Primary – Chana Dawn Designs

I wanted to put together this Blog Post to share some thoughts on how to plan your Temple and Priesthood Preparation! I was in charge of putting together a gift and I wanted to do a “Temple Kit” of sorts and so I based it upon the ways you can prepare to enter the temple!

This invite is included in a digital download for the prints in this kit, you can edit it in Canva.

The way we set it up is that we had our Primary President give a little talk about the Temple and the Covenants you make there, and then we had a member of the Young Men’s Presidency welcome the new kids entering Young Mens as well as a member of the Young Women’s Presidency to welcome the Young Women. We had a youth speaker from Young Women’s share her thoughts and experiences from doing baptisms for the dead, and it was really cool to have someone close to their age share their excitement and insight from already experiencing the blessings that come from going to the temple.

I presented the gift to them last, I wouldn’t recommend doing this large of a gift if you have a large Valiant 10 group. Ours was only 3 kids and we needed to use up some of our budget before the end of the year. I believe I ended up spending at least $10-12 per child… maybe a little bit more. But it was WORTH IT!

ALTERNATE GIFT: This year we have a Valiant 10 class that has about 9 kids so we are going to give them one of the prints along with a temple recommend holder. I don’t think you can go wrong with giving that to them as their gift, if you decide to give one at all. I know everyones budgets are different.

I looked up some of the questions that they will be asked for a Temple Recommend Interview and based the “Temple Preparedness” items on those.

Have faith in Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ & the Holy Ghost

For this one I gave them a Temple Recommend card, I think this alone would be a sufficient gift to give to your Valiant 10 class if your budget does not allow an entire kit!

2) Support your church leaders like the Prophet, Apostles and Bishop

I decided to give them a small picture of the First Presidency to remember this one.

3) Keep your mind and body clean and pure

For this one I gave a small hand-sanitizer.

4) Keep the Covenants you made when you were baptized

I designed this CTR sticker for our Primary kids baptisms, but felt it was a good gift to give to go along with this topic.

5) Follow the commandments

For this one, I went a little bit literal, I designed a print with all the commandments that they could put up in their room and got a white frame at the dollar store. You could just give them print without the frame to save on money!

6) “Bee” honest

I could not figure out what to do to portray being honest so I just did bit-o-honeys, I thought about doing some Burts Bee’s lip-balm, but again, that starts to get pricey!

7) Pay a full 10% tithing

8) Keep the word of wisdom

I designed this cute sticker & print to portray the word of wisdom

9) Be worthy to enter the house of The Lord

Obviously just got some “werthers” caramel candies to represent being “worthy” to enter the Temple

I purchased the white box from Hobby Lobby to place the items in and I got the white filler grass and twine from the Dollar Store! I told the kiddos that this box could be a fun thing to keep their printables from Young Men & Young Women’s… do the guys ever give fun prints to the YM? I absolutely loved getting cute spiritual quotes from YW, but, I am now a designer so maybe that’s not everyones “thing”. Regardless, a fun box for treasures lol.

Here is the list of items included as well as their price and where I got them!

White box – $1.50 Hobby Lobby (if not on sale, probably $3)

Temple Recommend Holder – $3 Deseret Book

Photo of the First Presidency – $0.50 Deseret Book

White picture frames, – $1.00/each Dollar Store

Stickers – I made them

Printables – I made them

Bit o’Honey and Werthers – $1.00/each Dollar Store

Hand Sanitizer – $1.00 Walmart

The bundle is available in my Etsy Shop for Digital Download, it is on’y $3.00 and includes the tags, editable invitation, poster, and 2 prints: The 10 Commandments, Word of Wisdom. Stickers are sold separately for $3 each in my shop!

Hope this is helpful to you to give some fun ideas as to what you can do for the Temple & Priesthood Preparation Preview!