Baptism

Holy Spirit Craft – Handprint Dove

November 24, 2010 By Lacy

Catholic ABC’s Week: 13
Letter of the week: H
Theme: Holy Spirit
Saint of the Week: St. Helen
Craft: Holy Spirit Handprint Dove

As you all know, I love handprint crafts! For this one, start with a red piece of paper (the symbolic color for the Holy Spirit) and make a white handprint. Run glue up each finger (not the thumb) and attach a white feather. Add a yellow triangle beak and one googly eye- voila! A Holy Spirit Dove. The one above was made by my 4 year old daughter. The one below was made by my 2 year old son.

Grab Bag Ideas for the Letter Hh: (be sure to check out the Classroom Scriptfor directions on using the grab bag.) Horse, Hat, Hairbrush, Happy face, Hippo, Headband.

For More Resources, check out the Catholic Toolbox lesson plans for the Letter Hh. (Her Hh lesson is also on the Holy Spirit!)

Catholic ABC’s runs here at Catholic Icing every Wednesday with the newletter of the week. You can get the details of this program by checkingout the Classroom Script. We will be taking a few weeks off from this at Christmas, but I decided to go ahead this week even with Thanksgiving. God bless!

Filed Under: Baptism, Catholic ABC's, Christian, Confirmation, Holy Spirit, My Crafts 3 Comments

Make a Catholic Baby Present

August 6, 2010 By Lacy

By the end of the year, I will be and Aunt 3 more times! Yay! I wanted to make some Catholic baby gifts for the Mommies-to-Be, so I made these Catholic Novelty shirts:

You can get plain white onesies in packs of 5 at Wal-Mart. I actually found these 2 at the Salvation Army.

What you’ll Need:

Onesies
Pencil
Fabric Paint (assorted colors)

Once you choose what you want your shirt to say, sketch it on the shirt with a pencil. (Extra pencil lines you make will wash out when you’re done, so don’t stress over them.)

Once you have it like you want it, draw over your pencil lines with fabric paint.

I decided that I wanted the onesies to have a little more personality, so I added some “extras”- like this Jesus fish!

If you want to add a rosary around your design, then make your biggest dot right at the bottom (where the rosary ‘splits’) and then 4 more big dots evenly spaced at the “4 corners” of your design. Then you can just fill in between each one with 10 small dots. Add the “beads” that hang down and the cross last. Ta da!

I also love adding little halos with gold glitter fabric paint. I think the halos are cutest when they’re oval shaped and a little crooked.

Here’s my little angel in her new “Cradle Catholic” onesie!

Here are some other things your Catholic novelty shirts could say: *I’m going to keep updating this list whenever I find other cute phrases*

Catholic Girl
I Love my Godmother (or Godfather, or Godparents)
World’s Best Goddaughter! (or Godson)
100% Angel
Born to Love Jesus
Jesus Loves Me
Jesus was Breastfed
Mommy’s Answered Prayers

Know of something else cute to write on the shirts? Leave it in the comments!

Filed Under: Baby, Baptism, Gift Ideas, My Crafts 11 Comments

Celebrate a Baptism Party!

June 4, 2010 By Lacy

I have something special planned for today- I’d like to invite you to join me in celebrating my daughter’s baptism! It’s actually a triple baptism, so that’s triple the fun So come on in, and enjoy the party- you’re invited!

These beautiful invitations were made especially for Violet’s baptism by Alicia from Through My “I”s. I love how she made them purple to go with her name! You can special order cards and invites for your Catholic occasions (or any occasion for that matter) from Alicia’s Etsy Shop

Are you hungry? Please have a piece of cake! It would have been cool to make it myself, but with 8 house guests staying with us, it seemed easier to just order one. This one came from Costco.

Now that you have some cake, pull up a chair and make yourself comfortable! And look at these custom holy cards my mom ordered for the party. Here, take one! They’re for the guests.

Check out this hankie bonnet my mom got for baby Violet! She wears it as a bonnet at her baptism, and then with the snip of a string it becomes a hanker chief for her to use at her wedding as “something old”. Isn’t that a great baptism gift idea? It’s pretty easy to make a hankie bonnet yourself.

I forgot to introduce you to my friends! How rude of me. To my right is Violet’s Godmother. This is also her baby’s baptism party. To my left is a great friend of mine- her daughter was baptized today, too! Can you believe we all had baby girls at the same time? We’re so lucky!

Look at her baptism gown! It’s been in my family for 5 generations. It was made by Violet’s Great Great Great Grandmother (yes, that’s 3 greats) and worn by her Great Great Grandmother, and every generation in between. I have no idea how many family members have been baptized in this gown, but it’s a lot! Including me You don’t have an heirloom like this? Why don’t you sew a gown?

Here, would you take my camera and click one of Mark and I with the baby? Thanks!

I sure hope you enjoyed yourself! I know I enjoyed sharing this very special day with you. I just love having great Catholic friends!

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Catholic Baptism Video

May 24, 2010 By Lacy

As most of you know, I have a 3 week old baby who was baptized yesterday! I thought I would share this video we made of my other daughter’s baptism. (She is now 4). My mom and I used to make wedding videos together, so sometimes we get a little carried away with our home movies.

If you like the “Tiny Hands, Precious Feet” song that we used, you can order the album from Catholic Child. These are beautiful lullabies for Catholic babies!

This baptism was a really big deal to our parish because we were college students at the time and were very involved in our on campus church. As you can imagine, it was not a parish that saw many babies or baptisms.

Hope you all had a wonderful Pentecost!