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!  

Young Womens ACTIVITY IDEA:

LOVE “KNOTs”

 

(http://thefrugalgirls.com/2011/12/no-sew-fleece-blanket.)

Sit in a circle and while the girls tie knots all around the edges of the fleece blanket, talk with them about

L-O-V-E.

How this is the greatest commandment.

Mark 12:30-31

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

ACTION: Once the blanket is complete, make a note to go with it and deliver it to someone in your neighborhood who needs to feel a little extra love.  This part of the activty is important, because it finishes off the evening.  The reaching out part of love for teens is sometimes hard so don't just make the blanket and deliver it without the girls.  Let them be the ones standing on someone's doorstep, offering a love gift, that they helped make.   

FHE HINT:  If you're tieing a blanket for Family Home Evening, have each family member (as he/she ties a knot) give a LOVE compliment to a sibling or parent.  Then talk about how Jesus "showed" people He loved them.  He didn't just talk about it.  He took action.  Discuss ways your family can LOVE like Jesus did.  When you're done tieing the blanket, deliver it to someone in your neighborhood or extended family who needs to be wrapped up in your love.  You can even do it secretly--ring the doorbell and run!  

Let me know how your activity turns out :)).