Here's 12 amazing and inspiring pioneer songs you can play on Pioneer Day or to celebrate your pioneer heritage. Free playlist you can stream online.

Hey hey! I've rounded up some cute candy bar pairings + free printable treat tags for trek or pioneer day celebrations! enjoy!! pioneer treat tag #1: kinder joy egg Here, my mind went to one of the most classic pioneer hymns -- "Come, Come Ye Saints," and I designed the printables to match the Kinder Joy egg's design + included several versions of the concept so you could pick and print your fave. pioneer treat tag #2: milky way bar Anyone, no matter their heritage, can apply this definition of and challenge to be a pioneer. Since the pioneers showed the way, you can pair this with a Milky Way bar, which I designed the treat tag to look like. pioneer treat tag #3: take 5 + President Hinckley's pioneer words These people gave everything they had to follow their faith and they deserve honor and celebration. I've designed a treat tag to match + you can pair this quote with a Take 5 bar for a mindful moment to appreciate what our pioneer forebears have done. So... now that you made it to the bottom of the post, I have the promised PDF to share. But there's more. Do you love celebrating all the holidays? I mean 💁🏻‍♀️if you’re here reading this, there’s a pretty good chance.👉You can get this free treat tag file here, and to get easy access to an organized library of printables to make your life easier + celebrating and enjoying these classic events cuter, follow me on 📌Pinterest! I'm also on Insta 📸 sharing pretty doctrinal + holiday quotes to inspire. 💛

For some must push and some must pull As we go marching up the hill; So merrily on our way we go Until we reach the Valley-o. We talk much of the sacrifices of the handcart pioneers, focusing parti…

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Tons of fun & simple pioneer activities for Pioneer Day including pioneer games, food ideas, books and movies to celebrate Pioneers.

What better way to learn about pioneers and heading west then to create an entire family or many families to travel on your wagon train.

General conference was so special! I put together these 1 sentence talk summaries to help myself remember the gist of each one as well as the points of President Nelson's talk and wanted to share! I'll share the aesthetic versions here at the end of the post and you can print them out with the print-friendly version! Are you ready for the download link? It's coming up soon. 👉 Before I sign off, I just want to make sure you know this is NOT the only resource I have to make your life easier as a busy Latter-Day Saint! To see & have all my free resources at your fingertips, follow me on Pinterest! 📌Now here's the promised PDF! 💝

This is the Place Heritage Park has ten different wedding venues to choose from. Experience a Utah wedding reception "where the pioneer spirit lives."

Today marks and commemorates the sacrifices and unshakable faith of the early Latter-day Saint pioneers that made the perilous journey to the Utah valley. To help celebrate this special day, we’ve compiled a list of 10 inspirational quotes about the pioneers. If we missed one of your favorites, let us know in the comments section […]

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Hey hey! I've rounded up some cute candy bar pairings + free printable treat tags for trek or pioneer day celebrations! enjoy!! pioneer treat tag #1: kinder joy egg Here, my mind went to one of the most classic pioneer hymns -- "Come, Come Ye Saints," and I designed the printables to match the Kinder Joy egg's design + included several versions of the concept so you could pick and print your fave. pioneer treat tag #2: milky way bar Anyone, no matter their heritage, can apply this definition of and challenge to be a pioneer. Since the pioneers showed the way, you can pair this with a Milky Way bar, which I designed the treat tag to look like. pioneer treat tag #3: take 5 + President Hinckley's pioneer words These people gave everything they had to follow their faith and they deserve honor and celebration. I've designed a treat tag to match + you can pair this quote with a Take 5 bar for a mindful moment to appreciate what our pioneer forebears have done. So... now that you made it to the bottom of the post, I have the promised PDF to share. But there's more. Do you love celebrating all the holidays? I mean 💁🏻‍♀️if you’re here reading this, there’s a pretty good chance.👉You can get this free treat tag file here, and to get easy access to an organized library of printables to make your life easier + celebrating and enjoying these classic events cuter, follow me on 📌Pinterest! I'm also on Insta 📸 sharing pretty doctrinal + holiday quotes to inspire. 💛

