“FROZEN” word art from: http://lichu-editions.deviantart.com/art/Frozen-PNG-414485475
We are beyond excited for what we’ll be sharing over the next couple of weeks. Girls Camp. FROZEN style.
So how did we decide to plan a week of Girls Camp activities, food, crafts, a Kick-off Night, decorations, and devotionals all around Frozen?
It’s about sister love. And a mighty change of heart. It’s practically begging to be a Girls Camp theme. Seriously.
Today, we’re going to start off by sharing some ideas for a fun Girls Camp Kick-off activity: an invite, a craft, a treat, and ideas for a devotional.
The Invitation:
What’s so cool about this invitation? It’s frozen. Literally.
So here’s how you do it.
1. Create your invitation. It needs to be smaller than what you’ll be freezing the invitation in.
We made up these invites that you can print off that include a FROZEN Girls Camp poem based on the lyrics of the song, “Do You Want to Build A Snowman?”. (There are six on a page. You can find them here.)
You can definitely create your own. If you decide to use these, before you laminate, write or print the when and where of your Camp Kick-off Activity on the back.
2. Laminate your invitations.
3. Decide what you’ll be freezing your invitations in. We froze ours in a ramekin. This size of circle (the size of the invitations we made) should also work for a muffin tin.
4. Fill up your muffin tin, cup, or ramekin halfway. Then, put a drop of blue food coloring in each container and stir.
5. Place your laminated circle invitation on top of the water. (Make sure there is room around the edges beyond the invitation so that when you freeze the other half, it will seal in the invite-not create two halves that aren’t connected.)
6. Once the bottom is frozen, top it off with water (I didn’t dye the second half to give the invite the two-tone look) and stick it back in the freezer to freeze the other half.
7. When the whole invite is totally frozen, pull out the ramekin or the muffin tin and let sit until the pieces easily slide out.
8. While you’re waiting for them to thaw just enough to get them out, prep what you’ll be putting them in (cellophane bags, ribbons, etc.). You’re going to have to move fast!
9. Start bagging them up. Once you have each one tied up and finished, you might want to stick it back in the freezer. You’ll have to deliver quickly, and this might be one of those things you want to do in batches.
And there you have it. The coolest invitation they’ll ever receive. You might need to suggest that they’ll understand what’s going on when the thing melts… It’s sure to get everyone excited about the Girls Camp theme and the Kick-off activity! (This would also be really fun for anything Frozen themed or any winter party.)
The Craft
These pocket hearts are given to children in hospital environments or in crisis. They’re a physical comfort item that can make a difference for a little one whose life is in turmoil. We’d invite you to have the girls make two-one to keep as a reminder about mighty changes and soft hearts-and another to give to a local agency who can give these out as needed.
All you’ll need is fleece/felt, thread, needles, scissors and embellishments like buttons or lace. (Ask your ward for donations of fabric remnants, ribbons, etc.) You can find both the instructions for how to make these hearts and the pattern at the BYU Women’s Conference website. Click here.
The Treat
A popcorn (snow)ball! White chocolate, mint, and popcorn delight! Click here for the recipe and instructions!
The Message
Girls Camp is big. Planning Girls Camp feels huge.
But it’s oh-so-important to remember that the pretty things and the frills are filler. They might be fun-and fun is nice-but the most important thing we can do for ourselves and for the girls is remember the purpose.
And the purpose is that we all come a little closer to Christ.
That our hearts are a little softer and a little mightier. A little more changed.
Because that-that is essential.
This quotation comes from a beautiful talk from Elder Marvin J. Ashton, titled, “The Measure of Our Hearts.” You can find that here. It could be a great place to start in planning the devotional that your girls need to hear.
So whether you do it at the beginning or at the end of your Kick-off Activity, I highly suggest some kind of message that gets everyone thinking about how their hearts might need a little changing, what the Lord expects of our hearts, and how we embark on heart-changing journeys.
This is largely what you can expect from these posts about FROZEN Girls Camp. Ideas for fun and food and suggestions of where to look or start for the meatier parts. We’ll also be sharing a schedule of sorts-how to break down four days of Girls Camp fun with the FROZEN theme.
Even if you aren’t planning a Girls Camp, you’ll see that lots of these ideas would be great youth activities for any night (like the Pocket Hearts) and applicable outside of “church stuff” (like using the ideas of the invitation for a Frozen themed birthday party).
