Celebrating Catholic Family and Faith with crafts, Catechesis and traditions!
Have you thought of what you’d like to do for Lent this year?
Giving up something, adding a prayerful devotion, donating money or time for the needs of the poor?
Here are a couple of links to print-and-pray craft kits that are EASY to adopt for a prayerFULL LENT, even if it’s totally LAST MINUTE!
Just in time…the Catholic Mom Bundle for Lent 2026 is available now!
Now, with this being my 21st Catholic Mom Bundle I’m participating in, I always look forward to sharing some sneak peeks into the Bundle and while I’m always kind of excited about the collection of resources, this Lent’s Bundle has some amazing offerings from some NEW contributors! One of the printables is over 200 pages and it outlines the different charisms we can encourage in our kids…and how to do just that!
These Rosary Resources are already researched and formatted with the prayers and Mysteries of the Rosary. The craft kits are fun activities to color, embellish and assemble into powerful prayer counters, keeping little hands busy and hearts focused and prayerful.
Spiritual Bouquet of Prayer Petal Flowers
This self-guided retreat is an invitation to rediscover prayer in the midst of ordinary life. Instead of waiting for the “perfect” quiet moment, or quieter season in your life, you’ll learn how to turn your real, everyday experiences into personal prompts to pray from the heart. Daily chores, routines, distractions, temptations, frustrations, and even your habits and weaknesses become gentle reminders to reach for the Lord. Nothing is wasted — every thought, feeling, and task can become a small, personal return to His presence…and a custom conversation-starter with Him. By the end of this retreat, you’ll be building a rhythm of prayer that grows naturally out of your real life,
In 2020, we released this deeply personal, but practical book about prayer: Prompt Me to Pray by Monica McConkey
Prompt Me to Pray by Monica McConkey presents practical tips for prayer that can be easily customized to fit our busy lives, habits, daily tasks, and even our struggles. Recognizing our littleness as an inexhaustible source of Prompts to Pray helps us to reach out humbly in prayer when we need Him most and reminds us that God can use all things for good.
The book features different approaches to heartfelt prayer, including journaling and praying out loud, with both spontaneous and classic prayers. It also includes journaling pages with specific writing prompts and prayers to customize your own personal plan for prayer, and a prayer vault of classic prayers and templates with full color pocket prayer prompts.
And now, we are offering a Self-Guided Retreat which includes the original book Prompt Me to Pray and the Retreat Companion workbook to crystallize your own customized Prayer plan, using personal and practical reminders that are unique to you!
The Retreat Companion is a 27-page booklet for your eyes only! Within these workbook pages, you can explore your most effective, consistent prompts, and practicing these prompts will most certainly lead to more consistent, heartfelt prayer as we strive to pray without ceasing. 1 Thessalonians 5:17
I love this quote from St. Alphonsus Liguori from his book How to Converse with God
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears– of everything that concerns you.
Do you yearn for your relationship with Jesus to feel deeper and more real?
Are you ready for your own personal season of consistent and intimate prayer from the heart?
This is our monthly summary of crafts and family traditions related to the Monthly Devotion, Key Feast Days, and the appropriate Season of the Liturgical Calendar. As our kids get older, our activities and commitment to Catholic crafts have changed and adjusted (at least for our last TEEN and young adult kids)! While we haven’t exactly been adding a lot of Catholic crafts around here, we do enjoy pulling out the crafts and programs we’ve developed over the years, sometimes sharing them with younger families in our parish!
This month, the official Devotion focuses on the Holy Family. What an awesome example of family life, St Joseph, Mother Mary, and Jesus offer us!
Holy Family Felt Friends Tutorial
Prompt Me to Pray by Monica McConkey presents practical tips for prayer that can be easily customized to fit our busy lives, habits, daily tasks, and even our struggles. Recognizing our littleness as an inexhaustible source of Prompts to Pray helps us to reach out humbly in prayer when we need Him most and reminds us that God can use all things for good.
Monica shares the Prompts to Pray that she has discovered as she pursues consistent, heartfelt prayer and a personal relationship with Jesus.
Since this book, we have created additional resources to prompt us to pray through the Liturgical Seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter.