Hi and Welcome to Red Couch Recipes. Today's tablescape is a tribute to my Pioneer Heritage on my mother's side of the family. July 24th is known throughout Utah as Pioneer Day. State Worker's have the day off and Salt Lake City, and many other smaller communities hold Pioneer Day Celebrations which include, rodeos, parades, and dutch oven cooking. Last summer the Littlefield side of the family held a family reunion in Tropic, Utah, my mother's birthplace. My mother's brother Heber and his wife Beverly presented us with two huge binders full of genealogy and stories of Ellis Waldo Littlefield and Ida Riding Littlefield, my grandparents, and their ancestors. It was a labor of love and a treasure trove of information. One of the books. Many of my mother's ancestors emigrated to Utah to escape religious persecution and to join up with the main body of Latter-Day Saints headed to Salt Lake City. In Utah, one is considered an official pioneer if one arrived in Utah before the train service was generally available in 1861. The dinner plate is a simple brown plate. The glasses are mason jars and the napkins are bandannas. The napkin rings are metal. One of my ancestors, Christopher Lister Riding, was born in Burnley, England and married Mary Anne Hale. They emigrated to the United States in 1846 and left St. Louis in 1851, with their four children, to cross the plains to Utah. They established themselves in Southern Utah. Christopher was a master workman who traveled around Southern Utah with a two-wheeled cart and an ox selling tinware. He was sometimes known as the "Tin Man." He did metal work on the St. George Temple and St. George Tabernacle. Maybe Christopher Lister Riding made metal napkin rings? I set the table with American Flags because it was to America that my ancestors fled to have religious freedom. I adorned the table with simple wildflowers from our garden -- flowers they might have seen as they crossed the plains. Waldo Littlefield and his wife Mary and his family joined the LDS faith in 1832. They moved with the main body of church members to Missouri and left when Governor Boggs issued an "extermination order"-- in essence an order to kill all LDS members. They then moved to Nauvoo, Illinois and built a home. When the Propher Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were killed by angry mobs, Waldo and his family left Nauvoo in the winter of 1846 with his wife and four children. They lived in Iowa for six years farming and outfitting other church members to cross the plains. Finally in June of 1953 Waldo and his wife Mary and their now five children left for Utah. It took them three months to cross the plains. I honor my Pioneer Heritage with this tablescape. I honor their dedication, hard work, courage and perseverance. I honor their desire to sacrifice all they had to travel to a place where they could worship God as they pleased. Thanks for dropping by Red Couch Recipes. Posted with the following: Tablescape Thursday

Even though Pioneer Day isn't celebrated all over, it doesn't mean that everyone can't join in the fun and channel their inner Laura Ingalls Wilder. Here are some fun things to create with kids that celebrate America's Pioneer heritage. Pioneer Bonnets by My Cotton Creations. Climbing Bear Toy by

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Tons of fun & simple pioneer activities for Pioneer Day including pioneer games, food ideas, books and movies to celebrate Pioneers.

