talent show

Our combined activity this month was a talent show. It was a lot of fun! We had the kids sign up in the weeks before, and turn in any lyrics to the music they wanted to dance to, or lip sync to.

That night we set up the stage in the cultural hall (ours doesn't have one built in). We served candy and popcorn and cans of soda.

We started off the night by dividing the kids into two groups. (We had 11-12 kids per group, our ward is small) Each group went to a different room in the building to put together a performance. (this way anyone who didn't sign up got to participate) We gave each group a song, props and costumes and let them come up with an act. One group had Little Mermaids "Under the Sea", and had a bunch of Hawaiian clothes, blow up fish, bubbles and even a mermaid costume. I can't remember the other group's song, but they had all sorts of funky clothes. We gave them 15 minutes and then we came back to the gym to start the show.

We had a couple of piano numbers, a saxophone, a joke teller, two brothers showed their juggling stick talents, a lip sync and a dance number, along with the two group numbers in-between. Everyone had a great time and I was impressed with the talent and the goofiness that abounds in our youth!

This activity can be used to complete Individual Worth value experience #4)

Fireman Appreciation

We had a bit of a service project last week for Mutual. We had all the girls bring a treat of some sort, cookies, brownies, crispie treats, candy, anything that was sweet and finger food. We filled cellophane goody bags with the treats and tied them up with ribbons. We had a couple of baskets that we filled up with the goody bags, and we had a cute card for each basket. (one of the leaders made a card with a little fire truck and ambulance on the front) All the girls and leaders wrote a thank you note in the cards.

We loaded up in our cars and went to deliver to the two local fire stations. We knocked on their door and had one of the girls be our spokes person. She told them that we wanted to show our appreciation for them and gave them the treats.

At the second station we got a tour. We were shown all around the station inside, then were shown the trucks and ambulances. It was really interesting, and I loved it. (I have never done a firestation tour before). We asked a lot of questions and learned a lot. All of the girls really enjoyed it.

I looked in the personal progress book to see if this activity could be used to pass off an experience, and it does! It is knowledge number 5.