November activity days

I'm still in charge of activities for the 8-11 year old girls.  Besides not being able to relate to them very well, I'm enjoying the calling.  This month, we made the "Give Thanks" frames using the $1 wooden frames from Michael's.  We covered them with decorative paper and modpodge.  I found the "thanks" sparkly letters on clearance at Michael's and printed out the "give" on the computer.  I brought some buttons and other little embellishments, thinking they might like to put 2-3 of them on the frame.  I'm pretty simplistic I guess.  I forget that they like to put things all over.  They also got pretty crazy with the distressing ink for the edges.  Oh well. They also got gratitude journals which they were supposed to write in daily for November.

Our 2nd activity:  We talked about the 13th article of faith -
"We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things."


We focused on the "seek after these things" and did a scavenger hunt for some of the good things we seek after.  They were given a clue and had to look by an item that went with that, such as seeking after good music (piano), seeking good friends (phone), seeking good books (bookshelf), seeking to keep our bodies healthy (fruit), etc.  They had fun with it.  When they found all their clues, they put it together to reveal where the treasure was, which was a gold treasure box with beads in it.  They used the beads to make simple bracelets on memory wire.  The wire was so easy to work with.  We just bent one end of it with pliers, strung the beads on, and bent the other side.  So easy.  Not fancy, but simple.


We did a 3rd activity this month.  We made advent calendar wreaths using clothespins.  I pre-painted 25 clothespins for each wreath.  We used a fake pine garland and cut off pieces (with wire cutters) to hot glue on each clothespin.  Prior to that, we wrapped some little red and gold glitter balls around the pine piece (the balls were already on a wire and part of a decorative stem).  We arranged the clothespins around a circular piece of covered cardboard (I used a cereal box and glued some scrapbook paper on).  Then we stuck 1-25 under each of the clothespins - each day has a little service or activity to do to countdown the days until Christmas.  Another pretty simple, but cute activity.