Tonight the girls had their first Little Flowers meeting! They were thrilled!A friend of mine tried to start a group last year, but found out she was pregnant (with our adorable new goddaughter) shortly after, so we only had one meeting. The girls asked all year when the next meeting would be, so I decided to organize and lead it myself this year, with the help of the other moms.
Tonight we had 8 sweet little girls and their mom's, and we had such a great time, even though I was totally nervous, since I have never led anything like this before! It actually wasn't the girls that made me nervous, it was all the moms!!! ;-) I don't know why, they were encouraging me along the whole time... it's just my personality.
We will be working our way through Wreath One. Each month the girls will learn about a different virtue and how to practice it so it becomes a habit. There is also a saint and flower for each month as well. Tonight was based on the virtue of Faith, Saint Catherine of Siena, and the Sunflower.
We started the meeting with a prayer and introduction to the Virtue and Saint of the month, followed by a short lesson, which I think was way over
We then moved on to coloring a beautiful coloring page of St. Catherine of Siena, thanks to a very talented friend.
Twinkle Toes' and Chiquita's are on the bottom right corner!
Chiquita was really loving the brown!
We then moved on to the craft. I had purchased the Craft Companion, but wasn't too crazy about any of the suggestions... Instead I decided to have the girls create notebooks. Each month we will add a page to the notebook based on the virtue of the month, with a picture of the saint, flower embellishments, and quotes (or possibly copywork for the older girls).
I found an image online, and typed up the quotes for the girls to use if they wanted. They each got a sheet of cardstock, some green construction paper, some cardstock letter punchouts, and--my favorite part--a couple Martha Stewart dimensional sunflower stickers. (You can download my notebook page here.)
Here is the sample page that the girls and I created before the meeting:
I loved seeing how all the girls put their pages together.
Twinkle Toes' page is on the bottom right corner...
I love how she added a little drawing of herself!
I love how she added a little drawing of herself!
The other night I picked up some darling pink binders with the clear pocket on the cover, so we will be decorating those and placing each of the pages into the binder. One of the moms said that she has quite the scrapbooking stash and offered to help out with this! She even said she probably has some rose stamps that would be fun to use as well!
Next it was snack time. I will be assigning each mom a month to provide snacks, and one of the moms made the cutest sunflower cupcakes for the girls!
The girls loved them!
The meeting ran late, and we may need to start it earlier in the future, but overall we had a wonderful night, and one my friends even came over to visit afterwards!!! It is always nice to have visitors, but even more so with hubby gone! Thank you Amy for staying and chatting, it was fun!!
Saint Catherine of Siena, Pray for us that we may serve God faithfully.
