Catholic Crafts and More for Kids
Welcome my little cupcakes! Thank you for supporting Catholic Icing by being a subscriber!!! It means the world to me and I couldn't do this without you guys! Enjoy your access to free extra free printables and resources. I hope this page becomes the cherry on top of your Catholic Icing! :-) Easter Symbols Booklet Download The Easter Symbols Booklet Find the post about the full Easter … [Read more...]
Whether your church calls it CCD (which stands for "Confraternity of Christian Doctrine") or just plain 'ol RE for "Religious Education", educating children about the faith is obviously a big passion of mine! When you sign up to be a CCD teacher, they provide you with a book and probably some outlines of what you should be covering with your class, but sometimes we're still left looking for … [Read more...]
Happy First Friday, everyone! This is the part of the month where I get to see what you've been doing! Is anyone getting ready for school? Getting ready for CCD? Been doing any fun Catholic stuff with your kids? Share your links at the bottom of this post and check out what everyone else has been doing! As most of you know, I haven't had time for many crafts lately with all the work from … [Read more...]
Today is the first day of World Youth Day 2011! Whoo Hoo! I have such a soft place in my heart for WYD since attending WYD 2002 in Toronto, Canada. We rode on a bus, slept in church gyms all the way there and back, saw Pope John Paul II, met Catholics from all over the world, ate some seriously weird food, carried everything we brought for more than 8 miles, slept in a field, attended a Papal … [Read more...]
This year, our parish didn't have the money for a fancy vacation bible school curriculum, AND we have no parish life center or classrooms. And you know what? We didn't let that stop us from throwing an awesome vacation bible school program for our kids! Volunteers came together, wrote their own program this year, and creatively used the space we had available, and it was fabulous! It started with … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
Check out all of my First Communion Resources for Kids here. April is the month dedicated to the Holy Eucharist! We've been learning about the mass and Eucharist around here, plus I've been teaching my kids about adoration, so this is perfect for us! :-) My daughter has been pretty fascinated by monstrances ever since "M" week around here, so we recently crafted these … [Read more...]
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...]
The 3 biggies during lent are prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. This makes lent the perfect time to make a giving bank of some kind with your kids. If you'd like to craft an offering box like the one above, go to your local craft store and look in the section with all the little unfinished wooden things. You can get a little wooden or paper box to make your offering box. (You … [Read more...]
