primary easter activity

Still the P. Prez, shocking I know. We had a great activity this weekend for Easter. It was a Easter egg hunt and service project. We collected little toys and treats from the ward to make grab bags for the food bank. So when families go to the food bank to get food, they can take home a little surprise for their children. So we had the children decorate some white gift bags with stickers and markers, then we filled them with the treats and toys. Before we did the Easter egg hunt, I talked to them about Jesus and His sacrifice. I asked them after the Easter egg hunt if they would be willing to sacrifice some of their eggs to children who would otherwise not have anything fun for Easter.  So after they ran all over my Mom's backyard most of the children gave up some eggs, and some children gave up all their eggs. With 40 kids at the activity, we had over 200 eggs sacrificed. 

So the next morning realized the food bank doesn't operate on Saturday. The eggs would be pretty pointless after Easter, so I called the food and care coalition where they serve hot meals, and they said they could use them as tray favors for the meal on Easter. So I ran them down to them. When I walked in, they were very excited for the eggs, because they didn't have anything like that for Easter. Just as I was about to go, the woman who was taking the donations got a phone call. It was a very sad mother who was calling to ask if they had anything she could give her children on Easter morning. She had been waiting for money to come in and it didn't, so she had no money to do something special for her kids on Easter morning.  So she told the mom they just had some eggs donated and she could come down and get some. So if it wouldn't of been for my primary kids, she would have been turned away with nothing. So I thought that was pretty great! We should give our kids opportunities to sacrifice!

primary activity

Oh relief. A successful primary quarterly activity behind me. We are eating boxed mac and cheese after that (ok, that's a lie, I won't eat boxed mac and cheese the kids are eating it and I am eating a piece of homemade lasagna I had stashed in the freezer).The activity was really good (if I don't say so myself). This year's  theme is "My Eternal Family" so the activity was a kick-off the the new theme.  We had the kids come in the PJ's (a tradition started last year) and the concept of the activity was for the children to prepare a family home evening packet for their families. So we taught them how to teach a lesson, helped them prepare a game, taught them to lead a song, and helped them prepare a cookie mix for the FHE treat.  We split the tasks between my incredible presidency, and they all did some awesome stuff. Which part do you think I was in charge of? The treat of course.

I got some clear plastic bags to have the children put the ingredients into, then tied them off with a twisty and and attached the instructions on how to prepare the cookies, and on the opposite side printed "recipe for a heavenly home" that I got off the church's website . I cut the recipe out with my cricut in the shape of a house (got a new cricut for Christmas from my mom and I am getting a little obsessive, you should see my sharing time on the Plan of Salvation tomorrow, went a tad bit over board with the cricut,  the machine isn't the only thing I got from my mother..... OCD). A Cookie made like this isn't the best tasting cookie (this is) but it served its purpose, and the kids were thrilled with the concept.  Every kid got to measure their own ingredients, so sorry parents if you cookies are horrible, it was kind of crazy having a bunch of kids around the table talking to you at the same time!

To make about 15 cookies this is what I  had them measure:

1 1/4 c flour

1/2 t salt

1/2 t baking soda

1/4 c sugar

1/2 c brown sugar

1/2 c chocolate chips

When they go home they were instructed to blend together 1/2 c butter or margarine (1 stick), 1 egg, and 1 t vanilla. Then add cookie mix and combine. Drop teaspoon size balls on a cookie sheet, for best results chill for 10 minutes before baking. Bake at 375 for 9-11 minutes.