Little Flowers Girls' Club :: Wreath I Crafting Pages

All of the revised and updated Little Flowers Girls' Club Crafting Pages are finally completed and ready for download over at Behold Publications! 

It's hard to believe that it has been seven years since I first started creating these supplemental pages for my own girls... My girls really enjoyed creating all these pages during our Little Flowers Girls' Club meetings and still love looking through their completed notebooks!

The updated pages for Wreaths I and II now feature the same saint and flower images as the official Little Flowers Girls' Club® Memory Cards, buttons, and stickers. I think the new Crafting Pages turned out pretty and really hope that you all like them too!

Visit Behold Publications to purchase the Wreath I Crafting Pages

Additional Crafting Pages available:
Wreath II Crafting Pages • Wreath III Crafting Pages • Wreath IV Crafting Pages

Scroll through all of my Little Flowers Girls' Club Crafting Pages here.

Overview of all my past Little Flowers Girls' Club Meetings and Tea Parties

Little Flowers Girls' Club ~ Easy Craft Ideas for Wreath I

Last year I posted some Easy Craft Ideas for Wreath II for Our Little Flowers Girls' Club.  At the time I also put together a list of ideas for Wreath I to share with a couple friends, though I never did get around to posting it here on my blog.   I thought I would share them with you all now, in case any of you are looking for ideas.

I haven't had any time to plan for this coming year yet, and I considered just going back and doing Wreath I over again, but I think I will try and spend some time this next week planning our year with Wreath III, with the intentions of going back to Wreath I next year.

To keep things simple, all of these crafts come from Oriental Trading.  If you end up placing an order, be sure to search for an Oriental Trading Coupon Code.   You can usually always find a coupon that will work and save a little extra money.

1. Flower: Sunflower ~ Virtue: Faith ~ Saint: St. Catherine of Siena ~ Color: Brightest Yellow

The flower for this meeting is the Sunflower:

"Our Faith may be compared to this flower, since its gaze is ever fixed above, and turned toward the glorious sun of divine truth."


Oriental Trading has a darling Sunflower Wind Sock (found here)which would be a fun craft for this meeting.

Another idea would be to make a candle or candle holder craft since:

"God is light. In Him, there is no darkness." 

You could easily put together the supplies for this craft or purchase kits here: Tissue Paper and Glass Votive Holder Kit

2. Flower: The Ivy ~ Virtue: Hope ~ Saint: St. Monica ~ Color: Green

The Ivy Heart we made for our Notebook Pages during our meeting was adapted from one of the crafts suggested in the Craft Companion.   Another suggestion was to decorate flower pots and I thought the girls would enjoy this little kit: Artist Flowerpots.

3. Flower: The Peony ~ Virtue: Love of God ~ Saint: St. Agnes ~ Color: Pink

The God is Love Cross Magnet would be perfect for this virtue, don't you think?!  You can find it here at Oriental Trading.  It looks like they have another version available now as well.

4. Flower: Rose ~ Virtue: Love of Neighbor ~ Saint: St. Jane Frances de Chantal ~ Color: Light Red

This Heart Stacking Candle Craft Kit would be a nice craft to make to give as a gift to a friend/neighbor!

5. Flower: The Carnation ~ Virtue: Obedience ~ Saint: St. Joan of Arc ~ Color: White

Since "Joan of Arc started out at a Shepherdess, until God Called her to defend his flock," here is a "Talk to the Shepherd" Lamb Craft Kit.

Another idea would be to make Coffee Filter Carnations!

6. Flower: The Forget-Me-Not  ~ Virtue: Piety ~ Saint: St. Cecelia ~ Color: Bright Blue

Since I tied in the "Colors of Piety" to this meeting for my own group, a rainbow craft would work well! Here is a kit for a pretty Rainbow Sun Catcher.

7. Flower: The Violet  ~ Virtue: Humility ~ Saint: St. Catherine Laboure ~ Color: Purple

The Wreath 1 Craft Companion suggests a craft based on the Footprints poem: "Footprints" is a powerful reminder of how much we depend on God.  This Footprints Cross Craft Kit would work perfectly!

8. Flower: The Daffodil  ~ Virtue: Industry ~ Saint: St. Frances Xavier Cabrini ~ Color: Pale Yellow

Here is a craft idea for something which can be used "industriously" in the kitchen: Wood Butterfly Recipe Card Holder

9. Flower: The Narcissus  ~ Virtue: Truthfulness ~ Saint: St. Bridget of Sweden ~ Color: Light Orange

"St. Bridget was a lady-in-waiting for royalty, but with her zeal for truth, she was true nobility." ~ LF Craft Companion

Here is a fun kit for some Fabulous Foam Princess Crowns!

I also choose a second craft for our last meeting, a little something for the girls to make to give to their moms at our tea party. This past year we the girls made little pins.

