gift/clue delivery ideas

[DawnDZ]

I am interested in introducing some new traditions to our big sister/little sister period. We have about 4 weeks in which we give gifts and clues to our littles. The pledge mom usually gives them there gifts.

I transfered from a large university where the clues and gifts were usually delivered by fraternity men (that sororitiy's sweethearts). For example one of the sweethearts would do a tuckin (show up to tuck the girl into bed read her a quick story or poem and give her a clue and a gift). Another example would be to have fraternity men serenade her and give her a flower and a clue from her big.

I need more ideas than just those two ideas in order to convince my chapter to try them out. If you don't want to share them in the thread you can PM me. I would be very greatful for any ideas that could be provided.

[DZviol]

Hey Dawn, those ideas sound really cute .
At my chapter, we just have the bigs drop off the gifts and clues before a certain time, so none of the littles will see them.
I've never heard of getting other people involved, but I'd love to hear more about it. (PM if you want)
Maybe I can even tell my chapter about it. !!!

[AWJDZ]

About a week before initiation, we would have clues left in the chapter room from our bigs. It was usually a little present and a card with riddle in it. On the last night before unveiling, we would go out to what we refered to as the "farm house" (a retreat sorta place we used that was away from campus). Earlier, our bigs would take a yarn ball (that was passed down from sister to sister in your family) and sting the yarn up all over the place. When the littles arrived, you would find a place that had your end of the string and you name card and you would just start winding it up...sometimes this took forever! it would go all through the trees, around and around and around! At the end of your string, there was you big. It was always soo much fun. Sometimes your riddles would totally throw you off and you were really surprised who was at the end. The yarn was always kept in your family. It also made the pledge class work together, cause the more you worked together on getting your yarn untangled from somenone elses, the faster you went. Kinda hard to explain, I guess...but it is one of my fondest memories....both getting my big and little and watching everyone else. (aww...warm fuzzies!)


I would have loved to had a tuckin....those ideas sound like a lot of fun.

[33girl]

This was for secret sister, not big/little, but it would work equally as well -

My secret sis put little signs all over the house telling me to go from the living room, kitchen etc to find my present. These all had little poems on them. When I got to the room where my present was she had signs that said “hot” “cold” “lukewarm” etc as far as how close I was to where it was.

You could do this with little clues at each location about who you are and have a present at the end.

[DawnDZ]

I have seen two other types of clue and gift delivery, but our chapter president was concerned that it could be construed as hazing. So these two are not going to happen.

One is a strip search. you place a clue on each layer of a guys clothing (the last layer should be swim trunks). The little has to remove each layer of the guys clothing to find the clue. when she gets to the last clue she gets a gift.

The other delivery you place a clue inside 3 or 4 cupcakes. The guy delivers the cupcakes and gift but in order to get the clues and the gift she has to eat the cupcake off the guys chest, hands behind her back.

The clue hunt is a really cute idea. We also do the yarn and candle pass for unveiling. I want to make this really exciting for my future little. Those are really the only deliveries I remember.