Catholic Crafts and More for Kids
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...]
Today I have a guest post for you guys from my friend, Liz, over at Catholic Deals. I am in love with her new blog, which is totally devoted to highlighting sales and bargains on Catholic products! If you haven't already subscribed to this blog, you should. Well, that is if you're Catholic and enjoy saving money. ;-) I love that she included several craft kits in this round-up! Advent is … [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...]
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...]
Have you heard of the Resurrection? They're also know as "Via Lucis", "Stations of Light", or "The Way of the Light". There are 14 stations, and they the counterpart to the Stations of the Cross. Every station is something that happened between Easter and Pentecost, while the risen Jesus was walking around alive on the earth. Here is a list of the stations of light. For some of them, … [Read more...]
I'm so excited about our first First Friday link-up! I can't wait to see the links ya'll have to share! I thought I would go ahead and share some of my links that will be handy for the month of May (a month dedicated to Mary). May Altar Putting together a May altar for Mary Queenship of Mary Links (great for May crownings!) Crown Mary with flowers craft Planning guide for May … [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...]
I like to include some religious items in my children's basket each year, as I try to make as many aspects as possible point to the true meaning of Easter. I don't have infinite money to fill their baskets with expensive things, so I wanted to share some affordable ideas for making a Christian-focused Easter basket for your kids. Check out these ideas for finding religious Easter basket stuffer … [Read more...]
I've been trying to teach my kids about the Stations of the Cross this Lent, and it's going really well! I came up with these Stations of the Cross eggs, and I'm so excited about them!!! This is by far the best hands on way I have ever found to teach preschoolers how to pray the Stations of the Cross, and we use them year after year. You can find all of my Stations of the Cross resources for kids … [Read more...]