We have created a number of Catholic Craft Kit Printables to prompt us to pray throughout all seasons of the Liturgical Calendar including the 32 or 33 weeks of Ordinary Time.
In the weeks a head we will be showing you a number of practical little gifts that will also prompt us all to pray
a little more every day!
23 Saints research templates formatted as full color recipe card/postcards with quick and quantifiable facts, plus black and white templates for research projects.
Saint Scripts Series FOUR contains the full color postcards plus blank templates with coloring picture for these Saints:
Ven Antonietta Meo, St Carlo Acutis, Bl Chiara Badano, St Damien of Molokai, St Dymphna, St Francesca, St Jacinta,
St Francis de Sales, Ven Fulton Sheen, St Gertrude, St Ignatius of Loyola, Bl Imelda Lambertini, St John of the Cross,
St José Sanchez del Rio, St Katherine Drexel, St Lazarus, St Martha, St Mary, St Perpetua, St Felicity, St Pier Giorgio Frassati,
St Philomena, St Rose of Lima. With permission to copy for a whole class!
Saint Scripts FOUR
The Holy Rummoli craft kit includes the 9 classic Card and Combo spaces, along with 8 additional custom Cathletics Card and Combo spaces, arranged to create the table-top Rummoli game.
Holy Rummoli can also be played with our own Cathletics Playing Cards!
You will love the thoughtful Card combos featuring our Catholic Faith and Catechism!
Holy Rummoli can be played with Cathletics (or a regular playing card deck) and a set of Poker Chips or Bingo tokens (not included).
Holy Rummoli!
Here’s something different! Here’s a Prayer App to help you say the 30 Day Cloak of St Joseph Novena using your phone!
A Pocket Prayer APP
The Cloak of St. Joseph
A meticulously designed 13-page PDF formatted to your PHONE!
This APP includes the entire 30-day Devotion of The Cloak of St Joseph, including all prayers and offerings, supplications, litany and invocations and includes our custom
Praying St Joseph illustration.
A Pocket Prayer APP for the Cloak of St Joseph
and consistent with our newly focused mission to prompt people to pray more consistently and from the heart (with the help of the Saints), here’s an introduction to a very special craft kit, close to my heart, that I created last year during Lent, too late to share for LAST Lent.
Advent starts on November 30th!
Here is our monthly summary of crafts and family traditions related to the Monthly Devotion, Key Feast Days, and the appropriate Season of the Liturgical Calendar: Advent!
It also includes 36 Jesse Tree / O Antiphon / Christmas ornaments and the St. Andrew’s Christmas Novena Prayer Tracker…and all of these you can print at home!
Buy Prompt Me to Pray for your best buddy who prays, and pick up the Prompt Me to Pray through Advent and Prompt Me to Pray through Christmas booklets to bump up your prayer right into the new year!
See the
Prompt Me to Pray through Advent
Prompt Me to Pray through Christmas
Prompt Me to Pray Advent and Book BUNDLE
are available by PDF or printed and shipped to you!
The Advent Calendar is a great way to countdown the days until Christmas.
Our own Jesse Tree and O Antiphon Advent Calendar is available by PDF and includes SO much!
This PREMIUM Craft Kit offers black and white templates to help you countdown (and pray!) through the days of Advent, with:
+one Letter-sized (8.5″x11″) fully illustrated Jesse Tree/O Antiphon/Saints Advent Calendar*
+one oversized (10″x15″) fully illustrated Jesse Tree/O Antiphon/Saints Advent Calendar*
+36 double-sided (2.5″) fully illustrated Jesse Tree/O Antiphon Advent Ornaments
+one fully illustrated Catholic Anticipation Prayer / St. Andrew’s Novena Prayer Counter
2025 Jesse Tree and O Antiphon Advent Calendar with Ornaments and Novena Prayer Counter
You’ll find lots of chocolate covered ones in the stores now, but you can make your own and fill it with dollarstore Nativity figures, holy medals, Saint pegs, Super Saints, printable Advent Quest challenges and of course your favorite treats or chocolates. There are so many ways to make an Advent Calendar (including this one we made years ago) and we found 35 [Awesome} DIY Advent Calendars here.
