Saint Therese of Lisieux for Kids | Small actions offered with great love
Saint Therese of Lisieux found a path to holiness through trust and small actions offered with love.
Explore her Little Way with free drawing and writing responses about ordinary kindness, grief, and the loving help God gives us.
Available free on YouTube since September 27, 2025. Watch the complete video above. Runtime: 4:30. Suggested ages: about 7–11.
Free teaching resources
Use these printable materials at home, in a Catholic classroom, in homeschool, or in parish religious education. The complete four-page packet includes a two-page leader guide with discussion questions, answer cues, an activity, prayer, and teaching notes, plus two student response options. Choose Draw & Tell or Read & Write to suit the child. PDFs are US Letter and suitable for black-and-white printing.
Talk about it together
What is Therese's Little Way?
Did her wish to be heroic disappear?
Can sadness and holiness exist together?
What small kindness could you offer?
Petals of ordinary love
Draw a flower with three petals. On each write or draw a small loving action: listen, include, or help. Choose one to practice today, without comparing your flower with anyone else's.
A note for parents and teachers
Includes family bereavement, tuberculosis, and Therese's death. The guide welcomes sadness and explains devotional rose imagery without promising signs.
The dialogue and childhood scenes are a retelling. Therese entered Carmel at fifteen and died at twenty-four. Her promise of roses is devotional imagery for helping others through intercession, not a guarantee of flowers or an instruction to seek signs. Illness and suffering are not things children should cause or seek.
Pray together
Jesus, I trust your love. Help me offer small actions with a generous heart and ask for help when I am sad. Saint Therese, pray for us. Amen.
Learn more
Original video release: September 27, 2025. Website article and teaching resources added October 3, 2026.
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