Visiting Teaching

This month the Visiting Teaching message is about Temples and is your choice.  This is a cute gift you can give your sisters along with your special message.

 Here is the link to the:

Temple Picture

more pictures to come of finished item

Family Home Evening

Honoring Your Parents

Needed:
Printout of Face and Smile (best on cardstock)
Fastener
10 pieces of paper and 2 pencils/pens

Cut out mouth and fasten it to the face so you can make the face frown or smile. Tape it to the wall.

Read Exodus 20:12. What does it mean to honor and obey your parents?

Split into two teams. Separate into different rooms. Give each team 5 pieces of paper and a pencil. Have each team think of 5 ways to either obey or disobey your parents. After everyone has thought of 5 things, have everyone come back into the room.

Have the first team pick one of their own pieces of paper. Have them act out a scene with that situation. Have the opposite team decide whether it is obeying or not obeying your parents by placing a smile or frown on the boys face.

After the activity bare your testimony about how obeying our parents can make us happy.

Here is the link:

Honoring Your Parents FHE

31 days of Halloween

This is a fun Game the whole family can play.  First print out your pumpkins, laminate them, and cut them out.

Here's how you play:  One person hides the pumpkins in the house or outside.  The other family members go and find them.  The person with the most pumpkins wins!  There are 3 differant sizes the smaller ones are for the older kids, and the large ones are for the smaller kids.  Have fun!

Here are the links:

Large Pumpkins

Medium Pumpkins

Small Pumpkins

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Halloween Pumpkin Maze

Here is the link:

Pumpkin Maze

Home Teaching Pack

This is the Home teaching pack!  Keep you magazine at home, just copy the message and put it in your planner with these pages!  Never forget to visit again.  Home Teachers are a real blessing.

Here is the link:

Home Teaching Pack

Visiting Teaching Pack

This is a great addition to our Family planner.  It always reminds me to get my visiting teaching done, and after General Conference, I feel even more motivated to get out there!

Here is the link!

Visiting Teaching Pack

Phone List Pack

This is the phone list part of our Family Planner!  Now you have a place for all those important Numbers.  If your anything like me, I have a real hard time memorizing phone numbers, even my own (I never call myself).

And with cell phones everyone is just a push of a button away.  Never worry about losing all your numbers if you misplace you phone!

Here is the Link:

Phone List

Time to "Ketch-up"

Today feels like a great day to get caught up on some posts waiting in the wings.

Lots of new stuff coming in today!

31 days of Halloween

Halloween Coloring Book

Coloring Book PDF

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Halloween Puzzles

Halloween Puzzles

Family Home Evening

The Wise Man Built His House Upon The Rock

Rock Solid Handout

I glued them onto cardstock and hot glued a rock in the corner and a bow.

There is also a folder game that can go along with this lesson here is the link to that.
File Folder Game Wise and Foolish man

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Halloween Thought of the day!

This would also make a cute visiting teaching handout for this month!

Halloween Thought link

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The Neighborhood Halloween game.

You've Been Boo'd

You've been Boo'd link!

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Scary Chicken and rice dinner.

This is so fun to make for dinner around Halloween.

To make the pumpkin chicken breast, I put 2 breast into a Ziploc bag and add 15 drops of orange food coloring.  Zip the bag closed and moosh it all around until the chicken is coated.  For the Bat chicken do the same thing but with 20 drops of black food coloring.  (if you use to little your chicken will come out looking a little more green than black).

Now Bake, broil or zip 'n steam your chicken!

WORD TO THE WISE: If you zip 'n steam your chicken in the microwave, be ready with a damp cloth to wipe up the black or orange residue from your microwaves steam bath!

I used cheese to make the eyes and mouth of the pumpkin and apple for the bat.

To make the wings out of apple just use a few drops of black food coloring and color the wings as we did the chicken.  It works better if you use a napkin to dry off your apple pieces first.

I serve my chicken over green colored rice, but have also served it with spaghetti.

To make a skull and a ghost no food coloring is needed.  I used colored apple again here for the faces.

My favorite is a spider, a little more fun and of course the picture that did not turn out.

To make: follow the instructions for the bat, to make the legs take a few spaghetti noodles and break in half and place in hot water just until they will bend but are still firm.  Color carefully in a bag so they don't break, and add them to the side of your black chicken.  I will try to make one in the next little while and add to this post later. 

This is a really fun dish to serve when guest come over.  The looks on their faces will be priceless! 

31 days of Halloween

I am posting a few small Halloween ideas to get caught back up.  The picture quality is very poor. I promise these are super cut in person.

First few ideas are with pipe cleaners and pom-poms!

Soda Topper!

First cut 3 black pipe cleaners in half and glue them to the pop lid.

Next glue a pom-pom on top of the legs and add eyes and a nose!

It was that easy!

My 2 and 4 year old have been bugging me for a few days to let them drink the pop.  It was really funny to see them a bit nervous to even go near the soda!

Chair Decoration!

To make this very simple Chair decoration take your pom-pom and glue a pipe cleaner to the top and bottom.  Now glue on the eyes and nose.

Twist the top pipe cleaner around a pencil and slip the pencil out. I glued a small pom-pom to the top.

Now just twist the bottom pom-pom around your chair!  This one is a witch, but you can also do the spiders we made above!

(Yes I do have an orange wall and black chairs!  What can I say, I have Halloween blood running through my veins!)

Napkin Rings!

(also cute if you wrap around a party invitation)

If you can make the spider or chair decoration, you already can make this!

Just make as directed above and wrap around a napkin, invitation, visiting teaching message or just about anything!

Bookmark!

Make your witch or spider as we did above and cut off about 3/4 of the bottom pipe cleaner.

Wrap the smaller end around the top of a large paperclip!

You can use this as a bookmark, to decorate a lunch sack or use as you would with any paperclip!

Thought of the day

I found this on an image search page and could not resist posting it.  Those of you who live by me will get a great chuckle as it has rained every kind of rain for days now.

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Halloween Game

This is a fun game that can be played by all ages!

All you need is TOILET PAPER, a timer, and some friends!

How to play:

Divide yourselves into teams.

Choose one person to be the mummy.

The mummy stands as still as they can while the other team members try to be

the first to wrap their mummy up.

Set the timer for a minute or longer (depends on age and ability)

Grab your T.P. start the timer and wrap up your mummy.