General Conference Quiet Kits

I always look forward to General Conference. The only hitch is that we usually spend a lot of it telling our kids to be quiet so we can hear. This year I decided to give them quiet kits to keep them occupied during conference. I had so much fun putting them together.

I just went to Walmart and got inexpensive things to do. Some other ideas would be puzzles or file folder games. We took them away from them between sessions so they would look forward to the next session.

I took it apart to show you what I put in it. It had things like coloring books, activity books, their conference book, blank paper, crayons, each got a Halloween book, snacks and army men (those may seem random, but they were a huge hit!)

I was sent these conference books last year by my friend Melissa. I didn't have time to do them last year. This year I printed them out and gave them to the boys during the Saturday session. We didn't give the boys the activity boxes until the Sunday sessions to keep their attention.

This is Palmer's favorite page. Hunter didn't quite get the concept, but he had fun coloring it!

And of course we had to have snacks. I didn't want to do sugar snacks because we did not need the kids on a sugar high. They didn't seem to mind and were happy to have some snacks in there.

The boys thought it was so fun to wake up to this surprise! I am hoping that this will help them look forward to conference.

The boxes were a success! The kids just sat and played with the stuff in their boxes. One of the best experiences with General Conference yet!