Serious cuteness! Nice work girls!
Showing posts with label yw idea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yw idea. Show all posts
Friday, January 28, 2011
Idea Using Free YW Subway Art Printable
Check out what Some of This & Some of That did with my free printable...
Serious cuteness! Nice work girls!
Serious cuteness! Nice work girls!
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Girls Camp - Schedule Ideas
This year I was asked to come up with a cute way to keep the paperwork together that they give out at girls camp. By paperwork I mean their schedule, menu and camp songs. One year they stapled it together and the next year they had a fabric cover. Another challenge I kept in mind is I need to make 250 of whatever is chosen for about $5o.oo
Here are some of my ideas. Keep in mind these are just the basic idea. I wanted an idea to be chosen before I spend a lot of time making it cute..
My thought with the paper clips is they could be on the first page of each subject. Such as schedule, menu, songs. If you have a certain theme you could add paper embellishments to go with it...such as flags, bees....You get the point. Everything here can be found at your local office store except for the flowers. I just had some extra paper around that I cut out on my cricut.
This idea is used with the same supplies above. Just a few folds and you have this...
There are tons of tutorials online of how to make this idea. I like this idea because you have pockets on the side you can utilize and also the paper in the middle.
IDEA #3
Idea #3 is a notebook. This is the idea the women I'm working with chose. We are going to print our theme on the front. Let's talk about how to make this idea cheap. You can go to Costco and they give away the thin chipboard they line their pallets with for free. You can also buy thin chipboard online for cheap. Check out this LINK. I did the binding with the bind it all.
IDEA #4
Here are some of my ideas. Keep in mind these are just the basic idea. I wanted an idea to be chosen before I spend a lot of time making it cute..
Idea #1
File folders. This idea is simple but cute.
My thought with the paper clips is they could be on the first page of each subject. Such as schedule, menu, songs. If you have a certain theme you could add paper embellishments to go with it...such as flags, bees....You get the point. Everything here can be found at your local office store except for the flowers. I just had some extra paper around that I cut out on my cricut.
IDEA #2
This idea is used with the same supplies above. Just a few folds and you have this...
There are tons of tutorials online of how to make this idea. I like this idea because you have pockets on the side you can utilize and also the paper in the middle.
IDEA #3
Idea #3 is a notebook. This is the idea the women I'm working with chose. We are going to print our theme on the front. Let's talk about how to make this idea cheap. You can go to Costco and they give away the thin chipboard they line their pallets with for free. You can also buy thin chipboard online for cheap. Check out this LINK. I did the binding with the bind it all.
IDEA #4
Make a little clipboard. All you need for this idea is the chipboard and a binder clips. I modge podged some scrapbook paper on the clip.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Sad News & Camp Shirt Idea...
I had an interesting day yesterday. After about 3 1/2 years of serving in the YW presidency I was released. To say the least it was an incredibly sad day. The YW I worked with changed my life. The worst part was seeing the YWs sad little faces. I thought I was going to be fine but it was harder than expected. I'm a little sensitive about it right now so be nice! "When one door closes another one opens" right?? I look forward to another door opening but will look back on my past with the YW with a smile :)
Where does that leave our service project? After much prayer and thought I'm still going to continue with this project. I feel this is exactly what my Heavenly Father wants me to be doing...so I'm going to do it :) I will still be sending ideas and today I am going to work on some youtube tutorials for the patterns I sent out. I have also had some women in my ward with YW daughters and activity day aged daughters wanting to be included (my daughter turns 12 this
year). I'm going to meet with them once a month to teach them how to crochet and knit.
Now onto what this post was originally about....t-shirts for camp. This is an idea we used last year....
Last year at camp we were told we weren't allowed to have ward camp shirts. They were really focused on unity and thought ward shirts wouldn't help with that. Well we listened and just about every other ward had ward shirts. Our YW were not happy. I think there must have been some sort of mistake in the communication? The girls were understandably disappointed. That year the stake didn't do t-shirts either. Major bummer. So with that experience in mind we decided we are doing shirts this year regardless if the stake did them or not. The shirts will work perfectly when we are together as a ward. This is our schedule:
TUESDAY.........We're all in this together as individuals. (We are all in this together. I am an individual and bring value to the whole.)
WEDNESDAY...We're all in this together as a ward. (We are all in this together as a ward and together we are strong.)
THURSDAY.......We're all in this together as a stake. (We are all in this together as a stake and together we are one in purpose.)
FRIDAY............We're all in this together as Children of God. (We can share the Gospel and bring lambs into the fold.)
The YW will receive their shirts on Wednesday. Our ward is on a tight budget and we weren't sure we could afford printed t-shirts. So we came up with an idea. We waited to buy the shirts until they went on sale at Michaels. Then we did this...
LOL! So your thinking (or maybe you aren't) how did you do this? It was so easy and can I say FREE! Everything I did to this shirt is with supplies I already had in my house. This shirt took no talent what-so-ever because I have NONE! I grabbed some contact paper and cut out the paper dolls on my cricut. Then stick the contact paper to the shirt and used acrylic paint to paint the people and hair. The contact paper was wonderful. The paint didn't bleed at all and I could reuse the stencil a few times.
