Easter Tree

I got this idea from The Family Home Evening Spot to make an EASTER TREE!  We all love Christmas trees, WHY NOT have a tree for Easter too?!?  I bet it would make a fun table decoration or visual aid for an Easter lesson.

There's a huge willow tree in our backyard with these beautiful branches.  I picked out a couple and spray painted it with two or three white coats.  Then I tied them together in a clump with some Easter grass and covered it up in the vase with more grass and a couple plastic eggs.  

I found some of my favorite pictures of Christ and Easter quotes and cropped them down to little  Instagram-like prints, then just slapped them together with some glue and ribbon.

Here are my ornament squares I made.  I used a bunch of images from the LDS gospel library, and I just googled the rest...

 HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

Pre Camp Certification

For mutual on Wednesday we did our first aid training for camp certification.  Since practicing CPR and wrapping a broken leg can only be SO EXCITING, all creativity and effort was focused on refreshments!  Yes!  First aid themed dessert!  

My sweet husband helped me dip pretzel bones the night before.  And I only had to scold him three or four times for trying to eat them when I wasn't looking.  I found the bones recipe here.

The Band-aids were cinnamon graham crackers, vanilla frosting, and red icing.

Weekly Challenge

Okay, you know how every week the lessons challenge the girls to live what they are learning?

Teach something you learned today to a friend or family member...

During the week, think about how this lesson can help you in your life...
Who can you share your testimony with this week?
Blah, blah, blah.

I think these are great challenges, but it's just so easy to forget to think about it during the week!  I wanted to try something new, so I tried making the girls little spiritual notebooks.  You can get three mini composition books for a dollar at The Dollar Tree.  It's something small enough that they can fit into a purse or scripture bag.  The goal is to have them write down their challenge each week and take it home with them.  They can also use it as a spiritual journal, or to glue their handouts in each week. 

I was so excited when I handed them out at the beginning of class today.  About two minutes into the lesson one of my beehives raised her hand and asked, "Can I write that in my notebook?!?!"  Yes. Yes. Yes.  That's what I'm talking about!