Oh The Places You'll Stand

It's been a while since we've had a

Sundae Served Saturday!

 This week I wanted to share with you my Mom's fantastic New Beginnings!  This is where the girls coming into our churches girly youth program, Young Women, come to learn a little more about the program and begin to feel welcomed by their leaders and new friends.

Most importantly the Young Women have a theme in which they strive to Live the Young Women Values.  Those values are Faith, Divine Nature, Choice and Accountability, Knowledge, Good Works, Integrity and Virtue.  Each value has a color to associate it.

Mom found her idea HERE on Sugardoodle.com for a Seuss Themed New Beginnings.  She used most of the ideas she found from there.

She wanted to start the night by reading the book Oh The Places You'll Go! by Dr Seuss.  But, she asked me to rewrite the book so that it would match there theme Stand in Holy Places. I was super excited to do this for her!  And thus Oh The Places You'll Stand was born!  THEN... the very next sunday a lady in our ward handed me a copy of Green Eggs and Ham (The Missionary Version).  Hilarious!  So then I had to make sure mine would be able to fit the pictures in the book so you could cut out the poem and paste it in like hers!

Tada!!!  It looks awesome right?
The book ends up talking about Young Women Values, what each of them stand for, and a lot about the different places you will stand.  It's meant to be uplifting and remind you that when you stand somewhere scary all you need to do is remember the values YOU stand for and you will be okay!

 I created a printable which you can get BY CLICKING HERE!

 

You just cut it out and paste it into the book!  I tried to match the font perfectly, but I am no Dr Seuss.  So be sure to cut a little extra room around the letters and trim down if you need too.

Awesome Sauce right?

I love it!

Click HERE if you didn't click the printable the first time!
The font I used for the cover is HERE.  It's called Doctor Soos Bold.

I can't wait to show my friend on Sunday!  

So first my mom read the story.  The gym behind them was closed off by curtains.  When she finished reading they opened them so the girls could see Dr. Seuss Valueland!

 The truffula trees are made from pipe covers and tissue paper.  She wanted pool noodles but couldn't find them at this time of the year.  My brother downloaded some Seuss music which was playing in the background (Mommy was good at enlisting help!)

Tables were set up around the area and each value had a colored table.
Each value also had a Suess book assigned to it.
Faith (White) - Horton Hears A Who
Divine Nature - The Sneetches
Good Works - The Kings Stilts
 Individual Worth - I Wish I Had Duck Feet
Knowledge - I Can Read With My Eyes Wide Shut
Choice and Accountability - The Lorax
Integrity - Horton Hatches An Egg
Virtue - I Had Trouble Getting To Solla Sollew
Beforehand Mom had the girls make mini Truffula trees out of pom poms and pixi sticks as a wednesday night activity.  When people came to visit their table the girls would read a little something they wrote about how the value pertained to the Dr. Suess book.

Doesn't it look great!

The girls also spent the activity making these awesome paper lanterns!

After walking around the Seuss room the girls were all invited to another area for a surprise performance!  My mom had the young men act out "If Dr. Seuss Wrote the Book of Mormon!"

Click HERE for that printable.

Afterwards they played a game where the girls were asked questions about values.  If they had done something in the scenario they had to stand up.  If they stood up they got a gum-ball of that value color.  At the end she asked them which color they had the least of and then challenged them to work on that value all year.  The link where she found that idea is HERE.  They have great instructions.

Then they all drank Pink Ink and ate cake!

I can just imagine how amazing it all looked in person.  I am sure my words don't do it justice. Mom said when the girls turned around for the Seuss room everyone gasped!   Don't the girls look so happy!  See their tiny Truffula Trees?  I guess tons of them wanted to take home the giantic truffula trees!  What a great reminder of the evening.  What an amazing thing they all pulled off together!  Makes me miss being in Young Women!