Title: “Home Evening Service”
Exhibitor: Chantel Lloyd
Description: Along with a lesson, talent, game treat, and whatever else you do
in your home evening, how about including service? The person assigned to service decides whom they want to visit, what to take, and whether to leave it anonymously or go in for a visit. Our children’s favorite is the anonymous one. They call it “secret service” or sometimes “sneaky service”. You choose. Either way, it’s a great way to teach the value and joy of service to your family.
How To’s:
Fun & Inexpensive Ideas
! Take a loaf of bread or a pie with a card saying: “You’re a lice above the rest.”
! Take a bouquet of flowers from your garden with a card saying: “If flowers were friends, we’d pick you.”
! For a sick child, take something for them to do like a puzzle, coloring book, play dough, etc.
! Take a bunch of grapes and tie a card to them that reads: “You are loved a bunch.”
! Package of KoolAid with a note: “Have a KOOL summer.”
! Can of soup with note: “We think you are a SOUPer person.”
! Twix candy bar with note: “Just be-TWIX you and I, we think you are great.”
! Bag of nuts with note: “We’re just NUTS about visiting you.”
! Butterfinger with note: “Hope you’re feeling BUTTER.”
! “Make a candy bar chart. Use a variety of candy bars to make a message of your choice.
! Copy of message of hope or inspiration for someone who has a hard time.
! Make up and perform a singing telegram if your family is musical.
! If your service is just to visit someone, be sure and make an extra effort to be a sincere listener.
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Valentine’s Day: Give someone a “heart attack.” Cut out lots of hearts, write a quality you admire about the person on each hear, and take the hearts on their door.
St Patrick’s Day: Give a green Squeeze It and some Hershey Hugs with a note saying: “Here’s a SQUEEZE and a HUG.”
Easter: Give as Easter treat with one of the following notes: “You’re EGGtra Special to us,” “Some BUNNY loves you,” or “You are someBUNNY special.”
OR: Take some plastic eggs and on each one write the name of a family member you are visiting. Inside each egg, write a note with a quality you like about that person and include some Easter candy. Make several eggs for each person and leave it on their porch.
4th of July: You could decorate a cake like a flag.
Halloween: Take someone a whole pumpkin with the recipe for a pumpkin dinner.
Thanksgiving: Take some homemade rolls for Thanksgiving Dinner. Include a personal note of why you are thankful for them, and wish them a Happy Thanksgiving.
Christmas: Give a homemade tree ornament
Do the 12 days of Christmas to a family
Fill a wire wisk with Hershey Kisses. Wrap in red or green cellophane, tie
with a ribbon, and attach a note: “We WISK you a merry KISSmas.”
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