Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) offers tips and resources to help you keep your landscape lush and water efficient. Here are some helpful links.
- Landscapes Home Page
- Water Smart Landscape Rebate Program
- Sample Landscape Designs
- Find Your Watering Group
Here's the completed project.
No pictures of grass, since it was brown and dead when we started the project. The money that we received paid for almost all of our landscaping. We did all the work ourselves, so that helped with our budget. Remember BEFORE you start removing your grass, SNWA must come out to take measurements of your grass area.
Here are here instructions. I just used two 8 1/2" x 11" regular, white card stock papers and then cut and folded the box to about 2"D x 4"H x 4"W (taking into consideration, the flaps that would overlap and glue together). The first page works as the front of the box, leaving a lot of room for the top closing flap of the box and the second page is the back.I literally used a regular store-bought, paper Band-Aid box as my guide, cut the flaps and glued the sides and bottom together. 
Jars are great because they're reusable. Bags are great for mailing.
Talk to parents and siblings about the meals/dishes that were memorable growing up. Gather recipes, compile into a file, and print. The pages can then be put in plastic sleeves in a 3-ring binder, or spiral bound at a store with a clear front and back
This one is from my mom, she also included pictures and stories about mealtimes or family members who supplied the recipes.
Using a couple sheets of scrapbook paper, create a special book with photos for mom, dad, grandma, etc.
Or have your child used a blank calendar that you can get from a craft store and then they fill in the numbers and provided the artwork for each month as a gift to mom or dad. You could just as easily make one at home with your computer and some card stock.
Super Cute Handmade Envelope!
Templates are available for download at these different websites.
A simple 3 ring binder can be filled with talks from LDS.org on things that a particular family needs.
I bought an inexpensive container from the DI (cost $1.00) and filled it with FHE strips. The download is available from 
The sample on the left uses an inexpensive sheet of scrapbooking paper (this one was at Michaels). Using a black pen, fill in their family information. Print out black and white pictures and attach them to the scrapbook paper. Mount of a piece of wood or frame it in a 12x12 frame.
This idea was taken from 
Have family members draw names each night during Family Home Evening to find our who their secret person will be that week. During the week do special good deeds for your secret person. For each good deed you do put a piece of straw in the manger to make a soft bed for baby Jesus. The goal is to have all the pieces of straw in the manger by December 24th!
