Tick-Tack-Toe

As I am pretty sure that most of my Senior Primary know most of the songs for our Primary presentation, I decided to see how much they know and what I need to help them with.  So this week we are playing tick-tack-toe.  Behind each number is a question about the different songs in the presentation. I will split the primary into 2 teams.  A team gets to pick a number, and you read the question on the card to them.  When they get it right they sing the song and get to replace the number with the X or O.  If they get the question wrong then the other team have a chance to answer it.  I'll let you know how much they enjoy it when  I've done it ~ although games generally go down pretty well....so we'll see.

Stand for the Right

This month for Primary we should be learning a new song for our presentation, but the Primary already know the song, as it was a song from lasts years presentation.  So I decided to do a review for the Junior Primary.  I printed out pictures and some words of the song, cut and laminated them.  I am going to ask them if they can put the words in order.  Simple, but I thought it would also help the new sunbeams that don't know the song.

Burp Cloths

I decided to make these cute burp cloths for the baby.  I was excited because I knew that it would be an easy quick sewing project and since sewing is what I seem to want to do lately, I thought it would be perfect.  I even included Noah, he chose the 4 pieces of material...he was really excited to do so, hence we have Superman, Mickey Mouse, Trains and then one with Giraffe's on.  I did one side flannel and the other side terry cloth.

To make these super cute burp cloths you will need

~ 27" x 10" Flannel cloth (if you're making these for a little girl there are endless of great choices of material.)

~ 27" x 10" Terry Cloth (any colour)

~ Matching thread

~ Pins

~ Iron and Ironing Board

~ Sewing Machine ;)

Instructions

~ Pin together the terry cloth and flannel, right sides together

~ Sew all the way round, leaving a 4"/5" gap

~ Pull the material right side up

~ Iron

~ Hand or machine sew gap together (I used the sewing machine, it was quicker!)

~ Sew a 2" seam around the burp cloth to finish (optional, but I think it completes them!)

Done!

Blue & Gold Banquet - Survivor

It's now time to catch up on my blogging.  These past 2 weeks have been really busy for me and what with Matthias being away and just getting back yesterday, things are practically back to normal!  So what have I been up to you may ask....well for those of you who don't know Matthias is the Cubmaster for our ward and this Tuesday just gone was our Blue & Gold Banquet.  Unfortunately Matthias did miss it, because work had him out of town, but I went up in his absence instead.  I always love working on big projects and so was grateful that I could help out with this one too.
As this months theme was Resourcefulness Matthias decided to go with a survivor theme.  That's when I set off getting creative....

Our invites were in empty water bottles (like a message in a bottle!) The boys thought they awesome!  We even made the paper look old!

Here are some photographs of the evening and the decorations.  If you would like more information on what we did just contact me!

My awesome cake I made and then left at home!  Yes, pregnancy brain strikes again!

Baby Shower Gift

There seems to be a huge baby boom this year and I've found myself in the situation of having 17 friends who are having babies within these next 4 months.  I know crazy right?!  But hey, I'm one of them too, so here's to beautiful 2012 babies!

Anyway, I have been trying to think of cute ideas for gifts for them and this is one I came up with.  No they are not cupcakes.....(although I'm sure most of us pregnant ladies wouldn't say no to a cupcake! Well, I wouldn't!) Let me show you what's inside:

Isn't it just so cute!!  They are really easy to make too.

To make a baby shower cupcake gift you will need

~ 4 onesies (any colour you like)

~ 2/4 headbands, flowers or cute little shoes!

~ Ribbon

~ 1 Cup cake box

~ 4 Cup cake baking cups

Instructions

~ Open your onesies and fold in half

~ Lay the headband in the middle of the onesie (making sure the flower is at the top) and roll up

~ Secure with ribbon

~ Put in cup cake baking cup and then into box

~ Repeat till box is full

Its seriously that easy and that cute too!  I love it. 

