As a first year Pioneer, Johanna had two years to complete her event planning requirement for her Level Award, but she was adamant that she would complete it this year.  She was required to plan one troop wide event requiring at least 10 hours of work.   She decided to host the troop Christmas party.  And it certainly used more than 10 hours.

We prepared for months.  It was hard for me to not just jump in and take over, especially when a lot of time was being taken up for the new job.  But the purpose was to teach her all the pieces.  This included (but was not limited to) researching crafts for the age levels, the costs for the crafts, and purchasing the supplies.  She/we needed to also research games.  She also had to plan to food and supplies and we had to learn together how to make a sign-up in Sign Up Genius. 

We made practice crafts, too.   And she wrote her own devotion.

The theme was stars, and the party was stellar.

We used every last table we could find.

We had Daddy come to also help.

She led the younger girls through their star craft and a game of Bingo.
She also had to make 45 bags of Fruit Loop Markers and we did all the prep bags for the crafts.

I led the older girls in their star craft, and their scavenger hunt game.

Johanna did an amazing job.

And I am sooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo glad it is done!