Catholic Crafts and More for Kids
Today, I have a guest post from Christianity Cove that goes with the Daniel in the lion's den Bible story. Here's "Daniel’s Dancing Lion". This is a great craft to go with my Christian Alphabet Series for the letter D. I love how he dances, and children absolutely love interactive crafts like this. Check it out! Materials Needed: Small (dessert) paper plates, 1 for each child … [Read more...]
We are continuing our Bible Alphabet craft series, and this week with my preschoolers, we learned about being fishers of men, and made a Jesus Fish craft for the letter Ff. Supplies Needed: Pipe Cleaners Pony Beads Masking Tape (optional to mark their names) That's it! This is a super simple craft. Kids love it, and it's great for building their fine motor skills. You'd be … [Read more...]
A few days ago, I wrote an article titled "Do Trick-or-Treating and All Saints' Day Go Together?" where I revealed to you that my family goes trick-or-treating dressed as Saints. I view this as being witnesses to the world, and taking back our own Catholic feast day of All Hallows Eve. (In fact, I wrote an article a few years ago about putting the "Hallow" back in "Halloween".) And if you have … [Read more...]
I will admit to jumping on a band-wagon here. I kept seeing costume after costume come through Pinterest with tutus, and I'm talking way beyond fairies and ballerinas. People are adding tutus to every kind of costume, and it's adorable! I've seen super heroes, pirates, clowns, peacocks, ...even fruit costumes that are all sporting tutus! When I saw this Indian costume with a tutu, I knew there was … [Read more...]
If your kids are dressing up for All Saints' Day, an angel can be a great costume! Easy for girls (just pair a white dress with some wings, and voila!) and an easy costume to talk boys into (since St. Michael wears armor and carries a sword.) My little Violet has asked to be an angel 2 years in a row now, and wings, of course, are vital to an angel costume. The wings were super easy to … [Read more...]
I took this post down because this version of this costume wasn't culturally sensitive. My particular creation of this costume was not authentic or paying the proper respects to the culture in which it originated. When we know better, we do better. I have seen in many places that the Indigenous community is insisting that dressing in a Native American costume at all is offensive to their … [Read more...]
Interestingly enough, one of the most common questions people ask me when they meet me in real life is "do your kids go trick-or-treating?" People want to know- is it ok to go trick-or-treating if you're Catholic? Is it ok to celebrate "Halloween" if you're in the "All Saints' Day" crowd? You can find all of my All Saints' Day resources for kids here. First of all, check out my post about what … [Read more...]
We are continuing our Bible Alphabet craft series, and this week with my preschoolers, we learned about Noah's Arc and made a craft of a Doves for the letter D. Supplies Needed: White (cheap) paper plates White feathers Clothes pins (2 per dove) Googily eyes (2 per dove) Orange marker School glue Hot glue Small Branches OR Brown pipe cleaners and green … [Read more...]
Check out all of my faith-based Easter crafts and recipies for kids here! We are continuing on our Bible Alphabet Crafts series, and this week we made crosses for the letter C. As I've mentioned before, my preschool class is very young (1 and 2 year olds) so I'm always looking for very simple things for them to do, and I came up with this: Supplies Needed: White Card Stock Blue … [Read more...]
As I mentioned before, when teaching Catholic kids the basic prayers, it is very important that kids are learning the correct words. We decided to include copy work of all the most common Catholic prayers in Lydia's First Communion Journal this year, so I made printable pages that are easy for kids to use. It's a great activity for teaching Catholic kids their prayers! I have all of them … [Read more...]
