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Girls Camp Craft Idea: Ribbon Bracelets

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My YW and I made these bracelets a few months ago to give at New Beginnings, but they would be a super easy craft for girls camp too!

We wanted the bracelets to have a message to tie in with this year’s mutual theme so the girls chose to have them say “find the courage within.”

Supplies needed:
Ribbon-YW value colors
Brad (optional)
Adhesive velcro
Label Maker with tape
Scissors
Lighter (to melt the ribbon ends)

This ribbon bracelet was adapted from a bracelet on I Never Grew Up. She has a tutorial.

I had a hard time finding ribbon with the YW colors. There was rainbow ribbon, but I spent a summer in San Francisco and did not the girls running around giving the wrong idea (the rainbow is the universal sign for gay). I took creative license and bought a ribbon that had most of the colors and then bought a brad that filled in the missing colors (Purple, Sparkles used for gold). I liked the extra bling the brad added.

Then, we just printed the saying on labels and stuck them on the inside of the ribbon bracelet. We had to trim them a little to get them to fit just right.

Easy peasy, economical, cute!

I got my ribbon in the Robert’s Craft gift wrap section. The brads were from Robert’s too.

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June Visiting Teaching Handout-Renewing Covenants Through the Sacrament

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I still can’t believe it is June! Here is my June Visiting Teaching Handout for all those early birds out there. I wanted it to be something summery, but simple so it would focus on the message of Renewing our Covenants Through the Sacrament.

Feel free to print out and use as you like.

I used the free Sun Porch kit from Shabby Princess for the layout.

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YW Read Scriptures 5 Minutes/Day Incentive Program

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Last year the youth were asked by the YM/YW General Presidents to read their scriptures for at least 5 minutes per day. We loved this idea and decided it would be nice to have a little accountability and recognition for those who were doing it. We brought in this giant candy jar and and each week we let everyone who read 5 minutes every single day that week come up and get a piece of candy. This way those who did it were recognized and those who did not might be motivated to do it next week.

This year we wanted to continue the program, but felt it needed a little extra something to keep it fresh. We wanted something to show the progress, that we could add to each week. We decided it would be great to also incorporate a service aspect. We came up with the idea to make a chart where they would put a sticker each week they read every day. This would show the progress, but each sticker also represents a quarter. At the end of the year, all the money that was earned throughout the year will be donated to a family in need of the girls’ choice.

We still let them take a piece of candy, as an immediate reward, but now they can watch their progress and know that they are not only helping themselves by reading their scriptures, but also helping someone in need.

Let me tell you, this works. At least for me, a little accountability goes a long way for motivation. I have only missed going up two weeks since we instituted this program last year. I don’t want to ask my girls to do something that I am not doing myself.

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May Visiting Teaching Handout-Conference Edition “Keeping Our Families on the Road to Him”

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This month’s Visiting Teaching message is left up to us to decide. There were so many wonderful General Conference talks to choose from, but I saw a theme in many of them that stuck out to me. I decided to focus on our influence on the testimonies and strength of our children. There were so many delicious quotes, I could not help myself. Talk about a feast!

I could not narrow it down, so I decided to do a booklet for my Visiting Teaching Handout this month. It contains 16 quotes from five different April 2010 general conference talks. I called it “Keeping Our Families on the Road to Him.” Have a look see for yourself…

I love that it shares why it is important to help our children build their testimonies and learn to act, shows suggestions on how to do this and talks about the blessings for them, but also us as parents. I included quotes on young children too because we (myself, companion, and the fantastic woman I visit) all have really young kids (all boys).

Feel free to use them all, or pick and choose!

They were made as 5×7 so I could print two to a page on card stock, then cut them in half and attach with ribbon.

I am in love with this booklet and hope you like it too!

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