- BANNERS AND GOALS: Color the banners with
gel pens. Discuss what activities the girls want to do during the year. Set
goals for each category.
- PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: Learn how to map out a route and ride
public transportation. (Bus, light rail, subway...)
- LESSON ABOUT CREDIT CARDS: Teach the girls
about credit cards. How they work. How interest works. Where the money comes
from..
- THE VALUE OF MONEY: Have the girls see if they know how much
things cost. Make a monthly budget worksheet with things like: Mortgage Payment
or Rent Payment,cost of food, car payment, auto fuel, electric bill, gas bill,phone
bill etc... Have the girls fill out the amounts that they think their family
spends on these items per month. Talk about the importance of taking care of
their things, getting an education, saving money. Have the girls take the worksheet
home and go over it with a parent to see how close they were to being correct.
- BICYCLE REPAIR: Learn how to change a tire
on a bicycle.
- LEAD MUSIC: Help prepare the girls for Young Womens by teaching
them how to lead the music and conduct a meeting.
- CHECKBOOK MATH: Teach the girls how to
fill out a check and keep a running total in a checkbook register.
- COMPOUND INTEREST: Show the girls how compound interest works
and how much money they can have if they save 1 dollar a day with compound
interest. Help them to get excited about starting a savings account.
- IRONING 101: Teach the girls how to iron.
- MAP READING SKILLS:. Tell the girls that you are going to take
a trip and you need to figure out how to get there. figure the distance, how
long it will take to drive, how many stops, how much gas and the cost, cost
of stopping for food,which roads are the best, or whatever you want.
- ARE YOU LOST?: Part of preparedness and
safety is in knowing directions, Teach the girls how to find north by the
stars and by the sun. Teach them the acronym "Never Eat Soggy Waffles" for
north, south, east,west. Practice knowledge of directions(north,south,east
and west) by making up a treasure hunt in and around your home or church
grounds. place numbered clues with verses containing directions on landmarks
using trees, flagpole, fences, sheds etc. Have a treasure treat at the end
of the clues. When I did this the girls gathered puzzle pieces at each site
and at the end they put the puzzle together and it was a simple map showing
where the treasure was. The map had an N on it for north .
- SHOPPING THE SALES!: This was a really fun activity. I brought
a few copies of our local grocery stores ad for the week and found my coupons
I clip that matched the sale items. Our store does double coupons on Tuesdays
so I had the girls look through the ad and find what was on sale as I held
up the coupon. When they found it in the ad, I had them figure how much it
would be with the coupon and them with the double coupon. Some of the items
ended up being free, or we made a few cents. They really had a good time and
I gave them each a candy bar at the end of the activity (4 for a $1.00 with
a buy three get one free offer!). The mom's told me their girls really enjoyed
this activity and wanted to go shopping with them.
- PHONE BOOK LESSON: Teach the children how
to use the phone book and yellow pages. Have them look up names. Tell them
that they need to find a specific service or product and have them search
they yellow pages for it. Show them the emergency numbers and government
pages.
- LEARNING ABOUT A NEWSPAPER: Using a newspaper, show the children
all of the different sections and what is in each one. Read some of the headlines
and stories. Look at the adds, obituaries, movie reviews etc... and talk about
the importance of reading the paper and staying informed about current events.
Play a game where you ask them to find something and see if they can locate
it in the paper. You could ask them what the weather is going to be on Tuesday.
What "G" rated movie they could go to on Saturday at 1:00pm. What store has
a sale on towels, What is the most interesting story etc...
- BE ORGANIZED: keep a calendar of events
for school, achievement days, and other activities.
- CAREERS AND MONEY: Teach the girls about careers and money management.
Create different jobs, with their corresponding salaries. Have set expenses
for tithing, house payment, and other typical "normal" expenses. Then, give
them the rest in play money, and have them visit "stores" and care for their
needs. They learn quickly that the money doesn't go far.
- LAUNDRY: Teach the children how laundry/clothing
care (save a couple of your own loads!) we learned how to sort laundry by
color and fabric, what types of colors/fabrics work best with each temperature,
how to iron different types of fabrics, and how to fold clothes. The kids
had a great time learning to check labels,learning how to iron, and to demonstrate
how they helped with this task in their own family. Angela, Cape Girardeau,
MO
- EMERGENCY KITS: We made Emergency Preparedness kits and included
items such as a small flashlight, water, granola bar etc. We labeled each item
with a corresponding type of spiritual preparedness. The flashlight represented
the Light of Christ, the Water--baptism, the granola bar--feasting upon the
words of Christ. There were several items that we were able to purchase at
the local dollar store and put in the kit. These were the ideas we used there
are many other ideas. We ended on discussing the importance of being spiritually
prepared for the second coming. It was a great activity.
- GOALS:—Setting Goals, writing a letter
to self for future
- START THE NEW YEAR WITH A BANG !: We are doing an AD kickoff! "Let's
Start the New Year with a BANG!" I am scrambling the 12 achievements and putting
each one into a helium filled balloon. We will pop each one and figure out
which achievement it is and talk about it and give ideas to the girls of some
activities. We are then going to pop some popcorn and learn how to make caramel
to put on it. We will discuss ideas for goals and things they would like to
do. How to make caramel with just 4 ingred. It is very easy. Here is the recipe
for Caramel for Popcorn. 1 cube butter or marg. 2 cups brown sugar 1 cup Karo
Syrup 1 can of Eagle Brand condensed milk Melt marg add sugar and Karo. Cook
to med ball stage or 140 degrees. Remove from heat and stir in Eagle brand.
Pour over popped popcorn. Keep stirring until cool. Enjoy! Hope this is helpful
Dannyel
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