Cute and simple gift ideas to take with you Visiting Teaching

CANNING THEMED: (You will need to cut and paste these bolded links to your address bar as when posting they do not activate automatically.)
Since it is canning season, I thought I would share with you some fun ideas that I found while searching for canning recipes. Go to the following link: http://www.freshpreserving.com/pages/crafts/217.phpIdeas for using Canning Jars:
• http://wendyusuallywanders.wordpress.com/canning-jar-crafts-jar-mixes-and-jar-gifts/
• http://www.wisebread.com/sanity-saving-ideas-for-canning-jars
• http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf127414.tip.html
• http://www.motherearthsgarden.com/homemade-gift-ideas-get-out-those-canning-jars/
• http://baking.about.com/od/giftideas/ss/canningjarcakes.htm•

SEEDS THEMED: This is the time of year that you can start collecting the seeds from your flowers or vegetable garden. When plants go to seek, simply snip them off and lay them on a paper plate or paper towel to dry. It may take a week or two, but once they are completely dry, you can store them. Xpedex carries a whole lot of sizes of plastic zip lock bags from very tiny to large size. You will want some tiny ones. Then all you need to do is to print what kind of seeds they are on a colored piece of cardstock or paper and make your own header. Cut it to the size you need and staple it on to the top of the zipped bag of seeds. Instant gift giving, even when your garden is all dried up.

I found at http://www.survival-training.info/images14/SeedPacket2.jpg a template to make your own seed packets. Copy it off and cut it out. Seal sides together with a glue stick and insert seeds then seal the top. Very cute & Cleaver!

Another site to get this template for making your own flower or garden seed packet is this: http://www.squidoo.com/flowerseedpackets









Seeds: http://www.wpfamilychurch.org/files/The_Word_is_Seed.pdf

• Luke 8:11 “Now this parable is this: The seed is the Word of God.”

• Seed Quotes:

• “No one expects a seed to produce a harvest the same day that seed is planted. Sometimes the Word of God seems to spring up and bear fruit immediately. Yet, if we knew the details, we would understand that the fruit of the Word grew in that person’s life over time.”

• “A seed is persistent; it never gives up, but works day and night. Even when you are sleeping, the seed you have planted is working to grow and express itself in a fruitful harvest. We need to be patient and allow the seed to accomplish what it was sent to do”.


Here is another site that has a whole bunch of predrawn templates for different kinds of seeds, to just print off on your computerhttp://www.gardensandcrafts.com/seedpackets.html• Go to this site and then scroll down to find the template that you are looking for, then print from this site. The template used as a photo on this site won't work properly.

“A seed will stop growing without nourishment. Planting a seed is not enough to assure a harvest. A seed must be protected and taken care of until harvest time. A seed which is dug up, or not watered will not produce. The more the seeds planted, the larger the harvest will be. 2 Cor. 9:6 He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully”.

Talks using “Seeds” found though LDS.org

• James E. Faust, “Of Seeds and Soils,” Ensign, Nov 1999, 46
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• Joseph B. Wirthlin, “Seeds of Renewal,” Ensign, May 1989, 7
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• “In the Morning Sow Thy Seed,” Ensign, Jun 2009, 40–43 http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=c6c5ceb47f381210VgnVCM100000176f620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD

• David B. Haight, “Planting Gospel Seeds of Spirituality,” Ensign, Jan 1973, 74
• http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=2dbf438d9b76b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD

"Faith is like a little seed, if planted it will grow" is a quote from a cute primary song. If you go to Sugar doodle, you can also find another template that is all drawn up with a tree on the outside of it with this quotes.