Super Saturday 2013

This is the 3rd year that I have been in charge of Super Saturday and I love it! This year was a bit of a challenge since I will hopefully have a 2 week old on the day of Super Saturday. Since our ward(congregation)  is small and I don't have too many people on my committee to help (one person) I had to reach out to the members to help out. In the past I have come up with the crafts myself since I am usually the committee.

This year I held a meeting asking for teachers and got a good group who volunteered. I put them in charge of everything. My mom will be in town to help out with the baby and in case anything goes wrong, I don't HAVE to be there. So grateful for those helping me out!

I wanted to post our crafts since I have seen so many pins for Super Saturday in case I can help anyone out with ideas.

Articles Of Faith

$3

(don't go to Staples for the printing, find a ma and pa store)

I ended up doing one because I found it, I was already gonna make it and I can just leave it on a table with instructions. It's from this pin for Article of Faith Cards. 

It's a free printable and my girls are already loving using them to learn the Articles of Faith.

A Frame Tent

$9

These are everywhere and so cute! On another blog the cost was less but we added another piece on the bottom so the tent wouldn't fall flat but hold it's frame. The ladies need to provide their own sheets or fabric. 

Tutorial Here

Button Ornament

$2.30 

We found cheap buttons at Wal Mart which really brought down the cost since it takes around 70 buttons.

Tutorial by Martha Stewart Here

Custom Name Frame

$5 for supplies (you provide your own frame)

 We have an amazing scrapbooker/paper guru in our ward who does amazing things with stamps.

Glamour Frame

$5 w/frame included

$2.50 if you provide your own frame

Inspired by this pin

Extender Slip

$6.50

You provide your own slip ($7 at Wal Mart)

(Can you tell we live in a small town, Wal Mart is pretty much our only store.) These are everywhere on pinterest and so cute. I made mine a couple years ago and it is such a good idea for Super Saturday. The teacher found lace online for a good price.

how do you like my middle of the night picture

So that's it for our crafts. I have our sign ups already going around and will stop them a few weeks before so we have plenty of time to order supplies. We will also be serving a light lunch and will be having the RS sisters take turns babysitting since we have a lot of moms with husbands who work crazy hours. 

Super Saturday-Quiet books

A lot of the younger couples at my church wanted to do quiet books. I know they were thinking cute felt activity books but there was no way we would have the time to finish even a page. I have made one. They take FOREVER!

Searching on pinterest I came across these really cute pages from this company. Finch Family and Games.
They have so many activity pages to put in a quiet book. The colored ones cost $1 to buy so I bought 5 different ones. It was hard to narrow it down to that. They are made to put in folders but I liked them in binders inside sheet protectors.

I got some magnets from JoAnns and put them on the back paper under the sheet protector and then on the back of the laminated cut outs. They stick pretty well as long as you get the thicker magnets. Not the thin kind.


I did a few extra things in my own binder for my girls and nephew who will be getting one of these in the mail for Christmas(shhh, don't tell him MW)

I added a place to hold all the little cut outs.

And then for my daughter I added a few coloring pages. I turned pictures I had taken into black and white sketch pictures and put them in a sheet protector. They she can use white board markers or white board crayons to color on top of the sheet protector and wipe off.

Super Saturday aftermath-temple blocks

Last week was crazy busy and I am glad I have a few days to recover before the next round of life starts. There are a lot of things that need to be cleaned and feed at my house.

I wanted to post a few pictures of the day and what everything looked like after we made it. I don't have pictures of everything yet so I will slowly be posting them.

The temple blocks turned out great and were probably the most completed craft. I didn't do too well on the time frame front. Note to self: when planning these things always take into account gab time.

 My friend Leandra taught the class and did a great job!

Finished product before the ribbons. I had to finish mine at home because I was busy getting ready for the other classes but I did get them painted while I was there. Pretty proud of myself since I did so many.

I don't remember if I mentioned this before but we made ours larger than recommended on the website. We printed the pictures off at 5x7. I also jumped on Picnik and added different sayings to the blank pictures she offered on the website. Most of the ladies wanted Families Are Forever. There were also a few that did Once Upon a Time.Here is the link again in case you want to make your own. It only ended up costing us $2.25 each to make them.

Super Saturday

This weekend is going to be a craft day at my church. Some like to call it Super Saturday. I am in charge and am really excited but have never actually been to one so we shall see how it goes. My ward out here is kinda small but I managed to round up helpers to make things.

Here is a preview of the crafts we will be making.

Click HERE for the link to this project's toutorial. We decided to make ours a little bigger but it still ended up only costing $2.50 each. And we decided to offer all the temples from this site along with a few different sayings and ribbons so they could really be personalized.

This is my favorite. I found this garland on pinterest, It is for sale overseas. I just made my own. These came to $2.60 each for a 6 foot garland!

We are also making a quiet book from some of these cute pages. You can buy them HERE. I bought 5 activities. $1 each activity and then you print them yourself. They are already colored so all we have to do is laminate and stick magnets on them.

This is another image I found online and copied. I found a dollar store frame I spray painted and then chose a white cotton background and some printed cotton fabrics for the nativity scene. We will just be using fusible webbing to iron it on. I will probably take mine home and sew around it but you don't have to. This ended up being $2.50 to make.


We are also making this apron:

To put in this jar:

I also have a friend who is making really cute cards and tags for us to stamp and make.

It's gonna be a lot of fun. Lunch after and lots of chatting with friends! I'll post pictures of the after next week.

Armor of God

I work with the little kids at my church. Every 3rd month I am in charge of teaching them as a group. Usually there is an outline to follow but a couple months ago, there was a 5th Sunday and I was able to pick my own theme. I decided to teach them about the armor of God found in Ephesians.

I knew what I wanted to teach but didn't know how I was going to teach it until the night before. I found my comfort in my fabric and whipped this up. I was under major time restraint so it's not the best quality but it was a lot of fun and turned out great during sharing time.

Luckily I had 2 nasty cushions that have been in my "to recover" pile forever and they worked out great for a backdrop. And I had an extra cutout leftover from my skeleton game. I pinned that in place and was ready to dress my guy.

I made some firey darts for the kids to throw at the guy before he was clothed showing that the firey darts were able to get him. (they had velcro on them so they would stick to the felt)

Next I had 2 voluteers come up. One read a scripture and they other listened to see what article of clothing needed to go on. (all the pieces of clothing were made from scraps that I just cut out. No sewing. And the velcro was sticky back velcro, so I didn't need to sew that either. Like I said, way last minute)

The shoes actually laced up his leg. I cut little slits in the felt so you could lace the bias tape right through them.

Next I got out word strips and had kids come up and see if they could remember what word went with what piece of clothing. They did OK but we read through all the scriptures again.

 

It ended up being a lot of fun and my own kids still like playing with it at home. 

CTR Bags

For Valentine's Day this year I made the girls bags to bring to church. I have a HUGE binder I have to bring myself and my arms were getting tired of lugging along their stuff as well as mine. (books, crayons, ect.)

Since I am a lazy sewer, I decided I would buy the bags and then just put a pretty applique on them. CTR stands for Choose The Right. The symbol has been around for ages in our church and the primary class Corduroy is in is CTR5's. She loves reading the letters on her own and knowing what they stand for. So I thought to myself, that is what has to go on her church bag.

I love having less to carry. And with a new baby on the way, I know my bag will be even more full in the near future, so I thought I would empty it out before it got heavier.

The girls love having the responsibility of filling up their own bag with things to entertain them during Sacrament.

In the bags, I put their alphabet letters (here and here)that I had made for them. I love it when I make my girls happy with homemade things!