LDS Activity Day Ideas – Super Socials – Mother-Daughter Date: Dress-and-Dazzle Mom and Me Fashion Show

Mother-Daughter Social

Theme: Dress-and-Dazzle! Mom and Me Fashion Show

This fun Mother-Daughter social is complete with fun fashion show assignments (where girls model themed costumes), a Who’s Who Game, sugar cooking decorating complete with patterns, an easy menu with recipes, and more!

INVITATION: Give girls invitation ahead of time (available in book – see below).

Invitation and Preparation

Objective. During this party, mothers and daughters put on a fashion show, guess the daughter spotlight, and decorate fashion-shaped cookies.

Invitations. Ahead of time have girls pick out a Fashion Look Card (detailed below) to describe the look they will model for the fashion show. Print and fill out an invitation for each mother-daughter team and write on the invitation the due date for their fashion script. Have girls deliver invitations to their moms.

To Make Invitation: Fold the hat and glue back-to-back 1/4″ only on the sides, bottom, and top, leaving the center open. Glue the Fashion Look Card on the bottom of the flower tab and insert it into the hat brim.

Narrator Scripts.
Fashion Show: Have the narrator gather scripts from mothers and daughters regarding their fashion looks, and make up the program to include a script for each fashion scene. Print the program ahead of time, listing the order of the participants and their fashion looks.
Spotlight: Gather an interesting tidbit of information about each girl ahead of time for the Dinner Spotlight Who’s Who (see details below).

Supplies. You’ll need table decorations, a microphone, baked and frosted sugar cookies, and menu items (see details below).

Table Decorations. Set up tables near the stage. You will need a microphone on the stage for the narrator. Decorate the center of tables with Fashion Look Cards (below), delegating decoration to girls.

Cut Out Sugar Cookies. Roll out sugar cookie dough and cut into clothing shapes using the patterns, one set for each mother and daughter: T-shirt, pants, skirt, vest, hat. Provide a variety of colors of frosting, decorator candies, wooden craft sticks or knives to frost with, and paper plates to hold the finished cookies. Decorate cookies during the party (see Fashion Cookie Decorating that follows).

Party Time Activities

Door Greeting. As guests arrive, give them a card and pencil, asking them to write down their name and something about them that no one else knows. Have them take the cards to their tables, then collect them as you serve the guests their dinner. Place the cards in a container to draw from. Example: “I ate a live grasshopper when I was a toddler.” (See Spotlight Who’s Who below).

Meal. Serve menu items (ideas below) to guests, who sit around their chosen decorated table.

Dinner Spotlight Who’s Who. As the guests eat, have someone come up and draw the cards from the container and read them aloud, but not reveal the person’s name. Have others guess who it might be; then have that person stand up and give more details about their experience. Example (tidbit of information), “My Aunt Mary said she saw me eating a grasshopper; it was squirming in my mouth trying to stay alive.”

Fashion Show. Ask mothers and daughters to come up front or onto the stage as you call their names four at a time. The narrator reads the script written by the mothers and daughters. If time, the narrator could give fashion tips.

Fashion Cookie Decorating. Have mothers and daughters gather around the cookie-decorating table to decorate their fashion-shaped cookies.

Menu
Main Dish Idea 1: Chicken and Rice Salad over lettuce, served with a dinner roll and butter. See the recipe below.
Main Dish Idea 2: Serve Chicken and Rice Salad inside a large croissant roll.
Serve lemonade with a straw, a maraschino cherry cut in half, and a half slice of lemon.

Chicken and Rice Salad: Serve on top of shredded Boston lettuce.
Ingredients:
1 box Uncle Ben’s Wild Rice Mix (prepared according to directions)
Juice of 1 lemon (or 2 tablespoons lemon juice)
3 cooked chicken breasts, cut into small cubes 4 chopped green onions
1 diced red bell pepper
3 ounces Chinese peas (in pods)
2 medium cubed avocados
1 cup chopped pecans or cashews

To Make: Combine all ingredients except avocados and nuts. Toss with dressing (below) and refrigerate 4 to 12 hours or a day ahead. Before serving, add avocados and nuts.

Dressing for Chicken and Rice (mix in blender):
2 cloves crushed garlic
1 tablespoon Dijon or brown mustard
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/3 cup rice or red wine vinegar
1/3 cup olive oil 

Fashion Show Ideas:

Crazy Mixed-up Fashion Show: Youth can model something from a “Crazy Mixed-up Grab Bag” or bags filled with five or six unusual outfits, or have fashion bags representing a certain decade or era in history. Have youth write their own scripts and put on skits to match the wardrobe in their fashion group’s bag.

