Young Women In Excellence - Superheroes

Every November, we have an a recognition night for the Young Women at church.  It's called Young Women in Excellence and we as leaders try to make it a fun and special evening for the girls.  This year we had a "superhero" theme.

Fortunately, I work with a great bunch of talented and creative ladies who are also Young Women leaders.  Thanks to a team effort, we had a great evening and recognized the amazing girls in our ward.

Here are some details of our program that evening.  First up here are the decorations:

Each Young Woman and her parents received this invitation - a sucker dressed-up like a superhero with cape and mask.

We carried this look onto the table decorations, etc.:

At the beginning of the program, we had each of the girls come up and we introduced them and described their "super powers" or what makes them "super."  We asked the parents in advance to describe what's super about their daughters and this is what we used to introduce them.  At this point, each YW was given a personalized cape to wear.  One of my counselors made/sewed a cape for every one of the YW.  They were so awesome, she knocked it out of the park!

After this, we had a "souper" dinner

Following dinner, we watched a slideshow that talked about what defines a hero and how Young Women can be superheroes too.  It also included all the adult leaders dressed up as superheroes representing the YW values.  This was my part of the program.  It was definitely a project, but I was happy with how it turned out.  Here are some silly pictures I had the girls and leaders pose for:

We ended with talks by some Young Women and our Bishop.  It was a fun and light-hearted evening, I hope our girls had fun!

Ashley, posing by her Personal Progress display