TWELVE COLOR candlelighting CEREMONY
(Rainbow candlelighting CEREMONY)
Find one candle in each of the following colors (or tie a ribbon of each color to white candles). As each girl lights her candle one at a time she says what the color stands for:
- Silver stands for morning, the beginning of a new day, when each day presents a new challenge.
- Yellow stands for Daisy Low, the beginning of Girl Scouts.
- Pink stands for the girls in Girl Scouting.
- White stands for the purity in every Girl Scout's heart.
- Gold stands for the trefoil pin, which reminds us of our Girl Scout promise.
- Purple stands for courage to stand up for what we believe.
- Turquoise stands for water, which sustains life and gives us pleasure.
- Brown stands for the earth on which we live.
- Green stands for all plant life, which beautifies the earth.
- Red stands for fire, which glows for warmth and friendship.
- Blue stands for our sky under which we are all united by our Girl Scout ideals.
- Orange stands for the sunset, which signifies the closing of another Girl Scout day.
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