A primary activity

So our primary (children's church group), had an activity yesterday. They have been announcing it for a few weeks. They called it a Family Fun Day, and invited each child to bring a family member with them. I guess when they announced it, they said you could bring a mom or dad, brother or sister, grandma or grandpa. Well Cinderella made the decision on her own, but didn't inform us of it, until I brought up the subject Friday night. She wanted Grandma to come with her.

OK, I wish we lived closer to family lately, and being pregnant I have been really emotional about it lately. More so than it really calls for. When she said that, I burst into tears. I felt so bad for her that I couldn't provide her with that option. Grandma just lives too far away. Then she said she wanted Grandpa. But both Grandpas were out of the question at that short of notice as well. When I told her this, she started crying as well. I don't know how much of her crying was because I was crying, and how much was because she was disappointed.

I appeased her by telling her I would go with her. We went to the activity. It was a bunch of fun. They planned this activity to resemble a family home evening. Something that members of our church are encouraged to do with their families every Monday night. They started by having a lesson, about families, and why we have been sent to families to take care of our needs and teach us the right way to act and be. Then we had game time.

We went to another room where they had some tables set up. They had the children sit at the tables and played the game "Don't Eat Pete!" For this game there was a playing card that had 9 faces on it. Each face had a different expression and was colored a different color. You then put something like a marshmallow or M&M on each face. Then you send someone out of the room. Everyone else picks which face is going to be Pete. Then the person returns to the room, and starts to take the candies off one by one. When they get to the one who is Pete, everyone yells "Don't Eat Pete!" and they have to stop collecting candies, but get to keep and eat all the ones they got up till that point.
After they played the game the got to make their own game board to take home so they can play the game with their families. They were also given a little baggie with some marshmallows and M&M's in it to play with.

Then they played an farm animal game. We were each given a piece of paper that had 5 squares on it. Each person would then pick a farm animal. It was OK if more than one person picked the same animal. They just couldn't be a rooster. They would then randomly pick 5 numbers between 1-20 and write them in the boxes. Then the game leader would call out numbers. If she called out a number you had written you would make your animals noise, and cross out your number. After all 5 of your numbers have been crossed out, you were supposed to make a rooster noise, and get up and flap your arms like rooster wings. Then you got a little prize. The prize they gave out was suckers.

After they played this game, they split the kids up into older and younger kids. The kids who turn 8 this year and older were one group, and the kids that turn 7 this year and younger were the other group. Then they let the kids have a "snowball fight" with bunched up socks for the snowballs and tables that had been turned on their sides as forts. That seemed to be a hit, and the kids enjoyed it.

After the snowball fight we finished up with treats. They gave us hot cocoa, and cinnamon pull apart bread. I think Cinderella had a lot of fun.