I loved the cup song from the first time I heard it...and years on, it's still one of my favourites. I've never quite mastered how to do it mind you, I normally end up slapping myself and banging the cup all over the place, lol!!! But it's on my bucket list so one day I WILL master how to do the cup 'routine'. I wrote these words to the tune for our Young Women's (YW) camp and the girls really enjoyed singing it and quite a lot of the younger YW had never done it before. Even when we had 'down time' the YW enjoyed getting the cups out and singing different songs, practicing and teaching each other. Here's the video that I made showing our YW doing the 'YW Camp Cup Song'...unfortunately the audio isn't too clear to make out what they are singing, but it was fun putting it together...and one day I will do a video of a couple of the YW singing it, hopefully some time soon?!
And I thought you might like the words to the song too...I know, I'm too kind, lol??!?
Enjoy singing your heart out while tapping n slapping those cups.
Another post about what we got up to at Young Women's (YW) Camp. We found lots of great headbands on Pinterest, but to make the ones we liked, we needed to use 2 t-shirts and cut them up into strips.....errrr too much to ask the girls to bring 2 shirts to camp to cut up; too expensive for us to buy them new and would take far too long for all the girls to cut up!! Bing!!! Inspiration came....use boodles!! Boodles is t-shirt material but in a nice long, thin thread, so perfect and soooo much quicker and easier for all our girls to make their headbands, yay, result!!
We put all the different colours out and let the girls choose their own combination, some went for just 2 but some chose 4 colours (3 strands of each). They cut their 12 chosen threads to 40", don't worry about them being exact as they get trimmed later....and yes it's quite long but everybody's head size is different, so better to go bigger than smaller when doing a project like this.
We then followed the instructions off the video link below....I had watched this video several times before camp but I found by the time I got there and with all the rushing round etc I'd forgotten exactly how to do it, lol, so I'm glad we had wi-fi available so I could watch it with the girls the first time and have this lovely lady talk us through it....
I practiced the nautical knot using just 2 strands and ended up making a ring, lol...you could easily use 4 lengths of boodle and make a nautical bracelet too :) And if you've got any left, in my house the boys like to tie it round their heads as it instantly makes them into ninjas (?!!?!), and my girls love plaiting them and making bracelets. Lots of people crochet with boodles and make some beautiful things. Have fun creating and making with boodles.
I loved Ann M. Dibbs talk at General Conference and as soon as I mentioned the story at the beginning of her talk about the girl in the T-shirt my kids remembered it too!!
Once we'd finished the story we all had a piece of paper with her chosen T-shirt statements on (I'm a Mormon. I know it. I live it. I love it), and we each wrote down how and why we knew it, lived it and loved it! It was lovely to watch the children sit and think as they wrote down their feelings and answers to these simple but profound sentences. I got all choked up as we shared what we had written down, we were basically sharing our testimonies of the gospel with each other...it was one of those special memories.
We each had a cut-out card T-shirt to decorate (on both sides if we wished) with either the words or drawings showing our beliefs....if you've got some old plain T-shirts laying around you could use these instead, or if you are a very hi-tech family you could design them on your computers and then print the designs onto T-shirt transfers. I thought teenagers might enjoy the latter one, but as I have none yet I am only guessing??!!?! It could also make quite a good activity for Faith in God too? We finished the lesson by reading Sister Dibbs testimony at the end of her talk.... I have a testimony of our Heavenly Father’s great plan of eternal happiness. I know that He knows us and loves us. I know that He has prepared a prophet, President Thomas S. Monson, to encourage us and help guide us back to Him. I pray that each of us will put forth the effort to be able to confidently declare, “I’m a Mormon. I know it. I live it. I love it.”
For the treat I was soo excited when I found these mini football shirt biscuits, how perfect are they??!!? And as with most of our FHE treats we had to cover them in lashings of frosting and hundreds of sprinkles...nom nom!!
