I found this cute idea and just had to share!
Click THIS LINK to check out the whole idea!
These would be so cute to give the YW before they start school this fall.

In re-reading the YW Camp Guide, I noticed that it says this about selecting a theme:







A theme provides a focus for camp. A theme may be:

• A scripture
• A statement from a prophet
• A hymn
• The Young Women theme or the current Mutual theme

Even though I think it's important to have FUN at camp, I am committed to have a spiritual theme. We'll be using the current mutual theme, "Arise and Shine Forth." I believe this theme can be both fun and spiritual!

I also want to have activities to celebrate Young Women Camp's 100th birthday! 

What are you using for your theme? What are your ideas for celebrating the 100th birthday of camp? Here's a list of ideas from lds.org!

I created this for my YW for Easter Sunday. The script is from the Family Home Evening Resource Book and all audio and video are from lds.org. You can download Youtube videos using Real Player or another youtube video downloader. Happy Easter!

Every Spring, the YW General Presidency presents an auxiliary leadership training. This training is for all young women presidencies around the world, but until now has only been available live in Salt Lake City.

This year, the training has been broadcast and is available online. This is a great resource for all young women presidencies.

Also, be sure to visit News & Announcements and the Church News for more information on all of the great information discussed in this training!

I LOVED Sister Dalton's talk about putting on our shiny and my counselor thought it would be fun to put that sentiment on t-shirts for Girls Camp... I decided to share the images in case you want to use them as well. I think we'll do a different color for Laurels, MIA Maids and Beehives. :)

To download a high quality version of the image right-click HERE to save the yellow, HERE for orange and HERE for blue.

Our ward YW leaders planned a great New Beginnings program this year. It was casual dress and we were asked to bring camping chairs. When we got there, there was a fake fire going in the middle of the room. The girls all sat on the floor and the parents sat in their camp chairs.

They handed out the camp songbook our stake made, and we sang the opening hymn from it. After the opening song, prayer, and announcement of the program, a couple seasoned girls campers led a couple of the fun camp songs. We sang a camp song or two between each segment of the program.


To encourage excitement about camp, they had girls talk about camp and adventure camp after the talks on personal progress and the YW program. I don't remember ever being at New Beginnings where camp was presented like this! The whole program was fun and very memorable. It was also a great way to get the new girls excited about YW, and the older girls were a great example of how fun YW can be! (The cake pictured was NOT what our refreshments were, I just found it and thought it was adorable!)

Who doesn't love waffles? That was the question my Laurel class had for me when they planned this activity. Their idea was to have a waffle night and invite the Priests.

Assignments were made: waffle irons, waffle batter (6 types!) and toppings (fruit, syrups, whipped cream, etc.) and the party was held.

This was a great activity for socializing. The youth had a good time making different flavors of waffles and just enjoying one another. They played a couple of games and had a fun time. For the waffles, we did "normal" waffle batter and then several flavors of cake batter waffles. To make cake batter waffles, just combine cake mix (ANY flavor - we used fudge, strawberry chip, red velvet, yellow cake - and more) with 3 eggs, 1/3 C oil & 1 1/3 C water.

I purchased disposable containers like these to make the batter in. This worked well because when it was over I just put lids on the batter and sent them home with the young women!