Guest Craft: YW Camp Chore Chart

I am so happy that we have a guest crafter today, and just in time too. Young Women girls camps are coming up fast.

Our MOM is the guest today! She is one of the girls camp directors for the Spanish branch in her stake. She has been helping them out for several years now. She is not that new to girls camp though. I know she has been going to girls camp for her stake for 20+ years now. In our family we love to go camping. It is something we all look forward to doing all year. We've become quite good at it.

Since she has had some experience camping she knows the in and outs of getting things done and adding some fun with it. 

This year for camp she made a job chart for the girls. That way each girl will know what to help with for meals to make things run smoothly for the week. This is the awesome chart she came up with. 

 Isn't she creative?!

Each person going to camp has a bear bookmark with their name on it. She even put their initials on the bear paws. Each meal a girl has a chore. The chores are marked by an envelope that the bookmarks are placed in. Wash, start fire, help cook, rinse, dry, clear table, and free time are the jobs that need to get done.

This is such a great idea. On the back of the poster she has the descriptions of what needs to be done at each station. That way the girls will know exactly what they need to do. 

My sister and I have loved going to girls camp and it was always so great to have our mom be there with us every year. I know that the girls in mom's stake are so lucky to have her. 

Thanks for sharing your awesome idea with us.

Mini Scriptures

I teach a primary class of young kids for my church. A few weeks ago we had a lesson about the prophet Joseph Smith translating the gold plates into the Book of Mormon. For a cute handout I found this miniature scripture idea for the kids to take home.

My philosophy is that I get ideas for other people and then figure out how to do it on my own so that it is somewhat my own. I'll tell you how I did it.

What you will need. 

tape

glue stick

card stock

"Hershey's Treasures" candy

ribbon

print out of your scripture.

Cut the card stock so that it fits both chocolate pieces and tape them down on the paper. I think it was about 2 1/2 X 1 1/2. I'm not positive though. (I made them a while ago).

Use the glue stick to glue the small piece of ribbon to the chocolates. It should stay pretty tight but if not it's ok because you'll put your scripture on top.

Print out your scripture in a very small font into two narrow columns. You may have to work around with the document to make it work. I chose the scripture Doctrine and Covenants 3:19. Because that is where we learn that the plates of old were meant for us to read and study now.

Stick the scripture on with the glue stick and you're done. 

Not including the time I spent fiddling with the word document, this project took about an hour. Next time I do this it will be for kids who are a bit older that will appreciate the thought instead of just devouring the candy as soon as they saw it.

JUSTINE

New Beginnings

We have blogged about our religion several times here on this blog and we have some links to find out more information
   with this link you can find out a lot more about what I believe specifically and here you can find out more about our church.
Today I am going to blog about an organization we have in our church for youth. A few months ago I was asked to be a leader for the young women in our ward. As a church we have something every year for the young women called New Beginnings. This is where the Theme that we will be focusing on all year in introduced, and new girls that will be turning 12 and joining young women's are introduced to what we do.

This year our Theme is Arise and Shine Forth  this comes from a scripture in Doctrine and Covenants that says "Arise and shine forth, that thy light may be a standard for the nations" the link above is an article how we are going to use this through out the year to teach the youth about being an example to others. 

So what does this have to do with our craft blog well let me tell you... 

I found these printables on this blog and a few ideas from pinterest and came up with

these. They are pillow cases that we are going to give the young women at New Beginnings. 

Here is how I did it

Super easy I found my image

Then I got these fabric transfers at Wal-mart for about $7 

and my pillow cases for 2 for $4 also at Wal-mart. 

Just follow the instructions for the transfers that are in the box iron on your image to your pillow case and 

you get some super cute pillows! Now the girls can wake up each morning and have a reminder to arise and be an example to others!

The fabric transfers are super easy to use and can be used for so many things!

I also made some invitations for the girls to give their parents to invite them to new beginnings here is how they turned out...

Front

back

Super easy and fun for the girls to help make and then give to their parents!