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Pioneer Day is coming up!!! Here are some ideas that we have used throughout the years! (Don't get scared, but there's A LOT) Bonnets and Hats - Put up a clothes line of different pioneer hats, bonnets, or clothing. Let a child come and pick one and then sing a song! Pioneer Pack the Wagon - Set different essentials that the pioneers may have needed for their journey on a table. Let a child come and choose one item and put it in the wagon. Sing a song for each item packed. (You could also unpack the wagon and tell the children what things they may have used.) Here is a picture of the bones :) if you wanted to make a wagon for your primary! We used a radio flyer wagon, pipes, strapping tape, and a white sheet. Here come the Oxen - All you need for to make these are brown paper sacks! Cute holes for the eyes, cut out the neck (on the bottom), and slits for the ears. Let the children take turns being the oxen while you all sing! Barrel of Beans - Pour some beans in a barrel and hide different pioneer objects in them. Choose different children to come and find an object, then sing a song. Here are some examples of objects and songs that you could use: Snake - "Pioneer" Fun to Do (found here) Candle - Come, Come ye Saints Rock - The Oxcart Pioneer doll - Pioneer Children Sang as they Walked Cow - To be a Pioneer Covered Wagon - Covered Wagons Don't worry, you can still use this idea if you don't have a barrel! Just use a bucket! Buffalo Bowling - Tape a picture of a buffalo on the front of 6-8 pop bottles. Pick one child to come up and use a ball to knock the "pins" down. You can either set them up like regular bowling pins (in a V) and let the number of how many pins they knock down represent how they sing the song (ideas found here). Or you can put the pins in a straight line and which ever one that gets knocked down is the song to sing (put a number on the lid). Pioneer Pockets - This is a fun pioneer memory singing time game! Cut out 12 jean pockets and on the front put a picture of a pioneer and a number. The idea of the matching game is to match the picture of the thing the pioneer used, to the picture of what we use today. We found our images from Google images - or you could just write the words instead of having pictures. For example: Cooking over a fire - Cooking on a stove/in oven Playing with sticks and stones - Playing with balls and bats Riding in a handcart - Riding in a car Growing your own food - Shopping at the grocery store Using a lantern - Using a lamp (with electricity) Sewing with a needle and thread - Sewing with a sewing machine Using a washboard and tin bucket - Using a washing machine and dryer to do laundry So have them try to match the old to the new and sing a song! Cowboy Boots - This is a quick and easy pioneer singing time (how I like it sometimes). Get an old pair of cowboy boots and put song titles in them. Let a child come up and pick a song! Pioneer Trek - This idea isn't new but here is how we used this idea: Draw an outline of the United States and draw a line mapping the pioneers journey. Move a paper handcart to each X (you will need 7 stops). For each stop you will read a paragraph on a card... So here is what I made up for my primary. Feel free to use the same thing or modify it for your primary ;) Tell your children you are going on a Pioneer trek, just like the Pioneers did! Stop 1 -We are following the Prophet, Brigham Youngs', revelation to move westward. We've packed our things into our handcart and we're ready to go! Tie up the oxen and let's get pushing! (sing Follow the Prophet). Stop 2 - The pioneers traveled 10-15 miles per day while crossing the prairies and about half as many crossing the rocky mountains. A lot depended on the weather and the terrain being traveled. Do you think the pioneers ever got tired? What did they do to enjoy themselves? (Stand up and walk in place - Pioneer Children Sang as they Walked) Stop 3 - Looks like a storms coming in! No time to waste though we need to cross through the Missouri River by nightfall. We may get a little wet... (Turn lights out and while you sing, The Oxcart, spray them lightly with a spray bottle) Stop 4 - We've reached the halfway point at Fort Laramie. Lets take a break and read our scriptures. (sing Book of Mormon Stories) Stop 5 - We've been traveling for awhile now. And tomorrow is Sunday. Lets set up camp and observe the Sabbath. Sleep well around the campfire (sing Come, Come ye Saints) Stop 6 - It's now Monday morning. At 5 a.m. everyone is awakened. Our families have family prayer, cook breakfast, and feed and harness the horses and oxen. We are ready to move by 7 o'clock. By noon we are ready for something fun to do. (Sing Fun to Do "pioneer style" found here). Stop 7 - Despite all the disease, bad weather conditions, hunger, suffering, and pain we've made it to the Salt Lake Valley!!! All together, we have traveled around 1100 miles! We need to stop and thank our Heavenly Father!!! (Sing I am A Child of God or Reverently, Quietly) So hopefully one of these ideas can help you for your Singing time this week! Thanks for your comments!!! And Happy Pioneer Day!

