The theme for Primary this year is Choose the Right.
With so many choices facing our youth daily, we wanted to give them something for their birthdays that could be a visual reminder to help them remember to choose the right.
Our Primary second counsellor found these bottlecap zipper pulls somewhere and ordered them for us. Then she printed out all the CTR logos in so many cute colours, and cut them all out by hand and assembled them!!! (I hope she had a good movie to watch!)
I think the zipper pulls is a brilliant idea! The children can put them on their coats or backpacks or anywhere else, for that little reminder to always Choose the Right.Still haven’t decided which colour I’m going to give myself when my birthday comes around (being the secretary has some perks!)
I enlisted some help from my Jen and we made little birthday gift bags for the children. Even did some housekeeping of stuff that was already in the Primary cupboard from years past – the picture of Christ with the children with the Articles of Faith on the back.
I was searching for clear bags but they were sold out. Good thing because I think the red, yellow and blue bags turned out exactly perfect for Primary!
This stash of 45 should last until the fall, and then we’ll do a recount and make some more.This year we’re also trying something new – we recognize and sing to the birthday child in Primary, and give them a little coupon. They take their coupon to the Bishop after church and he gives them their special birthday bag and is able to have a little chat with them. The Bishop loves it, the children love it, and there are no distracting birthday things in Primary!
