Catholic ABC’s Week: 29
Letter of the week: Y
Theme: Saying Yes to God!
Saint of the Week: St. Yolanda
Craft: ‘Yes Lord’ thumbs up craft

I am nearing the end of the alphabet with the letter “Y”. I can’t believe I’m almost finished! Y was a harder letter to “craft” than I thought it would be, but I’m very happy with this “Yes, Lord” craft I came up with. I was first introduced to the “Yes, Lord” song as a high school youth conference, so it always makes me smile.

This is a very simple craft to make. Just have your child trace their hand, and help them cut it out if necessary. Fold the fingers back to glue it into a thumbs up “Yes”, and add a cross. Write “Yes, Lord” with a marker, and tape a string or pipe cleaner on the back to make it into a hang-able ornament.

is sticking up nice and high!

Catholic ABC’s Week: 28
Letter of the week: X
Theme: St. Xavier
Saint of the Week: St. Xavier
Craft: Spoon Saint Xavier
 

 

We watched
Francis Xavier and the Samurai’s Lost Treasure DVD which was a lot of fun! This is a cute movie, and full of adventure (read- great for little boys!). Some of the movies made by this company (CCC of America) are a little scary for small kids, and I don’t love all of them, but this one I recommend without reservations. While these movies aren’t “Disney quality”, they are pretty good. If you don’t want to buy it without seeing it first, you can rent it from Pius Media, and coupon code BVM1 will give 50% off your first month’s subscription with them. Yay!!

In this movie, St. Francis Xavier saves a child from a tiger, deters pirates, and is protected by God from a pit of hungry alligators! The black pom pom ball is our “black pearl”. This was a really fun movie to make crafts for! So we made a spoon craft alligator, tiger, and pirate as well!

Tiger Spoon Craft
Color with orange marker, add face with black marker, cut out construction paper ears with black marker details, and wind with a piece of black embroidery foss for the stripes.

Alligator Spoon Craft
Color spoon green with marker, and glue on googly eyes. Use zig zag scissors to cut out teeth and stripes, then attach with glue.

Pirate Spoon Craft
Draw on beard with a brown marker, then add googly eyes. fold a hat using black construction paper, and glue on his head. Use a red marker to add stripes to his shirt.

We were really into this one (my kids being excited about the movie and all) so then we crafted an alligator out of a clothes pin. This was really fun! We colored him with a marker, and used 2 sideways green pony beads to hold the googly eyes on top of his head. Again with the zig zag scissors for his teeth, and we folded some construction paper accordion style to glue on his back. You can make the alligator open and close his mouth by pinching the clothes pin, but God protects St. Francis Xavier from being attacked!

Have fun learning about St. Xavier and the letter X!

Grab Bag Ideas for the Letter X: (be sure to check out the Classroom Script
for directions on using the grab bag.) picture of an X-ray, Xylophone, foX, boX, crucifiX, waX, the number siX, plastic aX, toolboX.

For More Resources, check out the Catholic Toolbox lesson plans for the Letter Xx. (Her Xx lesson is on Xerxes.)

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Catholic ABC’s Week: 27
Letter of the week: W w
Theme: World
Saint of the Week: St. William
Craft: He’s got the Whole World in His Hands!

 

This lesson starts with singing! Sing He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands with your kids, and talk to them about it! Don’t forget the hand motions! This craft is super easy to make, and I’m willing to bet you have all the supplies you need already.

• Blue and Green Markers
• Coffee Filters
• Glue Stick
• Paper 
• Paint

 Start by having your kids color 1 coffee filter each randomly with blue and green markers. Keep reminding them to “color where it’s white”. Otherwise they’ll just keep coloring in one spot until they make a hold in the coffee filter.

Variations

In the classroom, you can glue them to black paper, and let the kids decorate them with cheapo foil star stickers. To avoid the mess of paint, just trace around their hands with white crayons! (A mom from our preschool class thought of using white crayons. Great idea, huh?) 

Grab Bag Ideas for the Letter W: (be sure to check out the Classroom Script
for directions on using the grab bag.) world, wax, wolf, whale, wheel, whipped cream container, whiskers, whistle, whiteout, window, wig, wind chimes, windsock, plastic wine glass, wings, wizard, wood, wrapping paper, water color paints, water gun, walkie talkie, wallet, walnut, wand.

For More Resources, check out the Catholic Toolbox lesson plans for the Letter Ww. (Her Ww lesson is on Wedding at Cana.)

Catholic ABC’s Week: 26

Letter of the week: V

Theme: Virgin Mary

Saint of the Week: St. Veronica

Craft: May Crowning Craft

It’s been awhile since I’ve had a Preschool curriculum post, but I had to take some time off for Easter. I can only handle so much at once! We’re getting close to the end of the alphabet, and that means coming up with stuff for the “weird letters”, which I have been putting off. I’ll admit that I would have rather done “Vestments” or “Vatican” for the letter V, but our preschool co-op has been doing “Virgin Mary” for years and this craft was designed by Denise who used to teach my class before me.

Supplies needed to Complete this Craft:

Printed out picture of Mary

Fun foam

Scissors

Sharpie Marker

Foam Stickers (optional)

Fake flowers on wire (look in the wedding section of your craft store)

Cut your foam sheets into a long rectangle with a hole for a door knob. You can actually buy pre-made door hanger foam things from the Dollar Tree 3 for $1 if you’d rather not cut them yourself. Print out Mary pictures for the kids, and trace around the outside with a sharpie. (This gives them a good line to cut on). Have them cut and glue Mary onto the foam, then take the wire flowers and poke them through the foam around Mary’s head to crown her with flowers. Decorate with additional foam stickers, and write “Virgin Mary” on with a sharpie.

 

Grab Bag Ideas for the Letter V: (be sure to check out the Classroom Script
for directions on using the grab bag.) St. Veronica holy card, violet, velvet, toy van, vanilla, vegetables, vitamins, valentine, vaseline, picture of Vatican City, veil, vest.

For More Resources, check out the Catholic Toolbox lesson plans for the Letter Vv. (Her Vv lesson is on Virtues.)