Littlest Flowers Meeting ~ Humility

Our meeting on Friday came at a busy time for me.  Burn out is on is on my mind and probably on everyone else's.  So when meetings like this past one occur they feel like a nice litte break.

Saint:  Venerable Anne de Guigne

Virtue:  Humility

Craft:  Violet Bookmarkers

Tea Craft:  Embroibered Tea Napkins & Invitations

~ Reading & Chat ~ 

  We read from the story of Anne de Guigne, a young girl once a bit spoiled and prideful then after the death of her father decided that she would be kind and obedient.  She would practice humility until her death, offering her suffering as a gift to Jesus to help sinners.

Humility is a funny virtue to "teach" young girls.  Yes, it's the opposite of pride.  But, how do you convey that to 5 & 6 years old?  We did a lot of role playing...it was the easiest way to show them humility.  We don't boast, or compare.  We seek silence rather than to speak for the sake of speaking.  So after a bit of explaination & chatting, one little one asked...

"What is humility?"

  I love this virtue. 

~ Craft ~

Veronique bought violets and used a microwave technique to dry the flowers.  We opted to use them as bookmarkers with a picture of each girl and included a scripture verse about humility from Matthew 18:3-4.  The moms will be recieving these as gifts at our Little Flowers Tea in May.  

~ Tea Craft ~

Our tea craft this month, and last, were the actual invitations.  My SIL printed out the invitations on cardstock cut out as tea pots.  We then had each girl decorate her invitations with ribbons, stickers, lacy paper; as she wanted for a personal touch.  I need to post a completed one here.  They came out really cute!

Our main leader, Sarah, also sent our Evites to all the moms and ladies that are invited to the tea.  I don't think you can read the bottom of the actual invites but, Sarah has arranged for the Carmelites of Alhambra to be our guests of honor.  These lovely and generous sisters will be talking to our girls about their order and each virtue they live out daily.  A huge gift for our girls and all the guests.

Our second tea craft, did I say the invitations were the last one?  Sorry, I meant second to the last one.  Anyhow, our 2nd craft was awesome.  Each group had their girls embroider on their tea napkins.  Since our girls have little to no experience in embroidery, we opted to use these iron transfer fabric crayons from Crayola. 

Veronique had done a project with them before and they worked great.  She pre-drew a flower design on a piece of paper and had each girl color the drawing using the fabric crayons.  She is later going to transfer their coloring onto their napkins and possibly do a quick stitch design on the corner.

~ Snack Time ~

 

I made this earlier in the day.  I tried to find some type of treat/snack for the girls without baking cupcakes.  Since we had the fresh violets, a bundt cake decorated with pretty flowers did the job just fine.  And there were pieces of cake for the moms too!

We ended with prayers and lots of free play time.

Anne de Guigne pray for us

to act humbly througout our day!