Wear that crown

"Say: O God, my God!
Attire mine head with the crown of justice,
and my temple with the ornament of equity.
Thou, verily, art the Possessor of all gifts and bounties."

~ Baha'u'llah

Yesterday at Tender Seedlings, (yes yesterday, we changed the days from Saturdays to Mondays now), it was all about crowns. Not the ones that princesses and princes wear, not the ones full of precious stones and sparkles, no, not those types of crowns... but the kinds of crowns that shine on your head like a ray of light, and that can be seen even before you enter a room because that light shines so brightly.
Yes, i am talking about the crown of love, the crown of kindness, and the crown of justice.

The little tots really loved the animated story about the little shepherdess, which we named 'Milly'. You see Milly is a little simple girl who cares for her sheep on the hill (in our story she had pigs, chickens, cows, and horses too). Milly was thinly dressed and her feet were bare, but sometimes Milly wished she could be a princess for a day and wear beautiful silk dress and silver shoes and of course a beautiful princess crown. One day she was sitting on top of the hill looking very sad, when her grandfather, whom we named 'Grandpa McDonald', came to talk to her. Grandpa McDonald told her that she did had a beautiful crown on her head, and that her crown was even more beautiful that the princesses crown, because her crown didn't shine because of the all the shinny and sparkle jewels on it, but because her crown shines with all the good things she does everyday, and he told her that that kind of crown was much much better than wearing a princess crown. The crown is made of good things like being kind and being wise and telling the truth and loving others. Like seeing the sheep and other animals are warm in winter and have enough grass to eat and are well looked after. Every good thing that you do is like a beautiful jewel to put on your crown. And the best part was that you didn't have to be a princess to wear a crown like that, everyone could have one!
So little Milly sat on the hill and looked at the wispy white clouds and the high-flying birds and the sun shining gold in the sky, and nobody saw that her dress was thin and her feet were bare, for on her head there shone a crown of light and love and truth and happiness...

So of course after the story we made some beautiful 'virtue' crowns with the tots and here are the pictures...
Of course after the class, Mona wanted more stories about 'Milly and her crown' and yours truly had to invent some more.... then she wanted me to buy her a new story book about 'Milly'... lol.
I guess I should look into writing some story books for children....