Let the auction begin!

I got this idea from Lori's/ mom. She is the seminary teacher in their town. They came to have Will's 9 month pictures made and she was telling me of this neat idea to get the seminary kids to memorize scriptures. I decided to adapt it to my own family and add and take away some things. Here's what we came up with.

I printed the scripture mastery scriptures from the new testament http://lds.org/ off and cut them out-put them on index cards and priced them

I printed the articles of faith out and did the same thing. The hard ones were worth more money.

We have some homemade play money all $1 bills.

If any of us memorize one of the scriptures we get the money for that index card. For example if we memorize Article of Faith #1 we get $1.

Also I do room checks and there room is clean they can earn $1-they don't know when room checks will be

If they read their scriptures daily=$1

and if they say their personal prayers=$1

I bought up a few prizes and made some coupons at the end of the month we are going to have an auction. They can bid on the prizes with their play money. We did a pretend auction to make sure they all understood.

Some of the prizes are your fav. breakfast, rent a movie, ice cream at baskin robbins, invite a friend to go the movies, build a bear, we got some gift cards to sonic and good places they like. And of course some CANDY!

Steve and I are adding a challenge with the boys. If I ask them or they ask us to repeat the scripture at any time in the month that they have already signed off...if they can't repeat it they have to give back their money.

Of course they have already made tons more money than me. I haven't gotten any scriptures memorized yet. We started Sept. 1 and they are whipping them out left and right. I am excited to see how it transpires.

Thanks Sis. Moffitt for the great idea. My kids are so excited.