This fun Catholic Sacraments review game will be a hit with your students! This LOW-PREP activity is a great resource for CCD/Catechism and Christian religious education classes. Download includes: Home-plate; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd base print outs 3-section scoreboard printout Helmets (4 per page and 6 per page options) for students to cut out and color 50 review questions with answers about the Catholic Sacraments (options for singles, doubles, triples, and home runs Check out our other Catholic education activities!
Five different ways to teach your students the names for the items commonly found during a Catholic Mass. Great for whole group, small groups, centers and more to reach all of your learners in a religious education, Catholic classroom or homeschool setting.
Catholic Mass Lesson Ideas: Five activities about lessons, games, and activities that can be used to teach students and kids about the Catholic Mass.
Activities with M&Ms for an ice breaker or a guided prayer time. Perfect for any kind of group! Printables include blank templates for you to customize.
These Jonah activities can be used in Christian Preschool programs and Sunday schools. Jonah Sequencing Print these story sequencing cards for
Fun and frugal way to Teach the Sign of the Cross. Easy craft for kids to learn proper way to do this special prayer. Great way to practice!
Today I started back up teaching Faith Formation/CCD to third graders again. I am excited for another great year. I wanted to share some printables I use on the first day. Hopefully they will be found helpful to another CCD teacher!!! Enjoy!!! Here are the desk tags I use. You can print them too – …
Catholic Mass Lesson Ideas: Five activities about lessons, games, and activities that can be used to teach students and kids about the Catholic Mass.
If you’ve never been to a Catholic Mass, or you have, but don’t understand the flow of it, you’ve come to the right place! No more looking around wondering if you should be standing, kneeling or sitting. Once you know what exactly is going on during the Mass, it’s easier to understand what you should […]
These Moses & Pharaoh activities can be used in Christian Preschool programs and Sunday schools. Moses Sequencing Print these story sequencing
This week we will teach our children about 'the fall'. From the account of Adam and Eve found in Genesis 3. Included in the free printable lesson is a lesson outline, Prayer and Worship ideas, Games and Activites, educational worksheets, colouring pages and crafts.
Three New Classroom Icebreakers. Icebreaker for Lesson on Discipleship, Icebreaker for Lesson on the Trinity, Icebreaker for Lesson on Communion of Saints
The prodigal son is a character in a parable or story Jesus told about the grace and forgiveness of our heavenly Father. These activities are about this parable.
With Lent and Easter just around the bend, I thought it was a great time to re-share my friend's Prayer Hands with a free printable. It's a simple way to remind your kids of what is important and remind them of all that they have to be thankful for, not only during this time of
Here we go! It's back to school week for me, and I know that many of you are starting school and religious ed over the next few weeks. Today I've got some basic printables for you to help enhance your classroom, whether in school, parish, or home. I have been working on growing our rhythm of living the liturgical calendar in my classroom over the past few years, and just added these monthly devotion signs to our calendar area. Each month has a traditional Catholic devotion, often associated with the season or a particular feast day. We typically remember that October is the month of the Rosary, but I thought with some signs right in our calendar area, we might be a little more intentional in celebrating the devotion of every month, even by simple things like the prayers that we say at the beginning or end of class. I have the signs, two per page, ready to print for you in both cursive and manuscript. I cut mine out and put them in a 8.5x11" page protector, folded the page protector over, taped, and stuck it on my white board. Now all the months are stored right in my calendar area, so on the 1st of a new month, I can just slide out the new sign instead of scrounging to find where I stored them. ;) (And I've got a fun project planned for the new calendar year to help bring these devotions into your home. Hopefully I can get it all finished before December!) Click here for the monthly devotions signs in cursive: Click here for the monthly devotions signs in manuscript: I also have a couple of new pages to use for planning religious ed in your classroom. This annual planner lists the main nine months of the school year and gives you space to choose a prayer and Saint to focus on each month, as well as a place to list the key content you plan to cover. It's a great idea to start with a big picture like this, even if the plan has to deviate from week to week. Click here for the Catechesis Annual Plan: And I also made up a basic lesson plan for a single class, giving you space for big picture planning, as well as listing supplies and steps. It would be great to have a blank stack of these in a binder and fill out as much of them as is helpful each week. Not only will it be good method for planning your class, but also could be a source of reflection for coming classes or even the next year if you are teaching similar material. Click here for the lesson plan: May the Lord guide us and give us the tools to draw our students' hearts closer and closer to His Sacred Heart during this coming school year!
Adventure Catechism Coloring Book Vol. 4 - 5-Pack A coloring and activity book to go along with the Adventure Catechism DVD Volume 4. Topics include: What are the Sacraments? What is Baptism? What is the Eucharist? What is Confession? How to Make a Good Confession.
These Zacchaeus Bible story activities can be used in Christian Preschool programs and Sunday schools. Zacchaeus Sequencing Print these story
Use the Lesson In Forgiveness Group Group Activities as a fun activity for your next children's sermon.
Hands down, our favorite part of this week was our Float the Nile game! It was great comprehension practice for our pre-readers and they loved getting
The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick activities, worksheets, crafts, videos, and games to use in class.
