Faith in God Cards 2.0

 Hi Everyone, 

I have decided to redo the Faith in God Cards to, hopefully, make things a little more simple. Hopefully my explanation will make sense. 😆  I have done 3 things. Here we go.

First I removed the month from all the cards. This will allow you to do which ever cards you like in whatever time you want. It also keeps it simple in the aspect of starting over. The number of requirements do not make it easy to simply rotate these starting at the beginning of the year. So I decided to just take the months off all together.

The second thing I did was create a third set of cards. Previously I had separate sets for the boys (blue) and a separate set for the girls (purple). I still have those but I have added a 3rd set that is for both boys and girls. This way if you only want to print out one set for everyone, you can. These are a sort of turquoise color. 

The third thing I did was darken the text. I had a few people tell me the lighter ones were a little hard to see. This can simply be from a difference in printers, but I thought I'd make them a little darker in case there were more who felt this way.

OK, apparently I have done 4 things. I updated the Requirement Calendar for all 3 sets. This just tells you what requirement is schedule for each month. These are just word documents that are editable, so feel free to make changes that fit your needs.

The links below each card picture will give you access to both the printable sheets and the calendar. The Printable Sheets basically look like 8 little business cards on each page. Each sheet is one requirement. Each file includes the 8 or 9 requirements (minus the ones that say to come up with an activity of their own). I have separated the printable sheets into the 3 categories Serving Others, Developing Talents, and Learning & Living the Gospel. I am still working on updating the Preparing for Priesthood and Young Women's cards but here is the link to the older ones I have done. They will work, they just aren't as dark as these new ones.  

Both

Girls

Boys

I have deleted the old ones that have the months on them to help reduce clutter and confusion. If there are any problems, typos, whatever, please let me know and I will do my best to fix them quickly. I am a mom of 3 very busy young kids. I don't get paid for doing these or even for having you look at my blog. I share these because they have been so helpful for our ward and encouraging the kids to be more proactive in the Faith in God program. So please be kind in your feedback, and patient in your requests. Thank you for all the feedback and wonderful comments. I have had so many people tell me how much they enjoy these. I hope they will continue to help. 

Here are the links to my other posts that have what we do as a final award and how we use these cards for those who are new to this, this one also has the tracking sheets we use.

Mom's Gratitdue Turkey

Now that Halloween is over I have started to think about the season of Thanksgiving. It seems like the last few weeks life has been really exhausting and my patience has been very thin. Sometimes I feel like it is so easy to get upset at my kids about the ridiculously little things and even easier to forget to focus on the simple and good things that they do all the time. So I've been thinking of ways that can help me remember to tell my kids thank you for the good things they are doing and how to encourage them to do those good things more. I came up with this little guy. 

This is my Mom's Gratitude Turkey. I laminated the body but not the feathers. We taped the body up on the fridge where we can all see it. This helps me to remember that at least a few times a day I need to point out and make kind of a big deal about the good things they have done. When I do this, they get to pick out a feather, we write what the good thing was and then we tape it onto the turkey. (This is why I didn't laminate the feathers.) My kids are getting so excited about how big our turkey tail is getting and I feel like we are starting to focus more on the good things happening around us, which has allowed me to focus on the hard stuff as much. Does my patience still get thin? You bet, but its not as often and its easier to get it back. It's really hard for those negative feelings to stick around when I am actively working on telling my kids good job and giving them hugs and loves.  

There is both a colored and black and white printable. Hope you enjoy this!

Free Fall Printables

Hello all! 

I love the fall! I love fall decorations! I am learning how to and starting to love creating fall printables. I also love sharing things for free. SO... I thought I'd share the files I have created. I hope you like them, and I hope they work (fingers crossed).  Please let me know if you have any problems with them.   

Free Fall Printables

Free Homeschool/Family Planner

  I am the busy mother of 3 wonderful, amazing, beautiful, funny, crazy, loud, energetic, messy kids. I am pretty sure that if my head wasn't connected to my body, I would forget one of them at least 4 times a week (or day😆 ). That being said, it is super hard for me to mentally keep track of all the things going on in our lives. We are just starting our homeschool year, with my oldest in kindergarten and my middle one doing preschool so things seem a little extra crazy right now. So I thought that now would be a great time to make up a fun little planner. Now I know it's only kindergarten and preschool and we don't have a thousand things pulling us in every direction, but I am the kind of person who likes to write things down in a neat and organized fashion. Since I am pretty sure I am not the only one who likes to do that, I thought I would share my little creation. For Free! Yay! I love free stuff and I love to share free stuff, especially when it can be helpful. I hope you enjoy it! I'd love any feed back or suggestions for future drafts. This is my first one, so please, be kind. Just a few notes: Everything is aligned with 1/4" margin for hole punching. There are a few pages that I did both horizontal and vertical and there are 2 different cover pages to choose from. The monthly calendars and menus  are in a file of their own. SO, be sure to look at the files before just printing all of them. Enjoy! 

Faith in God Sunday Challenge

I was recently called to serve in my ward primary presidency. One of the areas I am over is the Faith in God Program. The girls in our ward do great at getting this award, but we seemed to be lacking in getting the boys involved. After a lot of searching, brainstorming, pinteresting, and praying I was able to come up with a plan. I saw this great idea to do a Faith in God Sunday Challenge Card (thank you LittleLdsIdeas). This is what I came up with. (Here is the link to April's printable sheets).

Here's our plan. At the beginning of each month we will hand these little cards out. Almost all of the Faith in God requirements make for a great Sunday activity, hence the "Sunday Challenge" name. When the kids have completed the "challenge" they will bring back the card, signed and with their name on the back and they will receive a treat. They have the entire month to do this. 

We wanted to be able to track their progress, I was going to make a little excel spreadsheet until I found this awesome little guy! 

Faith in God Tracking Sheet

We have one of these printed out for each of our senior primary classes, in a binder that we will keep in our closet. I have to add this to the cards for next month still, but we will number each card so we can track which achievement they actually completed. This sheet will work for the entire 4 years they are in senior primary. 

I am so excited to see how this goes. We handed out the first challenge the week before general conference, but I have already had some great feed back from some of the mom's in the ward. I will keep adding the cards to this post as I make them. Best wishes!