What to do with a single sheet of golden heart cardstock? Cut it in half, trim the ends, and make two A2 cards! Another step closer to the end of the Gold Glam Self-Imposed Challenge! The pink accent is Lawn Fawn paper left over from the Love Birds, and the "LOVE" actually comes from one of the Michael's Christmas packs that my niece and I picked up in December! There is something so satisfying about shiny cardstock.
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What is there to do with two 6x6 sheets of pineapple paper, when the pineapples are unnatural colors and you don't even like the fruit? How about cutting the paper into quilt squares and triangles? So far, I have a large pile of quilt pieces and exactly one card, but the potential is there for more! The squares are 1.5", so the final card is 5"x5". The chipboard elements are Echo Park I'd Rather Be Crafting, a birthday gift from a perceptive friend! The sewing machine came from the same chipboard set. The triangle paper is from the use-it-up stack (this self-imposed challenge is taking two months instead of one), and I kept adding mats until it looked finished!
One partial sheet of pink polka dots is out of the stash! The silver ink on the letters did not photograph particularly well. . .hopefully it looks better in person. There are two grey die-cut letters under each of the stamped ones to help them stand out.
What does one do with a single sheet of white paper with gold stripes? Find some Spellbinders dies that are the right size to fill in the blanks!
Inspired by this week's MFT Card Challenge and this month's goal to use up the Gold Glam 6x6 paper pack.
One of my favorite elements of the Balloon Triplets dies used here is the heart cut-out layer of the big balloon, which leaves behind lots of little hearts for future cards! I made two in this design, with the pink and lavender in opposite configurations on the other card. Time for another card challenge! The shaker window is made from two layers of acetate packaging, sandwiched between the card base and the pink layer, so that it is see-through when the card is opened. The "love" is actually a drop-in from a Stephanie Barnard set, trimmed a little to serve a different purpose, and the little hearts were left over from other die cutting projects. It was very satisfying to repurpose tools and supplies!
The children happily devoured their cupcakes with heart sprinkles. We decided that next week will be a cookie week, but nobody expressed a flavor preference. . .fortunately, nobody in this class is picky! We talked about all of the children's families. They have different numbers of brothers and sisters, but everybody has parents and siblings who love them. We talked about why babies need families: they cannot feed or take care of themselves. We also discussed why five- and six-year-olds need families: to help them learn, to drive them to school and church, to help them clean the house, to provide food and clothing, and to give them lots of love and support. We looked at this picture and learned about the Angel Gabriel visiting Mary. We talked about how surprised we would be if an angel came to bring us a message! The angel told Mary not to be afraid, and then told her that she would be Jesus' mother. We talked about what a special responsibility this was. We learned that an angel came to talk to Joseph, too, to tell him that Jesus would be born. Joseph would help Mary teach Jesus. We talked about how Jesus Christ needed parents, just like we do, to protect him and take care of him as he grew up.
We talked about many different ways that we can show love for our families. We concluded by using lots and lots of heart stickers to make love notes for our parents and siblings. It was a beautiful, warm, sunny day, so we took a walk outside before class. After two laps around the building (in which Syler and Mees must have traveled at least twice as far as Sister Combs), we were ready to go inside and have a lesson. We reviewed last week's lesson. With a little prompting, the children remembered what they had learned about Heavenly Father's plan for us to come to Earth and receive a body. They remembered that Jesus was chosen to help us. He would show us how to live and die for us so that we could return to live with Heavenly Father after this life. They also remembered Satan's plan to make us do what is right, and that Satan was cast out. We learned that the right to choose is called agency. We talked about some of the choices we make each day, and all the chances we have to choose the right. We learned about a time when Jesus was in the temple. The children were not very sympathetic to the priests, who became angry as Jesus healed people and more angry when children shouted Hosanna. They said if they saw Jesus, they would celebrate and tell everyone, just like the children in the Bible did. We talked about how we can praise Jesus Christ by following his example and doing what he would have us do. We practiced saying part of Doctrine & Covenants 37:4: Let every man choose for himself. We put this game board between our pictures of Jesus and Satan and put a game piece in the middle. Then we took turns reading scenarios. If the sentence described a good choice, we moved our token one step toward Jesus, but if it was a poor choice, we had to move one step away from him. We took a lot of steps forward and backward, and were very excited to reach our destination! We talked about how we feel happier when we choose the right.
We colored adorable heart animals (near the bottom of the webpage) and decorated them with heart stickers. Having only two students made it easier to share the stickers! Today was Snickerdoodle Sunday and Girls-Only Sunday; one normal, happy thing, and one very unusual occurrence, as there are usually a majority of boys in the class. We reviewed what we had learned about repentance earlier this year. We also talked about the Atonement of Jesus Christ--how he suffered for our sins so that we can be forgiven if we repent. We are grateful that Heavenly Father will not remember our sins if we repent. We remembered last week's lesson about Alma teaching and baptizing the people by the Waters of Mormon. The children reminded each other that the wicked King Noah killed Abinadi, but Alma wrote down his prophecies and shared them with many people. We learned that Alma had a son whose name was also Alma! The children thought this was very silly. Alma the Younger did not obey the commandments. He and his friends, the Sons of Mosiah, made bad choices and taught other people to do the wrong things. Alma was very worried about his son and prayed about him frequently.
We learned that an angel appeared to Alma and his friends and told them to mend their ways. Alma was so astonished by his message that he fell to the ground and had to be carried back to his father's house by his friends. Alma the Younger could not move or speak for two days and two nights. When he finally regained his strength, he told his father that he had repented of his sins and that Heavenly Father had forgiven him. After that, he spent his time telling people to choose the right and teaching them true principles. We talked about the steps Alma the Younger had taken to repent. We put together very tricky heart puzzles. Repentance is how we put the pieces back together when we have broken a commandment. We started with a review of last week's lesson. The children remembered that Joseph Smith lived in a log cabin with wood floors, that he learned at home until they moved close to a school, and that he lived in a big family that "grew food in their garden to eat" and "grew plants that they made into wool for clothes". We learned that there were many religions when Joseph Smith was growing up. One of the children pointed out that this is still true in our day. Joseph was very confused about which church he should join, since they all had different teachings, and he did not know which one was right. He read James 1:5, and decided to pray to find out which church to join. We watched the middle part of The Restoration to find out what happened when he prayed, although everyone seemed to know already! We talked about all the things that Joseph Smith learned from the First Vision:
We finished by coloring Love Robots to remind us to show love to our families! |
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