Divine Mercy and St. Faustina Crafts, Printables, and More

Divine Mercy Sunday is coming up soon! If you're not familiar with St. Faustina and the appearances of Jesus, I would encourage you to read up! It's a great story and devotion. The most obvious things to do to celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday would be to go to confession and pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet. If you've got that all under control, be sure and check out some of these ideas. … [Read more...]

Divine Mercy Sunday (Ice Cream) “Sundaes”

Divine Mercy Sunday is a great day to celebrate with Catholic kids when living the liturgical year at home! It is the second Sunday of Easter, and the divine mercy image is a beautiful image that lends itself to lots of fun activities for kids, and you can find all of my Divine Mercy Sunday activities for kids here. We love to make ice cream Sundaes!   Divine Mercy Sunday is always the … [Read more...]

Have a Meaningful Easter Dinner with Resurrection Story Napkin Rings

Check out all of my faith-based Easter crafts and recipes for kids here! Did you know that to us Christians, Easter is more important than Christmas? It can be so hard to keep the day focused on the true meaning of Easter, but not impossible! I designed these resurrection printables to be used at Easter dinner as part of a religious place setting! Each of these eggs has a piece of the … [Read more...]

Free Religious Easter Downloads and Printables!

I was just over on It's Always a Party at the Parker's and I found the most adorable set of free Easter printables! This is a super big set and includes cupcake toppers, bunny silhouettes, cross silhouettes, water bottle wraps, napkin wraps, tent cards, favor tags, candy bar wrappers, Easter signs, flags, a banner and more! It's cute stuff, and I just love the mix of crosses and bunnies. I'm … [Read more...]

Lamb And Sheep Dessert Ideas

In keeping with our "Focus on the Lamb, not the Bunny" Easter theme, I wanted to make some actual edible lamb treats of some kind for Easter. The food industry would like to pull the wool over our eyes and lead us to believe that we can't make a lamb cake without store-bought mold, but we know there are greener pastures, right? Because I don't have a lamb cake mold, I started thinking... what kind … [Read more...]

Meaningful Easter Activity for Kids – Empty Tomb Snack

Check out all of my faith-based Easter crafts and recipes for kids here! I wanted to make a cute and religious Easter treat for my kids, but as most of ya'll know, I'm not much of a cook. Well, here's an idea for a sweet Easter treat that is no bake plus your kids can assemble them as a religious Easter activity! Guess what? This symbolic Good Friday lunch is now a part of my … [Read more...]

The Crafter in every Catholic…

...comes out on Palm Sunday. :-)     Are you looking for directions on how to make a palm cross? This is the method I've always used to make my palm crosses. This kind of palm cross can be made without any cutting, splitting, or gluing, so it's my favorite. Be sure and do it before your palms dry out (so today would be ideal). If you did something cool with your palms, or have … [Read more...]

Printable Resurrection Set (Religious Easter Craft For Kids!)

Check out all of my faith-based Easter crafts and recipies for kids here! I've been working on something that I've had in my head since last Easter, and I'm very excited to reveal it to you today- my new Printable Resurrection Set! We all put nativity sets out at Christmas time, and I'm not sure why resurrection sets aren't more popular. So I made a printable version that's the counterpart … [Read more...]

Craft an Easter Candle with Kids

Check out all of my faith-based Easter crafts and recipes for kids here! Making an Easter candle (also known as a Paschal Candle) to use at home can be a great religious Easter tradition for your family! The ones we made were super easy to do, and I used candles from Dollar Tree, so this project seriously only cost us $1. Before jumping in, you can read all about how to use Paschal Candles at … [Read more...]

Celebrating Easter with Hand painted Eggs and a Tree, by guest blogger Ingrid Lee.

I'm really happy to be writing and sharing my Easter-themed artwork with you all again!  I had a lot of fun writing my last post here at Catholic Icing, about painting a Paschal candle, and this time I've been invited to share my Easter Egg Tree. I didn't grow up celebrating Easter with an Easter egg tree, but because our family cultures are so diverse, I wanted to start creating … [Read more...]