Celebrating Catholic Family and Faith with crafts, Catechesis and traditions!
Don’t forget to check out Blog in a Blink 2014: Part TWO for July-December highlighted posts!
January!
We discovered making Saints out of Egg Cartons with
We also launched our special Reconciliation Peek Sheets Printable! Perfect for your First Reconciliation Prep or a Reconciliation Refresher!
We were inspired by the book Bambinelli Sunday. See Bridget’s review below!
We decided to take advantage of the SNOW DAY … and make our own Bambinelli.
I was intrigued by 2 different homemade recipes for dough I found online: one for salt/flour dough and one for corn starch/baking soda dough. The corn starch dough made a cool kind of dough and it’s nice and smooth and bright white, but we must have done something wrong, because it will not keep its’ shape. The trusty salt dough was easier to work with and even though it can get a little crumbly, we like how our Bambinelli turned out.
December 8th is the Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception. This Feast Day does not celebrate Jesus’ Conception, but rather Mary’s conception within the womb of her mother, St Anne. This special day appropriately occurs 9 months before the Birth of Mary within the Liturgical Calendar.
1. Last year, I made a Sock Baby Jesus in a Clementine Box Crib and it was SO EASY and SO CUTE and was made completely from a lone sock, some fabric scraps and a clementine crate!
2. This year, I was inspired by Tracy at Slice of Smith Life with her post about all of her family Advent traditions and the fact that she uses string for straw in her manger.
So, thanks to the new Ladies Group at our Church, I made a new Advent Wreath this year! I know it looks a little like a ball of cedar, but it was fun to make and gave us the push we needed to commit to the Advent Wreath and prayers this year.
Add Advent Prayer Pockets to your Advent celebrations this year!
Add prayerful focus to your Advent Calendar, Mealtime Prayer, Family Time…or keep the perfect Advent prayers handy when you light your Advent Wreath!
Last year, 15 year old Kelly sketched 42 Saints for me for our Saint Scripts Craft Kits.
You can make your flipbook of Saint postcards with the Saint Scripts Craft Kits!
In the spring, I formatted the collection of Saints into little templates for the Kelly Saints Stamps Craft Kit.
Here’s a quick index of the ways to use this one craft kit, Kelly Saints Stamps:
Convert classic games to be Catholic, using the templates to make Saint game pieces!
Pressman Toy Checkers Board Games
The Kelly Saints Stamps templates are formatted in different layouts, different sizes and 2 different backgrounds. They can but cut into individual square stamps or into perfect circles with various sized circle punches…like this one: Martha Stewart Crafts Punch, 1-Inch Circle
Once cut, the Kelly Saints Stamps can be used in so many ways!
that's right...there are some Amazon Affiliate links in this post, in case you don't already have these classic family games. It's true that with your purchase through these links, I could puff up my $6.84 affiliate balance over at Amazon to 10 whole dollars and qualify for a gift card...holding my breath. =)
I’ve been a fan of Holy Traders Saint Trading Cards for quite some time and I was excited to discover that there are now SIX sets of cards available!
I was also excited to discover that there is now a comprehensive Holy Traders Activity Kit available through Seton…and even more excited to have the opportunity to review it, receiving my own Holy Traders Activity Kit in exchange for my honest review.
After my recent trip to Rome…I’m even more inspired by the Saints! All of them!
With the Feast of All Saints coming up…I thought I’d offer a sitemap of Saints activities and craft kits, along with All Saints resources I have collected online.
Excerpts from A Treasure Chest of Traditions for Catholic Families , various posts at Equipping Catholic Families and our Saint Scripts Craft Kits (Series ONE and TWO).
St Thérèse inspires us all with her child-like Faith and confident “little way” …offering sacrifices out of love for Jesus and trusting completely in Him!
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