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Title:                                         “Every Bunny Needs Some Bunny”

 

Exhibitor:                                  Sharon Stucki

 

Description:                              As your children’s mother, you need to be the number one

example in serving God’s other children. Children learn more from personal experience than from just being told.  As your children watch you, they will out shine you as they grow in stature.   This example of reaching the many will teach children the true meaning of God’s work

 

How To’s:                                Activity Ideas

                                               


Activity Ideas:

 

  1. Our family grew to love and serve our brothers and sisters in the inner city of Los Angeles during an emergency situation.  One Sunday morning when devastating fires threatened homes in the LA area, our bishop called us all together in the chapel and asked us to go home and empty our cupboards of canned goods, gather up our shovels, rakes, blankets, and clothing for all ages, and return in 2 hours.   When we arrived in the city we began distributing food and clothing to those who had lost their homes and everything in them.  Our children gave their own coats along with the clothes and food they had gathered.  From this experience we began to visit the poorest parts of LA and work in the soup kitchens on a regular basis. 
  2. Shelters are a very good place to take children to sing and to present homemade gifts and other things in need to women and children. 
  3. Call the Primary Children’s Hospital and ask about giving service to the Ronald McDonald house that is close by.  Reading to children and cleaning are ways to help families awaiting the outcome of their family members who are hospitalized.
  4. Encourage children to participate in weekly acts of service.   Simple ideas include baking cookies for a family, baby sitting, raking leaves, taking children to the part, and taking care of pets while neighbors are on vacation.  Older children who drive can go on errands for those in need.
  5. Call local cemetery to clean up graves that have been forgotten.
  6. Offer cleaning services to seniors (vacuum, dust, clean bathrooms, etc.).
  7. On Christmas morning make sure time is set aside to travel into the city to visit rescue centers for the homeless.  Travel with your cousins, and fill your van with new and used games, skates, or other toys.  Wrap them up and give them away to the children from the back of your van. 
  8. Offer services at area hospitals such as reading, pushing wheelchairs, straightening rooms, and singing.  Ask them what you can do especially for them.
  9. Ask the bishop if there is opportunity to assist any physically or mentally challenged people in your area. 
  10. Go to the YMCA and YWCA and ask to coach the children in various sports programs.
  11. Call local libraries and ask what you can do to help them (putting books away, etc.)
  12. Call hospitals in your area to see if there is a need to provide quilts for babies in need.