Contributed by: amanda perkins amandajoymom95@yahoo.com
(1/30/08)
“Be the Girl of Your
Dreams”
Does your mirror reflect someone
strong and steadfast, always abounding in good works?
"Snow White and the Seven Values" written
by Camille Joy Perkins (Beehive)
Program put together by Amanda Perkins
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Have clouds hanging from
ceiling with girls dreams—have them write on clouds (get married in temple,
graduate from college, improve different talents etc.)
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Have each girl come in
modest PJ’s with pillow and blanket. Decorate like bedroom w/rocking chair
for Snow white, table lamp for telling bedtime story. Have a large mirror for
“mirror, mirror, on the wall”.
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Have girls gather around
with blankets and pillow to listen to a special story Snow White will share.
(Personal Progress leader dress as Snow White)
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7 older girls to play 7
dwarfs
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The song from 1989 EFY
“Mirrors”—perfect song for girls to sing. I got the 1989 EFY songbook at
Deseret Book.
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After song then 2nd
counselor does new Beehive presentation.
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Hand out mirrors with theme
etched.
Snow White and the Seven Values
Hello. Incase you haven’t noticed, I’m Snow White. I really like teenagers.
There’s a big difference between them and children, mostly because they are
very nearly adults. Teenagers tend to worry as much as adults, sometimes over
trivial things. I know because I used to worry over those things too—hair,
friends, having fun, how “horrible” my life was—until I had a life-changing
experience.
My first, kind and caring mother died when I was three years old. There was
one thing I remember her teaching me in that short amount of time—to believe
in Jesus Christ. I took it upon myself to uphold her dying wishes. For four
years after that my father took me to church, and I remembered, every week, to
keep faith in Jesus Christ. And eventually my father married again.
My stepmother was mean. I didn’t notice at first. I was only seven, after
all. She had me wait on her hand and foot, and when my father died I became
nothing more than a common servant. By then, I knew she was jealous of me,
but I didn’t know how deep that went. She hated me because I would take the
throne when she died. I was considered fairest in the land, and not only by
her magic mirror.
I suppose being the fairest got to my head. I had constant thoughts about how
much better I was than her, about how she would someday receive her
comeuppance. I believed in Christ, but didn’t think of His tender mercies.
I grew out of my reveries of vengeance when one day she had a huntsman come to
kill me. I cried, “How could she go that far?” Then he told me he never had
any intention of killing me. It wasn’t what he believed in, and he could
never sink so low. Then he told me to run away and hide in the woods. I
obediently went away.
I spent a long
time in the woods, at least a week. I scavenged for food and slept little. I
blamed others for my terrible misfortune. It was the queen’s fault for
treating me badly and trying to kill me. It was the huntsman’s fault for not
hiding me in a safer place. It was my father’s fault for dying and leaving me
in the hands of my stepmother. I even blamed the woods just for being there.
Then I found a
little cottage at the edge of the woods by the river. That was when I met my
friends, the Seven Dwarves. They were a perfect example of inner Christ like
qualities that truly make someone the most beautiful in the land.
Seven Dwarfs value
presentation: “Steadfast, and strong, good works are what we know” (whistle)
Sing after each value
1. Happy/Faith/Nephi=
I believe that having
faith in Jesus Christ and doing what the Lord asks you to do, puts joy in your
heart. My hero is Nephi because he did everything the Lord asked of him, and
happily sought Him out and learned from Him.
2. Bashful/Divine
Nature/Ester=
3. Dopey/Individual
Worth/Jesus Christ=
4.
Doc/Knowledge/Brigham Young=
5. Grumpy/Choice and
Accountability/Joseph Smith=
6. Sneezy/Good
Works/Ruth=
7.
Sleepy/Integrity/Helaman=
Snow White:
It wasn’t until after spending a week with my wonderful little friends that I
realized, I had a lot of work to do to be the fairest in the land. I spent a
lot of time on my knees in humility. Then I looked in the mirror on the wall,
excited for the well rounded woman that I saw myself becoming. What great
hope I had for a beautiful future. Thank goodness my prince charming ---who
by the way had prepared himself in every way--came along and found me worthy
of being saved from my wicked step mother.
I am now
looking out among some very special and beautiful Young Women, and I know that
you too will become the girl of your dreams and live happily ever after. How
do I know this, you ask? I know it because you have the same friends and
values to help you along the path that I have had, and you will be strong and
steadfast, always abounding in good works.
Snow White and Dwarfs
exit arm in arm singing:
Seven Dwarfs Hi-ho
song:
“Steadfast, and
strong, good works are what we know “(whistle) THE END!
