Celebrating Catholic Family and Faith with crafts, Catechesis and traditions!
Getting organized for the new year?
Have you seen our NEW Communion of Saints Family Calendar!?
It’s a Perpetual Calendar…so it can be used YEAR after YEAR!
If you mark your special family dates ONCE (birthdays, Sacrament anniversaries, milestones), you can make copies of the calendar for Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, and cousins. We have…and now the WHOLE family has a record of ALL the same family dates, to which they can add their own!
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We have all heard the Nativity story, seen reenactments of Jesus’ Birth in school plays, Church pageants and even on the big screen. Santa Claus is pretty prevalent too, and we’re looking for ways to overpower the looming inflatable Santa Claus and Frosty that have adorned the house next door since mid-November.
Here is a simple way to get started making a family tree.
It is a new-and-improved Family Fun Craft Kit, extracted from our Faith Journal Hand in Hand with Jesus. There are two templates included with instructions. “My Roots” offers an opportunity for more info about each family member, while “The Family Tree” offers a bigger picture of where all the relatives fit!Sorry that this printable is no longer available!
We are big fans of St Padre Pio. It started when my daughter Kelly picked up the little monk statue at a bookstore. She started reading books about him and he became one of our favorite family patron Saints. We even made a St Padre Pio Wooden Painted Saint.
There is a great series of blog posts linked over at Enter Under My Roof, celebrating Marriage, Passion, Love and Faith.
I’m not an official contributor, but I wanted to join in!
These are some of our go-to, at-home dates…at times accommodating limited funds and limited babysitting!
Anyone want to share any favorite moments or quotes from their family? Share in the comments!
Build a Family Journal of Firsts & Family Events or create your own Kid Quotebooks!
You’ll find these and other ways to fill your Family Treasure Chest in
I like that Adam thought of stacking these cars … and then he just went ahead and did it.
I like how Adam clearly put on his own shoes.
I like how the floating pollen/blossoms just make his waterplay more interesting.
Isn’t Pinterest fun? My only challenge about pinterest…is how to really use it to create things to help my family! It’s so easy to pin pretty pictures, but sometimes they just gather on my pinboards and I don’t actually try the craft or recipe. I have been delighted to discover awesome artists who I would not have found without pinterest, but I don’t always remember to visit my ‘artwork’ pinboard to admire all of the work. Together with prayers I have managed to find and pin, I have created a new Prayer Book Pinboard, but this time…I have an action plan! This collection will be used to build something!
Bill and I met almost 21 years ago at my first Young Adult meeting at St Patrick’s Parish. He was leading the group…and I was just checking out the Catholic scene at home, after returning from my 2nd year in Architecture in a city 5 hours away.
Catholic Family Fun by Sarah Reinhard is a playful book, jammed-packed with everyday activities and adventures for families, using easy to find materials that you probably have on hand….or requiring nothing but a burst of energy to run around outside.
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