Enrichment Night: Dorothy Style

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Preparation: 
The sisters received an invitation from the Wizard of Oz inviting them to a party in the Land of Oz celebrating the Relief Society's birthday (invite was made of parchment-like paper w/ formal font & gold sticker at bottom, rolled up and tied with green ribbon).
When the sisters arrived the room & dinner tables were decorated like Kansas. There was a bale of hay & a pitchfork by the door; the food serving table had a white table cloth, black table runner & was covered with rustic/farm-type decor; the round dinner tables had white table cloths, black table squares & Ball/Kerr jars with twigs in them for centerpieces. The Relief Society president was dressed like Dorothy, and she informed the sisters that when the Wizard of Oz found out what our visiting teaching stats were he said we couldn't come to Oz until we learned how to be ideal visiting teachers. We stayed in Kansas for a dinner of pulled pork barbeque on homemade rolls, and broccoli & fruit salads. After dinner "Dorothy" told us not to get discouraged because she had been to Oz before and she knew that all we had to do was learn how to use our hearts, heads & have courage to become ideal visiting teachers and make it to the party in Oz. The sisters then attended three mini-classes re: using your heart, using your head & having courage as visiting teachers. At the end of the classes the sisters found a yellow-brick road (bricks made of yellow construction paper taped to floor) leading them back to the room where Kansas was, but when they opened the door they found Oz (the black table squares were replaced with colorful ones; balloon centerpieces were hanging from the ceiling above each table & suckers with notes reading "Happy Birthday from the Lollipop Guild" were scattered on the tables). We had birthday cake & Dorothy bore her testimony re: visiting teaching.

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northmyrtlebeachgirl's picture

We used this idea just a

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.

Melody Burr
Myrtle Beach Relief Society

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