2015 Primary Spotlight Board

I found the perfect spotlight idea on Sugardoodle several months back. 

Perfect except I'm not really scrapbook-ey.  Well, I'm only digitally scrapbook-ey and hers was done by hand.  So, I digitized it.  Well, I made a very similar version.

Do you know what that means? 

It means the rest of you can use it by just pushing a print button!  Well, you might have to take it somewhere to have it printed, but it doesn't involve many painful hours of cutting and gluing. Although the painful part might just be me.

Now, you won't download a board that looks exactly like this AND you will have to do a small amount of cutting and gluing.  Small, though.

The download includes the board above, without the pockets and numbers.  It also includes a pocket template, numbers, and questions.

You will either print the template directly onto the colored/patterned paper of your choice or print and cut the template out to trace on that same cute colored/patterned paper.  You could make the pockets all the same color, each one different or some combination.  Also, keep in mind, unlike the example pictured above, yours will not be wholly colored/patterned unless you have double sided paper. 

The numbers also need to be cut out and glued to the front of the pockets, which you can do before or after you fold, glue and attach them to the board.

Now, the questions.  These are fully from that wonderful woman who uploaded her super idea to Sugardoodle.  Each card talks about how we can each know our Savior lives and asks a question to have the children elaborate on different subjects (from the Book of Mormon to the priesthood any many other gospel topics).

To spotlight, choose the child(ren) for the day, have them come up and roll a die.  Match the number on the die to one of the numbered pockets, then have the child answer anywhere from one to all of the questions inside (each pocket will have several).

We're planning to take notes while they answer and use them to help write this years Primary Program.

Ready to download? 

2015 I Know My Savior Lives Spotlight download

Leah

Primary 2015 Birthday Gift

This year our birthday gift ties into the annual theme of "I Know My Savior Lives."

It also ties in closely with our spotlight.  For their birthday, each child will receive a seed packet full of faith beans (jelly beans).  I made the seed packet we'll be using and I adjusted it just a little bit to make it general enough for anyone to use.

The front of the packet talks about how we can watch our faith grow one "bean" at a time as we "plant" the teachings of Jesus in our heart.

To recognize the children as they are spotlighted (and so we can remember who has been spotlighted, just in case someone forgets), we will be putting flowers with their pictures in the center up on one side of our bulletin board.  Their faith beans will have grown into a flower!

I haven't put any together yet, but my plan is to glue and side and bottom, let it dry, fill with jelly beans (which I'll get in bulk from a local grocery store), and then use double sided tape on the top flap.  I'll let you know how well it works after I've field tested a few.

You can download these from my google drive.  It's in pdf format and I've fit two packets to one 8.5x11 page.

Leah

2015 Primary Monthly Posters - Part 1

Today, I have for you the first six months of primary posters.  YAY!!!

My posters are simple because my main goal is for the kids in the back of the room to be able to see them on Sunday (we use them every week).  We go over the theme and scripture each month and so that's what I've put on the poster. 

Of course, I did cute it up a little, too.

Here's what they look like. 

You can right click and save the posters as a jpg, but if you keep scrolling to the bottom, I'll have a link where you can download either a higher resolution zipped file of jpg's or a zipped file of pdf's.  

I decided to change the background every three months.  Just for fun.  January, February, and March all have little tiny polka dots and April, May and June are striped.  I'm keeping it nuetral, but mixing things up a little bit.

I also made two different April posters (did you notice yet?).  In our primary we memorize the monthly scripture each month, except sometimes the scripture in the Sharing Time Outline isn't actually the whole scripture.  So, I've got one poster with only the piece of the scripture included in the outline (the second one) and another with the whole scripture (the first one). 

Just in case any of you would like the whole thing like me.

So, what do you think?  If you're a fan and would like to use them you can download your choice of jpg or pdf (or both if you'd like) here.

January - June Primary Monthly Posters - JPG
January - June Primary Monthly Posters - PDF

I'm going to be posting about my bulletin board, names of Jesus monthly family home evenings, spotlight board and birthday gifts throughout the rest of this week (I talked about my early ideas on this post), so check back!

Leah

Primary Calendars 2015

Several months ago I shared my favorite primary reports.  The ones we ended up really using every week.

Two of those were calendars that need to be adjusted slightly for the new years theme.  I've gone ahead and done that for those of you that haven't gotten around to it yet.  Well, and for myself, too.

This first one I call our Overview Calendar (DOWNLOAD HERE) and it's the one I stick in the very back of my binder so I can see it without have to open the binder.  It's got all our important Sunday dates, lists of all the lesson's, monthly themes and song, and a spot to put who is in charge of what in our presidency.

The second one still has the monthly themes, although they aren't completely necessary here.  This calendar's main purpose is birthdays, thus the name Birthday Calendar (DOWNLOAD HERE).  We keep track of every child and leader so we can recognize them during primary.  I also use it to more easily see upcoming baptisms, primary graduations, and incoming toddlers for nursery.

We've found it handiest to put the child's name along with the birthday, that way we can simply copy and paste from one year to another.

If you'd like to see my other favorite reports, you can check them out in this post.  I've also made posters for next year (that go along with each months theme) on this post.

Leah