Big/Little Week
 

hello everyone,

i joined and pledged alpha sigma tau sorority last fall. i'm very excited to be taking a little sister this year and i've already bought her tons of great presents, but i'd like some ideas for different fun and creative ways to deliver them or leave clues. can any of you share any stories of what your bigs did for you or what you did for your littles?

anything you can contribute would be great.

Put some of the smaller gifts in a basket and tie ribbons in your sorority colors on the handle--simple but pretty! You may also want to include your sorority flower in the ribbon.

Have friends deliver the gifts at random times throughout the week and include a clue about yourself in each of the cards or tags on the gifts...but not something that would easily let her know who you are! Have other friends fill out the card so your handwriting doesn't give it away. Other times, (when I had to deliver gifts to other sister's littles) we would leave the gift in front of her door, knock and leave, so she would open the door and there would just be a gift there.

Just to throw her off, deliver one of the gifts yourself! But be really casual about it. I always did this with both of my littles, and they never knew it was me either time! This was always fun! You might want to do this in the middle of big/little week.

An inexpensive gift toward the end of the week was to make some cupcakes, frost them with white frosting, and then put colored sugar or sprinkles in sorority colors on top. I also put our letters in our colors with the icing you use to write on cakes on some of the cupcakes. These pack really easily in a shirt-size gift box and your little can share them with roommates, friends in the dorm, suite, etc.

Hope these ideas help!

Get a current magazine and go through it writing clues about yourself like if you really love some clothes or spot your fave celeb or color, hair color etc. make a note of it.

My bid sis wrote clues that were impossible to decipher. Example...I like Taco Bell. I'm the one with brown hair. All true but completely unhelpful!

Yay for another Tau!

What we are doing this year: A candle pass with the NM in the middle, and her big will blow out the candle. It is going to be really special for them :) and they will get to keep the candle.

One thing my Big did is give me an unlit candle for Big week, and a lit candle after initiation. I thought it was really cool...symbolizing the before/after, being "in the dark" and then "in the light".

for my first little, I did a big huge String puzzle that went ALL over the house (we all did actually) through and around all 4 floors, even outside!!!
it was a lot of fun, but a lot of work lol (this was at our revealing)

For my second little, I did clues where I said some true things and some untrue things, and made her go on a search throughout the house to the next location (after the statements about me) and she had to figure out where to go throughout the house in order to find me. I would use sorority history or stories that I know that we told her throughout her new membering.

We gave a small basket when we got our littles but they didn't get their HUGE basket until they got in. So, i'm not much help there, but I like the ideas that everyone else said :)

At initiation, the candleholder you receive is passed down from big to little. It's a really nice tradition! Some have been in family trees for awhile! They were always pretty crystal candleholders that were nice to display until you had to pass them on.