10 Minute Craft Dash + Eastridge Youth
“Guys, she looks at details.”
“Maybe if we win, she will put us on her blog.” – quotes from this post
I have a fun post to share with you all today. As my regular readers know, I’m a leader in the high school group at my church. I absolutely LOVE my students and the leadership team I’m blessed to work with. I haven’t been as active, since the accident, but I am {hopefully} on the way to becoming a regular again.
To celebrate this special season, today we changed up the normal routine in Life Groups. I’ll be talking about one specific activity that happened…..building gingerbread houses!
I was introduced to the group as the special guest judge for this activity, apparently having a craft blog qualifies me for this task. Since the other leaders know I run a challenge here on the blog, they decided to incorporate this into the gingerbread house decorating. Dozens of high school students, gingerbread houses, competitiveness and a time limit= a hilarious sight.
I forewarned them and said that I see entries from ALL over the world, so I wasn’t going to be easy on them. :) Detailed work, colors, team-work were the main themes I told them I would be judging on. And with that, they were off….
It’s true, I chose one of the guy groups as the winner. Their creativity in using the box to make it tall and the fact that added the trees for scenery was impressive. Add to that they had music playing from a phone {for ambiance}, it definitely deserved the win.
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It was so fun to see two different parts of my world collide in this post. If you have kiddos, they are more than welcome to play along in the 10 Minute Craft Dash! Also, remember, it’s not limited to cards/ tags- you can sew items or do other crafty items, too!
That’s a wrap for this post. Have a fabulous Christmas Eve– I’ll talk with you all soon!
What a fun post Paulina! Congrats to all of the kids for a job well done and YAY to the winners…super creative guys!!
what a great idea!! tell the guys they did a wonderful job with the gingerbread house. those guys should look into being architects or landscape artists.
Love it!!
eddie from New Hampshire
this was such a fun post. i’m sure your students don’t realize how far your blog reaches, now they are famous. it was a hoot to see the guys participate in the craft dash; maybe they can do it again.
FANTASTIC!!! Thanks for sharing Paulina~what a great idea~
What a great post, looks like ya’ll had an awesome time. So glad you were feeling up to participating.
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