I hope this post is helpful for some of you. . .   Now I better get busy thinking about Wreath III!!!  Actually, I shouldn't have to do much to plan out our first meeting!  Thank you Shelly!!

P.S.  For those of you who have asked, I will try and post pictures and links/notebook pages for those remaining two meetings from Wreath II soon.   I just need to find them!   ;)

Little Flowers Girls' Club ~ Truthfulness

Last Thursday we had our final Little Flowers Girls' Club meeting for the year!! I just can't believe how fast the year went!! (Now if I could just find those last two patches for my girl's sashes!!)

Once again, since the weather was gorgeous, I hosted the meeting at my home in the afternoon, giving the girls an opportunity to have some play time in addition to our meeting. This month we learned about St. Bridget of Sweden and the virtue of Truthfulness.

As usual we began our meeting with the prayer to St. Therese and the Acts of Faith, Hope, and Love. We then continued with a review of the virtue and saint we learned about at our last meeting. The girls now have their jar of beads all filled up, so we need to determine a surprise treat for all of them... Hummmm....

I was not able to find a coloring page for St. Bridget of Sweden, so I opted for a coloring page for the flower of the month, the Narcissus.

Next I introduced the virtue we will be working on, Truthfulness, and read a short biography of the saint for this month, St. Bridget of Sweden.

I was so excited to be able to use another excerpt from Chat With God's Little Ones (Lesson 30. The Eighth Commandment) to further explain the virtue of truthfulness to our sweet little girls. I just love that book!

Following the lesson the girls began making their notebook pages. I included the memory verse and for Truthfulness, a quote from The Catholic Girl's Guide, and the prayer to St. Bridget of Sweden.

Here are the links to narcissus and the image of St. Bridget that I choose, and my sample page:  (You can download my document here.)

The girls have done an excellent job making all of their notebook pages this year. It's so fun to look back at their beautiful pages from each month!

"Momma, can you please help me? The glue stick is TOO HEAVY!!!" ;)

Despite "heavy" glue sticks, the girls finished their pages in record time. (Perhaps since we only had 5 girls present this month?!) Here are their completed pages:

With our end of the year Tea Party and Mother's Day this weekend, I also planned an additional craft for the girls to make and give to their mother's at the tea party. We made bouquets of lily's with outlines of the girls hands! I first saw it in a Family Fun magazine around Easter and LOVED it! I modified it a bit after seeing these directions online... Didn't they turn out cute?

Snack time was next. Erica had been assigned snacks for this meeting, and even though she was not able to make it, she STILL dropped off snacks for the girls! She is so awesome AND she makes the BEST sugar cookies EVER!

As usual, not everyone was able to make it, but we still had a wonderful time!

I'll be back soon to share a few pictures from the tea party we had today. It was PERFECT!!!!

Saint Bridget of Sweden, pray for us.

Help us to practice truthfulness.

Saint Therese, the Little Flower, pray for us!

Little Flowers Girls' Club ~ Industry

Last Thursday we had our Little Flowers Girls' Club meeting on St. Frances Xavier Cabrini and the virtue of Industry.

Once again, since the weather was gorgeous, I hosted the meeting at my home in the afternoon, giving the girls an opportunity to have some play time in addition to our meeting.

As usual we began our meeting with the prayer to St. Therese and the Acts of Faith, Hope, and Love. We then continued with a review of the virtue and saint we learned about at our last meeting.

I printed out Charlotte's St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Coloring Page to color, and then be added to the girl's notebooks.

Next I introduced the virtue we will be working on, Industry, and read a short biography of the saint for this month, St. Frances Xavier Cabrini.

Following the lesson the girls began making their notebook pages. I included the memory verse and for Industry, a short quote, and the prayer to St. Frances. Here are the links to Daffodil and the image of St. Frances that I choose, and my sample page:  (You can download my document here: Text & Mother Cabrini.)

*YES!! I spelled "Frances" incorrectly, and didn't notice until after the meeting... Oops!

The girls have gotten so industrious at putting their pages together, and they were done in no time!

They did a lovely job as usual. Here are the completed pages:

Snack time was next. Dee Dee had snacks for this meeting, and she did a wonderful job! She made the cutest Daffodil Cupcakes using Wilton Flower Silicone Fun Cups and Charlotte's Daffodil Cake recipe. The girls loved them!

Before the girls all headed out to the swing set to play I snapped a quick group photo. I was so excited to see that everyone remembered to wear their sashes this time!

Here are some more great resources, for learning more about St. Frances Xavier Cabrini:

• The orphans find a home: A St. Frances Xavier Cabrini story
• St. Frances Cabrini: Catholic Story Coloring Book
• Mother Cabrini: Missionary to the World (Vision Books)
• Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini: Cecchina's Dream (Encounter the Saints,20)
  
• Noble Heroine of Charity by Regina Martyrdom Productions
  

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, pray for us that we may be industrious!

Saint Therese, the Little Flower, pray for us!