Pinewood Derby

My calling not only consist of teaching sharing time for the Primary children at church, but I am also over the Cub Scouts. I don't do much with them. I pretty much let the cub master do as he pleases. He will call on my every now and again to help him. When he called me to help decorate for the pinewood derby I was extactic. These races are always so much fun. I had already been doing research for my sons birthday party, so a lot of my work was done for me.

Pit stop station. Sorry no close ups of the food. But I had everything labeled. We had:
Fruit cars (apple slices with grapes stuck on for wheels)
Wheelie Pasta Salad (wheel shaped pasta)
Dipsticks (choc. dipped pretzel rods)
spare tires (choc. donuts)
hub caps and lube oil (nachos and cheese)
tools (silver ware
gas (ginger ale)
oil (root beer)
hot dogs (pistons)

I stacked boxes up so we could show off our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners. I also had made a sign for the "sign in" table that also looked like this one.

I came up with the idea of having a station for the little brothers and sisters who came to help keep the occupied since they couldn't race. It was a car toss. I bought cheap cars from the dollar store and had them toss them in the buckets. I had planned on having a real spare tire they could toss them in, but I wasn't strong enough to pick one of them up to transport it. So buckets had to do.

Who Knew?

All month we have been preparing for our church's R.S. Birthday Celebration. Tonight was finally the BIG night. Our Activity Organizer, Sis. Gubler, came up with the idea of wanting to play Family Feud. I love games, so of course I was on board with this idea. She put me in charge of coming up with a gift to give the sisters.
What I came up with was an owl necklace. We had 3 different designs to choose from. When they wear them they can always remember "who" they came from and "who" their sisters are. I will have a tutorial on how to make these later.
Then for refreshments Sis. Gubler found these cute little owl cupcakes in a magazine. They followed along perfectly with our "Who" theme.
We even made a bunch of little owls too
We combined everything on one table. That way when they came up to get their dessert they could also pick out their gift.
Instead of calling our game Family Feud we called it "Who Knew" Hear is Sis. Gubler as the Host and me as Vana White. Yes, I know Vana is on Wheel Of Fortune, but somebody had to pull the answer cards off and keep score
For our teams we have the COOL KIDS (who ended up being our winners)
and the ROCKIN' SOCKIN' RELIEF SOCIETYOnce we started it got competitive REAL quick. Melanie means business. She is determined to hit that buzzer first. I didn't know these ladies could get so vicious.
What? Sis. Daniel only got 4 out of the 50 votes for, "Name a sister in our Ward?" Come on people she is our Relief Society president. She should have been the #1 answer.
People kept arguing some of the answers. But Sis. Gubler is like, "Hey don't blame me. I didn't make these answers up. I called all of you! This is what y'all came up with"
The highlight of my whole night was when Rose came up to play. She was so quick to buzz the buzzer and then froze. She couldn't remember her answer for anything. She kept blaming it on old age. It was the sweetest and funniest thing of the whole night. I Love her to death. Sis. Daniel had to end up coming up and telling her an answer in her ear because she could never come up with one.

I have to say all of our hard work paid off. We had such a fun time. I love when I am able to get together with all of these wonderful ladies. "Who Knew" they could be such fun?

Now remember the question....Do you know "Who" you are? I can never forget "Who" my sisters are. They always bring a smile to my face.

Fire Planters

I am a little slow on posting my tutorial. If you remember my Christmas party that I did for my church, then you might remember these fire planters that I had for our table centerpieces. Our theme was "Give S'more", but you can't make s'mores without fire...right? I did promise y'all a tutorial for them. So here it is...

First, I had to draw out my vision on paper, and submit them to my husband. I don't trust myself with the table saw just yet. For each box you will need
2- 2' x 3" (sides)
1- 2' x 3 1/2" (bottom)
2- 3 1/2" x 3 7/8" (ends)
He mad all the measurements and cut the scrap boards that we had lying around.
When he was finished then my part came in. I nailed 2 of the 2' x 3" boards on top of the 2' x 3 1/2" board
Then nail your 2 end pieces on and paint whatever color you want. I had some left over brown paint from when we painted my living room. So we used that to paint our boxes. So far this project has been FREE. When you do activities for church you are always working on a budget. Its always fun to test your creative side and come up with something that doesn't cost a lot of money. Thank goodness my husband has an obsession with wood work and always has scraps lying around.
Now for the fire! I took red and orange tissue paper. Cut in 1/4 sheets. These boxes are very shallow so you don't need a whole sheet. Just a little will do.
Lastly stagger in color. Red, orange, red, orange. Voila! You have a fabulous fire pit for your S'more centerpiece. The Best part... it only cost $1 (for the tissue paper) Now thats what I call working on a budget.
We even had cheap labor...my son! The school bus dropped him off right as we were assembling. Dad let him throw on some headphones and help with the cutting. It definitely made Little Man's Day