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Rainbow Themed New Beginnings.

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Last night we held our annual New Beginnings Program at the church for our youth aged girls.  We decided on theme of ‘Taste the Rainbow‘ and incorporated with that…the value colors and how by working on Personal Progress, each value can create a whole ‘rainbow’ of blessings in our life.  We held the event in our Relief Society room and I couldn’t have been more pleased with the way things turned out!  It was SUCH a fun evening!

We made tissue poms{SUPER SIMPLE!}…as seen here by the podium …and had them hanging at different lengths all over the ceiling.  We also had helium balloons {in all different rainbow colors} grouped in bunches throughout the room as well.  The pennant banner was purchased at Target in their party section for $3 {SCORE}!
As for the refreshments {my favorite part! smile!} we served:

White chocolate dipped Oreos with sugar rainbows on top.  

Sugar Rainbows were purchased at the ABC Cake Decorating store in Phoenix.  If you have not ever been there…oh mercy…you are in for a TREAT!  They have anything and everything needed for baking and decorating goodies!!!  And their prices ROCK!


I made rainbow themed cupcakes {thanks to an idea I scored on Pinterest}.  Blue frosting, Rainbow sour fruit stripes {in the $ section of Target right now} and white frosting piped around the edges as ‘clouds’.  I had wanted to make the base of the cupcakes to look like THESE but…I ran out of time and so I just used a plain yellow cake mix.


Red Velvet Cake Pops.  

Oh. My. Yummy.  

Printable circles were purchased from The TomKat Studio and customized to fit our evening.

Here’s the trick to getting cake pops to work…you must and I mean MUST freeze the cake balls once you roll them.  THEN…after they are frozen…you dip them into the chocolate.  And another warning…these babies are MESSY.  My hands were literally dyed red from the batter for the whole next day.  I tell you though…THEY ARE WORTH IT!!!  They were a huge hit.


Soft Sugar Cookies with rainbow colored sprinkles.





Another Pinterest idea found HERE.  My secretary made this up and it was DEE-LISH.  And… it only took one ingredient.  Otter Pops.  That’s it!  


The layering of the colors DOES take some time but….again….worth it.  So worth it!!

We gave each of the ‘newbies’ coming into Young Womens this year a bag filled with rainbow colored gumballs:


My counselor found out a whole bunch of random tidbits about each girl ahead of time and then spotlighted each ‘new’ girl and presented them with bags full of yumminess.


As for take home favors for ALL of the girls…we purchased the new Jenny Phillips ‘Arise and Shine Forth’ cds to listen to throughout the year.  SUCH a good CD.  

 

My other counselor was in charge of putting together our program and it was EXCELLENT!

 

 Our cute Beehives did a ‘Pageant’ themed skit incorporating the values and it was DARLING!!  

{I know some of you have asked about our ‘Program’ for the evening and if you’d like more descriptive details…as to the speakers and talks..please comment or email me and I will let you know what all was covered.}

I feel so blessed to work with such incredible women.  These YOUNG women really do light up my life and I feel blessed to get to serve them each week. 

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  10. So many wonderful ideas! We are a new Presidency and are trying to come up with some ideas for the coming year. I love the rainbow theme for New Beginnings. Are you still emailing copies of the skit to those interested, if so I would love a copy. connielc2@gmail.com Thank you again.

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  11. I would love a copy of the skit and program please. Thanks so much! You are a truly amazing person? Your ideas have saved me many times. Thanks so so much. my email is mamesser@aol.com

    my New beginnings is Sunday so I need this real fast hope you get this.

    Thanks
    Amanda

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  17. I would love to get information about your program/skit. Do you have any ideas of how to tie in the colors of the rainbow to our YW values and how rainbows fit into the Personal Progress program? Thank you kjhaskins@comcast.net kathy

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  20. Has anyone successfully added virtue into the skit? It probably sounds silly but I don't want to be inappropriate but feel like I need to add it in somewhere. The opposite of virtue is vice…That's all I've got!

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  21. I was just called this yesterday as the YW President. We were already planning a rainbow theme for our new beginnings. I would appreciate if you would email me a copy of the skit and program as well. Thanks for the awesome inspiration. lescouch@yahoo.com

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  25. My brain doesn't work like this!! That's why people like yourself are such a blessing. I woul love it if you would email me the skit and program info:) thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Luvmykids6@msn.com

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  27. Hi Marci! I'm a newcomer to your blog as well. It would be fabulous if you could email the skit and program for your New Beginnings night!

    dllambson at q dot com

    Thanks!

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  28. Hi Marci,
    Hopefully you'll get this comment since it's on a old post. I'd love the skit and program information if you still have them. Thanks for all your great ideas. You are one creative lady!

    heytrube at hotmail dot com

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  31. I am doing this awesome new beginnings this year . Could you please send me the skit and program it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a bunch

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  42. I just love this idea, it is so fun and colorful. I have one new beehive coming in this year – and want to make her welcome extra special since she is all by herself. This idea is absolutely perfect!! Thank you so much for sharing. I would love to know more details about the actual program when you have a chance. veronicagilmore37@gmail.com

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  47. Has anyone received the files for this New Beginnings? Can you send it to me? I know it seems late in the year, but we are just getting to it. Our president has put me in charge. I have never done this and would love the extra help.

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  49. Hi Marci! I was just put in YW about a month ago and the old presidency decided to let us do New Beginings so it would be "ours". I'm really pretty bad at this sort of thing, but I'm learning a lot from you! Would you mind sending me some info on your program, like what the speakers spoke about, and some tidbits on the skit. (such a great idea!) We are going with the theme "without rain there would be no rainbow" so I think it'll go right along with your theme. thanks! sarah
    syerke30@hotmail.com

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  58. I'm so impressed with your blog! I was recently called as camp director and came across your blog while scouring the internet for theme ideas! I couldn't get off your blog! I just kept pinning things to pinterest! Thanks for all the inspiration!

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  73. Hi Marci, I found your blog through Sugardoodle today and I am in LOVE!! I spent years serving in the YW organization…and your fantastic New Beginnings made me miss it so much! I LOVE all the little details, thank you so much for sharing! I cannot wait to do that otter pop punch for our St. Patricks Day's festivities…maybe I can find a way to tie it into Activity days too! 🙂 I am your newest follower, can't wait to see what else you do!!

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  84. So cute!! Love it all!! Our New Beginnings is this Wed, and I'm in charge. I'm envisioning that my decorations should turn out similar to yours. I'm doing hot air balloons/reg balloons, sky lanterns, pom poms, fireworks and garland that I made from scraps (looks simlar to yours!) ect for the Arise and Shine Theme. I'm using all the value colors so it should be colorful like yours!! Love the punch idea–I might do that!! Your chairs look so great too! I dont have a big enough budget for that though!! Glad I ran on to your blog!!

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    • Thanks Melinda! Our chair covers were actually FREE. A friend of mine has a side business as a wedding decorator and so she let us use the covers and the rainbow colored ties. It was very convenient 🙂

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