Carnation Day

Everyone loves to receive flowers and it can be very uplifting to know that someone is thinking of you. Have a carnation day on Valentine’s Day or Sweetest Day as your group’s next fundraiser. This is a great fundraiser for a school. Carnations are a relatively inexpensive flower and you should be able to get a great deal buying them in bulk. Contact a local nursery, greenhouse or florist and see if they can help you out. Have pre-sales of the carnations before school and during lunchtime for a week before the day. Make up cards that have a line for student’s full name, homeroom, and spot for a personal message. Set up a table to sell the cards and pens for the students to fill them out. Have collection boxes to place the cards in. You may want to have the boxes labeled with homerooms or alphabetically (A-D, E-G, etc.) to make sorting easier. Have a cash box with small bills and coins so that you can make change. On the morning of Carnation Day, have some people grouping flowers and cards and others delivering them to homerooms. The recipients will love hearing their names read off and receiving the flowers. Consider ordering extra to give each teacher and principal one as well.

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pam fosella

carnations for Valentines day of St. Patricks day

Kelly G. Smith

Incarnation Day!
"Carnations for the Incarnation" is also a great way to celebrate Incarnation/Annunciation Day on March 25--the traditional feast of Christ's Incarnation (a.k.a. Festum Incarnationis)--a pregnancy-length nine months before Christmas. This springtime commemoration of Christ's conception was once New Year's Day in the old Julian calendar. The association with the "Word made flesh" is natural; carnation means a "flesh colored" flower, and when the USPS revealed its 2007 Xmas stamp "Madonna of the Carnation" some people thought it was a printer's error that left off the "In" (they didn't notice the carnation flower in the hand of the baby Jesus). Carnations are also associated with maternal love and the points of the petals have been used as symbols of Christ's Passion. Since the day recalls Christ's conception (another old name for it is Conceptio Christi), all or part of the proceeds can be given to a local home for unwed mothers.