Includes ideas for what the class can be about

By Shiloah Baker

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We at the Enrichment Cottage take the pressure off the Relief Society leaders by coming up with fresh and fun themed activities and additional resources to make your calling easier! Why reinvent the wheel? We are here to help! Here are 15 Creative home and family ideas for names for the classes you can offer at your Relief Society meetings, workshops or midweek classes.

Class Names with ideas:

1. Mom’s Ride- car care for women on the go!

2. Kitchen Mojo- even the most dazzling women in the kitchen need a little inspiration now and then. This class is for you!
3. Mealtime Magic- dinner menus and ideas for meals that children will love.
4. Tag-a-longs- Ideas for making shopping with kids a breeze.
5. Shakespeare in Love- ideas for marriage and romance.
6. Dress your Kids on a Shoestring- shopping ideas with thrift in mind.
7. 100% Ethically Grown-how we can raise virtuous children.
8. Simple Solutions for Home Organization- self explanatory.
9. The Red Caboose- …. sunburn relief ideas.
10. Pink Bloomers- and other colored flower gardening ideas.
11. The Never Ending Story- and other tales of laundry woes. Ideas for winning the laundry wars.
12. Who Let the Packrats Out? – Clutter controlling and home organizing.
13. Water Music- hydrotherapy
14. The Littles- either a pest control class or class on parenting
15. A Squash for all Seasons- cooking with the various varieties of squash throughout the year.

There you have it! Fifteen fun, some of them humorous class names to spark your creativity.
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Shiloah Baker is a mom of seven, pregnant with #8, married to the man she’s madly in love with. Exercise is her vice. She runs the Homemaking Cottage and educates her children in the home. In her spare time she sews, crafts, writes and reads.

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The early pioneers who crossed the plains of America to settle in the west were doing so not only for themselves, but for future generations. These pioneers made many stops along the way and would build forts and plant seeds for food knowing they would never reap the benefits of what was planted. They were only stopping in these areas and knew they were moving on yet they were thinking of those who were coming after them.

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By: Shiloah Baker

One thing I’ve noticed throughout the years is that handouts in Home, Family and Personal Enrichment meetings are becoming less common. It is a very sad trend as I love getting handouts. I love saving my handouts, sometimes scanning them to lessen the paperwork, to go back and refer to whenever needed throughout the years. The handouts bring back memories of the class and the things that I learned.

In a poll I did on the HFPE Group, of the 88 respondents, many of them agreed that handouts are becoming less common and 80% of those who agreed really love handouts.

Why Handouts?

-Handouts help teach the lesson and can help provide: illustrations, recipes, craft instructions, visual and textile impact of the message.
-Handouts can include additional information that you may not be able to include due to time constraints.
-Handouts can include complimentary information or stats based on your class/lesson.
-Handouts provide a place to add additional notes from the class.

Handout suggestions for mini-class attendants

Take notes on your handouts. Most handouts don’t include everything that is taught in class, so take notes of things that are important to you. I loved going through my step mom’s old relief society handouts with all of her additional notes. Since I didn’t attend these classes myself, I learned some extra things from the class that I would have never known.

Handouts can also be used in other ways:

-Handouts can be stored in the sister’s files and later used in their FHE’s.
-Handouts can be handed down from a mom to daughter as she teaches her new things or as she starts a new home.
-Handouts can be typed up and sent electronically to sisters or compiled on a CD at the end of the year and given as gifts.
-Handouts can be given to the sisters on your VT route, especially those who are inactive.

Handout Suggestions

Handouts can vary so much and each one can be valuable in its own way.

Handouts can be:

-Decorative such as magnets, mini décor items, bookmarks, etc.
-Mini-books- cookbooks, books of a compilation of instructions or articles.
-Page of information or notes.
-Articles
-Numbered steps
-Instructions
-anything your imagination comes up with as long as it includes information!

Let us make an effort to have more handouts in your wards and stakes! What a blessing it is for your sisters and yourselves! Just imagine the information that can be passed down through the generations from the written instructions! Take some time today to include written instructions in your Home, Families and Personal Enrichment Meetings.

Shiloah Baker has taught the art of homemaking for nine years via classes, articles and the websites she runs. The Homemaking Cottage & Co., an online business which sells books, eBooks, ideas, LDS related materials, and a special subscription service, and hundreds of free articles. For more information go to: http://www.homemaking-cottage.com

SCRIPTURE TABOO!

