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The Hundred Dresses by Jill Mennig / ga08022007
One very successful enrichment meeting we held was centered
around the children's story,
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes. I ordered a lot of ten of
the book off E-bay
(about $20 for all) and we had the sisters pass the book around for a
month or so (each sister would sign it as they read it) and asked sisters
to begin donating dresses for a locale shelter (adult or child), with a
goal of collecting one hundred. We collected during
That night we had a dinner and asked the sisters to bring a
picture of themselves as a child and a high school year book and
we played a matching game with the photos. We decorated with old high school memorabilia, photos,
keepsake dresses and displayed at the front all the dresses collected for
donation on a clothes line. We gave the sisters lots of time to mingle
and socialize and look at each others photos.
We hung all of the dresses being collected at the front of
the room on a clothesline and when we made the finally count we had
exactly 100! All in all, we ended up
donating about 135 all together along with a few copies of the book to the
women's shelter. I got this idea from another ward in the area and we
had about 40 sisters in attendance.
This link should take you to the book information on Amazon
if you are interested in reading more about the story. The story is a
sweet reminder to be kind to others and understanding of our differences.
It is also a story of forgiveness and redemption. It is a fast easy read,
about an hour out loud to a child.
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December
as the book involves Christmas time and held our meeting in January.