Catholic How To Draw: Fatima Dancing Sun

I just love the miracle of the spinning sun and I find that youth find it very interesting for 2 reasons. First, a coloring spinning dancing sun in the sky is just a really fun idea and children love to imagine the wonder of this! Secondly, it was witnessed by around 70K people, and reported in real newspapers all over the world at the time that it happened! So that's pretty awesome! Today … [Read more...]

Little Flower Cookies For St. Therese

So St. Thereses' feast day is October 1, HOWEVER... her canonization day is May 17. We love celebrating St. Therese in our home, and you can find all of my St. Therese resources for kids here. Today we are going to look at these little flower cookies for St. Therese.    Personally, we already have a lot of Liturgical celebrations that are important to us during October such as … [Read more...]

Transform Your Prayer Life With Prayer Box Dividers

I usually post stuff on this site for your kids, but today, this post is for YOU. God is calling you to have a personal relationship and prayer life with him. I started realizing that if I'm not cultivating my personal relationship with Jesus, what am I doing the rest of this stuff for? This is what it's all about! As I started feeling a strong calling to strengthen my prayer life, a friend of … [Read more...]

One Activity For Each Sunday Of Easter- Celebrating The Octave Of Easter

In the interest of celebrating the entire Easter season with Catholic kids (it lasts for 50 whole days!!!) I made this list of things you can do each Sunday of Easter with your kids. These are all things that you do while at church on Sunday after mass, and the activities generally involve very little prep. Printable For The Sundays Of Easter Before we jump into the 8 simple ways to … [Read more...]

Celebrating The Entire Easter Season With Catholic Kids- All 50 Days!

All the Easter crafts, snacks, games, books, etc. couldn't possibly all happen on actual Easter Sunday- it's too much! But that’s ok because the Church, in her infinite wisdom, granted an entire season of Easter that lasts for 50 days, all the way through Pentecost!  The secular (cultural) world tends to celebrate Easter during Lent up until Easter Sunday, and then packs up all the … [Read more...]

Easter Cross Art Project For Kids- Oil Pastel “Smudge” Technique With Resist

I absolutely love this cross art project- it is so perfect for any age group from preschoolers through adults, and the results are easy for every age level to achieve! (And as ya'll are about to see by these pictures, I did this project years ago and never posted it. So enjoy Violet's little baby face. She's getting to be quite a young lady these days!) You can find all of my cross crafts for kids … [Read more...]

Decorating Easter Eggs With Watercolor Markers

Last year I tried several methods of dying eggs with the kids, and we loved them all! I'm going to be sharing them all with you this year. Check out this first batch!   Decorating Easter Eggs With Watercolor Markers. One of our favorite ways to decorate Easter eggs is simpliy to draw on them, so that's just what we did! These eggs were colored on by watercolor markers. … [Read more...]

Bible Crafts For Kids

I have been publishing Bible crafts for kids now for over a decade, and decided it was finally time to organize them all! So hopefully this list helps you find and navigate all of my bible craft ideas and resources for kids. This is going to be listed by Bible story, and divided into Old Testament Bible crafts and New Testament bible crafts. So here we go! Bible crafts for kids. Old Testament … [Read more...]

Jelly Bean Prayer- Printable Coloring Story Book For Christian Kids

Have you heard of the Jelly Bean Prayer? It's an adorable little poem where each jelly bean color stands for a different part of the Easter story. I love taking the parts of holidays that already exist and throwing a Christ-centered spin on them so that everything from the day points back on the true meaning of the season. It's kind of my favorite thing about Catholic Icing, actually, and who … [Read more...]

Make Easy Shaving Cream Eggs – IN The Carton!

I've been seeing shaving cream "dyed" Easter eggs floating around the interwebs, and I've seen people making them on cookie sheets or in muffin tins. The thing is you have to keep the eggs kinda still so you get the swirly pattern, and you need the shaving cream on both sides, which is hard to do on a cookie sheet. So I came up with a solution... making them straight in your egg … [Read more...]