Sweet Service with Candy Posters

Okay, all you Young Women Leaders!  Activity Day Leaders!
And MOMS needing a fun service-oriented Family Home Evening!
Get ready for some SWEET SERVICE.

Here is a fanstaticaly FUN service activity!  That won't seem boring at all.  (And yea, sometimes youth think service is boring.  But it's not!  And this is a great way to spark some interest in reaching out and uplifting others.)

Make CANDY GRAMS.  Here's how.  

1) Buy 10 Candy Bars (or how every many you like) and 2 large posters.
2) Divide the girls into two groups.
3) Tell the girls they are in charge of creating a "Candy Gram" for a person in the neighborhood.  Choose someone who is in particular need of an uplift.  Perhaps someone having health issues, or just in need of a little encouragement.  It can even be someone who needs a "sweet" thank you!  Or someone who just had a new baby.
4)  Give each group 5 or more candy bars, depending on how many you bought.
4)  Challenge the groups to write a "Candy Gram" message using the candy bars as words, as seen below.
5)  Set a timer so there is an element of racing against the clock.
6)  With markers, have the groups write their message on a poster board and glue the candy bars in the right spots.
4)  Deliver the "Candy Grams"!!!  And feel the sweet spirit of service!!!

Making Candy Bar posters is a tradition at my house.  Birthdays.  Fathers Day.  Congratulations.  Inspiration. Believe me! I can make a Candy Gram for any occasion!  Here is one of them we made for neighbor who had cancer. My kids really enjoy making them.  :))

This next one, I didn't make, but loved it!  It is a congratulations to a young women who finished her personal progress.  So fun!

To check out this one, CLICK HERE.  It's a graduation Candy Gram.  

For more ideas visit Sugardoodle   And enjoy your SWEET SERVICE!  

Easy NO-SEW Summer SHIRT Craft

Here is an easy NO-SEW T-shirt CRAFT for you and your daughters.  Inspired by my oldest daughter who first saw it on PINTEREST.  I tweaked the idea for my

youngest daughter and her friends.

We bought T-shirts from the SALE rack at RUE 21--only paid $3.00 and $5.00.  Any T-shirt will work.  I like the umbrella shaped T's.  The cute designs at RUE made the little girls squeal with delight.  Use a bigger size T-shirt.  

HOW TO MAKE A

NO-SEW FRINGE

T-SHIRT?

Make fringe by cutting into the fabric on the bottom of the T-shirt and the shoulders.  You are going to tie the front piece to the back piece,just like tieing a double-sided fleeceblanket.   

        

Be careful where you cut on the shoulders so you don't seperate the two pieces of fabric in the wrong place.  (I did that and had to fix it.)  You can also fringe the sides depending on the style you want.  It's just like tieing FLEECE blankets.  Easy peesy as pie!!!! 

REPURPOSE an old T-shirt in your closet. Find a shirt on a SALE rack.  Buy a bigger size (even 2 sizes) bigger than you usually wear.  The ties will make it smaller. 

YOUNG WOMEN'S ACTIVITY:  Turn the NO-sew T-shirt activity into a Value Challenge. Teach about being frugal, reusing, repurposing, and recyling.  Then have fun making the T-SHIRTS and decorating them.  T-DYE would be a blast!