There is nothing tricky or fancy about setting up a home altar. It’s a simple thing to do and a beautiful way to live the liturgical year at your home. Here are some resources for you when designing your home altar.
Printable Monthly Home Altar Packs
Catholic Icing now offers a monthly membership program that includes printable home altars for each month! The home altar downloads include:
- Beautiful Catholic artwork featuring the monthly dedication or the current liturgical season
- A “Saint Spinner” which allows you to easily feature different Saints throughout the month
- My complete Home Altar Guide for Catholic families
- The liturgical season cube
- Candle wraps for each month
- A litany of Saints for each month
- Dry erase “Saint of the Day” printables
- Prayer cards
- Scripture memory cards matching the Sunday readings
- A prayer triptych
- So much more!!!! Watch the video below or click here to learn more.
This has got to be the most affordable and easiest way to keep up with a Catholic home altar ever! Seriously, if you’re serious about upkeeping a home altar, you need to check out this resourced.
Note: Membership resources change each month and each year, so the items you see featured here may or may not still be available in the current monthly membership. You can read more about our past membership resources here.
More Home Altar Resources
How To Get Started– all the resources beginners need!
How to make a portable prayer table for either a small home or a classroom
You may also want to check out this idea to spell liturgical words on your home altar. Tons of ideas in this post!
Home Altars Designs For Feasts And Liturgical Seasons
St. Joseph’ altar for beginners
How to make a May altar for Mary
Post continues after this brief information about the Catholic Icing Monthly Membership
Monthly Liturgical Membership
Crafts Projects For Your Home Altar
- A display idea for liturgical colors on your home altar
- How to make a simple kneeler
- Craft a mini altar with you kids
- Add a printable liturgical season wheel
Encouraging Prayer At Your Home Altar
- Provide a prayer starter ring for kids
- Have a daily prayer box for organizing your prayer life
- Try the Give Him 5 system
Brand New Home Altar Guide
I now have an all inclusive home altar guide in my new ebook, Weaving The Faith. It includes labels for your Catholic items, many pages to display on your home altar, all my tips for switching out your altar for the different feast days and seasons, a simple glossary of terms, checklists of items, and so much more! You can read more about the pack here.
Also, my friend Heather from A Catholic Mom’s Life has a video about when she put together her home altar, so be sure to check that out, too!
Hi, Lacy!
I’ve been following your posts and ideas for a while, and there have been a TON of things I’ve used over the years, but I’m stuck on this idea of putting up a home altar.
What can I do to make it accessible for my older kids (like have books, Rosaries, etc.), but out of our little kids’ destructive reach? Super glue? Hang things from the ceiling? I’ve had so many statues destroyed, Holy Water from special places spilled (or drank!), etc. that I’m truly at a loss. Thoughts?
Hi Sara –
Would it work in your house to have a home altar on a mantle or a shelf? It doesn’t have to be on a table, so maybe you could find an area that is high enough that your older kids can see it and reach it but that your younger ones cannot.
Good luck!
Angie, Catholic Icing Project Manager