Have you ever had a Wilbur Day?
by Alice Gifford
 

This activity is for anyone who is having a "Friendless, Lonesome, and Discouraging, Day.  Everyone needs a "Web".  Do you remember reading "Charlotte's Web when you were in grade school?  Can you remember the pig's name.  It was Wilbur.

(This  is  an excerpt  from  Ardeth G. Kapp's book, I Walk by Faith)
 

"Poor Wilbur had some very hard times and often felt alone and discouraged.  On one dreary rainy day he felt so "Friendless, dejected, and hungry, he threw himself down in the manure and sobbed.

Have you ever had a Wilbur Day????  A day when you felt alone and discouraged?  Listen and discover how Wilbur was reused from his sad plight.

He was visited by his dear friend Charlotte, the spider whom he didn't like at all when he first met her.  But over the years he discovered a true friend in Charlotte, one who was willing to save his life by tirelessly spinning a beautiful web with a message that would let people know he was no ordinary pig.  Even Wilbur began to believe he was something special because his friend told him he was."

After reading this little except from "I Walk by Faith" by Ardeth Greene Kapp, page l39-l40, each girl would take part in creating a "Web" for the other girls in the room.  Each girl would put her name on top of a sheet of paper and pass it to the girl on her right who would then write a brief positive statement about that person.  Continue this until everyone has had an opportunity to "Spin a Thread Of the Web"

You could also talk about how strong a web is.  Have you ever tried to spray one down with the hose?  Even on full force, they are strong!!!!  Our friendships with each other can be as strong as the "Web" we weave for one another. 

Or think about the trapeze artist who is "flying" high above, and falls.....isn't there a type of "web" that catches him too.  When we are "falling" the "web" others have created for us can be there to catch us.

I then shared with them an experience I had in high school.  I was sitting in my English class and because we had to sit in alphabetical order I was seated next to a girl from my ward that I knew didn't care for me and I wasn't too excited to sit by her either.  I guess I was like Wilbur and "didn't like her either when I first met her.  Within a very short time she was my Charlotte and and we've shared many "webs"  throughout the years. 

You could decorate the room with "webs", and have spider cupcakes.