Generosity

 Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

Fulton J. Sheen

                            

   Here are the dates we discussed tonight

Next meeting January 16th:  Work party for the Mardi Gras Celebration.  We will need Evie to bring the small babies for the others to bake into their cupcakes.  I will have the supplies for the various saint games we will have for our fellowship.

February 2, 2015 St. Angela Merici/ Craft/Snack Mickayla Family

Mardi Gras Fellowship following Mass on February 15th 10 am

February 16, 2015 Little Flowers Prepare and Practice for the Stations of the Cross

February 27, 2015 Little Flower Host Stations of the Cross @ 5 pm Lenten Soup and Supper Potluck following Stations

March 2, 2015 Little Flower Tea Party

I just thought of something, why don't we make this dinner, we can do small sandwiches and then veggie trays and fruit.  If you can think of something I forgot on this list please let me know!

We will need:

 plastic table cloths 5

Pink Lemonade (for tea)

Cookies or cupcakes (1 per girl)

Veggies

Fruit 

Peanut butter sandwiches

another type of sandwiches with no peanuts

I have the tea cups and plates.

Please let me know what you would like to bring!

Special item:

Last year each girl brought one gift to give each others.  This could be a special quote, a card, small notebook, pencil, treat, just something that symbolizes a virtue or saint we have learned about this year. The girls must try and come up with this idea on their own.  Sisters may give one thing from both of them.

March 16, 2015 

Blessed Mary of the Incarnation

Not sure who signed up for this one!

April 6, 2015 

St Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)

Janessa and Malia

April 20th 

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton 

Leah 

Wreath II October 2014

Wow, another year is about to begin for our Little Flower Group!  Time seems to move so quickly.  We had to say "goodbye" to some very special Little Flowers this year but we have also welcomed some very special new Little Flowers to our group.  We begin our first class tomorrow with St. Faustina.  I can't wait to share Sister Faustina's story with our little group.

Tea Party and Badging Ceremony

 

We began with the St. Therese prayer then each girls was called upon to read a virtue and the memory verse that went with that virtue.  After reading their verse we lit a candle then the girls received their petals and a rose.  For the future I will make sure each girl knows ahead of time what verse they will be reading so they can practice at home.  The girls were a little nervous.  It was a great way to review all we learned this past year.  I am so proud of our Little Flowers!

 

Sacrifice beads.  A mother bought the beads in a variety pack, cord, a variety of crucifixes, and the Marian Medals for the Sacrifice Beads. The girls enjoyed creating their special beads.  Directions are in a previous post.

Our delicious food.  Each families was asked to bring an item to share.  We had no doubles of anything, the miracle of the Catholic potluck!

Making Sacred Heart or Immaculate Heart melty beads

 

Our Lady of the Visitation Little Flowers Club

Another phenomenal Little Flower blog!  Thank you Our Lady of the Visitation Little Flowers Club for posting such great activities!  You inspire us with your creativity for the learning about the Saints, Mary, and Jesus!

http://littleflowersofjesus.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2015-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=6

Little Ways website with Sacrifice Beads/Good Deed Beads!

We are also making sacrifice or good deed beads at our last Tea Party/Badging Ceremony.  Check out this great website for information and great ideas:

http://thelittleways.com/how-to-make-sacrifice-beads

Download Printable Instructions (PDF)

Sacred and Immaculate Hearts with Perler Beads

This is one of our projects for our final Tea Party/Badging ceremony of the year.  Thank you to Catholic Inspired website for the idea!  Please visit their website for more information:

http://www.catholicinspired.com/2013/05/sacred-and-immaculate-heart-perler.html

Here is an old favorite of mine....My kids and I made these last summer and I saved the pattern. I thought with the feast days of the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart coming in June it was time to share the pattern with all of you.

These are made with the Perler Beads which you can buy at your local craft store or click here. To make these, you will need the melting plates that are shaped like a heart and a six-pointed star. 

Start by making two hearts according to the patterns. Then make two flames. The flames should be basically the same but take out the cross when making the flame for the Immaculate Heart and fill the cross area with yellow. Different shades of yellow mixed together look nice. The sword is only for Our Lady’s heart. 

Melt the beads, which you placed on the melting plate, just as the bead package directs. Remove them from the plates just as you normally would. Then it's time to melt the flame to the heart: Place the correct flame over top and matching heart (as pictured). Sandwich the flame and heart between two melting/wax paper sheets and melt the two parts together with your iron; just as you would when you melt the beads. You may need to add more pressure on the iron to get them to help them to stick together. Do the same with the sword.  They will look a little squished on the backside where the two parts are fused together.

Because these will only look nice from one side, so be sure you melt them so the nicer sides are on the good side. 

St. Catherine Laboure

 

Our Little Flower Group had so much fun learning about St. Catherine Laboure and the virtue of Humility.  The girls had enjoyed creating their own Miraculous Medals from tin foil.  Our group leaders for the night came very prepared. Each girl received a foam envelope with pre-cut pieces of tin foil that matched their paper stencils of the front and back of the medal.  The girls then used dull colored pencils to trace the medal onto the tin foil using the foam as the backing as they traced, so they did not poke through the tin foil. 

 

 

 

 Once the girls had completely traced the medal onto the tin foil they filled in the outlines they made with colored Sharpie Markers. 

Once each side of the medal was traced on to the two separate pieces of tin foil we attached t

 

Each Little Flower was so happy to receive a blessed Miraculous Medal from our teachers tonight.  The family who hosted our night dedicated to St. Catherine Laboure had actually traveled to her shrine in Paris and bought the medals each Little Flower received this evening.  That is one of the benefits of being a Little Flower Girls Group on a military base, we have very well traveled members who are able to share so much of their Catholic faith from around the world!  What a special night!