Catholic Crafts and More for Kids
When you're celebrating the liturgical year with your kids, you can think of the season of Lent a lot like you do Advent. It's a long season of preparation, and we need to get ready for Easter. I like to do activities with kids that last the length of the season, so it's important to prepare before Ash Wednesday ahead of time so you're ready to go! Although I will add here that it's never too late … [Read more...]
Ok, it's really time to get our Lenten ducks in a row! Lent will be here before you know it!!! Here are some Lenten ideas for children from my archives: Bury the Alleluia Activities that span the length of Lent for kids Putting things away for lent Pretzels for Lent Printable Stations of the Cross for Kids Printable Lenten Calendar for Kids My Printable Lenten … [Read more...]
Hymns & Songs I Love You, Lord Praise to the Lord, the Almighty Printable Mass Page I Assisted at Sunday Mass (for personal use) Catholic Icing Resources Living the Liturgical Year at Home: How to Get Started Weaving the Faith Liturgical Planning Binder Printable Liturgical Calendar Teaching Liturgical Colors Craft Liturgical Tea Parties Symbolic Holy … [Read more...]
We love to live the liturgical year at home, and Easter is the most important day for Christians! We love to try to keep Easter focused on the true meaning of this day at our house, and the kids look forward to our fun Easter activities each year. So here we go- a whole round-up of religious Easter crafts for kids that focus on the resurrection! Printable peg doll resurrection set- The bodies … [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...]
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...]
Praying the Stations of the Cross is a great way to remember the true meaning of Lent with your kids. There are 14 stations of the cross, and it goes through the biblical passion story. It starts with Jesus being condemned to death, and ends with Jesus being laid in the tomb. Going through the stations of the cross is actually a special Lenten prayer, and it's a really excellent one to do with … [Read more...]
It's time to share our Lenten posts! Are you ready? Remember, you can link up your post even if it's already been featured here at Catholic Icing! I want everything to be easy to find for everyone! And don't forget about your treasures in the archives! Holy Week posts totally count- we all need to be planning ahead anyway. And feel free to keep linking as long as the box is open. The party will go … [Read more...]
Did you know that the pretzel is a traditional food for lent? In fact, the pretzel was actually invented in order to be a simple Lenten snack! You can find all of my holy week food ideas for kids here. Today, I am going to share my favorite Lenten pretzel recipe with you, as well as a printable card with the pretzel prayer. When early Christians would pray, they would … [Read more...]
All Catholics have many customs and traditions for observing the season of Lent, but some of them differ between the different Rites of Catholicism. If you're not sure what Byzantine Catholics are, you can read an intro to Eastern Catholics here, and these Rites of Catholicism are in full communion with Rome. Today we are going to look at some of the main differences between the Eastern Catholic … [Read more...]