Guess what? It's the weekend! Two glorious days of sleeping in and lazing about (I wish!). And boy, do I deserve them after the week I have had with my precious treasures. :) The first few weeks of Prep (or Kindergarten if you're not from 'round these parts!) are always tough as the kidlets get used to the routines and rules of school. Throw in a handful of boys with 'tricky' behaviour and you've got yourself a recipe for days that feel like they go on forever... during which you use your 'cranky voice' more than once. This week I found myself using a few behaviour management ideas that are truly 'magic' in a slightly desperate attempt to get things in my classroom back on track. Day-to-day I use the famous 'clip chart', known in my room as the 'peg chart', for kidlets to monitor their behaviours. I use the Monster Manners pack from Growing Kinders as a springboard for moving up (to the pink card - Super Kid!) or down the chart. Seriously, you need this pack! So cute and so effective (also helps that it's free)! I refer to my display daily and the kids get it. Within a day, one of my precious treasures said "You sit criss cross, and that's the bottom of the line!" (If you use this pack, you'll understand!) This year, the clip chart was working for about 90% of the kidlets... and those remaining 10% sure were giving me the run around. Bring in the magic tricks! Trick number 1 is a life lesson, as well as a magic cure for some tricky classroom behaviours. All you need are some dollar store bubbles, and you have some 'Self Control Bubbles'! Take your class outside and sit them in a circle. Explain that you are going to blow some bubbles in their direction, and the first time you do they can pop away as much as they want. Go ahead and let them go wild (within reason... I always tell my kidlets their bottoms must stay on the ground). Make sure everyone gets a heap of bubbles to pop. The second time, explain that you are going to blow more bubbles, but this time they MUST NOT pop a single one... even if it lands right on their nose! Explain that the feeling of really, really wanting to do something, but holding back, is called self control. Ask for a volunteer to go first and choose someone you know will resist the bubbles. Praise them for using self control. Then go around the circle and blow more bubbles at each kidlet (I make sure to get right 'up in their face' so they really, really have to control themselves!) - making sure to encourage all of them to think about how it feels to have self control. As the weeks go on refer back to this activity any time one of your kidlets is struggling with those behaviours that require them to practice more self control. They will be able to recall the feeling, trust me! You might like to repeat the bubble activity a few times during the year - my kidlets LOVE knowing that they are pros at something... and self control ain't a bad thing to be pro at! :) Grab this free pack from my TpT store that will help you use this activity in your classroom. It contains an explanation of how to complete the Self Control Bubbles activity, a label for your bubble bottle, and 3 simple recording sheets. And for my second trick... Quiet Spray! All you need for this is an empty spray bottle. I bought mine from Kmart for less than $2. Fill it with water. My spray bottle wasn't clear, but if it was I would have added a drop of food colouring or some glitter to make it look more 'magic'. I also would have taken time to make sure my label was size-appropriate for my bottle... but you live and learn! :) I added a few drops of rosewater to my Quiet Spray... mostly because I wanted lavender, couldn't find it at the grocery store, but wanted my Quiet Spray to smell calming. Here's how it works: Any time you want your kidlets to work quietly (I used mine today before group work), explain that you will use the Quiet Spray to help them work the best that they can. I ask my class to take a deep breath in through their noses and out through their mouths as I mist Quiet Spray over their heads. MAGIC! You could even use Quiet Spray at the beginning of each day along with some relaxation techniques, or for individual students who need some extra magic in their day. :) There you have it folks, some new magic tricks for you to try with your tricky kidlets. :) Please let me know if they work for you! Hope you're having a wonderful weekend! :) Lauren
Well it looks like some of us are going to be home with our kids a little more than expected for the near future, so I wanted to round up some fun printable materials for
In the beginning, God made the world!! Interactively teach the Bible Creation story to kids in a fun way they'll engage with and remember.
Stephen was a leader in the early church. We read about him in the Book of Acts. He was a servant and witness to Jesus, but when the Jewish leadership became angry with him, they stoned him. Paul was among those who wanted him dead.
We've been excited about sharing all of the fabulous and free creation crafts that are perfect for teaching about our amazing creator! Grab our Creation Craft Globe for kids!
This free, printable word search, based on The Book of Jonah, can remind children that even our enemies are valuable to God. It can be used in a homeschool setting, one-on-one, or in a classroom setting like Sunday School.
Encourage gratitude throughout the season with this fun gratitude game! Fill the game with gratitude activities to do all November long.
Use a Noah's Ark craft to bring to life one of the most well-known stories in the Bible. Start with these simple ideas! Free downloadable activity pages.
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We started teaching the 4 year old class at our church this past week. They are sweetest and silliest group of kiddos. I love this age group. We hear all sorts of stories (good ones...it's church!). My favorite part is when they tell me all they know about our topic each week. They always surprise
Young women activity ideas for class activities or combined mutual activities. Cheap, fun, and easy activities to put together.
Free printable preschool Bible lesson on Nehemiah. Learn about how God empowered him to rebuild the wall through worksheets, coloring pages, crafts and more
We've tried to come up with some interesting ways for you to study the countries of the world with your children, and create a record of study that the kids will be proud of! Whether you have a look at your own country in more detail, or pick a far flung country, we are sure that the children will enjoy compiling the facts they need to complete our "my country study" printable book. Or perhaps they can make their own passport and fill it with stamps or flags when they "visit" a country to learn all about it.
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