MAKING TEMPLE BOXES
We only did this activity about 2 months ago, but it has been done before and we got a former laurel to run the activity for us. What happens is, The Sunday prior to mutual night, The young women are asked to all bring an empty cardboard shoe box ( or leaders can collect some spares form local shoe shops and provide for the young women, like ours did) and a metre of white lace. ( not cream, white, like temple clothes) The leaders provided a few metres of white fabric ,plenty of wadding, (or padding, I don't know what Americans call most of this stuff, sorry) lots of glue, staplers, and handouts.

We started off by cutting the white material, so that there was enough to cover all sides of the shoes box, including the lid. ( and the inside if the box, if preferable) Then the young women put glue on all the sides of the shoe box including the bottom, and stuck the wadding down, we used washing pegs to secure the wadding while it dried. Once the wadding had dried, we took the white material allotted to us, and covered our shoe boxes with it, pegging it in place first, and then gluing ( or stapling) the material to the box. We did the same with the lid. When all is dry, the lid should fit on the box securely.

Inside, we received handouts, based on the temple, and setting goals for temple marriage ( for example, the poem my three white dresses, a talk form the New Era about temple etc.) The idea is over our young women's years, we store all our hand outs and thoughts in the box, and some even make a 'temple journal' of all their experience of doing work in the temple, and these help remind us of our goals of having temple marriage and being worthy for the temple. The metre of lace, mentioned earlier, is for decoration purposes. Most of young women glued it, or carefully sewed it around the edge of their temple box, and what was remaining was sewn in their own unique way on top of the lid.

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