Jeopardy

Articles of Faith Jeopardy was a lot of work to set up but really fun to play. Idea can be found here:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/518758450798591323/

I am a little OCD when it comes to having things look nice and uniform as well as convenient and easy. I can't remember why, but it seemed like at the time I did this there were a couple problems with the instructions on the link and I ended up reworking part of it. If you have problems with the other instructions, you can always use what I ended up setting up:
answers:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6-SGz_Y1u-jQ1Q3dGxRZzl1QWM/edit?usp=sharing
numbers:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6-SGz_Y1u-jV2EwZVVFQTMzcUU/edit?usp=sharing
part 1:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6-SGz_Y1u-jTVZBTmhzanBFMkU/edit?usp=sharing
part 2:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6-SGz_Y1u-jWW8zRTFLeUxUaU0/edit?usp=sharing
part 3:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6-SGz_Y1u-jV2xmUmZiS1RIYzA/edit?usp=sharing

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Gardening...

Every girl should know at least a little about growing their own food. I found a great website for kids and gardening and used the info I found to make little books for each of the girls. The talked about what makes good soil, when to plant what, how much to water, how much sunlight, how to know when things are ripe, etc. If we had done this activity in March I probably would have had them plant seeds. It is April, however, so I got some inexpensive starter plants and each girl got to plant it in a pot to take home. Let me tell you, girls love to play in the dirt…and so do certain grown ups.
The link to the website I got my info from is here:

http://urbanext.illinois.edu/firstgarden/basics/index.cfm

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Family Home Evening

For our Family Home Evening activity, we made FHE assignment charts and talked about why we have FHE. We had a simple pattern to follow and with the addition of lots of different paper and color options, the girls made each chart uniquely their own.
The idea can be found here:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/126311964519626606/

Here are some of the fruits of our artistic labors.

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Step 1...

Though I grew up in this ward, it has been 14 years since I lived here. I don't know these girls. I don't really know most of their parents. I am semi out of touch with today's kids. I needed a crash course in who they are as individuals and as a group.

"Family Feud: Get To Know You" was a great way to do this. I made questionnaires for each of the girls to fill out that included both fun and church related subjects (favorite color, favorite movie, favorite family vacation, favorite scripture, favorite Book of Mormon hero, etc.). After that it was your standard Family Feud style game. We divided into teams and they took turns coming up with answers.

Since we also needed a lesson in all of this, we talked about the importance of being yourself and that it is okay to be different from everyone else around you. As the pressure from around us gets stronger and stronger to conform to the worldly views, it is important to know that while standing for truth and righteousness may sometimes be at odds with the world, it will bring us true joy that can only be achieved in righteousness.

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In the beginning...

If you are anything like me, you find it a little difficult to be thrown into a calling you know nothing about and are left to sink or swim. Activity Days was that calling for me. I was not familiar with the program (it didn't exist when I was that age) and there wasn't really anyone to show me the ropes. Google became my best friend in teaching me what to do and now I feel it is time to pay it forward so to speak. Here is my journey in learning what it means to be an Activity Days leader, growing to love a group of spectacular little girls, and strengthening my testimony in magnifying one's calling.

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