Summer Primary Activity

A1 is a sunbeam this year in Primary. She absolutely loves Church (she cheers every Sunday in anticipation of going to Church) and her favorite part is Primary. She has some wonderful teachers (we love you, Brother and Sister Rasmussen) who are very dedicated to the kids and to teaching them to Choose the Right.

This summer the Primary Presidency threw a wonderful Primary Activity involving water "sports." The kids became "fishers of men" as they fished for Swedish Fish (the candy, not the actual fish) and learned about teamwork as they filled buckets with water by passing sponges down the line of kids. Then they played water kickball. I had never heard of this sport before, but I now think it is the greatest thing ever. First, second, and third bases were actually kiddy pools, then the path to home plate was a slip 'n' slide. So each kid would kick the ball then run and jump into "first base," then run and jump into "second base" when the next child kicked the ball, etc. The funniest part was the slide to home. There aren't any hills to put the slip 'n' slide on and none of the kids could get up enough speed to actually propel themselves toward home plate, so most ended up crawling. A1 and A2, however, decided to army crawl to fully enjoy sliding home. I have never laughed so hard!
A big thank you to our wonderful Primary Presidency who worked so hard to pull this activity together. I really appreciate all you do for our little ones. And so does A1: