Levels of Heart Gardening:
Preschool and Kindergaren ~ Knowing Your King
Sprouts ~ Finding the King
FlowerBuds ~ Gifts From the King
Early Elementary ~ Growing the Inner Princess
Level 1 ~ The Character of a Godly Princess
Level 2 ~ The Choices of a Godly Princess
Upper Elementary ~ Growing to Change the World
Level 3 ~ Discovering God on a Personal Level
Level 4 ~ Discovering God on a Global Level
Intermediate ~ Discovering Divine Design
Level 5 ~ God’s Divine Design in You
Level 6 ~ God’s Divine Design for the Church
Middle School ~ Righteous Relationships
Level 7 ~ Family and Friend Relationships
Level 8 ~ Righteous Relationships
High School ~ The Battle of the Princess Warrior and her Weapons
Level 9 ~ The Inner Battle: Of Spirit and Will
Level 10 ~ The Outer Battle Pressing In
While you may set up your group differently, each lesson offers:
~a Biblical lesson building on the level’s theme
~a suggested healthy tea snack and drink for Tea Time
~Each Tea Time has a selected storybook and/or character lesson to match the theme for younger girls
or discussion of an assigned theme-related Christian chapter book for older girls
~a craft time activity to emphasize the day’s theme
~a few simple workbook pages to enforce the lesson and prompt discussion with Mom or a mentor
~ Younger levels will also include an ending Christian princess book to encourage the girls
~ Older levels offer a suggestion for a relevant, engaging book by a Christian author to emphasize the theme
Sprouts is a lively level for those just out of preschool and heading to kindergarten. Very musical and high energy! FlowerBuds was specifically designed for younger girls just out of kindergarten or first grade and involves more drawing instead of writing. Sonflowers Girl ‘level groups’ would ideally start at first grade, with girls that have a start on reading and writing. Levels can be used for girls of the suggested school grade, or a younger grade, based on your girls’ ages, grades, maturity level, and what you would like to focus on. (So those in or just out of first grade would be ideal for Level One, and so on.) Groups can consist of just one age group or we have also found a little variance (one year up or down) can work as well. Contact us with any questions!
Girls and leaders alike cherish their time together learning about applicable Truths for their developmental stage. The goal of each level and the suggested age or grade level is to continually be one step ahead of what the girls will face. Therefore girls are prepared and equipped with wise instruction, learning how girls learn best: in community! Built-in mentors provide support, guidance, hope, and love. Of course, crafting and tea treats are icing on the cake!
To continue the learning and conversation, the worksheet pages include drawing in emotional journals for younger levels and introspective questions for older girls. This facilitates a conversation about character and a time with mom or a mentor to ask her a few questions about her faith walk at your girl’s level. There are Scriptures to read out loud to mom or a mentor as well as questions to ask her that emphasize the theme. The pages can be sent home or completed within your group time. We have found that the girls enjoy completing these pages and sharing their drawings or answers with their Sonflower friends at the next meeting. Moms love them as they are very powerful, really opening the door to bonding conversations between a mother and daughter or girl and her mentor about a Christian walk.
Everything is written out in the Leader’s Handbook: Tips on who to invite and how, lists of supplies you may choose to get and how to creatively (economically) acquire them, even how to determine your group’s ideal timing, organization, leadership, and ideas for childcare for siblings. Also included are downloadable PDFs of form blanks so you can customize information for your group.
My hope is that is Handbook easily walks you through beginning a Sonflower Girls Group that not only becomes a life-changing mentoring group for your girls but also a support network for the mothers and/or mentors as well. The wholesome message and rich Biblical lessons of Sonflower Girls truly will echo through not only your daughter’s life but will be heard for generations.
Clicking on each year will give you a summary of each year’s theme, or focus, as well as an overview of craft projects and books to be used.
Sprouts FlowerBuds Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 Level 7 Level 8 Level 9 Level 10