Pioneer Museum

Activity Days

This activity we had a combined activity with all 4 activity day groups.  It was pretty neat to see all these girls together.  With adults we had 28 people.

I've driven by this place in Pleasant Grove several times and never really thought much of it...so it was kind of neat to see this and learn more about our pioneer ancestors and how they lived.

Afterwards, headed back to Megan Andersen's house for treats...captured some of them trying out the hammock.

We All Have Talent...

Activity Days

This was another successful day.  Sadly two of my girls (Tarin included) turned 10 and moved on to the next class, and two more will leave by the end of the month...but we all had a wonderful day.  Sewing and decorating, such sweet memories.  I have never enjoyed a calling as much as this one.  I've learned so much and look forward to every activity.  These girls are angels and lovable in every way.  I love teaching them and watching them smile.  Seeing them excited to come just makes my day.

 I have to give the credit of this purse idea to Megan Andersen and Lisa Ballard. They are the 8 yr old Activity Day leaders.  I found a fun pattern for a purse, but with limited time for the activity I decided to simplify the project.  These are fabric place mats I found at Ross for cheap, and sewed ribbon for the handles.  A piece of advice these ladies gave was to have the handles already sewn on, otherwise it takes too long per girls.

The girls sewed up the sides with an angled bottom to finish.  Then they were able to decorate with buttons and flowers left over from another activity.

Next month I will have two more girls, one of which is Raegan...lose a daughter, gain a daughter.  I'm looking forward to it! :o)

Family History

Activity Days

Beginning of June, we talked about what family history is, and why family history...they all brought pedigree charts.

We had some great discussion.  Pres. Faust had a short article on this that I shared.  And the best part was seeing the light bulbs go on for some of these girls.  I'm sure here in Utah, they've been exposed to it, but never had a deep discussion about it.  The final "ah ha" was when I brought the temple into it.  Linking our family together through the amazing blessing of temples.  I shared a dvd the church had put out about one of my ancestors my great great great grandfather John Tanner.  I explained that even he and I are linked because all of our temple work has been done...Sealed together as family.

Next activity I had the girls prepare a little something to share about an ancestor while we were at the temple grounds.  (Temple is down the street, what an amazing blessing to take advantage of!!)  This was cools to hear and see the girls learn about their own heritage.

Such a glorious group of girls.  Their future is so bright!  Brings me such joy to be around them.

 

front: Spencer, Brooklin, Sydney, Abby, Madison, Jace (Madison's cousin visiting)

back: Emmie, Brooklyn, Noelle, Raegan, Tarin, Kazmyn

 Because there is so much potential in these girls, I wanted them to always think of the day they will be able to go to the temple.  Now is the time to prepare and keep themseves ready for the Lord.  I gave them each a "recommend".

 

Finally as a gift, I had rewritten their pedigree charts on to this cute family tree, then laminated it, so they could keep it always.

 

Budgeting and Tithing

Activity Days

This was another activity that I feel really hit home for the girls.  Of course they know they need to pay tithing, but some paid it last in our budgeting.  We learned what N. Eldon Tanner said about budgeting and tithing with our M&M's as money.  We also learned what wants and needs are and why saving is important.  It was also a good FHE lesson for our family as well.

Candy Grams

 Activity Days

I have such a good group of girls.  Two must not have made it into this picture, and one was at a soccer game.  But I simply love these 10 girls and even the ones about to come in (they are in my Primary class).

 This activity was a continuation from last activity.  We were talking about the Parable of the Good Samaritan.  They needed to do a project or something that helped them process the meaning of this parable.  So we made candy grams for them to give to someone who needed a smile or someone in school who never seems to get anything.  They were pretty excited to do these.

The Good Samaritan

Activity Days

This month is about The Parable of The Good Samaritan.  I really enjoyed this lesson and the girls really took to the discussion...leaving us with limited time to our activity, but it was all worth it.  I started by reading the parable out of the scriptures in Luke 10.  Then we watched the brief clip the church had published.  I was choked up, because I have a true testimony that we are all children of our Father in Heaven and we all are important and we are all each others "neighbors"...and we should all be treated as such.

