Celebrate the Sacraments!

Journey with Jesus through the Sacraments This kit offers layouts of catechism questions (with answer keys!) and reflection questions to help teach and celebrate the Sacraments, including material based on  the Commandments, Sin, the Domestic Church and the Stations of the Cross. This kit teaches and celebrates all 7 Sacraments… not just the ones your child has received, helping them to reflect on Marriage (what weddings have I been to? who married my parents?) Holy Orders (name the priest who gave me my First Sacraments, who is my pastor? my bishop? our Pope?) and the Anointing of the Sick (who are we praying for? when have our loved ones passed away?) As with all of our Cathletics Craft Kits, each kit comes with permission to photocopy for one full class for one term

or for all the kids living in your house!

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Medieval Birthday Party 2011

Well, it’s Joe’s birthday again and he requested another medieval party. We have a luge run and a rink in our backyard. We had the Joust, King’s Crusade obstacle course, Ice (rink) Escape, Dragon Attack, Save the Maiden outside and the Castle Siege and Target Attack events inside… enough for everyone to get their own trophy from the dollar store. We chose to make just one big castle and enough catapults for everyone to launch their mini-marshmallows. I think next time I’ll chill the marshmallows beforehand so that they won’t get soft and gooey. Check out our directions for the castle and the catapults. I guess my camera was still a little cold from being outside. we’re done!

Jenny said…Wow, you guys know how to throw a birthday party! I’m a new follower, thanks for the visit.February 18, 2011 10:22 PM

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Family Traditions

Love Notes

This post about a Love Letters Tradition seems strangely familiar!  I have been writing these letters for years for each of my 5 kids…and a couple extra Godchildren as well. They have not yet seen these letters, describing them …sometimes from before they were born and then at least once a year (when I remember!).  I write about the crazy stuff they do, their favourite toy, the funny things they say…and that I love them.
I suspect that they will be surprised (unless they read this blog=) when they receive their collection of mail.

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First Holy Communion Scrapbooking!

Celebrate your child’s Journey of Faith!

This is our Journey with Jesus through Reconciliation and Holy Communion Craft Kit.
It includes 18 already researched, illustrated and formatted templates of prompting catechism and reflection questions.  As all our Cathletics Craft Kits, it comes with permission to photocopy for a whole class for one term or for all the kids in your family (who live with you) as they celebrate their First Sacraments!

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Monthly Devotions: February is the month of the HOLY FAMILY

Isn’t it interesting that although Christmas is over and we are approaching Lent, the Monthly Devotion for February is the Holy Family

Just when we put our nativities away, we have an excuse to reflect again on the Holy Family as a model for our own family life.  We remember life with a small baby, a toddler, a child, a tween, a teen and a young adult.

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SNOW DAY! Castle and catapult craft for everyone home in their castles!

OK, so it’s a bit of a stretch to tie this in with our Armor of God…
I just really want to include it because it’s very cool and very fun.

Check out how we revisited this craft for another Medieval Birthday Party this year with 10 year old boys.

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Guess Who ?

NEW! 2024 Guess Who? SAINTS! Craft Kit!

Guess Who? SAINTS! includes 2 templates to fit the original Guess Who? board game, complete with original artwork and TWO Blesseds! Get to know the Saints! Ask questions to identify the Saint your opponent has chosen! You will receive a link to download this digital file by email. This product will not be shipped to you. Anybody have the Guess Who game in their house? How about a Family Guess Who Game of familiar faces. You can make templates with pictures of your family and friends.  Imagine what funny questions you can ask to narrow the search, given how well you know your loved ones! How about a Guess Who Game of your Family Patron Saints?

It’s a fun way to familiarize the family with these holy heroes and as you learn more about them…the possibilities become endless for the questions that you will ask to guess the chosen saint!

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Perpetual Calendar

OK, so we’re a little late for the launch of the new calendar year, but this can really start anytime and be used year after year.  We created a template with 12 year old daughter Kelly’s awesome Kelly Comics and added family birthdates, First Sacrament dates, family Patron Saints’ dates and over time we continue to add any monumental firsts and family events and the dates that our loved ones have passed away. Email Monica@ArmaDei.com for a chance to win your own perpetual calendar, just by answering a couple questions about what you would like to see in this new family-culture-building product. Just write “calendar contest” in the subject line.  Thanks!

This is a new version of a custom calendar we made for our extended family a few years ago.  You can create one like this too, with your own collage of family pictures.  Once you format one and record your key family dates, you can get copies made for a treasured gift for your whole extended family!

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Kids QuoteBook

Kids say and do the funniest things.  We think we’re going to remember who said what when, but as the kids get older, it’s amazing how their antics can blend together!  Writing down the funny things they say and do at the time is the best!  The fridge calendar can be just that handy place to record all the little gems that you’ll be glad you captured.  Every once in a while…I have transposed those little dated moments in cute little dollar store books:  one for each child.  I have recorded first words, dates the teeth came in or out and monumental “firsts”.  I know which kid said “to da-vity and beyon’!” (quoting Buzz Lightyear), who challenged potty training “mommy, your job is not my problem!” , who sang “ring around the rosary” and who was my only kid to fall asleep on the toilet…so far.

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Review: A Treasure Chest of Traditions for Catholic Families by Welcome to Our Wonderland

This book is a true treasure for Catholic Families. The activities are simple and easy to do but you gain so much from them. … a wonderful book full of great faith enriching activities to use in our home.
See the rest of the review at Welcome to Our Wonderland

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