General Conference Idea and others...

I thought I would post this to give some ideas for reverent Conference, Sacrament meeting, and Sunday activities at home. Some of you might want to scrounge up a pile of your old Friend magazines and pull this together for General Conference.

I have found that The Friend usually has two activity pages in each issue. (This does not include the coloring page in each one.) I have been tearing them out and laminating them for my children when we are done reading them. Put the backs together so that you only need one laminating sheet per two activity pages. (There are inexpensive laminators at Wal - Mart that do the job just great!) Use thin, washable dry erase markers for them so they can be used over and over again. However, sometimes the dry erase markers stain if left on too long. So just have your kids wipe them as they go. Then you shouldn't have any problems. Hole punch it and throw in into a "Reverent Activities" notebook.

After you start collecting them, they'll add up quickly and you'll fill your notebook.

... I also like to cut the last page out of the Friend (and Ensign and New Era...) when we are done reading it, back it with pretty card stock, and laminate it. I love all of the children's gospel artwork. Then have a designated spot where it can be displayed until you replace it with the next month's picture. I sit mine on a side table held up by a pretty "plate" stand. Then store the old one and use it for lessons and activities for later.

Just some ideas.

Rachael B.