We are using
lighthouses to gift to the girls to remind them to Rise and shine
forth…I was able to find some at the Dollar Tree (everything is a
$1.00) that are pretty cute but not huge. We will give them to the
girls on their birthday for the next year to correspond with the
theme. At our New Beginnings, we’ll be talking more about the theme
and how lighthouses are used as to help ships, etc. to go along with
the theme as being “a standard”. We also thought that when those
battery operated candles (they look like something like the lighted
candles children’s choirs carried long ago) go on sale after the
holidays we’d get them to use at our New Beginnings and throughout
the year and then present them to the girls at YW in Excellence as a
favor to remember the theme all year. We talked about having the
girls learn a song to go with the theme and sing it while holding
their “candles” with the rest of the lights off at YW in
Excellence. Anyway, just ideas we’ve been bouncing off each other
since the theme came out.