Equipping Catholic Families

October for Catholics

October 7, 2011 by Monica McConkey 2 Comments

October is the month of the Rosary! Teach kids…as young as toddlers to say the Rosary with this simple paper craft, the Spiritual Bouquet of Prayer Petal Flowers! The flowers may look a little crazy at the end of it, but Grandma will appreciate the unique spiritual bouquet! St Therese is an important Saint for the month of October! Check out our Good Deed Bead Bracelets inspired by St Therese! Check out our TY dolls to Saints Makeovers! Can you spot the October Saints in the picture? Let the Saints guide you through the Liturgical Calendar! Check out these other links of creative ideas to celebrate the Catholic Faith! This is my brand new button! I’m starting a new brand of post on my blog. Each “Links of Light Bulbs” will offer a collection of neat ideas I have found online, with a quick picture, a link to their original source and any extra commentary or ideas I plan to add when I try it through my blog. Anyone else want to join in? Please borrow my button…and any links back to my site are always appreciated!

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Filed Under: Catholic Crafts, Catholic Link-Ups

Top Ten Ways to Recycle an empty Peanut Butter Jar

October 7, 2011 by Monica McConkey 1 Comment

1. Travel Ice Box: nice and cold, no leaks and melts into refreshing drinking water! Fill with ice cubes…just don’t fill the whole jar with water and freeze because the plastic jar will crack with the lightest of taps on a counter. Trust me.

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Color Me Catholic! Learn the New Mass!

September 28, 2011 by Monica McConkey 2 Comments

Color Me Catholic: New Roman Missal Edition!

Cathletics Craft Kit

Monica McConkey (Author) Price: $16 U.S.Printed Version to be shipped (Shipping will be $6 to the U.S.)

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Product Details
1 color cover, 20 black and white templates (double-sided printing), 3 black and white templates for the instructions and folder, permission to photocopy for single household or single class term use, all contained in a clear plastic 11″x 9″ envelope.

Instructions and templates to create 10 mini-booklets, each offering 8 mini coloring pages of treasured Vessels, Vestments & Symbols, Church Furnishings, Parts of the Mass and Sacraments & Sacramentals plus 8 pages of phrases from the New Roman Missal Mass in sequential order.
A template is also included to create a folder to hold the booklets.

Filed Under: Catholic Crafts

Journey with Jesus Cathletics Craft Kits

September 21, 2011 by Monica McConkey 5 Comments

Three already-researched and formatted templates for Sacrament based scrapbook and journalling crafts, inspired by our unique Faith Journal Hand in hand with Jesus.

The square templates can be cut to fit into an 8″x8″ constructed or store-bought scrapbook or folded according to the enclosed instructions for an ACCORDIAN BOOK. Coloring and scrapbooking techniques are recommended to embellish the layouts, along with the clipart provided.

Filed Under: Catholic Crafts, Sacraments

Kelly’s Comics "Up and Adam" in Faith & Family Magazine

September 20, 2011 by Monica McConkey 1 Comment

I finally received my copy of the summer issue of Faith & Family Magazine. This is Kelly’s first installment of Up and Adam, a comic about the adventures of her baby brother Adam. I hope you “like” Kelly Comics Facebook Page as you check out Kelly’s work or see Our Family in Cartoon! read more...for Equipping Catholic Families!

Filed Under: Kelly Comics

First Ever Catholic Pinterest PinBoard Share

September 20, 2011 by Monica McConkey 14 Comments

Filed Under: link-up, Catholic Bloggers Network

Superhero Party

September 18, 2011 by Monica McConkey 4 Comments

When Joseph was 6, we had a Superhero Birthday Party.

We made special invitations with a registration form to let the kids think about what superpowers they would like and what would be their superhero name and secret identity.

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Guest Blogger: John Eklund of The Third Testament

September 16, 2011 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

Watch for an upcoming

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The Practice of the Presence of God: Summary Review and Doodle

September 13, 2011 by Monica McConkey 4 Comments

This is my copy of The Practice of the Presence of God.
I picked it up years ago at a used bookstore.
This “10th printing” edition was 20 years old back then and it remains a classic! (The first edition of the book was originally published in 1958.)

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Miniature Memory Game: Converted to Catholic!

September 10, 2011 by Monica McConkey 4 Comments

I saw this cute Miniature Memory Game and thought I’d like to ‘convert it to Catholic’!
I found my 3/4″ circle punch and started cutting out the images. I figured I could use duplicate holy cards (not that I really want to cut into them, but you can get such beautiful saint images!), or duplicate Christmas cards for the images.
I happen to have the added advantage of having lots of Cathletics Playing Cards and Reverence and Awe Collector Cards. The Reverence and Awe Collector Cards have colorful illustrations of Vessels and Vestments and Sacramentals which are great for these miniatures. Depending on how they are cropped, they could be a little abstract…but very interesting. I just have to make sure to crop them in the same place, so that the 2 images are identical.

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