The Little Friend: Laminated

For sometime now I've had the idea to laminate a few pages from The Little Friend, which I could put on Q's bookshelf or even in his Sunday bag. I finally did it.

I cut several pages out from July's The Little Friend, about a 1/8-1/4" from the staples. As it is only a few pages and I left a bit of paper around the staples, it doesn't affect the rest of the magazine.
I asked my 11-year old daughter if she would color the coloring page, which she willingly did. I chose not to use every page in available, so I shifted some things around, and the coloring page became the cover page.
I laminated the pages (3 sheets for July, but only 2 for April), then used a hole-punch to punch to holes near the edge. I bound the booklet with 0.8" binder rings (purchased from here.)
I no longer had the April 2017 issue, but one of my favorite toddler stories, "Ready for Church," was in there, so I printed the pages, single-sided, from The Friend's website. I did it single-sided so the ink wouldn't show through on the computer paper. Then I put the sheets back-to-back for laminating. For those pages (which are larger than the magazine pages), I had to hole-punch through the paper as well as the laminating sheets. I suspect that makes it less sturdy in the long-run, but for now it's fine.

Lego to See the Temple

Seattle Temple with fountain and red car.

This might be a good activity to keep hands busy while listening to LDS General Conference at home this weekend.
I've seen elaborate lego temples before, but we only have a handful of white bricks, and I was building with a five year old, not a ten year old. This is what we came up with.  Those are extra small figures from the Lego Harry Potter Game (hey, gray suits and ties!), and please tell me you can tell that's a fountain out front. And a red car.
Specs: The base of the temple is 2x8; Those dimensions go 6 layers up, then center 2 layers of 2x4 bricks, then center 1 layer of 2x2 brick. The next lego is a specialty brick, a thin 1x2 plate that goes over two pegs, but on top has one centered bump up. Onto that plate, stack 3 layers of white 1x1 bricks, then add one yellow 1x1 to imply the Angel Moroni statue.
We added a covered entry by putting a 1x8 brick on stilts.
M. added green bushes, and we used colorful "caps" for the foundation flowers.

For a list of creative Book of Mormon or Old Testament Lego Ideas, please see my post: October 2015 General Conference Plan.