We kind of wanted to keep with the stake camp theme of WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER but still let the girls know of their worth as individuals. Each shirt is slightly different in as the girl in the center will resemble the owner of the shirt.
You may be thinking won't the paint wash off? The answer is no! My friend Wendy assured me it wouldn't and I accidentally washed one and it still looks great. One tip is to make sure to get plenty of paint on. After you wash the shirt it slightly fades but if you do enough paint you won't be able to tell! The back of the shirt will say this in big letters.....
End price for this shirt is $2.50 and that was just for the shirt! I think the possibilities are endless with this idea. It would be a wonderful way to decorate team shirts. Around here for sports the girls just get a t-shirt with a logo on the front. This year for my daughter's volleyball shirt I put BEACHELL on the back and her favorite number all for free! Can't beat that!
Where does that leave our service project? After much prayer and thought I'm still going to continue with this project. I feel this is exactly what my Heavenly Father wants me to be doing...so I'm going to do it :) I will still be sending ideas and today I am going to work on some youtube tutorials for the patterns I sent out. I have also had some women in my ward with YW daughters and activity day aged daughters wanting to be included (my daughter turns 12 this
year). I'm going to meet with them once a month to teach them how to crochet and knit.
Now onto what this post was originally about....t-shirts for camp. This is an idea we used last year....
Last year at camp we were told we weren't allowed to have ward camp shirts. They were really focused on unity and thought ward shirts wouldn't help with that. Well we listened and just about every other ward had ward shirts. Our YW were not happy. I think there must have been some sort of mistake in the communication? The girls were understandably disappointed. That year the stake didn't do t-shirts either. Major bummer. So with that experience in mind we decided we are doing shirts this year regardless if the stake did them or not. The shirts will work perfectly when we are together as a ward. This is our schedule:
TUESDAY.........We're all in this together as individuals. (We are all in this together. I am an individual and bring value to the whole.)
WEDNESDAY...We're all in this together as a ward. (We are all in this together as a ward and together we are strong.)
THURSDAY.......We're all in this together as a stake. (We are all in this together as a stake and together we are one in purpose.)
FRIDAY............We're all in this together as Children of God. (We can share the Gospel and bring lambs into the fold.)
The YW will receive their shirts on Wednesday. Our ward is on a tight budget and we weren't sure we could afford printed t-shirts. So we came up with an idea. We waited to buy the shirts until they went on sale at Michaels. Then we did this...
LOL! So your thinking (or maybe you aren't) how did you do this? It was so easy and can I say FREE! Everything I did to this shirt is with supplies I already had in my house. This shirt took no talent what-so-ever because I have NONE! I grabbed some contact paper and cut out the paper dolls on my cricut. Then stick the contact paper to the shirt and used acrylic paint to paint the people and hair. The contact paper was wonderful. The paint didn't bleed at all and I could reuse the stencil a few times.
We kind of wanted to keep with the stake camp theme of WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER but still let the girls know of their worth as individuals. Each shirt is slightly different in as the girl in the center will resemble the owner of the shirt.
You may be thinking won't the paint wash off? The answer is no! My friend Wendy assured me it wouldn't and I accidentally washed one and it still looks great. One tip is to make sure to get plenty of paint on. After you wash the shirt it slightly fades but if you do enough paint you won't be able to tell! The back of the shirt will say this in big letters.....
End price for this shirt is $2.50 and that was just for the shirt! I think the possibilities are endless with this idea. It would be a wonderful way to decorate team shirts. Around here for sports the girls just get a t-shirt with a logo on the front. This year for my daughter's volleyball shirt I put BEACHELL on the back and her favorite number all for free! Can't beat that!
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Organization...It helps!
Opening exercises can be a crazy time for our YW group. Lots of talking and confusion of who is doing what. As a presidency we discussed how we could make it less noisy and more reverent. This is what we can up with...
Believe it or not...IT WORKS! This is out on my garage door but typically it will be on the chalkboard. Everything you see has magnets glued on to them so we can put them up and easily take them down. The girls love it! As I was showing the laurel secretary her job of putting it up and taking it down one of the other laurels came up to me and said "It's so beautiful I have chills". I'm pretty sure that's a good thing. Everyone can see what is going on and when it's their turn to do their job. Before we always got a lot of "What? Who me? It's my turn?". Now No more of those questions! I found the YW theme and mutual theme HERE. Wendy did the sewing and the cute bows on the themes.
Believe it or not...IT WORKS! This is out on my garage door but typically it will be on the chalkboard. Everything you see has magnets glued on to them so we can put them up and easily take them down. The girls love it! As I was showing the laurel secretary her job of putting it up and taking it down one of the other laurels came up to me and said "It's so beautiful I have chills". I'm pretty sure that's a good thing. Everyone can see what is going on and when it's their turn to do their job. Before we always got a lot of "What? Who me? It's my turn?". Now No more of those questions! I found the YW theme and mutual theme HERE. Wendy did the sewing and the cute bows on the themes.
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