You are my Sunshine inspiration~2

Here are some more Sunshiny things for inspiration. 

First up food ideas

 

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And some fun details

 

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 love the lemons under glass

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Babysitting workshop

For our activity this week we  had  a babysitting workshop. Beehives are the perfect age for this, just starting to get babysitting job and in need of a little training. 

I found the original idea for the kit at Wendy's Activities blog and made a few changes. 

We had a few ladies from the Ward come talk about what they expect from a babysitter, what actually makes an emergency and when to call, what to say when someone asks "how much do you charge?", and then they were able to ask some questions. 

After our discussion we went over the papers in their folder. (all of which you can download for free)

These are the papers that were in the folder

Add to your kit

Safety

Games

Songs

Tips to be a great sitter

Important information

Once we'd covered all of these I had set up tables and on each table was a game they could put together to go in their babysitting bag. The games were four of those listed on the "Games" worksheet, ribbon matching, sink or float, sock guessing game, cotton ball blowing game. 

First they started by attaching the LABELS for the games to a plastic bag.

Once they were attached they could go to the tables and assemble the games. 

 I found tote bags at Target for $2.50 that were really a good size for them to add the other suggested item to. 

I also made luggage tags for them with their names to put on their bags.

I took this to Office Max and had them printed as well as just a polka dot paper cut them out so that there was a front and back and then had them laminated. I punched a hole in the top and added some ribbon to attach them to their bags. 

I think they were most excited about these because they had their names on them. 

It turned out to be a great activity and the girls are going to be great babysitters.

New Beginnings Theme~ You are my Sunshine

After all my Rainbow idea collecting we decided to go with a different theme for our New Beginnings. We decided to go along with the theme for the youth this year, Arise and Shine Forth, and do a You are My Sunshine theme. So I've been on the hunt for sunshine things and ideas and here's what I've found so far.

These would make great favors as well as decorations I would change the centers to go with the sunshine theme.

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Love the lanterns strung like this

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 Fun yellow treats

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 LoVe LoVe LoVe the ruffle streamers and here's a tute on how to make them

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I really liked the basic white boxes with yellow ribbon and the flowers, it all looks so "sunny"!

 

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 This was a sunshine party, loved the banners around the fence as well as the food ideas

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I'm still on the hunt for fun food ideas. So far I've got lemon bars, mini lemon meriagne pies, & lemonade. I know there are lots more ideas out there and I'll post my food finds when I've got a few to share.

New Beginnings idea board

New Beginnings is coming up quickly for us and of course it's all about Personal Progress and the values. So rainbows jump right out at me and there are so many things you can do with rainbows and tying them into the personal progress colors. 

First up are decoration ideas: 

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 tissue poms are a great way to add color and doing them in the rainbow colors would be a great way to spread some color.

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 Or instead of tissue you could use tulle

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 paper circles in rainbow colors sewn together make great garlands

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 add some crepe paper to those circle garlands and you've got a great combo

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 These are great streamers and easy to make

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 streamers attached to a hoop and hung like chandeliers

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 I love the Chevron pattern with the rainbows

Ok so now how about the treats:

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 taffy on a stick  

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 cake in a jar

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 Love the gumballs

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 This is Jello ice cubes in Sprite

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 There are lots of rainbow cake tutorials out there 

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 gumballs on a skewer or in a mini cello bag

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 gumball flowers

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 Sprinkles, straws, and mini gumballs

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 Love the push pops and the paper medallions on the straws

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 on a healthier not this veggie display would be great

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 or you could do a dinner and make this colored spaghetti

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candied popcorn would also be yummy (so much for the healthy ideas)

Now it's just fun things I loved that you could incorporate to your night.

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 how fun would it be to have these bags in an array of colors for them to fill at the end of the night?

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 these would be great as a take home favor or to make that night as a project

The main objective of New Beginnings is to introduce the Personal Progress program to the girls who are either new to YW or who will be coming in in the up coming year. 

How you do your program depends on your ward and it's needs.

hope you found this inspiring!