Catholic Crafts and More for Kids
Lent is probably my favorite time to live the liturgical year at home with my kids, and holy week is when it all comes to an end! Today, I want to share some food ideas and recipes that you can make with or for your kids during Holy Week. I now have an entire cookbook full of symbolic Holy Week and Easter recipes! I hope these holy week recipes bring your family together and help everyone stay … [Read more...]
So I've been working on some more crafts for holy week, and this is a craft where you make your own version of Veronica's veil after she wipes the face of Jesus. St. Veronica's feast day is July 12, and you can find all my posts about living liturgically in July here. It's done using a faux batik technique for kids. Here's the completed craft: Supplies Needed: White scrap … [Read more...]
Living the liturgical year at home is a way of weaving the Catholic faith into our lives here, and having a home altar is a great way to encourage this. We like to update our Catholic home altar throughout the liturgical year to meet the seasons, and today I wanted to share with you our St. Joseph's altar. I also want to answer all the questions you may have about how to set up a St. Joseph's … [Read more...]
We're preparing our St. Joseph's Altar for tomorrow, and we've been working on something I'd like to share! We made some fun crafty food that your kids are going to love putting on your St. Joseph's altar! You can find all of my resources for celebrating St. Joseph's feast day here. Now let's take a look at these St. Joseph's altar fun food ideas for kids! Traditionally on … [Read more...]
Check out all of my faith-based Easter crafts and recipes for kids here! If you've never heard of Resurrection Eggs, they are plastic Easter Eggs with different religious Easter symbols inside to help teach the Easter story to kids. Making my own resurrection eggs was one of the first religious activities I ever did at home. This is great even for young preschoolers! Here are the things I put … [Read more...]
I've been working on a craft here, and I'm so excited to share it with all of you today! It's a Last Supper craft for Holy Thursday, and it's based on the famous Leonardo da Vinci Last Supper painting. You can find all of my First Communion Resources for Kids here. This craft assembles to create a 3D rendition of the Last Supper scene, gluing onto an egg carton. So here it is- the Last Supper … [Read more...]
St. Joseph's feast day is a fun feast day to celebrate with your kids when living the liturgical year at home! I have a round-up for you today of fun St. Joseph's feast day printables for kids, but you can find all of my St. Joseph resources for families here. I have a printable 3D St. Joseph's altar that your kids can color and assemble that is super fun! Check it … [Read more...]
After doing our trinity shamrock craft, my daughter and I were looking for more St. Patrick's Day shamrock fun! Let's dive into these fun crafts! First, we made these adorable little shamrock bowls. They were very simple to make! These shamrock bowls are cut from the bottom of 2-liter bottles. (This is important. 3 liter bottles are too thick to cut. Trust me ;-) Here's … [Read more...]
St. Joseph's feast day is coming up on March 19. To learn about St. Joseph altars, you have to check out The Virtual St. Joseph Altar! It's run by Evann of Homeschool Goodies, and she's got some amazing resources compiled- pretty much everything you need to know about celebrating St. Joseph's feast day! Check out this 3D color and cut version from the Virtual St. Joseph Altar! … [Read more...]
I've been seeing a lot of crafts that show the shamrock symbolizing The Trinity, and I love them! St. Patrick must have been very clever to think of explaining The Trinity this way! One God, three parts, brilliant! ;-) Here's the one I made: I started with a wooden shamrock from a craft store. It cost 50 cents. First, I painted it green. After it dried, I wrote "Father, Son, … [Read more...]
