Family Movie Night: The Lorax

We had our first Family Movie Night at church!  Everybody gathered in the Fellowship Hall and we got popcorn donated from a movie theater.  Families brought camping chairs and blankets to spread out and enjoy a fun evening.  We had a couple of tables set up in the back with activities for kids who couldn't sit straight through the whole movie.

Masks that many of the kids made:


Truffula Tree seeds!  Everybody needs a take-home treat, right?


I couldn't find Nerds jelly beans, but they still looked cute!

All in all - a great evening!

Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookies

Please forgive me for no picture.  I promise to get better at taking pictures of things I make from pinterest.  The Middle School Youth at church were making dessert for our Wednesday evening program as one of their "electives."  On Wednesday we made these.  Two thumbs up and will repeat these for sure!

But this also made me wonder if I could just make my "regular" chocolate chip cookie recipe - which I practically have memorized - and just add nutella.  Might try that, too!  Enjoy...

Source: littleleopardbook.com via Nancy on Pinterest

Colts cupcakes!

Here is is... red velvet cupcakes... but blue!  And we wanted to get a little bit fancy and creative, so figured out how to add filling, too.  They were very sweet, but I'd give two thumbs up!

Here's the pin for the cupcakes:

Source: familybites.blogspot.com via Nancy on Pinterest

We didn't make the frosting - we bought that.  But we did make our own filling:

Source: squidoo.com via Erica on Pinterest

And then I went to the party store and bought football candies to put on top.  Go Colts!

Bulletin Board: Line Drawing of Church

We needed an idea for a church bulletin board in a well-traveled hallway.  Something interactive and something that could be done at the fall kickoff.
My inspiration was this pin:



And then I combined it with this pin:

Source: millies.actieforum.com via Nancy on Pinterest

We made a line drawing of the church (using an opaque projector), cut the poster board into squares, and let people write and color all over the white space... words and pictures of things they think about when they think about our church.  It was put back together and hung on the bulletin board.  We are the church together!