FHE Board

I was called back into Young Womens in March and am very sad about leaving Activity Days.  Most especially because I had planned the whole year and most of the things I really wanted to do  myself.  I wasn't released yet and got to make the FHE assignment board!  I had really wanted to do this, so I was glad to still be in.

I made this ahead of time to show the girls what it's supposed to look like.

It's a piece of foam board I cut to 15'x15".  I used a foam brush and mod podge to glue the scrapbooking paper on, that way there are less bumps and air bubbles that can occur when you use just regular Elmer's glue.

I used hot glue to glue the ribbon pieces around on the back.

I cut the rectangles out of memory foam and glued the stuff on them, and then hot glued the "song", "Opening Prayer", etc. on to the close pin.

And all you do is clip the close pin to the ribbon and persons name.  We only have 5 people in our family so we have 2 blanks that we can use for company that comes over or we can just keep them in baggie that I taped to the back.  And then 1 person will get 2 things, like song and opening prayer.  

After I took this picture I did glue on some gems and juiced it up a little bit.

I just set mine on top of the piano leaning against the wall.  But you can put it in a plate stand of hot glue ribbon to the back to hang it.

We have a page on facebook for our ward and I posted it there for the girls parents to see what we would be making.  And I took it into to church the Sunday before our activity to show the girls what it looked it to encourage them to come.  And it was the Sunday that I took it in that I was told I would be released from Activity Days... So sad!  I've enjoyed the short year and a couple of months I was in activity days!

Teacher and Classmate End of Year Gifts

This is what I put together for Tanner to take to his Teachers on his last day of preschool...

 They are my favorite water bottles with lots of Crystal Light and Walmart brand of Crystal Light drink mixes.  With a tag that says "Thank you for Quenching my thirst for knowledge".  and I had Tanner sign his name on the back of the tag.  My printer must be running our of ink, so the tags printed 2 different colors, oh well.

Here is the tag if you'd like to use.  I printed it on card stock.  Just right click and save it to your computer.  Then open it in whatever picture editing program you use.  Or you can right click, copy it and paste it into a word document.

And this is what I put together for Tanner to give to each of his classmates...

A small bag of cookies that says "you're one smart cookie!  Good luck in Kindergarten!"

Here is the tag if you'd like to use.  I printed it on card stock.  Just right click and save it to your computer.  Then open it in whatever picture editing program you use.  Or you can right click, copy it and paste it into a word document.

My older son also took the cookies in for his classmates.  So his said "good luck in 2nd grade"

There is room on the one above for your child to sign his name.  Sorry I didn't do that on the other one.

If you have an editing program like PhotoShop you can paint over "2nd grade" and "kindergarten" with white and then put in whatever you'd like.

Egg Carton Flowers

Here are the Egg Carton Flowers Tanner made for mother's day.  He gave his to my mom.  And Mackenzie gave hers to Dave's mom.

Kolin's mom told me that Kolin gave it to her right away on Friday, he just couldn't wait.  He was so excited!
You just cut slits or petals from an egg carton, have the kids paint them, put a pipe cleaner in for a stem and glue some beads or gems in the middle.