The basic idea is that you have two teams or at least 4 people: one person gives the clues to a person on THEIR OWN team who tries to guess the “taboo word” within a time limit.

The other team is there to make sure that the clue giver doesn’t say either the “taboo word” or any of the supporting words for that clue. If the clue giver does, the other team gets a point. If the person guessing doesn’t guess the word within the time limit, the other team gets the point. SO basically an example would best explain how this is
done:

Team A (John & Mary) takes the stack of cards. Mary will give the clues to John. The timer is set and Mary begins. She looks at her first card, it’s got the “taboo word” written at the top of it in bold letters and underlined?? “GOLIATH”. Below it are the supporting clues that she can’t say like, “David”, “Giant”, “Slingshot”, and “Killed”.

Sue from Team B watches Mary to see that she doesn’t say anything she isn’t allowed. So Mary says, “this is a big guy in the Old Testament who got slammed in the head with a rock from a little guy and died.” John is on the ball and guesses “Goliath” immediately, so Mary goes on to the next card, which has “TITHING” written at the top and under it the words “tenth”, “money”, “Bishop”, and “pay”. She can’t think of a good way to get him to guess “tithing” without saying any of these words, so she passes over it.

Team B gets that point. The timer goes off and it’s Team B’s turn at the cards. So Fred from Team B gives to Sue while John (from Team A) watches over Fred’s shoulder. Timer set. Fred’s first card says, “FLOOD” with “water”, “rain”, “Noah”, and “earth”. He tells Sue that it’s an event in the Old Testament where everything got really really wet and only those on the ark survived. She guesses “the flood”. His next clue is “CONVERT” with “believe”, “gospel”, “baptize”, and “testimony”.
Fred forgets that he can’t use any of these words or any PARTS of these words as clues and says, “the missionaries have baptisms so these people can join the church.” Lame clue, he used “baptisms” so Team A gets the point.

Get it?

We used any word we could think of that had to do with the LDS church or the gospel: people, places (Jerusalem, Zion…), events (first vision, creation…), gospel concepts (repentance, forgiveness, faith…), gospel words (immersion, genealogy, Sabbath, murmur…), things (iron rod, Liahona, arc of the covenant. ..).(Pretty much just run through the Topical Guide.)
You could also do this concentrating on only one aspect such as people in the scriptures or teachings in the scriptures. It was really good practice to see how well we could explain a word. Obviously, the more background in that subject, the easier this is. I think we gave out prizes too: for the winning team a bunch of “Smarties” candies and the losing team “dum dum” lollipops. (That may or may not be appropriate for your group, but we had a funny sense of humor with our group and they all liked the lollipops better, so they wanted to be “dum dums”. We don’t want to hurt any feelings here.)

A cute get-to-know you game:

Everyone sits in a circle. Give each sister a small Dixie cup. Pass around a bag of M&M’s and ask each sister to take some and put them in her cup, but don’t eat them yet.
After everybody had her M&M’s, the fun begins. For each M&M they have in their cup, they have to tell something about themselves. So, if Mary only has 2 M&M’s she only has to tell 2 things about herself, but if Lisa has 20 M&M’s she has to tell 20 things. You could either have them each tell all their things about themselves when it’s their turn or better yet, go around the circle and when it’s their turn they only tell one thing, then you go to the next sister, and so on until it gets back to them and they have to tell another thing about themselves and so on.
This was really fun and a great way to get to know each other better.

-Stacy (taterhopp)

By: Jennifer in New York

Picture thanks to HFPE Group

This is the easiest craft ever.  You just have to copy The Living Christ on to vellum paper.  It is the cloudy paper you see allot on wedding invitations.  I went to Staples and got copies there.

Then I ordered pictures of Christ in the red robe from the distribution center for .50 each.  The picture you have to cut down to fit the 8×10. When I introduced the craft, I bought a very nice frame, so it looked great.

We advertised it as a great gift for Mothers day, Christmas etc.  Especially if you had a large family.  One of our sisters bought 10.  We also did the Proclamation of the Family.  You can put a picture of your family or the Temple behind it.  One of the sisters put a picture of her parents in white behind it.  She said that they looked like angels.

It is a great craft, and much cheaper than anything you can find at the bookstore.