Kid Talk Flipbook For Review 05.10

Kid Talk Leader’s Guide – Week 10
Will I Heal? OS p. 32 presents the opportunity to review what it means for our grief to
“heal.” It is important to talk about what it does not mean. Basically, we want to remember
our decedent without emotional pain and have the energy to invest in normal living. It does
not mean that we won’t ever have grief pains again. Kids will, just because their grief will
“recycle” as they mature. That’s why it’s so great to have an Our Story Memory Book to help
revisit grief close to the time it happened. Doing so can be helpful griefwork.
Bouquet of Memories: OS p. 33, is another way of doing griefwork by revisiting
memories. We share a lot of memories at Kid Talk. This is another way of doing “Happy
Snaps.” Kids often share they are afraid that they will forget. There are seven flowers in the
bouquet. Hopefully, there will be time for each child to make seven flowers. Because the
memories are written down, the child will be able to remember them again someday – or at
least re-connect with the memory from when they were younger. Explain that, “When you
are five, ten or twenty years older than you are now, it will help you do griefwork to look at
what you’ve put in your Bouquet of Memories today.”
Tissue Paper Flowers: the internet has multiple patterns and demonstrations for making
tissue paper flowers. (For example, www.creativelive.com/blog/how-to-make-a-tissuepaper-flower.)
Choose flowers within the skill sets of your group. Each of the flowers
represents a memory. The kids like it when a vase or jar is provided to put their bouquets in,
to take home. The child can share his or her own memories and ask family members for their
top seven.
Butterfly Craft: there are multiple ways to make butterflies requiring different amounts
of time and supplies. A favorite is using two round coffee filters, clothes pins, googly eyes
and half a pipe cleaner. Color the coffee filter with markers or drops of diluted food coloring.
See: www.yourmodernfamily.com/butterfly-crafts-with-coffee-filters,
www.happyhooligans.ca/butterfly-crafts-for-kids or www.redtedart.com/rainbowbutterfly-cork-crafts
Flower Pot Pudding Cups: here is one of many recipes for these kid-pleasing treats:
www.thetiptoefairy.com/flower-pot-pudding-cups.
Butterfly Snack Bags: here is one of many recipes for these fun treats with
potentially less sugar content: www.momeefriendsli.com/2013/03/26/butterfly-snackbags.
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