Is your house overflowing with little Valentines? My girls both brought home bags of Valentines from their classmates this week. Of course they are very special and the girls want to keep them forever. I have been wondering what I can do with them and thought I would do the same thing that I did with our Christmas cards this year.
In January, I had Emily (3) paint one of the clementine wooden boxes we have piling up from the grocery store. We put all of our Christmas cards in it and each night the girls pick one out and we pray for that family. It has been a great lesson for our girls to learn and practice praying for their friends and our extended family members. This past week the girls have selected a few Christmas cards of their school friends, and I thought why not add their Valentines to the box too. I look forward to hearing the girls pray for friends and foes alike.
(I am going to put Emily's class picture in the bottom of the box to help Emily identify her classmates.)
Do you have ways that you are helping teach your children to regularly pray for thier friends or classmates? If so please share them.
4 comments:
That's a great idea, Wendy. We do that with our Christmas cards also but it has never occurred to me to do it with Valentine cards.
I do save them though...I have a page in each of their school scrapbooks that I glue them onto each year.
I don't have any ideas for praying for classmates. Honestly, I've never thought to do that with my children, but that is an awesome idea!
Oh...meant to tell you that I pulled out your Lenten devotion book the other day. I'm trying to get a jump start on thinking/planning ways to celebrate it with our children. Right now, it's just a stack of stuff that I need to search through, but your book is one item in my stack!
what a great idea most of all for kids in the classroom! thank!
oh do i see my little kiddos on the top of the pile in the pic! good! hope you're praying for us :-) what a great idea... makes me actually think about praying......
i love the idea of carving out a places to think about others so it doesn't get lost in the shuffle.
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