Pretty as a Peach - Secret Keeper Girl

Pretty
as a
March 2016
Peach
A Crucial Conversation About Inner Beauty
Challenge activity: Planning a spa pajama party to teach your daughter and her closest friends about beauty.
Key verse: 1 Peter 3:3-4
Key thought: True beauty is on the inside.
Suggested challenging setting: Your home.
Planning This Date:
by Dannah Gresh
Invitation
Inspirational
Use construction paper to cut out an eyemask-shaped invitation. Decorate the front to
be cute and colorful and use the back to write
out your invitation details. Use a paper hole punc
h
to put two holes on the opposite ends of the eye
mask and put an elastic string on it so your friend
s
can bring it with them for an activity you’ll do together. Make sure to note that they will need to
bring their eyemask invitation, one bottle of
nail polish, and wear fuzzy bathrobes.
This date involves fuzzy bathrobes and facials and manicures! But don’t let
beauty treatments fool you – this date is all about making your girl’s heart beautiful. Make sure to plan and prepare this date with your girl for a special time of justus-two-girls-making-memories. Together, you’re going to host an unforgettable pajama
party. (If you aren’t comfortable with sleepovers, that’s okay. You can easily do a pajama party on a Saturday afternoon
and nix the sleepover ending.) First, identify a date about a month away and make a list of your girl’s best friends (4-6
friends will work best). Create special beauty mask invitations together and send them out snail-mail style – don’t forget to ask them to RSVP. Then check out the spa-tacular sidebar ideas throughout this date and create a shopping list
of any items that you’ll need for snacks and activities.
Step 1: Prep Talk
Read the following challenge before you begin your date.
There are two things at stake in your daughter’s heart that we’ll be addressing in this date, and they may both be more
important than you think! The first is true beauty.
Beauty is EVERY girl’s battle.
Your girl faces this battle in a very real way, and if we’re honest, even us moms do, too. From the barrage of fashion
advertisements plastering social media to advice from friends at school, your tween is faced with tough beauty choices
every single day.
Why can’t I look like her? Should I wear this? Am I beautiful?
We’ll spend some time answering her questions before someone else does, and see how her godly view of
beauty changes everything. We’ll also take a loot at friendship. Do you worry about the influence your girl’s friendships
are having over her heart? For better or for worse, the development of your little girl’s heart will be strongly influenced by
the friendships in her life, and by including her friends in this date, you’ll be able to influence your girl AND her friends.
Let’s wrap them up in a fun, fuzzy robe and pour the Lord’s truth into their hearts. Want an added bonus?
Include their moms for a time of super-bonding.
Step 2: Challenge
Activity
A True Beauty Spa Pajama
Party.
1. Spa Day Prep & Welcome:
Start out by making fun spa snacks for your
daughter’s friends before they arrive! There are a
few ideas in this date, or you can come up with your
own together. As your guests arrive, lead them to the
designated party room and give them some time to
snack and settle in. Once everyone has arrived and had
time to settle in, cue the spa music and give them the
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2. Nail Polish Spin: Each girl should have the bottle of nail polish she
brought. Have the girls make a circle and place their bottles in the middle
of their group. Have the first girl spin a bottle of nail polish. Whoever the
cap is pointing to when the bottle stops must paint one of her fingernails that color. Then that person spins the next color of nail polish…
and so on. Pretty soon everyone has really crazy fingers and toes!
3. Guess the Celebrity: Help your daughter go on the internet and look up photos of various celebrities without makeup. Celebs of any
age are fine, but try to find teen and tween celebrities who usually wear a lot of
makeup and don’t always look the same without it. During the party, let her
show the pictures to her friends one by one without letting them see the name
of the person and let them write down a guess. The person who gets the most
correct is the winner. What better gift to give the winner of a spa-party game
than a massage? No one to do it, you say? Well, what are friends for? Let each
girl take a zone (head, shoulders, feet, hands) and give the winner the massage of her life! Then let everyone get cozy and teach them about true beauty
using the content of the Girl Gab section.
Step 3: Girl Gab
I want you to know something.
Every single face we just showed you is a masterpiece created by God.
Especially without makeup. We carefully picked these particular stars
to showcase because they are, in fact, especially beautiful. But without
their makeup they aren’t very recognizable. And sadly, the beauty and
fashion industry takes it even further. The photos of stars are altered
and perfected using computer programs. Not only do these ladies have
crazy amounts of makeup on, but most of the time their photos are
digitally changed to impossible perfection. So what does the Bible say
about your beauty? Well, it doesn’t come from the paint in a makeup
kit, that’s for sure. How do I know? It says so in the Bible! Let me read
you 1 Peter 3:3-4
“Your beauty should not come
from outward adornment, such
as elaborate hairstyles and the
wearing of gold jewelry or fine
clothes. Rather, it should be that
of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet
spirit, which is of great worth in
God’s sight.”
1 Peter 3:3-4
Pretty in
Peach Facial
• 1 medium peach
• 1 tablespoon of
cooked
oatmeal with a bit
of honey
•Two cucumber sl
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Cook the peach in a
microwave until it is
warm and
soft, and then mas
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honey and cooked
oatmeal (using pa
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age directions) to make a th
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to her skin while it is
still warm. Add cucu
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to the eye area and
place your eye mas
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lig
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them. Soak in the
yummy aroma for
te
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while you listen to
soothing spa mus
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or nature
sounds. Then rinse
your face with cool
wa
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e this on the face of
so
meone
who has allergies to
the ingredients.)
Let me say this to you in conversational words. Your beauty won’t come from a great haircut, some fine jewelry from
Claire’s, or a fantastic pair of jeans from Justice! Instead, it will show up if you work on making your heart beautiful by being
quiet and gentle in the presence of God!
God wants you to feel beautiful. He doesn’t say in this verse, “Oh, some of you might be obsessed with beauty and that’s
really a bummer. But oh…okay…here’s how you get it!” Instead, God says “your beauty” as if it is a fact that you will and
should have at it! Two things about how you get it:
1. It’s not that you can’t have a really cute haircut, but that’s not what is
going to make you feel real beauty.
2. True beauty comes from quiet time spent with God. Period!
I have a question for you. Do you spend more time in front of the mirror each day getting your external beauty on? Or do
you spend more time in quiet time with the Lord, getting your internal beauty on? Today I want you to make a promise,
but only if you want to and really mean it. It’s very simple.
“Today, I will spend more time in God’s Word than
I will in front of the mirror.”
Step 4: Prayer
Before the night ends offer up some “popcorn prayers.” Each girl should quickly “pop up” one or two sentences to God. If their
moms are joining them on this date, you might give them some time to pray together.
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This free mother/daughter date is an excerpt from Pajama Party:
Plan a Party Worth Losing Sleep Over by Dannah Gresh.
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