Build your own Family Culture and Traditions…and start during Ordinary Time!
These and other family-centric activities, crafts and traditions can be found in A Treasure Chest of Traditions for Catholic Families.
(3) Create a Perpetual calendar. Record birthdays, Sacrament dates, dates of family firsts, family events and loved ones passing… in a month-by-month format. Some people use index cards like this.
(You can show the current month in a frame for dry erase…but the dates are fun to look at year after year). You can buy this Catholic Family Calendar in the Arma Dei Shoppe!
(4) Make a family tree.
Check out this Free Downloadable Family Tree from Hand in Hand with Jesus.
(5) string together (or hole punch) favorite cards, friend’s Christmas pictures like Simple Mom
The same can be done with postcards or memory catcher cards, (family journalling…everyone answers the same question in words or drawing). Find it in A Treasure Chest of Traditions for Catholic Families.
(6) Conduct video interviews with relatives and combine them in family videos.
Even a ‘no frills’ slideshow of family photos will be treasured for years.
(7) start a shoebox of love letters for each child or Godchild,
(8) establish family night, movie night, board game night, seasonal sports event, karaoke…
(9) Build your family repertoire of prayer, collect family prayers and make up new ones! Gather favorite family prayers…record memorized prayers or spontaneous prayers; collect Saint prayer cards and other classic prayers and keep them in a prayer bank. Check out the Prayer Bank Craft Kit!
(10) Scrapbook with year-in-view photos! Let each child work on their own scrapbook!
1. Build your own Family Culture and Traditions: collect family artifacts and treasures, create family trivia, perpetual calendar, family tree, string together (or hole punch) favorite cards, memory catcher cards, start a shoebox of love letters for each child or Godchild, make a quilt of favorite (outgrown) clothes
2. Build your family repertoire of prayer, collect family prayers, make up new ones, prayer bank
3. Tackle the Catechism…bingo, catcher, cube,
4. Memorize Scripture (how to memorize scripture book), establish a Bible in a year habit, record favorite verses…leave them in a box in the car or bathroom (captive audience) or tape to mirror, fridge…
5. Refocus Family Priorities, revisit organization techniques…even if it means chore charts!
6. Establish weekly bonding events…movie night, board game night, seasonal sports events
7. Refocus on Mass time preparation…read the readings beforehand, review the new text of the Mass
8. Scrapbook, take pictures in front of a blank wall…add text of age, height, favorites…
9. Hunt for miracles
10. celebrate the extraordinary events…family firsts
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