Egg Stuffing Accomplished

the pool table was transformed into an egg stuffing machine

This Saturday will be the annual Easter Egg at JWUMC.  But there wouldn't be much of anything to hunt unless somebody stuffed little plastic eggs full of candy and hid them around the church's yard.

The youth group joined in the egg stuffing fun with our annual pizza eating, movie watching, Easter Egg Stuffing Party.  We had a great time stuffing eggs, eating snacks, and chatting about our lives.

We managed to stuff 545 eggs!  It took a lot of patience and more than a few hours or work.  Special thanks to all of our egg-half-match-finders. Believe it or not, it is pretty hard to find egg halves that match in a sea of mismatched egg halves.

We will see the youth bright and early Saturday morning at 8:30 am to help hide the eggs.  The hunt starts at 10:00 am.  Happy holy week everyone!

Making Giant Jenga

The adults cut the 2x3's

The you did the sanding

This week we tried our hands at making a Giant Jenga set.  We bought a few 2x3's and measured out 7 3/4" segments.  Then we used a hand saw and cut the pieces as straight as we could manage.

Once we had the pieces, we needed to sand them down real well so that they would slide nicely while playing the game.  Over the course of our meeting, we managed to get about 12 rows done.  That is 36 blocks cut and sanded.

After some mathematical calculations, we figured out that if we use all of the wood, we will have 20 rows stacked on top of each other.  That means about 2 1/2 feet tall!

It is a work in progress as of right now, but by our next regular meeting, we should have a functioning Giant Jenga set.

And don't forget about our upcoming Easter Egg Stuffing Pizza Party on Sunday March 24th from 4pm to 8pm or as long as you can stay to help us stuff Easter Eggs with candy.

Giant Jenga and a Mission Trip

This Sunday we will be making a Giant Jenga set to have in the youth room.  We have a few 2x3's and some sand paper, so be ready to sand.  We will need to get the blocks nice and smooth so they aren't too hard to slide out.

We are also going to be talking about our mission trip this summer.  As of right now, the dates we will go are June 30th through July 6th.  And we are headed to Blue Knob, PA.  We will talk a lot about this at the meeting and see if these dates work or if we need to switch them.  In the mean time, you can learn more at www.teameffort.org and check out the video below.

Food Drive a Fun Success

87 items collected!

The youth group completed another successful food drive this past Sunday.  We collected 87 different food items, including beans, soups, veggies, rice, pastas, and a couple of jars of mayonnaise.  We would like to thank the neighborhood for all their support and the parents that helped out as team leaders.

Everybody had a great time, and the Falmouth Service Center was very happy to receive our donation.  Great job everyone!

Food Drive and Reusable Cups

The weather this Sunday looks good and the food drive is a go.  Bring warm clothes and, if you have one, a wagon.  We will be walking around outside from about 4 to 5 pm, so a flashlight or bright clothes might be a good idea since it will be starting to get dark by the time we come back for snack.

Speaking of snack, remember to bring in a reusable cup or two (or three).  As part of our efforts to "go green," we are going to try and do away with disposable cups during snack time.

Also, the ping pong table is ready for ping ponging, come a few minutes early to get in a game before the food drive.

Letting our energy efficient lights shine!

We made light switch stickers to remind people to, "Please
turn off this little light of ours."

Even the youth group members need a reminder on our
light switches.

The youth group is going green, and we are taking the rest of John Wesley United Methodist Church with us.  It was a little too snowy/rainy for us to go on a food drive last Sunday, so we decided to stay in and work inside.

We took a short tour of the church to see all the great ways that we save energy.  The church uses programmable thermostats.  This means that the church is warm when people are using it, and cooler when there is no one here.  And since nobody likes to walk into a cold church, the thermostats can be programmed to kick on before anyone shows up.

But a few things that aren't programmable are our light switches.  So we made some light switch stickers that will remind people to turn them off when they are not in use.  We put them up in most of the Sunday School rooms.

Join us this upcoming Sunday for our food drive.  The weather is looking OK, so pray that it will be nice out!

Food Drive Take Two

As the town of Falmouth recovers from the big storms (including one that canceled our meeting last week), the youth group will be doing our part by helping to restock the Falmouth Service Center's food supply.

This Sunday, February 24th at 4:00pm, we will be walking around the neighborhood to collect nonperishable foods to donate to the service center.

Last time we collected so much food that we had trouble carrying it back to the church, so if you have a wagon that we can borrow, please bring it.  Also, if parents are available, please stay for the meeting to help chaperon.

It might be cold, so wear warm clothes (I think we might even have some hot chocolate).