General Conference Treat Buckets

Today was the start of General Conference weekend for our church. I look forward to these two weekends all year! This year, I found an idea to help the kids pay more attention to the talks given and I knew it would be perfect for my kids. I filled those 5 buckets up with various candy and wrote on them (with a dry erase marker) 5 different words that they were to listen for. Every time they heard the word, they got to get a piece of candy from that bucket and add it to their bag - or eat it. This was such a hit! We used the words "Scriptures", "Temple", "Faith", "Prophet", and "Family". However, after the first session, the word "scriptures" hadn't been used (that we heard/noticed) so we changed it to "Priesthood" for the second session. Guess what one of the first talks in the second session said several times... yep, scriptures. :) I loved how Jayden kept trying to figure out how he could get more candy - "They said 'President Monson' - does that count for Prophet?" or when the choir would get ready to sing and it would show the footage of the Salt Lake Temple "OH! Does that count for Temple?!" At least he was paying attention, right? :)
I loved all of the messages we heard and I look forward to more tomorrow!