So, enjoy!
Natalie
Read about Day #1 of FROZEN Girls Camp here!
Read about Day #2 of FROZEN Girls Camp here!
Read about Day #3 of FROZEN Girls Camp here!
Read about Day #4 of FROZEN Girls Camp here!
Read about the Wrap-up and find FREE PRINTABLES for FROZEN Girls Camp here!
Find re-written words for Let it Go! (Let it Glow!)
Nat this is so fun and creative! I love it!
Thanks, Shannon! We’re having lots of fun with it. So glad to see you’re blogging again. Woohoo! Except that seeing the food you create always makes me wish I had the metabolism of a teenage boy. 😉 So yummy…
This is such a fab idea! I would never have thought of freezing invitations. You are so creative! Pinning now. Mel, visiting from #weeklylinkparty1
Thanks for stopping by, Mel! I just found your breakfast bars-pure genius.
I love this idea so much I can’t wait to share it with our camp director and the yw president. The change of heart is so appropriate and perfect. Going to watch everything and try to do the same things..
Thanks, Lisa! Good luck with your camp planning! We’d love to hear about what you try and how it goes.
My concern about having a Frozen themed YW camp is this: Are there no other gospel messages we can make themes from that we need to turn to the media? When cartoons are substituted for substance, sound doctrine and real heroes from the scriptures for our rising generation, there should be some concern.
Sometimes we go on auto-pilot thinking these cutesy things would be fun to disguise gospel doctrines when I found, as a former Stake YW President, that they craved depth, doctrine and really good heroes. The main song in Frozen, “Let it Go” goes exactly against the principles of the gospel (http://middleagedmormonman.com/home/2014/02/lets-talk-about-frozen.html). Just some food for thought.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, A. I hope you’ll look through the other posts, including the one that addresses “Let It Go”, before deciding that we’ve not based the foundation of these camp ideas around gospel principles. Most of all, as we mention in every post, we would encourage every youth leader to think, plan, and pray. Thank goodness heaven is eager to give us guidance for the girls we love and lead.
This is great! We’ll be using this for a church camp this summer? Any chance you could provide it in pdf format?
Glad to hear! What would you like in PDF format? Just let me know and I’ll email it to you. Thanks!
Thanks so much! We just had our camp kick off and used some of your ideas. It turned out so cute. I was wondering if there is a way for us to use your font that you used to make the “Frozen” (a mighty change of heart). We were hoping to use it to make a screen print for sweatshirts.
Hi Wendy! So glad it went well! Are you asking about the actual word, “Frozen”? I’ll email you the image for that tomorrow if that’s what you’re looking for.
I love your ideas!!! I think we are going to use this theme, or sort of take a tangent off of it. We don’t have as many days at camp this year 🙁 We would need to need to consolidate it. Is there a way to send the files so that they are perhaps editable? Did you use photoshop or another format that you would be willing to send files in?I love the graphics, but may need to change some of the wording to personalize it for our girls.
Thank you so much!!
Hi Katrina! I can definitely send you some things. I made everything with PicMonkey-so I don’t have anything that is editable from that format. But I do have the basic framed background that we used for each day’s scripture if that’s what you’re looking for. Just let me know what exactly you’d like and I’ll get it to you. Enjoy your girls camp planning!!
Natalie –
I would love to have the background image. Could you send me the font as well, or tell me where you got it from?
Now when you say framed background, does that mean the color and graphics, minus wording? If that is what you can send it’s perfect. I will just have to figure out how to add the words.
I appreciate all your help 🙂
Katrina
I too would like the font or the background picture that you used for the purpose of creating a camp t-shirt for the girls! I love these ideas. Thanks so much!
Also wondering if you have this in a pdf/word format? Love the ideas!!
Hi TaLu! Thanks so much for stopping by!! What exactly are you looking for in a PDF/word format? The downloadable Kick-off invitation on this page is downloaded as a PDF. Just let me know what you’re looking for and I’d be super happy to help!
Just wondering if you have the 4 days itinerary in a printable format. Similar to have you have explained on each days post. For some reason when I copy and try to paste in a word doc it’s not working so well. Trying to save myself some time if possible. Thanks for anything you can send me!!
Did you guys do a skit about Frozen?
Hi Aubrie! We didn’t. But if you come up with something fun, we’d love to hear about it!!