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For Girl's Camp this year, our theme was "Shine in the World and Not of the World." I talked about it more in this post. I thought today I would share with you some of the cute handouts we made for different reasons at camp this year.
6th Year Youth Leader's Handout
The girls who have gone to camp for 6 years are going to be seniors in high school and they are actually leaders to the younger girls. It will be their last year as a youth at camp, so we like to recognize them and give them a little gift at the end of camp. I found the adorable light bulb shaped bottles on Oriental Trading. I used yellow Sixlets to fill the bulbs to make them look like they are shining. Then, I used this adorable handout from Lil' Luna of this year's young women's theme as a card to go with the bottle of chocolate. I printed it on card stock, cut it on my paper cutter to 4" x 6" and slid them into self sealing 4"x 6" bags. They looked so great!
Adult Leader Thank Yous:
I chose "cookie" as a name for the cooks, but these thank you cards would be perfect for anyone you want to give a little cookie treat to for any occasion. If you want to copy them off to use, simply click the button below!
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I keep thinking of 2 ways to begin this Fun Friday post. First, it is swimming season. Can you have enough towels? My kids used to drag them through the dirt while they were wet, so they needed to be washed daily. Second, since it is that swimming time of year, I thought I would personalize some beach towels for my grandchildren, but my first idea didn't go so well. The idea that I am going to blog about today came about as I tried to fix my first mistake. I came up with this fun project that your kids can help you with! For Fun Friday, decorate some beach towels with fabric markers.
Recently I have been finding new ideas for using my heat gun. One idea I saw was to to embossing on fabric. One person said that she had personalized beach towels. When I tried it, it wasn't as successful as I would have hoped. The embossing powder blew around on the fabric and that caused a mess around the letters on the towel. Since that happened, I have been racking my brain for a way to rescue the towel. I got these towels for just $6.99 at Target, but I still didn't want to waste them! Then, I saw my fabric markers and decided to try to outline the letters with a fabric marker. What a difference!
Now I want to do towels for all of my grandchildren! I had two more towels ready to go on hand, so I did them for my other 2 grandchildren who live in town. I didn't do any glittery embossing powder, but I just used the fabric markers to decorate them. You can use stencils or free hand them. Make pictures or other decorations with the colorful markers. If your kids are old enough, they can decorate their own towel.
I used Tulip brand fabric markers. They come in a variety of tips and vibrant colors. They also dried quickly so there was no wait time. Emily was able to use hers at swimming lessons the same day.
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This week for What to Read Wednesday I'm bringing it back to the classics. And with summer in full swing I thought a short fun summer read was in order.
If you've never read the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Treasure Island, you are really missing out! It is a fun coming-of-age tale that's action packed and captivating. Though I will admit that the beginning was a bit slow, but I got past it by imaging the characters as the Muppets (from my favorite movie adaptation Muppet Treasure Island). But after the first chapter, the story really picks up. I didn't actually read Treasure Island until I was in college. I loved it so much I would tell everyone I met they should read it too. And I tell you the same, read Treasure Island, it's an incredible story.
Treasure Island follows a young boy Jim Hawkins who finds a treasure map and joins the crew put together to find the treasure. Unbeknownst to any good natured man on the ship, the crew has been infiltrated by pirates planning a mutiny. Jim must choose then to join the mutiny and pirates or try to fight them off.
It's a great book for kids and adults and may be a fun listen. I saw that there is a dramatic reading of it on Audible that you can get for free with a free trial of Audible. I love listening to books with my kids as it helps them engage their imagination and is great for their speech development. As a busy mom, listening to books allows me to multitask, I can clean the kitchen and "read" a book at the same time. It's a win-win. If you're feeling like you're struggling to find time to read, maybe you should check out Audible too. And maybe your first listen should be Treasure Island.
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Hi everyone! I am just home from Girl's Camp! I am still feeling exhausted after 3 days home, thus the lateness of today's post!
This year at camp, I was asked to make the girls special cookies as a handout to go with the speakers who were there to talk about the temples of our church. They needed to be beautiful and delicious and there needed to be about 125 of them! The problem is that I am not a terrific cookie designer. I can decorate with the kids and have some fun, but this was a different story. In the end though, the cookies came out really beautiful, there were lots of compliments and my stress over the entire project was relieved! Here are some of the tips I learned as I worked on this project, plus another idea that I came up with for the 4th of July.
The Baking
The Decorating
Because we had special diets involved, I made all of the icing the same, without milk or butter and without meringue powder. That way I didn't mix anyone's diet's up. Also, I always baked and decorated the gluten free cookies first so that there would be no residue of wheat, etc where I was working. We didn't have anyone actually diagnosed with celiac disease, but there were people who knew that they felt better if they ate a certain way, (gluten free or lactose free or vegan) so I didn't have to worry too much about killing anyone but I did want to accommodate their diets.
You would think that after all of those cookies, I would be finished with baking cookies for awhile. Especially since it is summer! But with the 4th of July coming, I decided to make a few more. Nothing too fancy this time, but I have some extra white chocolate lying around so I decided to try to make a little something to dress these cookies up.
No matter how quickly you have to decorated the cookies, a little extra touch can elevate them, as well as putting them on a special tray or platter!
Do you have any secret tips that make us non-professionals make our cookies look better? Drop a hint or 2 in the comments!
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