Nursing Cover

If feel like I have been sewing like mad these past few weeks, what with making my car seat canopy, diaper/wipes holder and the Captain CTR cape....now I'm adding on my nursing cover!  I'm really pleased with how it turned out.  I know, I didn't make it to match the car seat canopy, but I needed material that was a little thicker and a lighter colour too.  So I decided to stick with green and do something that I can use with a girl or a boy.

I actually used this website for the tutorial as my guide: http://www.thesoutherninstitute.com/2010/06/nursing-cover-tutorial.html

However, I did do my own additions like a backing and the edging on the front of my cover.  Which I have to admit, I just made up on the spot, so I really don't have instructions as such. But I can give you a rough guide below the pictures. (As I think the cover actually looks pretty with these additions, but the other way works just fine and you're right who would actually know that there is a backing to the cover apart from you and your baby!)

Additional things you will need for Backing and Front Edging

~ 1/4 yard of material (this can also be used for the strap if you wish)

~ 3/4 yard of backing material

Instructions for Front Edging

~ Cut the front material 18" x 33" (instead on 28" x 38")

~ Cut side edging 5" x 28"

~ Cut bottom edging 38" x 5"

~ Sew them all together

Instructions for Backing

~ At the top of the front material sew your boning (the wrong way round)

~ Fold over the top material again and pin it down with the backing material (right sides together)

~ Make sure you attach the straps in the middle of you material too (as shown on the directions on the website)

~ Once everything is pinned, sew together and iron

I hope these steps make sense?  I understand them, but some may not, so please contact me if you need.

Edible Arrangement

I've always wanted to give an edible arrangement a go and so I thought that Valentines Day was the perfect opportunity!  Mine didn't turn out too bad, but if you would like it to look more professional I would suggest, more fruit and a non-clear vase.  (I'm sure there are other things to make it look better too, but my imagination doesn't stretch that far these days...I am almost 9 months pregnant after all! :))

I kept mine simple and only did strawberries and pineapple, but you can do any fruit you like!  Mango, kiwi, banana, melon, let your imagination go wild.

To make an edible arrangement you will need:

~ Fruit of your choice

~ Skewer sticks

~ Heart shape cookie cutter

~ Vase

~ Chocolate (optional)

~ Nuts, coconut (optional)

~ String

~  Decorative ribbon or anything else you would like

Instructions

~ Wash your fruit

~ Make your heart shaped fruit, but cutting pineapple slices and then use cookie cutter to make the shape

~ Put fruit on your skewers

~ Dip some of your fruit in chocolate and then the nuts or coconut

~ Let chocolate dry

~ Arrange fruit in vase working from the centre outwards (pretty much like when you arrange flowers!)

~ Decorate vase with ribbon or put a label on etc....

Done!  Have fun making your own creations.... :)

CTR Magnets

So last week I found myself with a little spare time.  So instead of resting and maybe even taking a nap, I decided to 'cutiefy' my Primary magnets.  Yes I know its above and beyond and really didn't need doing, but I wanted to and could, so I did! :)  This is how I made them.

To make cute Primary CTR magnets you will need:

~ Magnets

~ Green glass gems

~ Mini CTR shields printed from your computer

~ Elmer's Glue

Instructions

~ Cut our your mini CTR shields

~ Glue the CTR shields to the magnets and wait for them to dry a little

~ Glue the Green glass gems to the CTR shields and magnets

~ Let dry and viola! Cute huh?!

Battleships

Every last Sunday of the month I come up with a game to play with the Primary children to play.  I make sure that I pick songs that are fun or that we need to review.

The children just love playing battleships.  I play it them against me.  I have a master sheet where I've 'hid' my ships.  The children take it in turns to guess which square my ship and hid in and when they hit my ship they have to sing the song which is in that square.  Pretty simple, but fun!


My sheet

The battleship board

 Yes you do have to cut out 36 (or less) white circles and however many red circles you want for your ships. I did 12.  Have fun!

Super Singers

Each week in Primary I pick a girl and boy for my Super Singers.  I give them each a badge and a lollipop.  They love it and it encourages them to sing well too. 

So I don't pick the same person twice (as there are 148 children) I have to write their names down each week.