Catholic Crafts and More for Kids
When celebrating the feast day of St. Valentine, I like to keep our celebrations focused on the true meaning of the feast day as much as possible. Given that Saint Valentine is the patron Saint of couples and pretty much things all love, I thought a pack of love scripture coloring pages sounded like a great way to celebrate! The best part is that this pack is totally free to download for everyone. … [Read more...]
St. Valentine's day is a beautiful Catholic feast day to celebrate with your kids! We can remember that this day of love really is a Catholic feast day by remember the Saint himself. You can find all of my Catholic St. Valentine's Day resources for kids here, along with some quick facts about his life, but today I want to to share with you a bunch of actual Saint Valentine printables for Catholic … [Read more...]
I am so excited to bring you this week's Catholic how to draw video, how to draw Saint Valentine! I have been listening to the requests that ya'll send in, and Saints have pretty much been the top requested thing. I think it's so important to make sure that kids understand that Valentine's day is not invented by Hallmark, but in fact a Catholic feast day celebrating a Saint. You can find all of my … [Read more...]
I absolutely love having liturgical tea parties with my kids! Tea parties are so quick and easy to pull together. They can be fancy or they can be simple, but no matter what the kids always have an amazing time. Today I'm going to share with you all the liturgical teas I have posted so far, and you can keep checking back because I am always adding more. Also, be sure to check out all of my … [Read more...]
Do you want to celebrate the liturgical year at home, but you don't know where to start? Or maybe you don't even know what living liturgically means. Either way, you have come to the right place. So, what is the liturgical year? There's no reason to be confused or intimidated by this terminology. The liturgical year is just another way of saying church year or christian calendar. The term … [Read more...]
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...]
I am super excited today to bring you this printable craft of St. Patrick and St. Brigid! Aren't they adorable together?! I'm actually starting to have quite a collection of these printable stand-up Saint crafts now! I have my ABC Saints, nativity set, resurrection set, and Saint Valentine. Check out my video about them here! And don't forget to subscribe to the Catholic Icing YouTube … [Read more...]
Ever wondered what it would be like to switch from homeschooling to public school? Well, we did it. And I'm here to share the real scoop. I started homeschooling my oldest for preschool when she was 2, and homeschooled her (and her 3 siblings) for 8 years total. They had never been to a brick-and-mortar school. Due to some life changes here, I made a very sudden decision to put them in school. … [Read more...]
For those of you who have seen my symbolic passion story lunch, this is going to look very familiar. As we've gotten into poetry teas, we turned this one into a tea party as well. (Can I just say again how much I love having weekly tea parties with my kids?!) Love it! You can find all of our liturgical tea parties here, along with my tips for making tea parties extra fun for kids. Now let's check … [Read more...]
For Violet's pre-k year, I wanted to include some one on one "cooking" time with me as our Charlotte Mason life skill/ handicraft for her. We're incorporating this into my Catholic ABC's curriculum by making alphabet snacks for the letter of the week! It was important to me that Violet could be very involved in the preparation of each snack. Therefore, the importance here was placed more … [Read more...]
