Easter Handout ideas

Happy Easter!  My awesome Mia Maid advisor is going to be giving an incredible "Silent" Easter Lesson today.  I offered to help her with the handouts (the easy part) and thought I would share them with you!

Here is a handout I made to give at the end of the lesson.  We are going to give the girls some time to reflect and write their testimony/feelings of Christ at the end:

to get this in it's original size (landscape 8.5x11) Click on the image below so it opens in it's own window.  Then on the Mac, you will just drag it to your desktop.  For a PC, right click and save it!

We also made this handout.  She made awesome yummy rolls and I made this tag and then wrapped them in a cello bag:

Here it is in a 8.5x11 format.  I printed it on blue paper which was a fun way to make it look more like Spring!

Here is the fun Bottle Cap Calendar I made today!

Bottle Cap Calendar

Young Women Manual 1, Lesson 1 Daughter of God

This Sunday, I am going to adapt this lesson idea from the movie Tangled...

Here is the handout I made for it:

Here it is in the original size!

Feast Upon the Words of Christ Scripture Challenge.

It has been FOREVER since I have posted!  Guess that is the life of a busy Young Womens President :)  I hope it helps any of you but I wanted to post this little punch card (and a copy of the letter I am sending) to each of my girls for a December challenge.  I am also going to have a Feast (ham dinner) in January and then have various girls bear testimony of the Book of Mormon to end the challenge!

To use the file, you SHOULD be able to just click on the full size file and then either right click and save it on your computer if you have a PC or drag it to your computer if you have a Mac.

I used the fabulous Fayette's design for this punch card.  PLEASE see this kit HERE on her website Pickleberry Pop!

Here is the letter that I wrote:
Dear

Merry Christmas!  How is one of my favorite Young Women?  :) 

Ezra Taft Benson promises: “There is a power in the Book of Mormon which will begin to flow into your lives the moment you begin a serious study of the book.  You will find greater power to resist temptation.  You will find the power to avoid deception.  You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path... ”  WHO WOULD NOT WANT TO PARTAKE IN THIS PROMISE!?  It’s exciting, isn’t it! 

Nephi also tell us to FEAST upon the words of Christ, for the words of Christ will tell us all things that we should do.  Yeah!  How exciting!  Seems so simple, right!? 

These promises are SO great, I want YOU to be able to have them.  So....I am excited to tell you about a challenge I have for you!  During this fun winter break, I would love you (and I) to help focus ourselves on Christ.  To do this, I am challenging you to read your scriptures daily!  Notice, I am not telling you how MUCH to read in the scriptures because I don’t want to put a number on what YOU feel you need to do to “feast”.  I have made a little punch card for you.  Just mark an “x” in each day that you read as a reminder that you have gotten it done. 

If you take this challenge with me, you will not only personally benefit with the blessings of having the Book of Mormon in your daily life, but you will be able to enjoy a FEAST with me for our activity on Tuesday, January 3.  On this day, I will be having you over for a special dinner where we can celebrate our fun challenge.  PLEASE join me, I am excited to share this together.

I love you.  I know this is a generic letter but I can PROMISE you that I love every single one of you.  I THANK YOU for making such great choices and I admire the strength that you have...every single one of you.

Hugs,

(Sister) Shyloh (Belnap)

Here is the 8x10 format I made, and then had printed at Costco!

Uhhh... just a little behind here!

I guess one thing that happens when you are the YW President, is you get SUPER busy!!!  I have lots of fun things I SHOULD be posting but I have been so busy working and serving and being a MOM... blogging has gone to the wayside.  I will try to keep up and then also work on some past posts!  Today I did a lesson on service.  I loved a handout that I found on this blog.  It is so great to find other peoples' finds!  I glued a lip gloss (shiny) with a glue dot on the left side.  The girls LOVED it!!!

 This image below is formatted to be a 4x6 image.  You can right click on it and save it to your computer or you can drag it (on a mac) and put it in your desktop and then print it at Costco or some other affordable printer!  :)

My Easter Lesson!

Tomorrow I need to teach the Easter Lesson and I was VERY excited to see this post on Sugardoodle.net. I give them all the credit for the content of the handouts, I basically copied much of what they had already. I changed them into 4x6 prints so that I could easily send the print job to costco. Then, I just tied them together with a ribbon to give to the girls. It is a little more expensive to print these, but I figured it was worth the "splurge" because Easter is such an important holiday! I am going to go over the points on each card. I printed 8x10 pictures of certain items to hang on the chalkboard (palm leaves, a stack of silver, etc.) just to make it more interesting for them to look at...

You can easily use these pictures by clicking on the actual picture and then right clicking and saving it to your computer. If you have a Mac, you would just click on the picture and then drag it to your desktop to take it!

If you have problems, you can always email me...

After I go through the week before Christ's crucifxtion, I am going to show this video that I downloaded...

Lastly, I plan to end with pointing out to the girls that they now know what Christ has done for us, what will we do for him?  Was it all for nothing?  And then I am going to bear my testimony of Christ.

LDS YW Manual 3, Lesson 2.. Parable of the Pickle Handout

I prepared my lesson for tomorrow.  I basically followed the lesson but then ended using the Parable of the Pickle.  I used the concepts discussed in Elder Bednar's Talk.  I got the general concept from this talk but twisted it just a bit to match the lesson a little better.  For the Handout, I made it as a 5x7 size so that I could print 2 to a picture at Costco for $.39 each!  I am going to attach these labels to a jar of pickles and use packing tape as the "laminate" over the top!   I also included the single picture so you can format it however you would like if it helps.  To use this file, click on the picture and then right click and save it to your computer (for a PC) for a Mac, just drag it to your desktop!
The digital papers used in this kit are from The Ettes at Pickleberry Pop and the kit is called the Good Life.  LOVE THE ETTES designs!!!!

Here is a copy of my notes from this part of the lesson:

Parable of the Pickle:

We can use this analogy to understand the process of change we need to experience to become more like Christ.

Preparing and Cleansing:  You have to take the stems off, scrub the pickles clean...repent and make yourself clean

Immersing and Saturating:  It has to be immersed in salt brine:  We can be immersed in the scriptures, we have to listen to church talks, read books, attend seminary, etc.  If we don't immerse a "pickle" into these things, we will have a "pickle" that is only half done.

Purifying and Sealing:  Cured cucumbers are packed into sterilized jars and heat processed in order to remove impurities and to seal the containers from external contaminants. The boiling-water-bath procedure enables the pickles to be both protected and preserved over a long period of time....  Go to the temple often, continually do what it takes to "seal" you from temptation.

If we do these things, we will be comfortable having Christ as our friend, we will have things in common to talk about and we will KNOW Christ better.