Fashion Look Cards information (DOWNLOAD cards)

Western or Redneck Hillbilly Look. Ideas: Say “Howdy, pardner!” as you enter the stage. Wear western clothing, carry a pie tin as you eat the grub, drink out of a canning jar or water jug, wear a bandana tied around your neck, wear a cowboy hat, ride a stick horse, carry or look at a WANTED poster, eat trail mix, sew fringe to pants or vest, and say “Let’s go rustle up some grub or cattle,” or “Yip-pee!” as you leave. Dance a western line dance or swing to some country favorite.

Detective—I Spy Look. Ideas: Wear a trench coat or coat with the collar turned up, and dark glasses, and carry a spyglass and notepad with pencil, writing down clues. Have clues scattered across the stage for you to find and identify, e.g., lipstick, newspaper obituary page, key, book of matches, fingerprints, and books. Carry a Mystery Mansion or Clue game or sit down and pretend to play the game.

Clown or Hobo Look. Ideas: Wear a funny hairstyle or wig; paint your face with clown paint; wear a red nose (use red ball cut to fit); wear baggy, colorful polka-dot or striped clothing and socks; wear big shoes, huge flower corsage, toilet plunger necklace, large towel-sized handkerchief in the pocket, one pant leg rolled up. Use a toothbrush barrette, ride in a funny cardboard car, or decorated bike. Do tricks, fall down, laugh, tell a joke, or clown around. Carry lots of toys, like a hula-hoop or a big ball.

Egyptian Look. Ideas: Wear flat shoes, lots of gold jewelry and fabric, wide bracelets, jewelry in hair and on arms, wide collars, straight bangs, robes, scarf and jewelry headbands across bangs, and beaded collars. Carry pottery. Have your partner’s mom or daughter go with the mummy look: Wrap her in white stripes of cloth, paper towels, or tissue.

Baby Look. Ideas: Wear pajamas, using a pacifier and baby bottle on a string around the neck, and say, “Goo-goo-da-da-ma-ma.” Carry toys, cry, and drink your bottle (use a giant baby bottle). Sing songs like “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” or “Lull-a-by Baby in the Treetops.” Crawl or walk like a baby doll (very stiff with arms and legs straight and head jerking).

Hippie Sixties Look. Ideas: Wear tie-dyed shirts, psychedelic (bright or fluorescent) pants, flower crowns, pink-lense wire glasses, a love-bead necklace, and leather sandals. Say “Hey, dude!” “What’s happenin’?” “Groovy.” Snap your fingers and recite a beatnik poem. “Roses are red, man; violets are blue, man. I dig you, cat, let’s burn incense and brew some stew.”

Pirate Look. Ideas: Wear a striped shirt, capris, flip-flops, or sandals (or go barefoot). Wrap your head with a scarf. Use props, e.g., a treasure chest, fake gold coins, money, jewelry, and a treasure map. Sing “Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of pop!” Walk the plank (board on floor or blocks).

Hawaiian Beach Look. Ideas: Wear a modest swimsuit, Hawaiian lei or fish necklace, sandals, or flip-flops. Carry a towel, beach ball, beach umbrella, and/or sandbox items, e.g., rope, shovel, and bucket. Say, “Aloha,” or do a hula dance to island music. Carry a pineapple or coconut.

Fairy Tale Look. Ideas: Dress up like a king or queen, prince or princess, or a favorite fairy-tale look, and act out your favorite tale.

Great Outdoors Look. Ideas: Wear jeans,
T-shirts, and tennis shoes or hiking boots. Wear a large, fake bug for a necklace. Carry binoculars, a fishing pole, a butterfly-catching net, and a jar to catch bugs. Eat trail mix, hold pictures of birds on a dowel, and throw gummy works or fish crackers at the audience.

Beauty Shop Look. Ideas: Wear curlers or have a ratted hairdo. Wear lots of lipstick, bright nail polish, false eyelashes, and junk jewelry. Carry a hair dryer and wear a brush or comb necklace. Sit under a dryer, wearing hair in foil papers as if you’re getting highlights.

Pajama Party Look. Ideas: PJs, sleeping bags, curlers, cardboard pizza (to show), favorite board games, favorite movie, popcorn necklace (or carry a bag of popcorn), toothbrush, toothpaste, hairbrush, overnight case, pillow. Have a pillow fight.