October Visiting Teaching Handouts and Ideas!

October is here, and the Visiting Teaching message for the month is to be selected from the special temple issue of the Ensign. I chose a portion of the article by President Monson to share with the women I visit teach.

I loved the story of the grandfather who took his small granddaughter on a special trip to the temple for her birthday. As the young girl placed her hand on the door of the temple, the grandfather told her to, "Remember that this day you touched the temple. One day you will go inside.” President Monson spoke of the appreciation the little girl gained of the temple that day, how, "...she had touched the temple, and the temple had touched her."

 I was able to find a couple cute ideas online of very talented women who have put together a few fun ideas you can do/give for the ladies you visit teach. It's a really cute little paper mirror she cut out, and glued on a small round mirror on it, with an attached white bow and dangling paper temple. The quote she wrote on the handout was "As We touch the Temple Our lives will Reflect Our Faith." SO CUTE! (smallandsimplethings)

 Another cute idea she had was this little simple handout (all you have to do is print it out and you can put it on some cute paper or decorate it if you want). You can Download Oct.Visiting teaching handout on the provided link.

There was another idea where printed a quote from the prophet's article on her handout, underneath a fun dot-to-dot of the Salt Lake temple (found on lds.org).  She says, "as we touch our dot-to-dot temple, we can reflect on all the ways the temple has touched, and can touch our lives.







To present her handout, she rolled up the paper, slid a homemade flower rubber band around it, and attach a pen and a tag. The flowers are really simple to make.

She gathered three white flower pieces, a button and a white hair band, then sewed it all together through the button holes. You could just buy flowers from a dollar store. Simply disassemble the flower, remove all the plastic pieces, and then sew up with your band and button. (seemevisitteach)

There was another cute idea that I found with this cute little compilation of the temple, and some cute quotes for the October visiting teaching handout from President  Monson's talk. She also used the photo from the Ensign cover. So cute (alittletipsy) and talented! She does not mind printing and using it as a handout, so feel free to do so!










If you want to go "all-out," you can always do this last project. It's so creative and amazing! I haven't quite decided which of these I'm doing for the ladies I visit teach yet. I may try pulling this one off, but it depends on how much time I have in the next week. Either way, it's absolutely adorable!
The Temple is for Families, for everyone, one of the greatest treasures we have in Mortality. She compiled the most beautiful picture of the temple that she doesn't mind sharing with everyone. You print it off, and give it with a box, or even put it on one of those blocks. I will post her instructions at the end of this. If you paste it or put it on a box, give the box wrapped up with treasures inside, etc.

Here is the link to the beautiful, printable picture. She also said she doesn't mind if you use it on her post.  Download VT_decoupage_plaque_duotone_Aug2010



Temple Blocks (smallandsimplethings)

1. I found a picture that I thought would work; made it the size I wanted; then aged the picture. (Picture size was 4 1/2 x 6")
2. I printed the picture on card stock. I find that the thicker paper works better; you don't get all the bubbles and holds up better than regular printing paper.
3. Cut the picture out.
4. Cut the wood out to the size you need - I cut mine to 7"long and 5 1/4" wide (that is the size of the wood) and it 1 1/4" wide (so in other words it’s a 2x6 board they always call the board a bigger size then they really are.)
*also most hardware stores will cut the wood for you if you’re in need, just give them the size you need or find a handy home teacher and tell him you are in need!
5. Sand it up really good- so it’s smooth.
6. Paint your block any color you like, I did my black - let it dry.
7. Sand around the edges if you like or just leave as is.
8. With a sponge brush put decoupage finish on the front side of the wood, and then on the back side of your picture - make sure you cover it all. (Or use mod Pod for paper)
9. Place the picture on the wood, center it where you would like it, I left a little extra on the right side where the ribbon is (so mine is a little off center).
10. Take an old credit card (pop stick, etc) and run it along the picture to take out any bubbles. (Clean your card off each time.)
11. Let it sit for about 1 minute.
12. If you like sand very gentle around the picture, just to ruff it up some, or leave as is.
13. Spread some more decoupage over the top of the picture, making sure it’s even and smooth. Let dry
14. Add whatever kind of ribbon you want or have sitting around or leave as is.


I HOPE THESE IDEAS HELPED!