I loved creating this quote for St. Patricks and look forward to displaying it in my home for the next couple of weeks. Pinch yourself and grab my Feeling Lucky to be a Forever Family download quick this week while it’s free… Find it here. Add a crystal rhinestone in the center of the shamrock and place in your favorite frame for display.
I hope you enjoy it! Brenda
Looking for fun ways for your family to honor the Sabbath? Try our Scripture Gumball Challenge. It’s fun and super easy.
In advance, grab some gumballs and a clear container. On Sunday, invite your family to join you for the Scripture Gumball Challenge. Go to Sugardoodle’s Book of Mormon online resource, you can find it on the homepage of Sugardoodle OR link here…
Google: http://sugardoodle.bookofmormon.online/people
Once on the site, choose “People” from the side menu bar. Scroll down through the list of people and take turns having family members choose a person to share facts about. For every two people that your family can give facts on, put a gumball in your container.
Start out with people all of you recognize, then progress onto people who you don’t know as well. The more you learn about the unfamiliar people in the Book of Mormon the more challenging it becomes. You can check to see if your facts are correct by simply clicking on and then reading about each person. When you have 30 GUMBALLS you get to have a fun family activity!
Remember…Studying the scriptures together can be a BALL!
xo,
April
With the Visiting Teaching message for the month of February being on Marriage, it also references The Family: A Proclamation to the World in the message. I thought this week I would simply share the document that I hand-lettered (every.single.word.) a few years back and it’s available in my Etsy shop. Click here to view.
Big Family Hug,
This guest post was submitted by Aimee Ferre. She grew up in the desert of East Mesa in Arizona, but married a mountain loving Utah boy. She currently lives in Sandy, Utah and is a mom to 3 daughters. She owns a small crafting business where she creates holiday decor and specializes in hand lettering. You can always find her creating new projects or planning gatherings for friends and family. Follow her on Instagram to see what is currently on her desk or find her at aimeeferre.com.
(CLICK HERE to download a copy of this file)
The Church is really focusing member’s attention on Family History, and Sugardoodle is here to HELP!
A few months ago Melanie and I were invited to be part of the 2016 Rootstech Family Discovery Day. Our task was to come up with a super fun activity that the youth would love AND that would create some excitement about searching for the deceased. We came up with a “Find-A-Grave” hunt. The hunt was so successful that we had lots of youth leaders and stake family history experts stop and ask us for our handout so they could take the activity back to their youth groups, wards and families.
We decided to post the activity and worksheet here on our blog along with a few pointers on how you can do a similar activity.
FIND-A-GRAVE HUNT…
Give everyone who will be participating the Find-A-Grave hunt a worksheet. Explain that this is a timed activity. They will need to go onto Find-A-Grave.com and search for each name on their worksheet. They then record the date they died, what invention they created and one simple fact {for instance where they were buried}. Whoever finishes first is the winner.
VARIATIONS:
~ You can do this as teams, sharing cell phones at your ward building or home.
~You can do this as a scavenger hunt where you divide the youth into groups and as a team they drive with a leader to a designated house in the ward. There they hunt online for 3 of the graves. They then drive to another designated house and search for the other 3 graves. First team back to the chapel wins! *This is fun to include other families in your ward in the hunt when you use their computers. It’s a great way to get you ward family involved.
We would love to hear what fun things you have done to foster a love for Family History in your ward and family so we can post them on our blog. Please email us at april.sugardoodle@gmail.com
xo, April
Have you noticed how busy our temples have become? Don’t you just love it when you see youth from your ward or your children’s friends there?
My eighteen year old son likes to go bright and early Saturday morning. He often returns home to say that he ran into several of his friends there. Seeing his peers serving in the temple increases his desire to serve there. I’ve seen his service do this same thing to some of his peers. There is power, synergism and increased joy when we do things together.
If you children have not caught onto how fun Family History & Temple Work can be, consider taking them to Family Discovery Day at Rootstech — February 6th. {You will need to register online but it’s FREE!}
This year Rootstech is doing a fun “Armed with Power” Treasure Quest. Imagine your children along with 1,000 other children finding excitement and joy as they hunt for different activities around the event center that perk their interests into their own family history.
Hope to see you {and your children} there. Be sure to stop by the Sugardoodle booth for your children to play “Find-A-Grave.” It’s part of the treasure quest and is a fun computer hunt where the youth have the find the graves of 8 famous people. How fast can they find them?
xo, April
