Catholic Crafts and More for Kids
Have you heard of the Jelly Bean Prayer? It's an adorable little poem where each jelly bean color stands for a different part of the Easter story. I love taking the parts of holidays that already exist and throwing a Christ-centered spin on them so that everything from the day points back on the true meaning of the season. It's kind of my favorite thing about Catholic Icing, actually, and who … [Read more...]
Do you want to celebrate a Christ-centered Easter with your kids and family this year, and you're looking for easy ideas to celebrate? Incorporating Jesus into the Easter season can be just as easy as any other kind of celebration! This is so fast and easy and a great way to center your Easter table around the true meaning of this day!!! I give you... the Jelly bean Easter egg … [Read more...]
Lent is a great liturgical season to observe with kids to help teach them about the church year. Lent is the 40 days the come before Easter, and it is a season of adding extra prayers, fasting, and almsgiving. There are many ways to celebrate (or observe) Lent with children, and this is my page that links out to all of the resources I have available to help you with this! I hope you find these … [Read more...]
Easter is the most important feast day for Christians, and the cornerstone of our faith. But did you know that Easter is not just a day, but an entire season of the church year? It't true! Easter lasts for 50 days- all the way through Pentecost, with 8 full Sundays of Easter! We love to keep our celebration going through this season since we reserve our time before Easter observing Lent. So this … [Read more...]
Pentecost Sunday is around the corner, and those of us who like to celebrate the liturgical year at home, we are looking for ideas to celebrate Pentecost with our kids! If you would like to learn a little more about Pentecost, why we celebrate, and what the different parts of the feast day are, I would highly suggest for you to read my post "How And Why To Celebrate Pentecost With Your Kids". … [Read more...]
Jesus is the reason for the season! And one of the easiest and best ways to convey this message to children is to include nativity sets in your holiday decorations and celebrations. But if you only have a fancy breakable nativity set that they can't touch, you're not reaching them on their own level as much as you could. Today, I want to bring you a ton of ideas to bring the nativity set to your … [Read more...]
Advent and Christmas are an amazing time of year! It's important to get the true meaning of these seasons across to kids, rather than getting lost in the secular shuffle. Catholic Icing is dedicated to helping mothers and educators do just that! Check out these ideas below, organized by category for your browsing convenience. :-) Be sure to check out my Advent Christmas Planner! The Advent … [Read more...]
I was going over a list of religious Christmas symbols, and discovered that there's a religious meaning behind gingerbread men! It seems there's a religious meaning behind almost everything revolving around the Christmas season. So we've been having fun making some fun gingerbread crafts! Check this quote from this site about how gingerbread men can be used to teach religion: GINGERBREAD … [Read more...]
Well, I used some of the ideas I posted here earlier and made a prayer book with my 4-year-old daughter! We learned a lot about prayer while we colored and put the book together. Ours were shaped like hands to help remind us to keep our hands folded while we pray. (My daughter has a lot of trouble with this at her preschool coop, so we're working on it). All of the printables came from The … [Read more...]
Praying the Stations of the Cross is a great way to remember the true meaning of Lent with your kids. There are 14 stations of the cross, and it goes through the biblical passion story. It starts with Jesus being condemned to death, and ends with Jesus being laid in the tomb. Going through the stations of the cross is actually a special Lenten prayer, and it's a really excellent one to do with … [Read more...]
