christmas party activities

as promised... here are our christmas activities from the relief society party last night!

1. a nativity embroidery. 

this was so easy to do. we went online and found a simple nativity outline and printed it out in a size that would fit a standard 4x6" frame. i made the outline heavier with a permanent marker then traced them on to calico with a washable fabric marker. 

each of the sisters started with embroidery thread and a needle, doing a simple back stitch... and we had ziplock bags on hand so they could finish at home. once done, all you do is spray to get rid of the blue marker, iron flat and whack it in your frame! 

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2. cookie decorating

one of our lovely sisters baked 200 cookies, so we could have 4 each (we had worked on 50 sisters attending the evening) to decorate. we had icing ready to go, ziplock bags to use for piping and a stack of fun things to use for decorating (christmas m&m's, peppermint crisp, sprinkles etc)

once done, they were placed on a paper plate to dry (with each persons name written on the side) and collected at the end of the night

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3. christmas pass the parcel

this was hilarious. we had a pre-wrapped parcel and a dice for each of the three groups ready to go. when someone rolled a 6, they had to put on a santa hat, coat and oven mitts, then try to remove a piece of the wrapping.  if someone else rolled a 6 in the meantime, they had to grab everything from that person and so on until someone got to the middle. kind of a christmas take on the chocolate game, but with a parcel. 

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such a fun night!