2014 YW Calendar

At the end of last year, my Mia Maids asked for calendars

to help them organize their lives.

I looked online to try and find a cute 2014 calendar.

I could not find anything that I really liked that was free.

I decided to create one myself!

I am a month late, but I got it done.

I did not make a January, only February - December 2014.

If you read my previous post,

we had a Personal Progress Goal Setting Activity.

I based the colors of each month, on the value

that the girls will be focusing on for that month.

Here is what each individual month looks like.

If you want to download the entire calendar,

click here and it will take you to the .zip file.

I also created a cover for the calendar,

with the 2014 mutual theme.

I am going to print it off and have it bound for all the girls.

 I created two different covers;

1. For your YW Presidency and

2. Just for a spiritual cover.

Click the picture, then click save image as...,

save it to your computer and you can print it off.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Personal Progress Goal Setting Activity

I was put in charge of a combined YW activity last night.

We have decided to focus more on Personal Progress (PP) this year.

I made quite a few handouts for the activity.

You can download them to your computer by clicking the picture,

right clicking on it, pick save as..., and save to your computer. 

First, I made PP booklet holders out of the girls favorite colors.

Here is a picture of all of the cases.

I used the pattern from this website.

I picked a black with white polka dot material,

embroidered their name in their favorite color,

Then used a ribbon that matched their name.

Here is the final product.

 Here is the inside.

I switched around the arrangement of where the books go.

I wanted the holder to open like a book, and the website

I got the pattern from, opens the other way.

I made special pens for the girls to go in their PP booklets.

First, I created this Value Pen Strip document in Photoshop.

Then I purchased these pens at our local grocery store.

I had to buy black and blue pens, they didn't have enough black.

Here are all of the supplies needed for the YW pens.

Take the paper and wrap it tightly around the pen.

Carefully push it into the pen container.

I had to shove it in as far as I possible could.

Put the cap back on the end and voila, YW Value pen!

Here is the calendar of what PP Values we will be working on for 2014.

 

I wanted them to make PP goals for every month this year.

i.e. Read 1 chapter of the Book of Mormon every day for the month of Jan,

Focus on making my prayers more personal for the month of Feb, etc.

 I found quite a few ideas for PP Project Ideas online.

I had them look over the lists and pick projects that

they thought would be fun to do.

Then I had them write them down so that they could keep it in their PP holder to remember what they would like to do for their projects.

 I know that the church has put out a PP Tracking Sheet that each leader can use to keep track of where the girls are with PP.

I thought that it would be nice for the girls to have

one that they could see for themselves.

It is easier to see the PP as a whole, instead of

just what is signed off in the books.

I also know, that there is a tracking sheet in the back of the PP book.

But I thought it would be nice to be able to look at this,

while looking through the PP book.

I thought it would help the girls pick out experiences that they wanted to do.

 Phew...that about covers what I came up with

for our PP Goal Setting Activity.

Let me know if you have any questions on any of it.

Stand as a Witness of God

Tomorrow I am teaching the lesson titled,

What does it mean to "stand as witnesses of God"?

Here is the handout that I came up with to go along with my lesson.

You can click on the picture, right click, and save as...

Let me know if you use it or if you like it.

October: How Can I Learn to Be More Patient?

Last Sunday I taught a lesson about being more patient.

For my object lesson I made sugar cookies.

I gave each girl a small sugar covered heart cookie at the beginning of class.

They were instructed to hold the cookie

on their lap through the entire lesson.

They could eat it, if they wanted to.

But if they waited until the end of class,

they would get something better (a frosted pumpkin cookie).

The girls did a great job of not eating their little heart cookie.

At the end of my lesson, I asked the girls if it

was difficult to not eat the cookie.

Most of them said that it was and then asked if they could eat it.

Here is the handout that I made for this lesson.

I love President Uchtdorf and his wisdom!

You can click on the picture, then right click on it, and click save as...

To save it to your computer.

Enjoy!

Personal Progress Conference Handout

I found this cute idea on Pinterest for a YW Conference Handout.

You can click here for the link to the original idea.

I used all of the same information from the original idea,

but I made a cute handout to go along with it.

You can either click the picture, and right click on it to "save as..."

or you can click here for the file.

We are going to attach this handout to a bag of cheetos.

Hopefully it will help inspire the girls to get some personal progress started.

All of them are pretty easy too.