Fill up your Advent Calendar with faith-filled toys, treats and prayers:
The Jesse Tree is a wonderful faith-filled activity with Biblical symbols and figures and readings for each day of Advent. Jesus’ Lineage unfolds each day, leading up to His Birth on December 25th. You can make a nicely crafted banner like our The Family Handprint Jesse Tree and bring it out for Advent and Lent each year!
If you don’t want to just print yourself our BRAND NEW, SUPER EASY Jesse Tree Advent Calendar
Here are some of my other favorite Jesse Tree kits and tips:
It can be tricky getting those 3 purple and 1 white candles at the last minute, so we often pick them up throughout the year when we see them…or we’ve been known to tie purple and pink ribbons around white candles, in a pinch.
We’ve also used Dollar Store Votive candles and dressed them up in purple and pink!
One year, we made this Mailbox Blessings Advent Wreath and wrote little notes to each other throughout Advent, placing them in these adorable little mailboxes.
DIY Advent Wreath with Dollar Store Votives
Advent is an excellent opportunity to ramp up our family prayers…morning, before or after meals, around the Advent Wreath, in the car (bustling around to different events) or at bedtime!
Here are some of our prayerful craft kit printables to get you started:
This time of year there is a lot of talk about different activities and family traditions to help focus Advent within the family. Don’t try them all at once! Choose one that’s right for you and get your kids involved to keep it going throughout Advent. If good deeds and sacrifices are part of your Advent tradition…consider Nesting…for Sock Baby Jesus.
This year we hosted a Sock Baby Jesus Workshop! Every kid made their own Sock Baby Jesus and we even made a couple more to give to a few other families in our Parish!
Looking for a gift for your Mom or best friend?
Check out our Catholic Stamps at the
Prayer Impressions Journal Stamp Shoppe at Arma Dei!
We now have 145 Consecration, Prayer Journal, Accountability, Signature, Saints, Seasons, Sacraments and Rosary Stamps!
If you have purchased Saint Scripts ONE, TWO or THREE Craft Kit printables from us before, you’ll know that each Craft Kit includes full color postcards of 20+ Saints, along with half-page black and white templates with the illustrated saint to color and a layout for the facts!
Each Craft Kit offers 20+ Saints research templates formatted as full color recipe card/postcards with quick and quantifiable facts, plus black and white templates for research projects. Now, get ALL FOUR to round out your SAINT RESOURCES!
contains the full color recipe cards plus blank templates with coloring picture for these Saints: St Andre, St Anthony, St Catherine, St Christopher, St Clare, St Dominic, St Faustina, St Francis, St John, St Jude, St Nicholas, St Pio, St Patrick, St Paul, St Peter, St Raphael, St Rita, St Teresa, St Therese, St Vincent AND Jesus
contains the full color recipe cards plus blank templates with coloring picture for these Saints: St Agnes, St Anne, St Augustine, St Benedict, St Bernadette, St Cecilia, St Gabriel, St George, St Gerard, St Gianna, St Joan, St John Paul II, St Joseph, St Juan, St Kateri, St Lucy, St Maria, St Maximilian, St Michael, St Monica AND Blessed Virgin Mary
contains the full color recipe cards plus blank templates with coloring picture for these Saints: St Agatha, St Brendan, St Brigid, St Gemma, St Joachim, St John the Apostle, St John the Baptist (new and improved), St John Bosco, St Josemaría Escrivá , St Josephine, St Lawrence, St Luke, St Mark, St Mary Magdalene, St Matthew, St Philip Neri, St Teresa of Avila, St Thomas the Apostle, St Thomas Aquinas, PLUS St Louis and St Zélie!
contains Ven Antonietta Meo, St Carlo Acutis, Bl Chiara Badano, St Damien of Molokai, St Dymphna, St Francesca, St Jacinta, St Francis de Sales, St Gertrude, St Ignatius of Loyola, Bl Imelda Lambertini, St John of the Cross, St José Sanchez del Rio, St Katherine Drexel, St Lazarus, St Martha, St Mary, St Perpetua, St Felicity, St Pier Giorgio Frassati, St Philomena, St Rose of Lima
Permission to copy for a whole class!
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