Wizard of Oz
 

Contributed by: Terri Lewis (6/8/07)

We did a Wizard of OZ theme in our ward this year.  The OZ stood for Our Zion.  We had a yellow plastic runner that went throughout the camp that led to each tent to represent the yellow brick road, we purchased this at a Partyland store and you can buy it in a 100 ft roll for $15.00. We had it set up before the girls got to the camp and they loved it.  We had the girls make flags to represent their tents, such as the first years were "Glinda" and they made a wand with puffy paint and glitter on the end of the wand.  The girls were very creative and even made one for the priesthood tent.  (The lion)  We only have a three day camp and on each day, we had all of the activities and awards centered around a specific trait from the wizard of oz i.e. Knowledge, Courage and Love.  For knowledge, we had the YCL's plan a day of game shows.  They played gospel family feud and handed out smarties and dum dum suckers as the prizes.  They also played $10,000 Pyramid where the girls had to race against the clock and each other.  The categories were things such as Nephi, Book of Mormon, Temple, the YW values etc.  They also played a human trivial pursuit game with big colored dice made of cardboard boxes with the value colors on them.  They then had to answer questions concerning the value that the dice landed on.  At the end of the game day, each of the girls got a "diploma" to represent having earned their knowledge for that day.  On the second day we had Courage day.  Again the YCL's planned activities that they thought would take "courage" for the girls to complete.  They played Fear Factor.  They had a group of about 12 girls at a time in each group.  First they would show them all sorts of really gross things that they were going to have to eat such as these fat worms and all sorts of gross looking things.  (They even made homemade throw up from oatmeal and creamed corn and dehydrated carrots.  YUCK)  Then they blindfolded the girls and made them think that they were going to actually eat these things.  They really had gummy worms that they put in water first to make them slimy.  It really took a lot of courage for the girls to eat these things not knowing that they really weren't the real things.  They also had an obstacle course that was really quite difficult.  They had big logs that they had to crawl over and things that they had to crawl under and they even made a ropes course.  The fun part about this was that the girls had to examine the course and then do it blindfolded while listening to directions.  Some of the girls listened and got through it pretty well while others did not trust and would fall.  Again this took a lot of courage.  Well at the end of that day they received badges of courage that were placed around their necks.  The girls were really proud of themselves.  On the last day they had the Love day.  The YCL's planned activities centered around love.  They again split the girls into 3 groups of 12 and then proceeded to make heart sucker bouquets.  They had found out ahead of time how many girls were in each of the other camps including the leaders and "doorbell ditched" each of the camps.  We had 9 camps in our stake and so each group got to deliver 3 bouquets.  They loved this and so did the other camps.  They made a tag for each sucker that said, "Love from OZ".  The girls had so much fun "sneaking" into the other camps and leaving the suckers.  One of the other activities that the girls really seemed to enjoy was that ahead of time, the YCL's all wrote letters to the girls expressing to them what it was about each specific girl that they loved and how much having them in our YW meant to them.  They took turns reading the letters out loud to the girls and we had a few tears and some laughter too.  The girls then gave them their "love letters".  I saw a bunch of girls put them in the camp journals.  At the end of the day, they each received a glow in the dark heart necklace to wear, so that by the end of camp they had all received their knowledge, courage and love awards.  It really was a great camp and the girls all seemed to really love it. 


We also had to do skits and they had to be a musical.  The Stake theme was the same as the YW theme for the year about "Let virtue garnish your thoughts...."  They focused on the media and specifically music.  Hence the musicals.  Well we did ours on a parody of the Wizard of OZ.  The opening number was a rap song.  This time around Dorothy has already been to OZ and felt like she already knew all there was to know about getting back home. (Heaven)  It really turned out cute and the girls loved it.  If anyone is interested in looking at the skit for ideas, feel free to contact me.  My e-mail address is imtlclewis@msn.com. 
 

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