Another year, we made the Stepping Stones through Jesus’ Life. The path was made of velcro pieces, on top of adhesive carpet tile found at the dollar store. The pictures were borrowed from The Jesus Tree at Shower of Roses, hair-sprayed and mod-podged to glass pebbles from the dollar store. Each day throughout Lent, we added the pebble, making the journey to the Crucifix, from the Teach Me to Discover – Lent & Easter CD at Catholic Artworks.
Keeping the Love of Jesus… in Lent!
February 19, 2013 by 29 Comments
All for JESUS Lent Challenge
February 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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I thought a neat way for both of our families and our readers to tackle Lent together would be for a good old fashioned All for Jesus Lent Challenge. Hey Frankie, just so you know, there are PRIZES!
So basically, every week people could choose their best =&1=& or a special chore they carried out, keeping Jesus’ Sacrifice in mind =&2=&. They would visit either your Mom’s blog or my Mom’s blog and enter their weekly challenge after they completed it. At the end of Lent, you (Frankie) and I could randomly choose a couple entries and those people would win a free download link to their choice of one of my Mom’s=&5=&=&6=& Now, just so all the nice people know…we’re probably going to be a little biased when we pick the winning entries. =&7=& People can enter by 1. joining the link-up below =&8=& 2. they can leave comments below that include the words=&9=& along with a =&10=& of the challenge that they conquered =&11=&(in case they win!).My mom will probably add the first one in the link-up, but it might be kind of lame, because we’re just getting started (and she also doesn’t want to win in place of anyone else=)
A Letter to Frankie about the All for Jesus Lent Challenge
February 7, 2013 by 1 Comment
Hi Frankie,
Nice to hear about your plans for Lent. I like your =&0=&(wow, do you get to hold a candle?!?) and I think the counting to 40 after Grace before Meals is a simple, but pretty effective idea. I’ve been insisting on leading Grace for my family these days, but I think that they suspect that I don’t really know all the words. I don’t think I can quite count to 40 (maybe 11, with a couple jumbled numbers?) but I bet one of my older sisters or brother could lead that.Well, I showed you in my last letter some of the things my family has done for Lent in the past. I like how your family does so many different things and you try to make them a habit for the rest of the year. I suspect that our family will try to do one or two things…maybe even a different focus for each week in Lent.
Adam’s got mail! Frankie’s Guide for Lent
February 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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here’s Frankie’s latest letter over at Catholic All Year:=&1=&
Hey Frankie! Meet Boppa!
January 31, 2013 by 3 Comments
…another letter from
Adam to Frankie in the Catholic Toddler Letters
Hi Frankie,
Well, I’m not sure if you remember in my last letter how I asked
“Hey Frankie, what’s the deal with the other people (without little kids) insisting on sitting at the end of the pew so that it’s really hard for parents to leave the pew with a screaming kid?”
Simplified Seder Supper
April 5, 2012 by 4 Comments
Jesus was celebrating the Seder Supper
AS He instituted the Holy Eucharist,
knowing that He would take the place of the Sacrificial Lamb.
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NEW! EXPANDED Seder Supper Craft Kit includes the SCRIPT!
Expanded Seder Supper with Script $6 PDF Download OR you can get our original Simplified Seder Supper printable for FREE using the codes below. Our Simplified Seder Supper…is an excerpt from A Treasure Chest of Traditions for Catholic Families, reformatted into a neat 2 page printable with a couple new illustrations. This is a sneak peek at the printable! Before you =&3=&Stations of the Cross Carousel
March 21, 2011 by 18 Comments
I was looking for an excuse to use these great Stations of the Cross images from Catholic Artworks Teach Me to Discover – Lent & Easter CD and I decided to adapt a craft called the Prayer Carousel
from A Treasure Chest of Traditions for Catholic Families.
I ended up creating my own rotating (lazy susan!) display of the Stations of the Cross (see below!)
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We now have our own Stations of the Cross Craft Kit featuring the wonderful kid-friendly images drawn by 16 year old Kelly!
Instructions are included within this kit to make the Stations of the Cross Carousel…without the paper tube this time!
New! Stations of the Cross Craft Kit with Kelly Saints!
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Crown of Thorns
March 9, 2011 by 1 Comment
This is our Crown of Thorns for this Lent.
The toothpicks will slowly be removed and eventually replaced with flowers, as we sacrifice, do good deeds, say extra prayers
…or choose not to complain.
See other versions of the Crown of Thorns here.
As I prayed about what I should ‘do’ this year for Lent, this is what I felt I was being told.
“Choose not what you know you can be successful at,
but what will draw you closer to Me.”
Stepping Stones through Jesus’ Life
March 8, 2011 by 8 Comments
Inspired by the Shower of Roses Jesus Tree post, I came up with my own paper version. Although I used some of the images from the kit that Shower of Roses posted, I added my own images for many of the days and formatted them into little stamps. I also added some stamps for Ash Wednesday, St. Patrick’s Day, the Solemnity of St. Joseph and Jesus’ Birth.