Because we talked of service...I thought a spa day would be fun.  Just as Jesus washed his desciples feet, us leaders washed our girls feet (I missed getting some pictures of the girls doing this).

Also, using our hands in service is just as Pres. Uchtdorf described in his April 2010 address in General Conference.  The girls had a great time.

Finally, as a reminder, we sent the girls home with this little packet of goodies, "Serving with our Hands and Feet."

Journaling

Activity Days 

Journaling was the theme to our Learning to Live the Gospel. With General Conference, I also thought to add these tabs that I found on sugardoodle. Little did I know that this project would take a lot more time then I had planned for. But overall the girls had fun and were excited to decorate their composition notebooks with fun paper and embellishments.  I hope to find them using their conference tabs and take good notes.

A Good Seed?

"Ye Receive No Witness Until After The Trial Of Your Faith" 

-Ether 12:6

Activity Days was fun this week.  We are having an excellent turn out and having some good laughs. 

We talked about seeds and what they need to grow.  Showing a small carrot seed we had a conversation oh how something so small can become a large carrot (found a good sized one at the store).  We then talked about seeds of faith in Alma 32 and what was needed to nourish those seeds, if it were a good seed and what would happen if it were a bad seed. 

I made these little "bookmarks" for the girls to put into their scriptures with carrot seeds to remind them how faith can grow when nourished and when acted upon.

For the activity, I had found these awesome Sunflower Grow Kits at Walmart for 98 cents!  Kristin Hatch my co-partner had these girls getting dirty and preparing their seeds to grow. Good times.

Finally, we played a fun skittle game that had everyone rolling.  You had to place a skittle on your tongue and roll two dice.  If you rolled a one or a seven, you could eat it.  If not, you had to leave the skittle on your tongue until your next roll.  One girl had up to 6 skittles on her tongue before she finally rolled a one.  It was a lot of fun.

Activity Days

Things have been a little busy...in a good way.  I'm up to 3 callings in the ward, which they try to discourage, but if they asked me to give one up, I don't know which one it would be.  I'm in the RS activity board, which I love because it keeps my foot in the door with "grown ups" since my other two callings are in Primary.  I teach the 8 soon to be 9 yr olds in Primary, and love it!  Especially since those girls will be in my Activity Days class as they turn 9.  (Three Activity Day groups 8, 9 and 10-11 yr olds) Seriously, I'm having so much fun learning right along with them.  Activity Days is brand new to me, so I'm up for the challenge to learn and be creative.  For a long time I never really knew what Activity Days was or what was really going on, so I took that and decided to be more organized.  (Of course I knew what it is for, but felt in the dark)  The girls are doing reminder calls, and taking turns with the treat.  I also made up a 6-9 mo calendar, so moms and kids know what is coming up.  Love pinterest for all the blogs and ideas!

These last few week, we have been working on serving others.  The requirement is make your own idea for serving others, so my first activity (2 weeks ago) we did service checks.  They had to "write" a check for the service they were doing.  This week we did something for the nursery. we cleaned all the toys.  Germs have been extreme this winter, so I thought this would be awesome.  We started with this poster as girls came in the church building.  "What would you want someone to do for you?"  I used an article given by Thomas S. Monson about Warm Fuzzies of service.  We talked about what other kids had done for service and the poster of what they would like to be done for them.  They each had fuzzies to take home and leave behind as they did services.  Then we broke into two groups and cleaned both nursery toys (other group finished before I could get a picture of them cleaning).

My girls worked hard and did a great job.  There were a lot more toys then I imagined, so they were awesome to accomplish all they did in a short amount of time.

Finally, to finish out the activity, we did "All About Me" bags.  They brought things from home about them and shared with the group.  Some are less active and really... this was for me to know them better.  Noelle brought amazing chocolate chip cookies in the treat basket to share...I thought it went really well.