Activity Day

Last spring we taught our activity day girls how to crochet. They spent both April and May working on it. They loved making chains (some of them never wanted to progress on to the scarf). The girls struggled with keeping the right number of stitches on their rows. If I did it again, I would have them do an infinity scarf and just keep working around in a large circle instead of trying to work back and forth. Another fun idea is making necklaces with the chain stitch. You use trellis yarn, and chain five strands and then hook them to a single strand to go around the back of your neck. My daughter showed me one of these-she had printed instructions that came with her yarn. The best tutorial I have seen is at justanotherhangup blog. I think especially the younger girls would have more fun learning to chain stitch and then using just the chain stitch to make a project. They could give them to their mothers for Mother's day if they wanted to.

Cub Scouts and Faith in God

In April we have been having the boys work on the religious electives. We had a leader from our congregation come and visit and talk about how the boys can help their church and live their religion. Another week we had the Easter Hunt hunt (posted earlier). We practiced the LDS Articles of Faith, discussed prayer, played a scripture Who Am I game (with the names of scripture heros stuck to their backs), played a scripture bingo game, and let the boys try out stilts.