General Conference

I love general conference. My kids probably don't love it as much, but they are definitely enjoying it much more this time than they have in the past. We are in between sessions at the moment, and Nathan said he wants to watch it again (because I'm not letting them do the activities unless we're watching conference). Most of the ideas came from Pinterest, so I'll try and post where I got the ideas by the pictures.

This is our basket of conference goodies. There were also some treats and coloring projects hidden in there.

This is Nathan's dry-erase binder.

I got this idea here. 

I have previously laminated pages from the friend, but I do think the binder works better. The pages are better for dry erase, and it's nice to have them all in one place. I'm sure we'll be taking this to church with us.

I loved this template! I downloaded it from this website.

I decided to put it in a 4x6 photo book, so they could look through it during conference and sacrament meeting. Then I thought that it would be nice for Nathan to write down what each prophet/apostle had said during conference. This worked out so well! And then he will be able to see what he wrote as he reviews it during sacrament meeting. All the photo cards + a note card for each prophet/apostle fit perfectly into this book from Walmart. (It holds 36 photos). So fun! 

We got this project from the Primary last Sunday. The kids are supposed to write down a word they hear in General Conference for each letter of the alphabet. When they do, they get a jelly bean for each letter completed.

Matt is too young to write words, so he got a jelly bean for each section of the coloring page that he colored. Obviously his color of choice today was purple. Funny kid. :)

I am excited to do this project. I haven't shown this one to them yet, but I worked on it during conference. This will be the article of faith cards, held together by a ring. I might make a cover for them, so they don't get bent or something in our church bag. (I'm sure it would happen). I found this idea here. This website is the same as the one for the prophet and apostle cards. She is great! She offers both of these templates free, and then I just printed them at Walmart.  

The last thing I made were these little puzzles from 5x7 photos from the Distribution Center. I got the idea from this website. She used craft sticks, or Popsicle sticks for the puzzles. I tried that with one puzzle and I was getting frustrated and feeling that it wasn't working very well, so I opted after that to just cut random puzzle shapes for the rest of the puzzles.  I might try more stick puzzles for church, but this was a good activity for them! Some of them were too hard for Matt, so I might make more that are only 4 pieces (I did 1 like this)

Yea for a wonderful conference for the kids and for me! Now I really can't wait for the May Ensign to come out!