Catholic Crafts and More for Kids
In continuing with our series Passing on the Catholic Faith to Your Kids, I wanted to touch on setting up a home altar. When I first heard the term home altar, I felt a little scared. I didn't know what I was doing, and the idea of setting up an official "altar" felt out-of-my-league. Sometimes home altars are also referred to as family altars, prayer tables, or altar tables. Don't let these names … [Read more...]
We have a large community here at Catholic Icing, so I know I'm right when I assume that some of you have kids with a birthday on Ash Wednesday, or on a Friday during this Lent. Or maybe there is a graduation celebration, a wedding, or something else coming up and the timing was out of your control. Someone reading this right now has been stressed out wondering what to do about that. So … [Read more...]
Lent is a great liturgical season to observe with kids to help teach them about the church year. Lent is the 40 days the come before Easter, and it is a season of adding extra prayers, fasting, and almsgiving. There are many ways to celebrate (or observe) Lent with children, and this is my page that links out to all of the resources I have available to help you with this! I hope you find these … [Read more...]
The month of October is dedicated to the rosary. Be sure you teach your kids about the rosary, and pray it more often this month with your children! Rosary Resources For Kids: Learning Your Rosary Prayers The "Write" Way ebook Easy rosary craft (all you need is pipe cleaners and beads!) Paper bag Rosary book- a different pull out page for each set of mysteries. Giant Rosary … [Read more...]
Catholic ABC's Week: 26 Letter of the week: V Theme: Valentine (Patron Saint Of Love) Saint of the Week: St. Veronica Craft: St. Valentine printable stand up craft This is a pritnable stand up Saint craft. It's available in my St. Valentine printable pack here. This craft is so easy! All you do it print the Saint on card stock (although regular paper can work as well), … [Read more...]
It's no secret that we love tea parties, and will throw one for nearly any occasion, so it's no shocker that we like to have them for St. Patrick's day! You can find all of our liturgical tea parties here, along with my tips for making tea parties extra fun for kids! I love tea parties because they can be as simple or as complicated as you want, and you can do them with … [Read more...]
I have lots of sacrifice ideas for Catholic kids here. There's the sacrifice crown of thorns, the sacrifice beans, the sacrifice beads... what am I forgetting? So why, do you ask, have I designed yet another sacrifice device for Catholic kids? Well... first of all, teaching the concept of making sacrifices is very needed, and something our society teaches us to avoid at all costs. So it's … [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...]
So I've lived in places with excellent Catholic communities (such as Steubenville Ohio, and Northern Virginia) and I've lived in places with a far lesser Catholic presence (like South Carolina, where we currently live.) Although I still have an amazing virtual Catholic community, I don't really have Catholic friends that live here in town, but I decided not to let that stop me from celebrating All … [Read more...]
Divine Mercy Sunday is an excellent day to celebrate when celebrating the liturgical year with your kids! Although Divine Mercy Sunday is the second Sunday in the season of Easter (one week after Easter Sunday) this image of Jesus can be displayed and celebrated year round! So let's check it out: How to celebrate Divine Mercy Jesus with kids! Divine Mercy Sunday Cheat Sheet The best … [Read more...]
