Catholic Crafts and More for Kids
The holiday season can be overwhelming, but there are so many wonderful Catholic Advent traditions from all over the world that can be easily implemented into your celebrations! Many of these are even easier to incorporate after you have initially started it, so add a few traditions here and there and watch your meaningful family traditions grow. I would like to start off by saying … [Read more...]
For All Saints' Day each year, I like to serve fun snacks for kids that symbolize a part of different Saint stories. We love to make a tea party out of it! This list is meant to make shopping for symbolic Saint food easier for you! I hope these links make it easier to find what you're looking for. :-) You can find my Saint Food Labels that these foods go with here. A lot of the things I have … [Read more...]
I love to make fun recipes around here that the kids can participate with, and these play dough cookies turned out to be super fun, and also delicious! You could make these into any shape you wanted, which is amazing, because you can basically make any cookie shape without needing a specialized cookie cutter. These rainbow cookies are fun for kids to make, and they can totally shape them on their … [Read more...]
There are plenty of feast days to celebrate with Catholic kids during Advent to really enhance your time with your family and turn it towards the true meaning of the season. You can click each day (well, most of them anyway) to go to all of my resources about that feast day. You'll find tons of crafts, activities, printables, and more for celebrating these Advent Saint feast days! I guarantee that … [Read more...]
This is the home of the Catholic Friday how-to-draw! Each Friday, I post a new how to draw video especially for Catholic kids. I also always sneak a little Catholic learning in while they draw, so it's a very easy way for your kids to learn about the church and liturgical year! If you want to be sure not to miss any how to draw videos in the future, be sure to subscribe to my YouTube … [Read more...]
My goal is always to make things fun and relatable for kids because I find that that is when they remember the most! So when I am teaching kids about the rosary, I like to give them a little hands on fun to help the learning stick! Here is a good round up of rosary crafts, activities, and resources for kids. Be sure to check out my 10 tips for praying the rosary with Catholic kids, and then read … [Read more...]
Each week, we have a "poetry tea." I need to write a post about it sometime, but essentially, we just have tea with lunch and take turns reading poetry while we eat. We've been doing this for a couple of years now, and absolutely love it! You can find all of our liturgical tea parties here, along with my tips for making tea parties extra fun for kids! I usually keep it simple, but sometimes get … [Read more...]
Many people don't even realize that St. Valentine's day is a Catholic feast day. Somehow, that "Saint" gets dropped off of the day most of the time. But we as Catholics can make sure always to keep the "Saint" in "Saint Valentine's Day"! You can find all of my resources for celebrating feast days in February here. There are so many great ways to celebrate this beautiful Catholic feast day, and … [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...]
Catholic ABCs Preschool Curriculum: Exciting Update! The well-loved preschool curriculum, Catholic ABCs, has been converted to an online curriculum! The new program, which is a partnership with Angie Kauffman from Real Life at Home, was launched on August 8, 2022. It is a greatly expanded and improved version of the old Catholic ABCs book. Catholic ABCs is a hand-on curriculum … [Read more...]
