True Beauty ideas for your American Heritage Girls Troop Sweetpea Beauty resources are wonderful tools for helping your girls earn their Daughter of the King Badge, and a fun Sweetpea True Beauty activity patch too! Here are some ideas for incorporating True Beauty with your Troop! Host a True Beauty Princess Party or Sleepover Ideas for facilitating the True Beauty guide lessons k Order a Sweetpea event kit from Big Idea and show the Sweetpea Beauty DVD to the group. See yourself like God sees you Buy small mirrors and decorate them. Write “God sees the beauty of my heart!” on them. Assist girls in finding Bible verses that talk about how God sees them. k Create a princess theme – everything pink, play dress-up, serve refreshments in teacups, offer sweets, and decorate tiaras as a craft project. k Review the True Beauty guide with the group and consider the project ideas below to support the lessons on the guide. Choose one or more for the group to do together at the Princess Party. k Include older girls in the planning process – they can mentor the younger “princesses” and earn their Daughter of the King badge as well. © 2010 Big Idea Entertainment, LLC. VEGGIETALES®, character names, likenesses and other indicia are trademarks of and copyrighted by Big Idea Entertainment, LLC. All rights reserved. Earn a True Beauty Activity Patch k Order a Sweetpea event kit from Big Idea and show the Sweetpea Beauty DVD to the group! k Review the True Beauty guide together and discuss key scenes from the movie that relate to the lessons on the guide. k Facilitate projects during Unit or Troop meetings to support the lessons on the guide. k As your Troop completes the projects, personally encourage the girls by pointing out specific ways they shine to further build their self-worth and confidence as they seek to be a girl after God’s own heart. k Ask each girl to explain their understanding of the lesson in order to complete the patch requirement. k Encourage your Troop Shepherd to review the True Beauty guide and encourage girls in this area throughout the program year. k Order True Beauty patches from www.bigidea.com and give them to the girls upon completion of the requirements (patches available in September 2010). Praying for others Make a stack of prayer cards for all the important people, things, and events in the girls’ lives. Encourage them to use the prayer cards to help them remember to pray for the important things in life. Giving thanks Create handmade thank you cards for a few special people, decorate them, suggest messages or let them write their own. Helping others Consider partnering with a non-profit organization to do a project together that can make a difference such as: sponsoring a child, purchasing baby chicks or a goat for a community, or packing a shoe box Christmas gift. Honoring your parents Have the girls create short storybooks where they write and illustrate about the most important lessons they have learned from their parents. Offer some ideas to help them – such as spending money wisely, being nice to people, how to bake delicious cookies, and that Jesus loves them. Plan a Father-Daughter or Mother-Daughter event and present parents with these special gifts. Taking care of God’s world Take the girls on a trash pick up excursion and end it with a picnic to enjoy the beauty of God’s nature. See the Daughter of the King badge ideas for more creative ways to teach these lessons to your Troop! True Beauty support items available at www.bigidea.com: w Sweetpea Beauty event kit (DVD, guide, posters, stickers, balloons, etc) w Sweetpea Beauty DVD w Sweetpea Beauty Songs for Girls CD w Sweetpea Beauty digital watch, t-shirt, and posters w 365 Bedtime Devotions for Girls w Sweetpea Patch