Scatter Sunshine Relief Society Activity

We recently had a great activity for our Relief Society sisters.  Relief Society is a group within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for women. 

This was our invitation and display for the activity. 

I got the idea for this activity on Pinterest of course.  These are all images found on the many pins I found.  I thought it would be great to have little baskets of sunshine ready to give someone once a need arises.

You could really fill the basket with anything, but we chose to keep everything yellow to go with the "sunshine" theme.

For the activity, we had a sister teach us how to make baskets using paper bags and paper twists.  That was our time filler.  Another idea I had was to have someone speak about service.  But for this one, we made it a crafty activity.

We had a few things for people to put in their baskets, but we didn't have enough to fill it so that people could personalize it any way they wanted when they gave it away.

The items we provided were pens with flowers taped onto them - you know: daisy pens.

Also little yellow card/envelope packages,

waterbottles which we labeled with sunshines,

along with single lemonade drink packets,

paper enveloopes like you get at the bakery that they could put a little goodie in,

and lastly the dove caramel hearts - cause they're packaged individually in gold. 

Everything was yellow.

Once the sisters made their baskets, they got to fill them up with the items we provided.

Personally I love these baskets most for using when people are feeling under the weather.  Love all the little goodies in this huge teacup.  

A lot of the pins on my {Scatter Sunshine Pinboard} come with printables you can use if you make your own baskets.  These are the printables we used.  

Everyone got a card - I printed about 6 on a sheet. 

And every waterbottle got a sunshine.  We just peeled off the lables and stuck this on instead.

We also provided the sisters with this list of ideas for what else they could include in their baskets:

Treats

Lemon Heads

Yellow Starbursts

Sunkist Lemon Gummies

Extra Dessert Lemon Gum

Golden Oreos

Butterfinger

Juicy Fruit Gum

Jello/Pudding Cup

M&M's 

Skittles

Sugar Babies/Sugar Daddy

Jelly Beans

Wheat Thins

Shortbread Cookies

Lays Potato Chips

Homemade: Banana Bread, Yellow Frosted Cookies, Lemon Bars, Cinnamon Rolls, etc.

Drinks

Snapple Drink

Lemon Lime Gatorade

Lemonade

Little Gifts (All Yellow)

Nail Polish and Nail File

Flip Flops

Lotion/Hand Sanitizer 

Soap

Loofa/Sponge

Spa Accessories like Headbands, Towels, Wash Cloths, etc.

Burts Bee's Products

Lip gloss/Chap-stick

Notepad/Post-it Notes

Candle/Votive

Rubber Duck

Pencil

Drink Cup with Straw

Just to name a few…  A good idea is to make the basket more specific to the recipient’s needs, once you have a person in mind.  Be Creative!  Put your own twist on it!  Have fun!

It was a great and also fun service project.  And I've already used these baskets twice.  People love them!

Gifts of Love Service Auction Relief Society Activity

There seems to be a lack of Relief Society Activity ideas on the internet, so I've decided to add to the idea pool.  This was an activity that went really well for us.

For the month of February last year, we decided to have a service auction.  And we thought the title "Gifts of Love" tied in well with the whole Valentine theme in February.

To advertise for the even, we decorated our board like a present and had the information for the event printed and placed on the board like a tag for the present.

We sent out the following to give the sisters ideas for what kind of items they could bring to auction off:

(contact me for a PDF or Word file)

To decorate for the event, we first made some heart strings to hang from the ceiling.  Using the idea from {this post} I just cut out a bunch of little hearts randomly and sewed them together on my sewing machine.  Cheap and easy, and we hung them up with white thumb tacks.  The effect was pretty cute. 

We got pink table cloths and just placed a piece of tissue paper in the middle as a centerpiece. 

Then, I just brought my Valentine's Day decorations from home to fill the center of the tables.

We had a questionnaire, a pencil, and a heart for them to label sitting at each place.

We had one main table set up in the front for all the items to be auctioned off to sit on.

In the center of that table, I set up a "tree" for the services to be auctioned off to hang from.  Each item to be auctioned off was labeled with one of these hearts made using heart shaped doilies and cardstock. 

The food table was decorated as well.

As people arrived, we encouraged them to eat, and fill out the questionnaire.  The questionnaire from {Mish Mash Mom} is how they got points to use to purchase the Gifts of Love.   

Once everyone had arrived and the questionnaires were all filled out, we encouraged everyone to take one last look at all the times to be auctioned off before we began.

I was the auctioneer, and just went from item to item until every single service or gift had been "purchased".

It was a great time for everyone.  There was a lot of love going around, and quite a few items that were "fought" over.  We had quite a spread of different gifts.  There were services from cooking classes to planning parties.  There were items from home made bread to decorations to something someone promised to make for someone else.

All in all, it was a great night and very unifying for everyone involved.  We loved it so much, we've decided to do it again this year.

Pink Lemonade Party

I recently put together a Birthday Party for my Relief Society and thought it came together so well that I'd share it with ya'll.

I got most of my inspiration and decoration from {Sugar Tot Designs} who put together all these free printables just for us!  So sweet.

 

I used part of her design to give out this invitation to each sister.  Here is a {PDF} or {Word Doc} of it.  You'll have to download the fonts I used to see it like this.  They are Abermarle Swash and Cinnamon Cake.

I also created this print out to put up on the board to advertise.  {PDF} {Word Doc} I had it printed at Office Max and make a little paper bunting to hang across the top at an angle.  Should have snapped a pic of it.  It was simple, but super cute.  

Then, I found this printable quote at {chocolate on my cranium} and edited it to fit my color scheme.  If you'd like to print this one, just click on the pciture and print it. 

Here it is in action on our food table, surrounded by flowers in a mason jar, lemon heads in an apothecary, and a pail full of getting to know you questions.  I thought it looked pretty cute.

We also decided to create little bookmark type handouts to put at each seat for the sisters to take home.  Here's a {PDF}.

We kept things really simple with pink tableclothes and jars of flowers on each table.

The ceiling made it kinda fun.  I strung balloons attached to ribbons acroos the ceiling, along with streamers.

We had the tables set up in a circle and had sisters only sit on the outside so everyone could see and hear everyone else.  That made it easier to listen to each other as we each answered our "getting to know you" questions.

 For Dinner, we just had a salad bar complete with croissants and chicken salad.

I made this bunting using paper and curling ribbon and double stick tape.  Super easy, and dressed it up a little.

And of course, the cake had one to match.

All the cakes got little flags to match as well.

I thought this tres leches cake from Sam's Club was worth every penny!  Super cute and we didn't have to make it!

The night turned out great.  Good food, good company, and good times listening to people answer interesting questions about themselves.

It was a really low key evening, but that's kind of what made it nice.