Homemaking Skills

Theme: Winter Getting You Down?
(Idea for January HFPE)

Mini-classes

Indoor Herb Gardening
Get A Head Start On Spring Cleaning
Crock-pot Cooking

Theme: Showing Love To Your Family
(Idea for February HFPE)

Mini-classes:

Valentine Traditions
Homemade Valentine Decorations
Organizing & Cleaning The Bathrooms
Make Your Own Table linens

Theme: “Spring Into Homemaking”
(Idea for March HFPE)

Mini-classes:

Sew Your Own temple dress
Caring For Your Rugs
Decorating With Nature
Prevent Your Family From Getting Sick Naturally

Presentation: Homemaking Skills

Opening Hymn: 298 Home Can Be a Heaven on Earth

Invocation:

15 Minute Lesson: The Latter-day Saint Woman, Part A, #20 Managing Our Homes Well p.146

Mini-class Subjects:

1. Growing, Cooking and Preserving Food.

Purpose: To help sisters rediscover the potato

Preparation: Use information from “The Versatile Potato” and other potato recipes

2. Home Organization and Cleaning

Purpose: To help sisters and their families rediscover the fun in cleaning and organizing

Preparation: Use the articles, “To Make Housework Fun, Work More”, Work More by Daryl V. Hoole, Ensign, Apr 1975, 61 and “How I Stopped Accumulating and Started Filing in Four Easy Steps”, Ensign, Jul 1976, 42.

3. The Value of Work

Purpose: To help the sisters and their families understand the importance of working together as families.

Preparation: Use the article, “Family Work”, by Kathleen Slaugh Bahr with Cheri A. Loveless

In Australia, we have a ‘Surprise Chef’ TV program – this chef asks people in the supermarket if he can come home and create a meal for them, using ingredients from their trolley (who would say no?!). We used this idea for our activity … sisters pledged to bring along an item from the prepared list. They were split into 3 teams, and a ‘runner’ chosen. Everybody got to look at the ingredients (some even tried reorganizing them a little more conveniently!). The object was to create a meal from whatever ingredients your runner brought back. It was so crazy, there was butter flowing through the servers and lots of laughs … so much so, Institute had to move on account of the noise! We had some fabulous meals created – definitely the best supper out!

Prizes were awarded: for Creativity – silver spoons decorated as people, Edibility – Anti-Acid Tablets and for Presentation – Cocktail Umbrellas. Cleaning up after themselves was included in the time limit. Everyone had a ball.

Lisa – Canberra, Aust

August Topic: Homemaking Skills

Organization
Ribbon Board Craft
Swap Night

-Sheri

Theme: Five Little Piggies

o Class 1: Stayed at home – gardening
o Class 2: Had roast beef – crock pot cooking
o Class 3: Had none – bargain shopping
o Class 4: Went to market – swap table

Refreshments: Went wee-wee-wee all the way home – French desserts

-Heather Bruck

It’s Elementary My Dear
Theme: Back to Basics

1. Basic Temple Preparedness – Barbara Carpenter
Come learn how to make temple worship more meaningful. Be inspired to attend the Temple more often.

2. Basic Beans and Tortillas – Erleen Tilton
Our Healthy Eating Series will be focusing on Fiber and carbs. Enjoy learning about different beans and make your own homemade tortilla!

3. Basic Organizing – Tracy Boyce
Be inspired by this talented girl! Get things clean & organized and have fun doing it.

4. Basic my Foot!!!!! – Be creative with sack lunches! Ideas will be given in a handout to EVERYONE!

5. The Treasure Table will be set up – bring your junk!

A children’s class and dinner will be provided

-Cara in Gilbert, AZ

We had our Stake Leadership meeting last night and all the Wards shared such wonderful ideas. One of the wards is focusing on homemaking basics each month and she said they made apple pies start to finish (raw pies were taken home to bake) and that they had almost 80 sisters there! Friends and neighbors were invited and everyone had a blast. I’ve seen other sisters post here about pie and bread making demos and how successful they are. We will definitely give this a try.

-DKHays77

Theme: What Mother Never Taught Me

We are offering the following classes:

Class 1: Basic Sewing – how to hem, sew on a button, repair a tear, etc. (we are always so surprised when sisters tell us they can’t do these basic things.)

Class 2: Humanitarian Aid Dress Project – this is an on going class for all those sisters who want to make dresses to add to our Stake’s humanitarian aid project for the year. There are beginners paired with experienced seamstresses, donated fabric, inexpensive dress patterns, etc. This class will end in Oct.

Class 3: Visiting Butcher – to teach how to cut up a chicken, best cuts of meat for your $, when to throw out that old sponge, kitchen safety, etc.

Class 4: Stage One of Organization – each sister will bring her “junk
drawer(s)” in a bag to class and learn how to organize. We will have boxes for each sister to place her “Keep”, “Donate”, and “Trash” items from her junk drawers. (We hope it will encourage them to continue to bigger things in their homes).

During our Topic Presentation Lesson the teacher will present new ways to use old things – or “The Original Use and the “Aha! Use”.

-Lynne in SC