"To develop personal habits and skills that will help me provide for myself."

• 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