Enrichment Night: Dorothy Style

We used this idea just a couple of weeks ago for our visiting teaching conference. Everyone had a lot of fun and also got re-energized to do their visiting teaching. We gave out a reminder a week before. I printed a picture from the internet of the lollipop guild and put it on the front of a basket. (the sister's thought this was a hoot!) Then I had a message printed on different color paper that "this was a reminder from the lollipop guild that VT conference is....." and had a lollipop attached to it. I also cut out yellow letters and spelled out "follow the yellow brick road to....." and then had a poster announcing the confernece. I taped the letters on the wall leading to the poster.

We had a light dinner and the room was decorated all green like the Emerald City. I had music from the Wizzard of Oz playing as the sisters came in.

For our yellow brick road I just used yellow paper and scattered them. I had quotes about visiting teaching printed on them.

We had a pail of water on a small table the had a sign that read "incase of emergency throw on witch." I also took a pair of old shoes and spray painted them ruby red. I took striped socks and stuffed paper in them and set them in the shoes outside so it looked like the building had fallen on the witch.

We had the same three classes which were all fun and inspiring. One of the teachers wore a wizzard hat and gave us diplomas at the end of her class. Another teacher really helped us with courage and relating it to the flying monkeys and other parts of the movie. At the begining of the class about having heart there was a special musical number called "My Sister's Hands" and loving our sisters and how the program actually teaches us how to love one another.