Catholic Crafts and More for Kids
Candlemas is a great feast day to celebrate with your kids while living the liturgical year! This post has a great craft and activity idea, but you may also like to check out my post with all of my Candlemas celebration and activity ideas here. Candlemas is coming up on February 2, which is the feast of the presentation of Jesus in the temple, and the traditional end of the Christmas … [Read more...]
Catholic ABC's Week: 17 Letter of the week: L Theme: Light (This Little Light of Mine) Saint of the Week: St. Lucy (and btw, Lucy means "light") Craft: This Little Light of Mine Supplies needed to complete this craft: (All of these supplies are available at the Dollar Tree) Disposable Punch Cups Plastic Tea Lights (or real tea lights) Assorted colors of tissue paper … [Read more...]
With the National March for Life coming up in a few weeks, I've got pro-life stuff on the brain. I live in the DC area and would love to go to the march, but I always end up wimping out because I don't think I can handle my kids in the cold downtown all by myself. Still, we're going to be working on some pro-life crafts and such the week of the march, so I thought I would share some ideas with … [Read more...]
Catholic ABC's Week: 16 Letter of the week: K Theme: King (Jesus is King or Christ the King) Saint of the Week: Blessed Kateri Craft: Jesus is King I knew I wanted to make "K" week about Jesus being king, but coming up with a craft was harder than I thought it would be! I wanted it to be a clearly religious king craft. There are already so many secular king crafts … [Read more...]
There are so many great snowflake crafts around, and if you can work some religion into craft time, I say "why not?". I'm sure you've all heard about the religious snowflake stuff. The basic principal is that no 2 snowflakes are the same, but they're all beautiful. God makes all of us different, and we are all special too. We have a great religious snowflake children's book called The Tiny … [Read more...]
Given that the month of January is dedicated to the holy name of Jesus, I thought this would be a perfect Catholic craft for this month! If this only looks like an abstract mess to you, trust me- the picture below actually says Jesus 4 times: Good news! I now have a full at-home VBS program for Catholic kids... Summer With The Sacred Heart! This vacation bible school program is … [Read more...]
The month of January is dedicated to the Holy Name of Jesus. I was thinking for a Holy Name of Jesus Song, you could try singing the "B-I-N-G-O" song only using these words: "There was a Virgin had a Son and Jesus was his name-o! J-E-S-U-S, J-E-S-U-S, J-E-S-U-S, and Jesus was his name-o!" Here are some more ideas for celebrating this month: Check out my how to draw video for the most holy name … [Read more...]
This year (2011) the epiphany is being officially celebrated on January 2, but the traditional day for the epiphany (and the end of the 12 days of Christmas) happens on January 6, so you still have some time to celebrate the epiphany with your kids. Try celebrating with stars! These fun yarn wrapped star ornaments are a ton of fun! Make these Crispy Cheese Stars with Family Fun as a … [Read more...]
Looking for a way to Keep Christ in Christmas as you serve your roast beast? Well, here are a few cute ideas I have found on the internet. Cleverly share a Reading of the Christmas Story with your dinner guests- check this out on Inspiring Ideas. Jeanne from Inspiring Ideas also prompts us to remember our true guest of honor at our dinner table this … [Read more...]
I know we're already one day into the O Antiphons now, (they start December 17), but Catholic Cuisine has an AMAZING post about different foods to make for each of the O Antiphons, starting with these little books for "Wisdom". Jessica has also provided a free printable with each O Antiphon to attach to gold coins. So simple and elegant! Click over to check it out. … [Read more...]
