Welcome to Catholic Icing! This is my Printable Lenten Calendar for Kids. It’s free for everyone to print- just click the link below. It runs from Ash Wednesday through Easter, and it’s good for every year.
Last year, my Lenten calendar was used for CCD classes, and in many homes! I loved some of the displays I saw. Check out this one from Lord, Make Me a Saint.
My Lenten calendar was actually translated into Italian last year! Isn’t that so cool?! I love the internet! 
And my favorite way that I saw it used (and something I am definitely doing with my own children and my preschool class this year) is to put it in a lapbook like Homeschool Goodies! Check this out- very cool!
*Translations of my Lenten Calendar*
One of my readers changed the Lenten calendar up a bit to work for the Byzantine Catholic church! Isn’t that cool? You can visit her blog, The Whole Trouble Is for a printable Lenten calendar for Eastern Catholics. Also, Xhonane from Familia Catolica translated it into Spanish, so the Spanish Lenten Calendar is also available to print for free. How awesome is that?! It’s also now available in Japanese.
If you would like to translate it into another language, just be sure you let me know and link back to Catholic Icing giving credit for the original source. I would love to include your link for others to use!
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I really enjoyed this! I am printing as we speak. This is a great resource for the kids and a great way to follow Lent. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Lacey! I am really excited about this! I wanted to tell you I saw Catholic Icing mentioned in Catechist magazine this month. I was so excited and squealed "I read that every day!!!" I hope that brings you more traffic to your wonderful and inspiring site! God bless you and your family!
Just wonderful, Lacy!
I voted! Can we vote more than once?
Thanks for the link and reminder of what to get ready….lent will come fast!
OK, I should clarify, I voted for YOU!
I just shared your calendar in my post yesterday and I was thinking I wish you had that in Spanish, but now that you shared the one in Italian maybe I should try to translate it myself, if I have time! Congratulations!!
Thanks Lacy!
Love it
When I try to print this Lenten calendar, it only prints the top portion. No one else here seems to be having that problem…
Thanks, Lacy!!
thank you thank you! I have used this in the past and am happy to see the reminder and print it off again for this year!! I love it!
Awesome, awesome, awesome, I really love the lapbook idea! Thanks for all your inspiration and for making it all so cute!!
Just printed it! I see I am not the only one gearing up for Lent….this is great! Thanks for the lapbook link too!
I voted for you last week, even though I am really fond of some of the other blogs – but I have to say I get more out of this blog than all the others!
Is it ok to distibute the Lent calendar at my parishes?
Hi Lacey! Thank you for sharing this! I really hope you don't mind if I translate your calendar to spanish. I think it's a masterpiece and my little friends will definitely learn so much from it.
bobo (blessings and hugs)
MJ
Lucy–I did the same thing. Make sure you have the whole document up then print.
Lacey-We have one of these in a picture frame from last year. It will be on our family altar again. I printed some out for the kiddos to color. My daughter was asking about the fish. So it was a great way to introduce her to the practice of eatting fish during Lent. BTW— She says thank you:)
Thank you so much for this! I just printed it out. (I also linked to it on my blog and went and voted for you.
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Thanks! using this for our Sunday school..I'm sure they will love it!! And saved us some money, which is always great!!
Thanks! This is awesome!
LOVE this calendar idea! My kids are excited to use it, and I feel that it will help me in my own Lenten journey. Thanks for sharing!
Ready Lacy!!
Your calendar is now offically translated into Spanish!!
Here is the link:
http://familiacatolica-org.blogspot.com/2011/02/calendario-de-cuaresma-de-catholic.html
blessings!!
Thank you, thank you for great printables! Just what I needed for my 2nd grade class!
It's a really good idea!
I'm sorry, I feel a little slow but you wrote that the calendar is good for this year but aren't St. Patrick day too late and March since we are starting in Lent in March this year. I don't know how to edit it before I print out.
Oh, thank you. I'm so glad I found your Catholic blog!!!! I'm using this starting Wed., March 9. Ryan, you don't need to change the numbers. They represent the 40 days of lent, not the numbers on a calendar. Hope that helps (i.e. #1 will be colored on Wednesday, March 9, 2011).
I'm still confused. Isn't St. Patrick's day day 8 of Lent this year? But the calendar has it at day 29. Can someone help before I print.
Thanks figured it out. I'm a little slow….kids will love this!!! Thanks,
We used your Lenten calendar for our CCD lesson this evening. Imagine my surprise when my younger son came home with the same thing! Just proves that great minds think alike. Thank you for everything that you do to education us!
Hi Lacy! I´m wrinting from Brazil and I really LOVE your idea. I will print and use in my catechism classes. Congratulations on your blog! This is the first catholic blog that I have seen in English!
Thank You.
Hi Lacy! I´m wrinting from Brazil and a really LOVE this calendary. I will print and use in the cathecism classes in my city. Congratulations on your blog, there are excelent ideas…
Thank You!!
Just wonderful, Lacy!
This is really nice! Do you think you could make an Advent Calendar? The ones that they sell in the stores all have 24 days, and Advent is amywhere between 22 and 28 days long, so these are not true Advent calendars. Just something to think about.
I think about this EVERY YEAR! So true… it changes every year. The Lenten calendar would always work, but I’d have to update the advent calendar. We’ll see.
I cannot wait to ACTUALLY use this this year! I downloaded it and even printed it last year and just never quite got around to it, but this year I am bound and determined to use it with the lapbook idea.
Keep up the amazing work!
Also, just a quick note: I plan on adding in some of the major saint feast days, both cultural and liturgical. For example, we’re Irish, so St. Patrick’s Day is big, even in Lent and the Feast of St. Joseph is a major Church feast regardless of culture, even in Lent. Just a thought to share
I have translated it into Japanese and adapted it for our Sunday School. Thank you so much! (Nagasaka St. Mary’s Church, Yokohama Diocese, Anglican-Episcopal Church in Japan)
I’m sorry that I forgot to write the url: http://kumanomi.ferio.net/diary2/archives/131.html
Oh, never mind! Lol!
Can you email it to me in Japanese? That would be awesome!
Hi Lacy,
You’re website is great! Could you give me some ideas on how to use the calendar? The one idea that comes to mind is coloring a square for each day. Is this how you’d use it?
Either that, or color it all before lent begins and put a sticker on each day.
I may be revealing my ignorance here, but aren’t there 40 days betweeen Ash Wednesday and Palm Sunday, not Easter Sunday? I mean, shouldn’t Palm Sunday be Day 40 and then Holy Week is 41-46 (or 47 if you number Easter) or something like that?
Thanks!
No, there’s more. Isn’t that interesting? I didn’t know until I designed this calendar actually. The Sundays really don’t “count”.
Oh my GOODNESS! I’m DOUBLY glad I found your site! Totally linking you through my blog if you don’t mind. How fabulous! Your site is such a wonderful resource!!! Blessings to you!
I can’t wait to utilize this for my class tonight – how lucky to have happened across this just in time for class tonight! The Holy Spirit has been kind to me! Thank you!
So glad to hear it!