In this area there is tradition of making each girl a "Fish Hook Charm Necklace" their first year of Girls Camp. Then throughout the years the girls collect charms and add them to their necklaces. There is usually a camp theme charm, a level charm, and then charms for accomplishments like a getting a bullseye at the archery or rifle range, doing the polar bear swim, caper awards, and not whining about things :)
I love it!
One of the ladies up at camp with me this year had hers from when she was a girl! It was so neat to see what a lasting and fun tradition these necklaces are.
The great thing is they are super easy and pretty inexpensive to make.
You need 2 packages of Mustad brass snap swivel hooks (ours are size 10) . These open, kind of like a safety pin, and you just connect them all together (end to end). Whala! you have a charm necklace.
Since they open like that it is super easy to attach the charms!
Here are some of the charms Susie got her first year at camp:
a Binkie for not whining,
bandaids for certification,
a plate for doing capers,
a peacock for their ward theme,
a beehive for her age group, etc.
Here are a few that we made for this year ...
And then a few of Susie's favorites this year:
a polar bear for the polar bear swim,
a shoe because she finished the hike with a twisted ankle,
a flag because she was a 2 level and they were in charge of all the flag ceremonies.
The options for charms are endless - there are lots and lots of sites selling them and lots of different ideas for making them yourself!
