YW Value Color Crayons

I made some Young Women value crayons today, and am so smitten by their cuteness. We are encouraging our girls to read in the Book of Mormon every day, for at least 5 minutes (remember PROS?), and are having an activity this week to discuss ways to study the scriptures.

We’ll have a pack of crayons for each girl, and a missionary copy of the Book of Mormon with the friend tag attached. I still have my tag on my personal set of scriptures – and I love how I am reminded every time I glance at it that the scriptures are my friend and I shouldn’t neglect them! Every time I pick them up, I want to say “Hello, Friend”.  🙂

This time I printed on 8 1/2 x 11″ shipping labels. I got these at Staples, but they are also available at Amazon for laser or jet-ink printers.

 

You may remember that they wrap around the cover and have points from Elder Scott’s talk, “The Power of Scripture”. The original download had just one tag to a page, but I’ve squeezed four to a page, to make it more economical to print for a large group. Click the following to download the new Scripture Friend Tag.

Back to the Value Crayons! Each wrapper has the value color, and scripture associated with that value, printed on it.

I am using crayons from a Rose Art 27-pack, so don’t have anything fancy like silver or gold (which would be amazing!). I instead used gray for Faith (since white wouldn’t show up too well on the scripture page) and brown for Virtue (the closest thing to gold that’s not easily mistaken for yellow or orange).

I printed the crayon wrappers using black ink on colored paper. Click the following to download the YW value crayon wrappers.

If using Crayola crayons, the wrappers need to be a little longer. This version has the wrappers spaced further apart for a longer crayon.

Also available in Portuguese

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43 Responses to YW Value Color Crayons

  1. Sue says:

    Such a cute idea- thanks for sharing.

  2. Susan says:

    My friend, you are amazing! I love this. And have been looking for WHAT to do f or our Book of Mormon activity with the Laurels….thanks!!

  3. Heidi A says:

    I love this idea, and how beautifully it would work for those little colored pencil packs too! Thank you so much for sharing!

  4. Jana says:

    Thank you so much for sharing! SOOOOOO cute!

  5. Marie says:

    LOVE IT! Where do you get the bags? Thanks!

  6. Vickie says:

    Just wanted to let you know I linked to this post on my YW blog. I hope that is okay.
    http://lds-yw.blogspot.com/2012/01/yw-value-colored-crayons.html

  7. Connie says:

    Every time I visit your blog, I am amazed, inspired and impressed! Thank you!

  8. Jewell says:

    This is such a great idea. The crayons are absolutely adorable!!!
    Thanks so much for sharing!

  9. Tiffany says:

    LOVE this!! this would make a great handout for our New Beginnings, thanks for sharing!!

  10. Megan says:

    I love it! I’ve said it before, but you are AMAZING!

  11. Kristin says:

    Thanks everyone!

  12. Linda says:

    You are so generous in sharing all your wonderful ideas. I use them all the time and appreciate them and YOU!

  13. Kristiana says:

    You should add a Pinterest Pin to your blog. I think I would Pin everything! You have such amazing ideas and I am SOOOO thankful that your share your brilliant ideas for free! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

  14. mandi says:

    completely freaking out at how adorable these are!
    We read the BOM last year, but the seminary girls didn’t participate as they were slogging through the OT. Do you encourage your Seminary kids to read both books?

    • Kristin says:

      Yes, we are – we talked about this very thing – and decided in the end, that life is always going to be busy, and the habits we form as youth stick with us. Eeking out just 5 minutes a day is possible for most of us!

  15. Jennifer says:

    I love this idea. I want to do this with my YW, I can’t get the YW Crayon Value Wrappers to open. I was able to get the “Hello” tag and the talk.

    Thanks for posting the great idea!

  16. Linsey says:

    This is such an awesome idea! We are making them for our YW this week and we were wondering what kind of adhesive you used to adhere the labels to the crayons! Thanks for sharing!

  17. Erica says:

    What did you find was the best way to attach the wrappers?

  18. Natalie says:

    Thank you so much for you awesome talent and time doing all of this! I am so excited to do some of these things with my young women!

  19. Perla Gomez Merla says:

    Hi! I would love to have this in Spanish! May I help with the translation?

    • Rebeca Araiza says:

      Yes!!!! i want to make this for my girls too, but i need them in spanish, would you make them soon?

  20. Ranita says:

    Kristin!!!!!!!!!!!! help!!!! . . . . jijiiji Podrías ayudarme con las etiquetas en español???? Mi hermosa hija Bethsy a sido llamada como Presidenta de Mujeres Jovenes de mi barrio y a desafiado a sus chicas a leer el Libro de Mormón y tu idea le ha resultado magnífica!!! La Presidenta anterior usó la idea del frasco de recompensas por cada meta cumplida y ahora ella lo está continuando. Mil gracias!!!

  21. Ana Paula says:

    ohhhhhhh that´s awesome!!
    thanks so much 🙂

  22. Jessica says:

    I love this idea! But I was just wondering how you made the wrappers different colors? The PDF only has them in white. Thank you!

  23. Tuihana says:

    love love love… can’t wait to give it a try

  24. Florecita says:

    I keep trying to print the longer version for the crayola crayons but it keeps printing the short version. Help? Thanks

  25. Kathy says:

    This is awesome! And would go with the new lesson program! Thank you!

  26. Brenda says:

    I am SOOOOO excited about this!!! Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful idea!! I love it!!

  27. Lindsey says:

    Can you tell me what size bags you used for the crayons? I like how they fit snugly. Thank you!!

  28. Lohi says:

    These are adorable! I want to be in YW just so I can make them!

  29. Corri Havlicek says:

    Thank you so much for sharing your fabulous ideas! It makes others’ job easier and more fun 🙂

  30. Miranda says:

    Thank you for this! I love it and am so excited to give it to my girls 🙂

  31. Anne says:

    This is amazing ! only problem for us is that they are in English… our French young women would be so very excited to get them in French ! is there any chance that we could maybe get the original doc where we could fill in the French words ? 🙂

  32. Neita says:

    These are darn cute and I can’t wait to make them for our new beginnings! Thank you for sharing your awesome creativity with us!

  33. Jill says:

    Wow thanks for generously sharing your gifts and talents! I am thrilled to have stumbled upon your site! Thanks a million!!!

  34. Carla says:

    Thank you so much! Love these!

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