Easy sew nativity costumes for Primary

I made some nativity costumes in 2013 that I have pretty much used every year since I made them. They were super easy to make, for someone with limited sewing skills.

I always get a ton of traffic to this blog post every year so I wanted to share it with my LDS primary leaders audience!

http://iliketocreatestuff.blogspot.com/2013/11/easy-diy-how-to-make-easy-bible.html


On a personal note, for those of you that don't know me, I wrote a Christmas children's book! I'm a published, professional writer but this is the first time I've tried to get a children's book published so it's been an exciting process for me. I just found out my book, "My Nativity ABCs" is at Deseret Book today. I received a Deseret Book catalog in the mail and there was my book, smack in the middle of the "bedtime stories" page. You can also find my book at Seagull Book, Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, Walmart, Target, and other bookstores!

Fun Primary Program Day Lesson: Articles of Faith

Our Primary Program was on Sunday.

To make the day special, but not detract from the purpose of Sharing Time and Singing Time, we spent the day on a combined Singing Time/Sharing Time focused on the Articles of Faith.

Our Primary works on one of the Articles of Faith every month by singing them (from the Children's Songbook) during opening exercises. We don't spend any real time on it - we just have a child recite it, then everyone sings it for four weeks before we move onto the next one. (Since there are 13 Articles of Faith, we combine 1 and 2 in January). They know the article and song pretty well by the end of each month though!

So, for this lesson, we reminded the children that they probably know the Articles of Faith better than they realize.

Our first counselor put together these two activities. For Junior Primary, she pulled a name out of the Helping Hands jar, and that child was invited to find puzzle pieces hidden around the room. The puzzle pieces went to different articles. When one was completed, she talked about them about the Article of Faith and what it meant, and then our chorister led them in singing the song version. Our counselor also gave children the opportunity to recite the article.

                                

In Senior Primary, our counselor put together a Jeopardy board with section for Key Words, General Trivia, Fill in the Words, Name the Article of Faith, and Match the Picture. 

Combining Singing Time and Sharing Time in a General Conference and Pre-Program Song Review

I just posted a combined singing time/sharing time to prep for the Primary Program but with the dual purpose of reviewing General Conference here.