I like mobiles, so I make them for announcing what we will be doing, time and date. They are eye-catching and don’t take up space on tables, etc!

Contributed by: Chris

We have 3 cork boards that we use to make our posters to announce enrichment nights. We put one by the primary room, one by the Young Women’s room and one in the RS room. They all look the same. In our meeting house, there are metal frames around the doors, so we put magnets on the back of the cork board so they would hang on the wall close to the door, so the sisters that are not able to attend RS will see the boards.

Contributed by: Becky Pospical
Richland WA

I make up bookmarks as the announcement of activities. Sister’s tend to keep them to use in their scriptures. We also put it in our Ward Bulletin.

-Shaun G. Bomfa

For announcing our up coming Enrichment Evenings we plan them out the month before and have a display table at the current enrichment meeting. This table stays up in a corner of our RS room until I change it the next month.
Summer Madigan, Warren Pa.

I send out an electronic invitation (evite) complete with rsvp, potluck sign up and mapquest capabilities. Sister’s love to rsvp and add their messages on the evite.

Check it out at Evite.com

Sister Nuzzaco

I just came up with this idea and did it last week. I got all the email addresses of the sisters in our ward that have email (and there were quite a few) and then I made a web page talking about what is going on for Enrichment and things that are coming up. Then I emailed it to all the sisters. I will send out an email reminder the Sunday before Enrichment and then the day before.
Jody Land
Victorville, CA

At the beginning of the year I bought a package of clear whole sheet Avery paper. On the computer I created a reminder about Enrichment Night using Print Master. I made 1×1″colorful labels. I could print 36 labels on a sheet. One month we talked about feeding the sheep so the label had a sheep with a halo, the date, and the time of enrichment night. I cut these into small pieces then stapled them onto a paper reminder with details about the evening. Now every month when I don’t do this I get questioned why. And they look really cute on the calendar. Because they are clear they look like they were naturally printed on the calendars.

-Patti Hosford

Last month I did post flyers inside the stalls of the women’s restroom. The sisters got a chuckle, but I did hear that they saw them and that was the goal.
-Elaine Beswick

Our enrichment committee each is assigned a list of names for a “calling tree”. we call the sisters a day or 2 before enrichment to remind them. This has also been great to involve the less active members that maybe don’t get to church to hear the announcements or receive flyers. We have always had a really nice turn out at our Enrichment nights since we started our calling tree.

-Danila MacDonald

We advertise by making a poster with info of the upcoming enrichment night on 8 1/2 x11 cardstock from my computer. I painted a wooden frame from the craft store 8×10 size, dark blue and in gold letters put LOVE LIFE (on top) AND LEARN (on bottom) on each side I attached 2 pieces of wheat tied with raffia to the frame, then each month I just change the poster. (I use the creative companion a lot for clip art).

Sometimes depending on the activity and if I have my stuff in order I make a smaller copies (4 to a sheet) in black and white and send it out with our ward newsletter or pass it out in R.S. We also put a blurb in our monthly Love Notes and ward newsletter.

I just started this year with enrichment night stickers that go on the sisters calendars to help remind them I used clip art pictures and put Enrichment night tonight 7:00 pm and made one for our super Saturday I did these on Avery 1″ round circles and attached the poem found on The Enrichment Cottage website. The sisters seemed really excited about these.

-Jen McPhie

I’ve been HFPE leader for only 2 1/2 months, but I found out very quickly that our auxiliaries like to know what’s going on, but don’t like interruptions or distractions.

So I implemented a new strategy. First, I asked why we don’t have bulletin boards in our building for RS and was told that they don’t do that anymore. Since I really wanted to be able to spot light our classes, and didn’t want to buy so much poster paper, I bought small bulletin boards from the dollar store (four of them) and attached them in pairs with ribbon (just held on with tacks in the back so I can change the ribbon every now and then). One hangs a few inches above the other on the wall. And the other pair is the same, hung beside the first pair, so you have a grouping of 4 small bulletin boards. To hang them them, I just looped the top of the ribbon through a key ring and use a tack in the wall to hang it from. That way I put them up and take them down easily. Then one of the top ones shows the date and time for the next enrichment night (and theme) Then the other three describe the lessons offered. I also put a small table right underneath it to have any
samples or examples and all the sign up sheets.

I’ve told everyone that there will be no sign up sheets going around…..not even in RS, they all sign up at this spot between classes or before or after church. It has been very well received and it’s fun decorating these little bulletin boards.

I also have small signs that I put in Primary and YW reminding them to check out the table.

- Ivy