In the Faith in God
book under Serving Others, there is the following requirement: Plan and hold a parent-child activity, such as a dinner,
picnic, hike, day trip, or service project. My ward did a
Mother-Daughter CupCakeWars activity and it was
great! I thought
it could be super fun for the girls to plan this themselves.
Maybe you can spend about 20
minutes at the end of an activity to let the girls plan the CupcakeWars as their next activity. They can totally
plan how they want to do it… but you can help them
out by providing the invitations that they fill out, deciding what they want
and making assignments (perhaps have someone prepare the cupcakes ahead of
time, but have them ready to be decorated) and once it’s time for the activity, they
can fill out the food cards and make sure they have everything. Then they can
decide how they would like the cupcakes to be judged... maybe the Activity Day
leaders can be the judges, or maybe the girl's can invite the primary
presidency or their primary teacher.
I made two invitations:
Have the girls fill out the
assignments and staple their little assignment paper to their invitation. Have
them also make a master list for the leaders so someone knows what everyone is
bringing:
Here is a list of things to remember/ideas:
Cupcakes
Frosting
Food
Coloring
Sprinkles
Lots
of Candy - gummy bears, gummy worms, sweedish fisth, sour patch...
Chocolate
Chips
Oreo
Fruit
- raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, banana....
Flavoring
Decorating
Icing
Plates
Serving
Spoons
Napkins
Spoons
Knives
Either
prepared ahead of time or right at the beginning of the event, have the girls
fill out the food labels to put on the table:
Have each
Mother/Daguther/Friend team make up a name for their cupcakes. That way the
judges won't know whose is who, but can announce a winner using their team
name. Have them place their "name table tent" right next to their
cupcakes.
And then have these awards
ready... let the girls choose whether they want the judge to do "first,
second and third" or "most appetizing, most colorful, most unique,
most creative". I also made one that says "awesome" in case
every girl would like to get something. As the leader, maybe you can even
purchase prizes ahead of time for the winners.
You can get my files for this activity HERE :).
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ReplyDeleteI love your blog! Activity Days is for boys and girls ages 8 to 11. We don't have a scouting program in our ward, so we are all together and I know we are not the only ward doing this, especially when scouts in only done in the US. Everything I have read so far on your blog says "girls" maybe you could say "children" instead. Just a friendly suggestion.
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ReplyDeleteThis is great! Did the girls just decorate the cupcakes or did they bake them too?
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ReplyDeleteWhat fonts did you use for all these? Primarily the Cupcake Wars main font?
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