Order of the Eastern Star of Michigan

The Order of the Eastern Star is the world’s largest fraternal organization and a part of the Masonic family.

They are currently making medical play dolls, pillowcases, baby hats and hearts. The dolls are used for the hospital staff to assist in demonstrating various procedures with their young patients to help ease the stress of a hospital stay. The children then get to keep the dolls and decorate and dress them. The pillowcases are donated so that young patients who need to stay for any length of time may have a pillowcase of their choosing to call their own. The hearts are sent off to Preemies of the Carolinas for use between a new mother and her preemie to promote bonding by the transfer of the mother’s “scent” to the heart and placing it in the incubator.