Quote of the day

Scene: Laurels class (16-18 yr old Girls sunday school class). Topic: Exaltation. Discussion about what you need to do in this life to gain Exaltation, which includes temple endowments and marriage. The girls had a lot of questions about the endowment and what you do in the temple.

Me: "So taking out your endowment is something you do right before you go on a mission, or get married, or if you're a young adult and are spiritually mature, and not getting married anytime soon, you can go to the temple then."

Girl 1 : "How do you know if you're spiritually mature?"

Me: "If you're faithful and feel like you're ready and are serious about the gospel. Also, you go to the Bishop's office and play this video game about spirituality, and if you get to Level 10 then they let you go to the temple."

----Birds Chirping, Blank Stares---

I'm just kidding guys.

Girls: WHAT?? We thought you were serious!

Girl 2: That would be awesome. I want a game like that, then my mom would let me play computer games on Sunday.

-End Scene-------


What do you think? What would you put in a spiritual video game? Mormon version of Oregon Trail? Gospel Trivia? A soundtrack that included whispers of codes, that you had to be quiet to hear?


In other news, today I put my ABC Jumbo Dry Erase Books on Skip to my Lou's Made by Me Monday- Check out all the other craftiness over there!

Dollar Store Jumbo Dry Erase Letter Books

I bought a pack of these ABC and 123 borders from the Dollar Store a few years ago. I taped them together to make a poster and hung them up in our hallway in Utah and in the playroom in Virginia. Now that I want my house to look a little more…classy (and now that my playroom is the common area of our upstairs), I didn’t want to hang them up. This morning I woke up and had a brilliant idea. Why not make it into a book??!

So here’s what you do-

1. Go buy a pack of the ABC or 123 borders from the dollar store.

2. If the border has no place to trace the number or letter, tape word strips onto the bottom or paper with Penmanship Print Font, 2-3 inches tall.(Tip-to use a True Type font, you download, then move into your fonts folder in your control panel. Then open in a word processing program. To make spaces of the lines without any symbols, you have to type the ~ symbol, it’s in the upper left corner next to the 1 on your keyboard).

3. Laminate. I used a small thermal laminator. It only laminates 13 inches wide, so I used two laminating pouch sheets overlapping slightly in the middle. Also you could go to the teacher store and have them laminate it for a small cost.

4. Cut around each piece, leaving a 1/4 inch border of plastic around the paper.

5. Bind- I used my Bind It All, with 3/8 inch bindings. I bound on the top for stability. You could pay $2 a binding to have an office supply store do it. Or you could punch holes and twist paper clips into each hole. Or use key chains. Or clip metal rings. Or trash twist ties. Or other techniques I have yet to discover. The important thing is that the binding doesn’t interfere with being able to write on the letters and numbers- so a thermal or stitch binding wouldn’t work.

Variations- Cut apart the borders to make individual letter/number pages and include more space for practicing the letter/number.

Voila! You’re done! Grab a toddler and some dry erase markers and teach a kid to read and count.