The Sisterhood of the Traveling (Personal Progress) Purse

Kate, my daughter has a very creative and talented Young Women Personal Progress leader.  She creates beautiful works of wonders to encourage the girls to set goals and then work hard to achieve them.

Amy came up with this fun "Traveling PP Purse" to allow the young women to "show off" what they have been working on.  I thought it was a great way to inspire my daughter and others to move forward, just like the purse!

Amy created the traveling purse out of an old pair of jeans.  Lots of ideas of how to do that on Pinterest.

Included in the purse are a couple of journals for recording individual progress of each young woman.  They are asked to write about the fun they are having as well as any encouragement they might have for the next person the purse travels to.

They might choose to add a little something to the purse that relates to the goal they've just accomplished.   

After two weeks the young woman passes it along to another young woman, hence the name of the traveling purse!    

Kate enjoyed participating in the traveling purse project and actually completed 2 of her own PP projects.  A success in my book!

I love leaders and teachers that inspire my children!

ORANGE You Glad It's Summer

It's going to be a 
Summer of Personal Progress

We introduced our young women to the program of fun with the "Orange You Glad it's Summer" orange drink bottle with tag.  The orange drink bottles were from the dollar store (6 for a buck) and the tag was easily downloaded (for free!) here.

The girls filled out their questionnaire and then once turned into a leader received their "Orange You Glad" treat.  

Just two questions to fill out:

1. Show Off Spot!  Sometimes showing off is a good thing!  Write about what you are working on and what you enjoy about it:

2. Areas of Improvement!  Write one goal you are working on that seems to need a little jump start.  How can we help?

They were also introduced to the "Summer Glad Bag".  The brightly polka dotted bag will hold summer incentives for young women who work hard to pass off value projects.  Once passed off they are invited to "dip in" and retrieve a fun summer treat or toy.

Each young woman was also invited to chart their progress using this summery Countdown.  I found the template here.  Just modified it a bit by adding Personal Progress to it.

Added a small magnetic sheet (found at Hobby Lobby) to the back of the countdown so the watermelon magnets would grab hold.

I found this metal stand at Michaels.  It's a scrapbook page holder and it worked perfectly for the Countdown Chart holder!

SO glad it's Summer.  And we're off to a great start with our Personal Progress!