When I originally worked up this theme, I used it for my women’s group over 25 years ago as a “Spring Cleaning” theme. I have since done it without the “Spring” part. It’s pretty adaptable.
This would make a good theme for a time when you get together with your ladies group to do a deep cleaning at your church as a project.
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Cleaning Event Concept
—Originally Posted April 01, 2002 as “Spring Cleaning for Heart and Soul”
—Updated and links checked June 2020
The event themes on the website can be used for showers, parties, women’s ministry retreats and activities, or church functions. Each theme will have one or several possible spiritual applications. I give you lots of info and ideas—You pick just a few to enhance your event. More ideas can be used for showers and parties, but less is always more for ministry events.
Theme Title Ideas
- A Living Sacrifice
- A Spring Celebration
- Add Sparkle
- Celebrate Spring!
- Clean and Graceful Hearts
- Clean Hearts
- Create in Me
- Bright and Shinning
- Flawless
- Fresh and Tidy
- Freshen Up!
- From Chaos to Calm
- From Cluttered Chaos to Calming Clean
- Glisten, Shine, and Sparkle
- Renew Me
- Simply Clean
- Sparkle and Shine
- Sparkling Hearts
- Spic and Span
- Spring Cleaning for Heart and Soul
- Spring Fling
- Spring Has Sprung
- Spring Into Clean
- Spring Up and Clean Up
- Squeaky Clean
- Uncluttered Hearts
- See the Laundry Theme here.
Spiritual Applications
- Focus on spring cleaning in your spiritual life.
- Focus on Salvation and how Christ washes us from our sin with His blood and sacrifice.
- Focus on clean living.
- Focus on clean and healthy Christian habits.
- Focus on clearing the clutter or those things that hinder us and tempt us.
- Focus on getting a fresh start and leaving our past behind. Not allowing the past to hold us back from our Christian living.
Theme Verse Suggestions
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” Psalm 51:10 (KJV)
“I beseech you, therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” Romans 12:1 (KJV)
Devotional Starters and Workshop Ideas
- Download the Spring Cleaning Devotional Starters (pdf)
- More Devotional Writing Starters
- Find my author page on Amazon.
Simple Decorating
Centerpiece Ideas
- Water can as a vase for flowers
- Rubber boots as a vase for flowers
- Small buckets to resemble cleaning buckets to hold flowers
- Add mini cleaning tools to wreaths.
Tray of Decor
- Small water can
- Birdhouse
- Cleaning supplies
- Spray bottles
- Cleaning brushes and sponges
Icebreakers
Tidy Up!
Broom or Dust Mop Race
- Make two paths of legos, blocks, or any type of small toys, etc. on the floor.
- Toss out a few magazines in each path.
- Pick a couple ladies to do the honors.
- Give mops/brooms to the participants and they must sweep up as many toys as they can to the spot you designate before you call time. They must sweep the toys but they must pick up the magazines by hand and deposit them in the designated spot.
- Divide up your group to teams and assign the participants as leaders so that everyone cheers them on.
- Give a prize to the winning participant such as a Tide pen or fancy package of soap.
Discussion Starter Questions
- How much clutter do we leave lying around our spiritual homes?
- How much effort do we put into keeping our spiritual homes tidy?
- What thing in your home do you hate to clean the most?
- What is your favorite all purpose cleaner?
Download these conversation starters and more in a pdf file here.
Cleaning and Laundry Game (pdf)
Music
- Cleanse Me – Sometimes referred to as “Search Me, O God” (J. Edwin Orr)
Favor Ideas
- Pretty wrapped soaps
- Individual hand sanitizer bottles
- Rubber cleaning gloves
- Cleaning sponge or scrubbie
- Small cleaning items such as scrub brushes, mini whisk brooms, feather, dusters. Tie on your theme verse with a ribbon.
Door Prizes
- Anything “Spring” related if doing a spring cleaning theme
- Book on organization
- Gift certificate for a day of house cleaning by a local maid service.
- Gift certificate to have gutters cleaned by a local handyman.
- Mop or broom (tie around with ribbons)
- Gift certificate to a local plant nursery
- Plastic storage/organizer containers
- Garbage can
- Dust pan filled with wrapped candy.
- Set a new dustpan on a large piece of cellophane.
- Fill with wrapped candy.
- Pull up sides of cellophane and tie with ribbons.
- Instead of cellophane, you could also use a gift basket cello wrap.
- Gift ‘basket’ made with a bucket or small waste can. (Fill with cleaning supplies and cleaning tools.)
- Bottle of any cleaning product (tie around with ribbons)
- Package of rubber gloves
- Large package of cleaning sponges
- Air Freshener
Just for Fun
Organization Inspiration
Share some organization or cleaning tips for inspiration to clean and declutter.
Recipe Booklet
Make a recipe booklet with homemade cleaning recipes and cleaning tips.
Group Craft Idea
Glam up kitchen long rubber gloves with buttons, ribbons, etc.
Food and Serving
- Spring salads and desserts
- A light luncheon with sandwiches and fruit salads
Photo Sources
- Want the photo used for the page title of this theme? Find the original at Unsplash here.
Thanks for stopping in. Please leave any extra ideas for this cleaning theme in the comments. Or if you have used this theme, let me know! Love hearing how you all use the themes.
Creative blessings,
Julia
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