Articles of Faith Easter Egg Hunt

Melanie wrote: Thanks! This gave me some ideas for the scavenger hunt that I am in charge of for the Beehives/Deacons this Tuesday. I had the clues all put together, but didn't know how to hide them. I will hide them in plastic eggs! Fabulous!

Melanie

Myrna wrote: I was hoping it might help all of you with your callings. It sounded great to me but not the kind of thing I can use in Temple Prep.

From an article, curiously enough, written by someone named Melanie: Divide everyone into two teams. Place all of the articles of faith on the same color paper. Choose a color for each team. Place the articles in the eggs with the candy. Tell everyone that they may only keep the color of their team. If they find another color have them replace it into the egg and move on. When the team has assembled all 13 pieces of paper have them place the articles in order. So by now you know that you do not place a number on the article. The team has to work together to order the articles. First team to have all the articles in order is the winner. (Kate)

 What I did was print two copies of the Articles of Faith cards without the numbers and cut them out into individual articles. I had 42 old plastic eggs, which I could divide by "warm colors" and "cool colors" (pink, yellow, orange and green, blue, purple) into 2 teams. I put each Articles of Faith in an egg, along with some candy, for the other eggs, I just put candy (no chocolate, because we live in Arizona). Then I hid the eggs in my backyard.  Each team had to find only their color eggs, and then, when all were found, dump out each egg into a bowl, get the papers, and number the articles from one to thirteen. Then they split the candy evenly into Ziploc baggies. (Amanda Evans)

 Article of Faith Egg Hunt

 I did one the other day that turned out pretty well. I divided each Article of Faith up into seven pieces. Then I numbered the eggs. Each girl was assigned specific numbers to look for. For example, one had to look for eggs number 1, 2, and 3. It was a lot of fun because they tried to not let the other girls see where they were looking if the egg wasn't theirs. Anyway, after all the eggs were found then we went in and tried to put them into order. I of course helped, I had a couple of older girls who happened to be there and so they helped the younger ones. After they were done putting them into order we read them out loud to make sure we put them together right. The 13th egg I divided so each girl had to find only 2 pieces of it and then we put it in order together. It was a lot of fun! (Cathy Updike)

Poetry Punctuation

Kirsten, I am seeking your help. Should the comma after wept be a period instead?

Easter Morn
First Easter morn, a world asleep,
Awake, arise, all you who weep.
For on this holy day we find,
Our Savior, Lord, freed all mankind.
Saved from death all those who wept,
Emmanuel His promise kept.
~Myrna Trauntvein


Kirsten wrote: I guess it depends on your meaning.  If I remember right, poetry doesn't have to follow the same rules, right?  On first line, I would end with a semicolon or period.  Change the comma on "For on this holy day," instead of "for on this holy day we find,".  I might do semicolon after wept because your joining the two concepts.

Does that help?

Love you!
Kirsten


Myrna wrote: Thank you! I read and re-read and decided to ask for help. I just now remembered that, if you write it out as sentences it helps. You were right on. Actually, it is better if poetry follows the same punctuation rules as regular writing. Word order can be changed for poetic effect but not punctuation.

Easter Morn
First Easter morn, a world asleep. Awake, arise, all you who weep. For on this holy day we find, Our Savior, Lord, freed all mankind; saved from death all those who wept. Emmanuel His promise kept.

(Unless, of course, you are e.e. cummings.)


Kirsten wrote: Why did you choose to place the comma before "Our Savior?"  I think it reads fine without it.  Wondering if you did it for emphasis.

Kirsten


Myrna wrote: I did it for emphasis. I hope that was the right choice. When I was young, I didn't worry so much about little things. Age has made me concerned over little commas. I just realized that I misunderstood your advice of, "Change the comma on 'For on this holy day,' instead of 'for on this holy day we find,'." The following is what you were thinking, right? UGH! I have now run it off and I don't know that I want to do it again. It is my verse for the Easter cards.


Easter Morn (This is your idea of the punctuation?)
First Easter morn, a world asleep.
Awake, arise, all you who weep.
For on this holy day, we find
Our Savior, Lord, freed all mankind.
Saved from death all those who wept;
Emmanuel His promise kept.


(This is what I did.)
First Easter morn, a world asleep.
Awake, arise, all you who weep.
For on this holy day we find,
Our Savior, Lord, freed all mankind.
Saved from death all those who wept.
Emmanuel His promise kept.


I just realized that the first line needed the punctuation changed from a period back to a semicolon or else it would be a sentence fragment. Do you know me? Do I have a name? I swear I am just wearing a box on my shoulders. It's an empty one at that.

First Easter morn, a world asleep;
Awake, arise, all you who weep.
For on this holy day we find,
Our Savior, Lord, freed all mankind;
Saved from death, all those who wept.
Emmanuel His promise kept.
~Myrna Trauntvein


Kirsten wrote: I don't think so.  I think you were right with the period.  I thought fragments were ok in poetry if they were complete thoughts.  Does that make sense?  I might do a colon, because you need two complete thoughts for the semicolon to work.  First Easter morn, (describes the morn)  a world asleep.  Awake!  Arise!  All you who weep.  If I were writing that for an introduction to a story, I would leave them as independent thoughts.  The punctuation should be used to help the reader know how to "speak" it.  Right?

I think how you had it was fine.  Don't stress so much.  I find mispunctuation in scriptures even. :)