Catholic Crafts and More for Kids
The church year is so intricate and beautiful! And sometimes... a little hard to keep up with haha. Before Catholic Icing was my full time job, there was so much that I failed to understand about the church year, but I'm here to bring you in on a little secret today; there is a whole string of super cool feast days following Pentecost Sunday! So I made the little image above to help … [Read more...]
I love coming up with fun and creative ways to live the liturgical year at home with kids, and June is full of fun Saint feast days to celebrate! Keep scrolling to the bottom of the post because it also includes other fun June feast days and faith filled Summer activities for kids! Now let's look at these highlights of fun June Saint feast days to celebrate with links to crafts, food, and … [Read more...]
During the Covid-19 precautions, Catholics all over the world are being affected. As we cannot gather in groups, we must find ways to continue with our faith journey at home. There are so many resources available and so many ways to still be connected to the Catholic community, many right now that are being offered totally for free! So here is a round up of home resources for Catholics to use … [Read more...]
I love coming up with fun and creative ways to celebrate the church year with kids! Sometimes I refer to this as "living liturgically" or "living the liturgical year". You can find my post about how to live the liturgical year here. This page will help you find the resources and links you need based on the month. Click any month to find everything you need- feast days, printables, links, lessons, … [Read more...]
I have a lot of resources for planning All Saints Day Parties for Catholic kids, but today I want to specifically share some Saint game ideas with you! If you're having a party this year, here are some DIY Saint themed game ideas to make your party extra fun and also help kids learn a thing or 2 about the Saints! You can find all of my All Saints' Day resources for kids here. The basic … [Read more...]
I have been publishing Bible crafts for kids now for over a decade, and decided it was finally time to organize them all! So hopefully this list helps you find and navigate all of my bible craft ideas and resources for kids. This is going to be listed by Bible story, and divided into Old Testament Bible crafts and New Testament bible crafts. So here we go! Bible crafts for kids. Old Testament … [Read more...]
I'm such a sucker for beautiful crosses and crucifixes. I actually like to collect them when we go on trips, or sometimes to make them myself. You get to a point where you have a crucifix in every room, and where in the world would you even put another cross? Well... I've come to discover that I far prefer to hang them all together rather than scattering them around. The result is a striking, eye … [Read more...]
Remember when I was doing my Christian song crafts series? Well, I did more things than I found time to post, and this fun craft was one of those extras. We made this craft based on Psalm 100:1 Make a Joyful Noise to the Lord all the Lands. I love this craft because it says "noise," kids are so noisy, and this is an awesome noisemaker craft. So much noise - joyful noise! Good news! I now … [Read more...]
I have wanted a set of Catholic peg Saints pretty much since I first saw them somewhere around 5 years ago. However, there were 2 really big deterrents that stood in my way: Buying hand-painted peg dolls is really expensive. Painting wooden peg dolls myself is extremely time-consuming. But now, I invented a secret option number 3 for you guys... Printable Saint peg … [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...]
