St. Pattys Day Teacher Appreciation

Here's a quick, cute, last minute teacher appreciation gift for St. Patty's Day!

Just attach this free printable to a hand sanitizer. I got this green colored one at walmart for $1.97

This is a 4x6 print

New Beginnings 2012

We had our new beginnings a few weeks ago and I thought I'd post a few things that we did. We got the theme idea from the blog Go Forward with Faith. Our girls loved it!

The invitations

We made these 4x6 invitations

And attached them to the cute "tickets" Found HERE.

This was the invitation for the night

We had a "playbook" for all the girls when they came in. (The parents LOVED this)

Here are a few things we put in their playbooks

Important dates for the year

A team roster

a list of the combined YM/YW activities for the year

The Pregame Pep Talk Schedule (lesson Schedule)

And a Practice Schedule (Activity schedule)

The Mia Maids were in charge of the Game for the night. They did a great job. They had questions about Personal Progress, and the new Strength of Youth booklet.

We were just in our RS room so we didn't go too crazy with decorations.

The Sunday before New Beginnings I had all the classes set  Goals for the Year. I had them displayed at New Beginnings and talked a little about them. We have this hanging in our YW room every Sunday to remind them to work on their goals!

For Food we served YUMMY Nachos. We just had chips, cheese, salsa, guacamole, Cafe Rio Style Chicken and Sweet pork, Sour Cream, Olives, etc... We just had water bottles for the drink. The night was a Huge Success and everyone had a great time!

Giveaway Winner

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Look for an email so I can get your jamberry nails mailed out to you! Thanks!

"Lucky You" Jamberry Nails giveaway

I LOVE jamberrynails. They are so stinkin cute. They have a ton of cute designs and they are easy to use! I thought it would be fun to do a giveaway for St. Patty's day.

How to Enter
Leave a comment (with your email address) letting me know what "green" Design you want to win!
Contest will end February 26 at 9:00 mst.

Lesson 7 lm1 Homemaking

I attached this handout to a card. I had the girls write their moms a little thank you note.



Valentine's Burlap Wreath

I saw the idea on pinterest to use a pool noodle for a wreath form. It worked perfect. It was light weight and I could cut it to the desired size I wanted. I just used duct tape to connect the 2 ends.

I bought 1.5 yards of red Burlap.

Cut into 2'' x 20'' strips

tie double knot around wreath.

"squish" sections close together to cover upthe blue noodle (:

I had a little extra burlap so I cut some cute lil hearts to make the banner. I used the glue gun to attach the red hearts to the tan burlap rectangles.

Lesson # 3 lm1 Following the Example of Jesus Christ

I loved President Dieter F. Uchtdorf's talk "You Are My Hands" see HERE.  It was a suggested talk for this lesson on lds.org

I bought these gloves at the dollar store they were 2 for $1!



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 My SIL bought these cute lil hand sanitzers at Bath and Body works when they were on sale 2 for $1.

Here is a 4x6 printable

Gumball Necklace (Yw Activity)

 Here are a few of the cute necklaces my YW made at our activity. They all turned out soo cute I wish I had pictures of all of them!  The girls had a great time, and they were all so creative.
My sister in law gave me the idea. She had seen something on pinterest (HERE). They used a nail to drill the holes for but I thought a drill press would work much faster!

I bought the gumballs at Sams Club. I don't have  a membership so I got online and got a one day pass. Just google Sams club one day pass and get a reference number. The gumballs were $18.88 for a pack of 850. GREAT DEAL! I drilled 425 in about 40 minutes.

 Step 1. Position drill press correctly. I used a 5/32 drill bit for the hole.

 Step 2. Drill a hole all the way through the gumball. So you have a hole on both sides of gumball. I chose to drill right through the double bubble logo.

 Step 3. I cut my ribbon to the length I wanted and threaded the end to a quilting needle. I only needed to thread it through a little bit.

Step 4.  Thread on gumballs. So easy!! On the one above we tied a little knot in between each gumball. But others we just threaded the gumballs right next to each other.

Arise and shine forth

 I am introducing the theme for the year to the YW on Sunday. I am giving the girls these cute little light bulb jars along with the printable I made back in November. (2 printables with the new theme can be found HERE)
The idea came from Sugar doodle  (HERE) listed under birthday gift ideas for 2012

They have these light bulb jars at Hobby Lobby. They are regularly priced $1.99. I bought them when they were on sale 40% off. so they were about $1.20 each (:   Hobby Lobby will let you order the amt you need. I ordered mine on a Monday and they were in by Wednesday!

YW gift

We gave the YW in our ward these cute lil charm bracelets for Christmas this year. We will be giving them charms throughout the year. For things like new beginnings, Evening of Excellence, camp, certain lessons, Easter, their birthdays etc... I have found the cheapest place to get charms has been on etsy. The girls loved them, and are excited to start collecting their charms.
I got the bracelets at a local boutique called the Busy Biddy. The owner Janet is so stinkin cute and was so helpful!