General conference was so special! I put together these 1 sentence talk summaries to help myself remember the gist of each one as well as the points of President Nelson's talk and wanted to share! I'll share the aesthetic versions here at the end of the post and you can print them out with the print-friendly version! Are you ready for the download link? It's coming up soon. 👉 Before I sign off, I just want to make sure you know this is NOT the only resource I have to make your life easier as a busy Latter-Day Saint! To see & have all my free resources at your fingertips, follow me on Pinterest! 📌Now here's the promised PDF! 💝

Many years ago I came across the idea to make miniature pioneer wagons for a Pioneer Day treat. {I think it was in The Friend magazine?} W...

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Hi again! Welcome to Day Three of Dutch Oven Week! Today I have set a "Pioneer Tablescape" to honor the Pioneers who crossed the plains. I have several ancestors who crossed the plains to get to Utah. Many of my ancestors first left Europe and then crossed the plains to come to Utah. To be considered an official "Pioneer," you must have crossed the plains before 1869, the advent of the transcontinental railroad. Many of these pioneers would have used Dutch Ovens for cooking as they crossed the plains. Welcome to Tablescape Thursday's 100th Anniversary! Congratulations Susan! Also welcome to Alphabet Soup Week at Jenny Matlock's. The man in the picture is Moroni Savage and his wife Charity (Kinder) and they are my great, great grandparents. When Moroni was three years old, his parents, Henry and Sarah Power Savage emigrated to America in 1854 from Liverpool, England on March 12, 1854 and arrived in New Orleans on May 2, 1854. This tablesetting is about as simple as it gets! Tin pie pans, bandanas, and Mason jars! When they embarked at New Orleans cholera had broken out on board and they were taken to Quarantine Island in the Mississippi. Moroni's eldest brother John, along with hundreds of other immigrants died of cholera that year. After the quarantine was raised their family sailed up the Mississippi and Missouri rivers to the vicinity of Florence Nebraska, where they were outfitted to cross the plains. Moroni's family didn't bring Mason jar with them as they were first manufactured in 1858; but Mason jars were one of the first jars used for canning. Glass was a huge improvement over cans that might give you lead poisoning. They make great glasses don't you think? We drank out of them for dinner and I liked using them. Moroni's father Henry had sent money ahead to buy his outfit, but was sadly disappointed to find out that what had been procured for him were two yoke of unbroken Texan steers with wide spreading horns; they were wholly unfit for a journey across the plains. In Wyoming, the cattle gave out and the captain of the wagon train distributed the family's goods around others in the outfit and left the wagon and many of their household goods on the wayside. Do you think they had to leave any of their Dutch Ovens. Maybe so because they are so heavy! I set some old-fashioned candy on the table. I have read Pioneer accounts on how special candy or cookies were. Sweet goods were almost nonexistant for the Pioneers. They arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on October 6, 1854, after about a seven month journey. That evening Moroni's baby sister Rachel was born. Henry's parent's lost a child and gained a child on this journey. When they arrived in the valley, they were really hindered by the loss of their cattle, wagon, and many of their household goods. I used a tin can for the sunflowers which grow wild in my back yard. If I tried to grow them, they wouldn't grow! Once again I am using the napkin ring holders from the Style Sisters. I also borrowed the idea to use bandanas as napkins from the Style Sisters also. Do you think the Pioneers or Cowboys would have used their bandanas for napkins? I don't think so.... Thank you for joining me for Dutch Oven Week! I have enjoyed being able to tell you the Pioneer story of my great, great grandfather Moroni Savage. To view my other Dutch Oven Week posts click on the following links: Dutch Oven Potatoes Dutch Oven Mountain Man Breakfast I am posting this with Susan at Tablescape Thursday where you will be inspired to set a better table. I am also posting this with Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday where the letter of the week is "Alphabet Soup."

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