We just had the best New Beginnings (and it was one we planned and executed in 2 weeks). We had a race as our theme and tied it in with the new mutual theme "Press forward with a steadfastness in Christ". Plus the girls loved that they could come dressed in casual race clothing.
We did the invitations like a race bib. I loved how they turned out.
We made it a color run and tied in all the value colors in decorations.
We just used running gear from home and streamers and tissue paper from Dollar Tree. Very colorful but cheap!
I also had this pennant banner from Target already that fit the colors too. We put pictures up of the new Beehives and I let my current Beehive class read the back of each that told about each girl.
These were our programs.
Since you always get goodies at the end of a race, we had goodie boxes for each person.
I put stickers on each one to look like those running bumper stickers but these say 1 Nephi 31.20.
But I think the girls' favorite part was at the end, we let them go outside with some color chalk and throw this at each other like they were really at a color run. They really got into and loved it! For the powder, we just ground up sidewalk chalk from the Dollar Tree. It worked perfectly!
Between Dollar Tree for treat boxes, chalk, glow sticks, streamers and tissue paper and Sams for the goodies in the treat boxes, we spent about $80, much lower than what we allocated for it.
