Equipping Catholic Families

This is our newest addition to our TY doll Saints, because we wanted our other Saint dolls to be able to hang out with Jesus.

Since we had Mother Mary and St. Joseph in TY doll form, we were thinking about what it must have been like with Jesus at home, in those quiet years as a child, a teen and a young adult…before He began His Public Ministry.

March 25 is the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord!
For a description of this important day, plus prayers, readings and great ways to celebrate,
check out this site. Also…check out these FREE resources to help teach about this great event, the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Angel Gabriel.

My friend Lucia tranformed a TY doll into
this St. Joseph saint doll.
Aren’t his little
carpentry tools great?

We love kind, gentle, patient and protective
St. Joseph!

This is our favorite prayer for St. Joseph’s intercession.

This is our new St. Patrick TY doll.
Check out our introduction to the TY Saints dolls at this
Equipping Catholic Families post.
These are the before and after makeover pictures.

I took creative license and chose a doll with red hair for the irish St. Patrick, even though all the pictures I have of St. Patrick show an old bishop with gray hair.  I choose to believe that he was a redhead.  I gave the doll a significant haircut and transplanted some of the hair for the beard and moustache. This will be a big relief to my four year old who couldn’t understand how I could pretend that a girl doll could be St. Patrick.

A few years ago, dollar stores were selling off
TY Teenie Beanie Bopper dolls.
My friend Lucia began collecting these dolls and turning them into her family’s favorite saints!
She told me how she found the little accessories at dollar stores and craft shops.
Her 7 kids love playing with the dolls and learning about the saints.
She even sent me one of them…Blessed John Paul 2!