This popular activity used to be the "recipe" for the Faith in God award, but since the program changed I tweaked it just a bit to be "Learn ways to stay on the covenant path". Makes for a fun Halloween activity for little witches!!
Takes about 10 minutes of prep (mostly making the banner, which is optional anyways). All you need are these pages and ingredients for the cookies. You'll need a "Witches Brew" paper for each person and just 1 set of the ingredient tents. If you want to add some extra fun, ask all the activity days comers to dress up like a witch or have a witches hat for them!
So I figured that the children could learn about how to "stay on the covenant path" by making "Swig" cookies (if you live in Utah, you probably know how fantastic these sugar cookies are).
Synopsis: Invite the activity participants to dress up like witches for this activity. Then when they arrive, they are given a swig cookie recipe without the ingredients. They must hunt down hidden clue cards that give them the correct ingredients! You can gave these in different classrooms, hidden around your house.. whatever works for you. If you have extra time you can even have little activities at each recipe answer (there's 10) that they have to complete in order to get the correct ingredient/ingredient amount. Once they have found all the ingredients, they can make the cookies!
Once the kids arrive, give them this print-out that they can fold in half, so on either side of their half sheet they have a recipe:
On the first side, they have the "recipe" to the covenant path...
Then on the other side, they have ingredients to the "Swig" cookie. But just like witches have to hunt down ingredients for their "brews", the kids must hunt down and fill out the correct recipe for the cookies. Each Faith In God requirement is assigned a different food ingredient, with a clue to tie them together. For example:
Pray Daily = You "butter" pray, every day = 1 C Butter
Work on your Testimony = Write your testimony down so it won't spoil, that will help your lamp stay full of oil = 3/4 C Vegetable Oil.
These clue cards (there's 10 missing ingredients so there's 10 clue cards) that are hidden around a church building, around a back yard, whatever you choose have the ingredient answer.
The participants, while in their witches costumes, have to go around and fill out the recipe by finding the clue cards. Once all they have found all the clue cards and have their "Swig" Cookie Recipe all filled out, then everyone can come together to make the cookies.
While the cookies are baking, you can go over the Covenant Path and ask if they have any questions.
PLEASE NOTE: This activity has the ingredients within the activity for the
cookie base, you'll also want to plan on making the frosting :)
My files are available HERE
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