Something else...

(I have no idea what is going on with the text in this post...I've tried a few times and can't fix it- sorry!) At church I have been over the twice-a-month activity for the 8-11 year old girls. I put a fair amount of effort into last week's activity so I'm blogging about it here. Also, at the moment, its the most creative thing I have to share, haha...

First of all, we've been working on compliment papers...we've had a few activities where we've discussed showing love and respect to everyone around us. The first time we held this activity we shared a poster with the word THINK going down the side- and then from each letter this:
T: is it TRUE?
H: is it HELPFUL?
I: is it INSPIRING?
N: is it NECESSARY?
K: is it KIND?

and we shared this video:

Then, we had typed up all the girls names onto their own sheets of paper, and asked the girls to write compliments for each other, and emphasized how nice it will be for everyone to have a sheet of compliments to read on those lousy days we all have.

Well last week we finally got those finished up (enough girls attended to fill up the papers) and each girl got to take them home!
*some girls understood the concept better than others, lol...some girls just wrote "you're nice" or sweet or pretty or kind...on every page, haha...

This week the main focus was to encourage a great reading list for the school year! I brought these books to display and suggest:

But I started with the scriptures! I had one girl read Doctrine & Covenants 88:118 which says "And as all have not faith, seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith."
and then Doctrine & Covenants 109:7 repeats the same thing. 
Then, we read Moroni 10:3-5 and discussed the BEST BOOK and the fact that we are all now old enough to read this one.

Then, I handed them papers cut to bookmark size. On one side they could write down the title of any book that sounded good to them, for a new reading list! On the other side, they used letter and flower stickers which we already had, to decorate how ever they wanted.

Each girl was supposed to bring "her favorite book" to share with the other girls as a suggestion, and most of the girls who came had a book to share. (you can see my 'display' behind them)

 

Then they got a hand out that says this: 

Then, since things got changed up around here, haha, (and we didn't have more than 5 treats all year) they all got a Hershey kiss "goodbye"!