I know I’ve been a big slacker in not posting lately, but I feel I have a valid excuse: I’M PREPARING TO GIVE BIRTH HERE, PEOPLE! 
Actually, I guess my excuse would be a lot more valid if I had already given birth and was trying to take care of a newborn. But if you really knew me, you’d know that the pre-birth preparations are every bit as crazy as post-birth life. So anyway, posts are obviously going to be rather sparse from my end for the next little while (and by ‘little while’ I mean however long it takes for me to reach the non-comatose state of parenthood again). 
However, I have not forgotten that we’ve got General Conference coming up right around the corner (March 31st and April 1st) and I had another fun idea I wanted to share that takes right after the Fall Conference Tree activity I did for last October’s Conference. This one is basically the same thing, except instead of a fall tree, we’re going to grow a ‘Conference Spring Garden’ with lots of beautiful springtime flowers. The basic concept is that you’ll set up a ‘garden area’ on one of your walls, and then you use the Conference flower tops (provided in the download below) to take notes about the topics of the talks in General Conference. Color the flowers, tape them up in your garden, and then apply the talks in your family life as you pick the flowers from the garden. (It’s explained in detail in the download.) I can’t wait to see my wall plastered with a paper flower garden.
So anyway, here are the downloads for that (one for Nursery/Sunbeam age and one for Primary age children), along with my Spring Conference Packets from last year. They all apply pretty much the same (except that the cover page says ‘2011′… but with the computer issues I’ve been having lately, I’m not feeling motivated to spend 3 hours to make a change for just that. ) I hope you enjoy the activity, the packets, and most importantly that you enjoy General Conference!!
THE ‘CONFERENCE SPRING GARDEN’ ACTIVITY DOWNLOAD:
My General Conference Packets to Download:
- Nursery / Sunbeam Age Packet
- Junior Primary Age Packet
- Senior Primary Age Packet
- Youth Notes Journal Packet
- Adults Notes Journal Packet
And here are some Conference Helps from Other Sites that I love:
- Packets and Ideas from Sugardoodle: Click HERE
- Primary Age Packet from Jenny Phillips: Click HERE
- Primary Age Packet from Deseret Book: Click HERE
- A BIG LONG Collection of Ideas from 2 Kids and Tired Activity Ideas: Click HERE
- A Collection of Conference Ideas from Prepared, Not Scared: Click HERE
- Activities for Children from LDS.org: Click HERE
- And another Collection of Ideas from LDS.About.Com: Click HERE
And in case I don’t check in again soon, I hope you enjoy a wonderful Conference, a Happy Easter, and a lovely Spring!!
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