Youth Curriculum, 6-1-25

Announcements: 

We’re excited to share that three teens from CSL Olympia are attending their first Teen Camp — To help with camp and travel expenses, please visit our website donations page and select “Give to Youth & Family” from the pull-down menu — thank you for supporting this life-changing experience and making a difference to the future of CSL and the world.

Would you like to contribute your time, talents, or resources to help co-create and support the new CSL garden being started by our youth? Reach out to our Youth Director, Adrienne Cherry, and let her know how you’d like to be part of this growing vision! This month, we are creating rainbow garden plans to complement our monthly theme. Please help us choose flowers and veggies!

Curriculum Overview:

This week’s theme, In Living Color, celebrates diversity and Pride through joyful learning, movement, and meaningful reflection. Youth explore how color, music, and self-expression help us embody the spiritual truth that all people are divine.

June Monthly Theme: Celebrating Our Oneness: Honoring Unity, Diversity, and Loving Expression
Week 1 Value:  In Living Color
Affirmation: I fully embrace the spectrum of my human experience.

Spiritual Lesson:

This joyful curriculum honors Pride Month through color, music, story, and affirmation. Children will learn that self-expression and joy are spiritual practices, and that honoring all people—including those who are different from us—is part of Divine Love.

Mindfulness: “Rainbow Light Meditation”

Youth are guided in visualizing a rainbow of light moving through their bodies, one color at a time. With each color, they will repeat a positive “I Am” affirmation that coordinates with the meaning of the seven main chakras.

Active Listening: Book/Music/Video

• Book:  The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
• Video: The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds (Animation)
• Music: “True Colors” by Cyndi Lauper
• Book: “My Rainbow” by Trinity and DeShanna Neal (younger class)
• Music: “Colors” by Kira Willey (younger class)

Creative Expression: Color Code of Me

Each student creates a “color code” card where they choose 3–5 colors and assign them to aspects of their personality, values, or dreams (e.g., green = kindness, purple = creativity). Then they share or journal about how those parts of themselves show up in their lives.

Lessons in Action: Joy in Technicolor Banner Project

Youth collaborate to create a large banner with handprints in rainbow colors and bold affirmations, such as “I Am Divine,” “Love is Love,” and “We Shine Together.” They can add personal symbols or messages of pride and unity, then parade the banner at the end of class with music and movement. Youth will be invited to display their banner at their center to affirm their space as welcoming and affirming for all.

Connecting: Designing Our Rainbow Garden of Unity

Youth design a vibrant garden plan using rainbow colors to represent the diverse qualities and gifts each person brings to their community. Through symbolic planting and collaborative creativity, they celebrate individuality while cultivating a shared vision of joy, inclusion, and spiritual connection.