Let me know if you have any questions or if I misspelled something.

Honesty

Last Sunday I taught the lesson,

Why is it Important to be Honest?

Here is the handout that I made for this lesson.

This quote came from a priesthood session.

I felt that it applied to the young woman as well as the men.

So I modified it to fit my lesson.

Click here for the file to print off 4 to a page.

LDS Bleached Shirts

It's been going around Pinterest like wildfire!

Taking a bleach pen to a plain t-shirt and

you have a new fantastic shirt to wear.

Last month we had an activity planning meeting with all

of the Young Women in both wards.

They wanted to do Bleached Shirts.

I was put in charge of the activity and started doing research

on what works and what doesn't.

I was surprised to find that no one had done an LDS themed bleached shirt.

I was hoping to get an easy out for this activity.

No such luck!

So I put together this tutorial in the hopes that it will help someone.

Without further adu, here is how I made my shirts.

Supplies:

T-shirt (100% cotton, if there is polyester in it, it will not bleach as well)

Bleach pen (I got mine at the grocery store for $2.57)

Cardboard (to go in between your shirt)

An idea of what you want to put on your shirt (see below)

Chalk (optional: if you want to draw out your idea first)

First, put the piece of cardboard in between the layers of your shirt.

Make sure that the cardboard is covering the entire area

that you want to bleach.

Otherwise, the bleach will run through to the back of your shirt.

Second, take your chalk or your stencil and get your design ready.

I found a template of the Salt Lake City Temple online

and used that (see below for template).

I printed it off on freezer paper, then used an exacto knife,

and cut it out around the edges, so I had the border of the temple.

Then I ironed it on to the shirt, so it would stay put.

I was hoping that if I ironed on the stencil, the spires would show up.

I used my blunt piece of chalk to write out the words on the shirt.

I would recommend a sharpened piece of white chalk, I didn't have a sharpener that would fit chalk in it.

Then I went over the temple and the words with the bleach pen.

If you look at the temple, you can see that I didn't try and

stay nice and neat around the outside.

I was hoping that the bleach would only penetrate the shirt and

not soak through the freezer paper.

I free handed where the windows go and didn't end up following my chalk,

I thought my chalk markings were off.

I let the shirt sit for 10 minutes and it didn't

look like it had done enough bleaching.

So I let it sit for another 10 minutes.

Carefully remove the stencil and the cardboard,

without letting any of the bleach touch anything!

Then I rinsed the bleach off with cold water.

When you rinse it, you can tell where the bleach is.

It ends up being white gunk that you are wiping off.

Check to make sure that you have all of the white gunk off,

then ring out the shirt.

Here is what it looked like.

I let this shirt sit, while I did my shirt.

I found this idea online by doing a Google search

for "LDS Young Women Image."

I just did it freehand.

I like how it turned out, but I would have done it differently

if I thought about it more.

This shirt, I only let sit for 10 minutes.

You can see around the BE that the bleach was starting to bleed

and I didn't want it to get too far.

 Once it was rinsed, I grabbed the purple shirt and threw both of them

into a cold, short wash with some vinegar and detergent.

Once that was done, into the dryer they went.

 Here is how they turned out.

Sorry there isn't a picture of me in my shirt.

I'm 18 weeks pregnant and am in the stage where I feel fat and not pregnant. :(

 This is the best picture I could get of my little princess in her shirt.

She will be able to wear it for a few years, which I love!

Here is what I learned:

- You don't need to use a lot of the bleach to get it to lighten your shirt.

But that is all dependent on the material your shirt is made of.

I put a small amount of bleach on, then used the tip to spread the bleach, it worked perfectly.

- You want to let your shirt sit for 10-25 minutes, once you are done bleaching.

I decided to set my alarm in ten minute increments so I could keep an eye on it.

- I had my husband help me get the cardboard out of the shirt.

I put my hands in the neck hole and he grabbed the cardboard.

That way I could put it in the sink nicely so the fabric didn't fold and the bleach didn't get everywhere.

Ideas for LDS designs:

Like I mentioned earlier, I did a Google search for "LDS Young Women Images."

I found 19 images that I loved!

I have put them into a PDF file for you to download.

Click here for the Bleach Shirt Document.

The temple stencil is page 4 of that document.

I think that about covers it.

I feel like I'm forgetting something...I will update if I remember.

Let me know if you have any questions.

I would love to see pictures if you try an LDS design!