Shauna and Co.: Youth Dance

Friday, June 20, 2008

Youth Dance

Young Men Young Women Activity Ideas..

See Hula Costume Contest in The Middle of This Post

End Of School Year Dance

Enjoy these photos from The Wellington Ward

Young Men Young Women Dance...

You will see photos of some of the most incredible

youth I have ever known.

Key elements of a great dance are

1) Great Music and/or DJ

2)Lots of Mixer Dances, Games, Activities

This Dance had all of the above...note the activities in

many of the photos.

Warning... this post is heavy on photos

On a side note...this is the end of the Youth Photos.

With recent changes in the YW Presidency, I was released.

I will still publish ideas from time to time, but these are the

last of the photos with this group of youth.

We used a tropical theme, yet rather than have everyone

dress too casually, it was still...Wear Church Dress...Tropical Colors

Even I was captured on my own camera participating in

The Casper Cha Cha Slide

This is proof that our Bishop's knee injury is healing..

Morgan and Caroline....

Caroline is gong to High School this school year..that should just

not happen....how did she grow up so quickly!

The next few photos show the result of a

"HULA COSTUME CONTEST"

I divided the youth up in to teams of 5

Each team had the following supplies:

3 Brown Paper Grocery Bags

1 Roll Masking Tape

1 Pair Of Scissors

1 Hawaiian Lei

Each team was to use these items to outfit one of their

team members in a Hula Costume...

The results were creative and impressive...

You could say we were being "green" with this Hula Costume

Activity...recycling paper bags!

Here they are modeling some of the team designs

Mariah...in her team's design. Mariah turned 16 yesterday!

A Round of Musical Chairs....

For Musical Chairs, we always do a Girls Event and a

Boys Event seperately. It makes for some hot competition.

Forrest is dancing with the coveted Pink Flamingo

The Pink Flamingo was used like a broom is usually used

for the "Broom Dance" Mixer.

Our DJ...Hooray for Brother Aravena!!!

Even our DJ finds time to dance!!

Thank you to all for a wonderful evening and for

being the great Young Men and Young Women you are.

I will miss each of you.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

When you start with amazing teens, incredible support, great planning, and awesome attitudes, the result is a Friday Night Youth Dance packed with fun for all! These Young Men and Young Women are true stars. They are a delight to be around and positive examples to all.

The Beehive Class (12-13 year old girls) spent this past month learning how to plan and execute an activity. They made decorations, planned food, set up, cleaned up, and wrote thank you notes! As I have tried to teach them.....An Activity is not over until the Thank You Notes are written and sent!

Warning.... This post contains more photos than I have ever posted at once, yet this is only a fraction of all the photos taken. If you don't see a photo of yourself or someone you know... stay tuned...all the photos will be on display at the Church this coming week.

Click on any photo to enlarge!

This one is blurry, yet there are some new faces that jumped in when the camera was rolling..

I will not attempt to label all the photos. You know who you are!
Some of the photos have comments.

With Dance Partners like these, the girls were loving every minute of this dance!

Lacey wanted to make sure there was a photo of her spinning.... Logan, thank you for helping me get this photo!

Right before my camera battery died, I remembered there were no photos of me.... so here I am doing the Macarena. I know it is hard to tell me apart from the teenagers! Not!