Article of Faith PowerPoint

At my house, we have our computer hooked up to our TV. I have been doing this for a while but it just occurred to me to put this on the blog. Its really nice when some of the girls get to activity days a little early, or if we finish early... to have this up for the girls to look at. Basically it's a PowerPoint to help them learn their Articles of Faith where I take more and more words away with each slide. Here is an example of Article of Faith 1:

  

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Articles of Faith Pass Off

Last year we had an Article of Faith Tournament where the girls were able to pass off quite a bit of their Articles of Faith. We are going to do that again this year and in preparation for that I made an Article of Faith Pass-Off for them. I did it in Word, so if anyone would like me to e-mail to them, let me know. Here is what it looks like in Word:

 I fit two per page and last year we bought little star stickers so the girls could put a sticker on each article they passed off. If you don't want to get stickers though... you can just color in the star. So I printed this off, trimmed the edges and glued it on pink card-stock.

And Voila! Each girl can have their very own pass-off list with the articles to reference. If I were really good, I would get these laminated and I would have made it a little smaller ( like I did last year) so the girls could fit it in their scriptures... but this year I wanted the text to be a little bigger.

 

*** UPDATE ***

I have put these calendars on my new ETSY, along with many of the other files!! If you would like these files, along with many of my other files right away... you can visit: www.etsy.com/shop/snapshotplace

Frame The Proclamation on the Family (Developing Talents)

For this activity, we got free copies of the The Proclamation on the Family from the distribution center and then got poster board that we cut in half. The girls decorated the poster board around the proclamation with what thier family meant to them. We told them to decorate it with what thier family is now and what they want thier family to be someday.
We also read a few sections of the Proclamation and talked about it for a minute. Here is what some of the girls came up with:

“I am a child of God” Plaque (Basic Requirements)

I am a child of God,
And he has sent me here,
Has given me an earthly home
With parents kind and dear.
Lead me, guide me, walk beside me,
Help me find the way.
Teach me all that I must do
To live with him someday.

I am a child of God,
And so my needs are great;
Help me to understand his words
Before it grows to late.
Lead me, guide me, walk beside me,
Help me find the way.
Teach me all that I must do
To live with him someday.

I am a child of God.
Rich blessings are in store;
If I but learn to do his will
I'll live with hime once more.
Lead me, guide me, walk beside me,
Help me find the way.
Teach me all that I must do
To live with him someday.

I am a child of God.
His promises are sure;
Celestial glory shall be mine
If I can but endure.
Lead me, guide me, walk beside me,
Help me find the way.
Teach me all that I must do
To live with him someday.

For this activity we made "I am a child of God" plaques! Because the only thing we didn't have already (paper, glue, scissors...) or got for free (wood) was the "I am a child of God" di-cuts, each girl got to make a plaque for a total of $5! What you would need:

• Wood (I used some wood that my parents had left over from building their house)
• Scrapbook paper, colored paper
• Ribbon, stickers, bows... whatever you would like to decorate them.
• Glue
• "I am a child of God" di-cut (my sister has a machine and made them for us. She charged us for the materials - $5. I'm sure you can buy them or just use letter stickers)
• Scissors

So at first each girl got a piece of wood. Then we had them pick out their scrapbook paper.

Then they shaped the paper around the piece of wood, making creases in the paper to know where to cut the extra paper out of the corners.

Then they glued the paper to the wood (it was actually MDF, which I think worked better for these). Then the girls picked out what colored paper they wanted, placed the "I am a child of God" di-cut onto the colored paper, then glued the colored paper onto the scrapbook paper.

Then they glued their ribbon on, put some thumb-tacks on..... 

 

 AND TADA!

We even had time left over for some of the girls to make a second one for girls who coudln't make it to the activity :)