We finished the Armor of God unit. The children had soooo much fun learning all about the Armor God wants us to be wearing. I decided for this post to post a lot of pictures of one of the kiddos in his FULL "ARMOR OF GOD." They all enjoyed making their ARMOR PIECES....and when we put them all together they had their entire suit of ARMOR. I know they will NEVER forget learning about this very important subject. They LOVED learning about the Armor of God. Happy Boy Belt of Truth. Breastplate of Righteousness. Sandals of Peace. Helmet of Salvation. Shield of Faith. Sword of the Spirit.

Here are instructions for making a knight's sword for your outfit. You will need: Corrugated card (an old box will will work fine) sticky tape Kitchen foil Instructions: Cut out two blade shapes from card. Fold each in half to create a ridge down the side of the blades.

This summer, we had a Boys' retreat centering around the Armor of God. We wanted the boys to have a fun day and leave with the message that they can grow up to be strong, faithful, Catholic men who live for God in whatever they do. Big task, but we tried to do it in little ways. The food is very important, and honestly I think that this is the only reason that most of the boys could name the "weapons" of the Armor of God by the end of the day. I had this set up on our counter: Squares of green bell pepper for the Breastplate of Righteousness: Skinny carrot and celery sticks for the Sword of the Spirit: Mandarin oranges for the Shoes of Peace: Pringles for the Shields of Faith: Tostitos Scoops for Helmets of Salvation: Licorice for Belts of Truth: I honestly did not think of this ahead of time, but the first thing that most of the boys did as they sat down was something like this: Pretty cute, huh? They then memorized the parts with no prompting, because they would have conversations like this: "I'm going to dip my sword of Spirit in the ranch dressing. Does that make this Holy Spirit sauce?" "I'll trade you two shoes of peace for a belt of truth." "I don't know about you, but I need six shields of faith for protection." It was cool. We also used the book the Squire and the Scroll. I found a reproducible coloring book with a simpler version of the story to send home with the boys. We also had some guest speakers, including a video chat with my Army Lt. brother-in-law stationed at Ft. Benning, GA. He spoke about his decision to join the Army and how he feels he is serving God as a soldier. (He did such a good job! If you you can keep kids attention through a video chat, you know that it is quality!) We also had a visit from a couple local Knights of Columbus, who spoke about the symbolism of Knights of Columbus regalia, their mission, and how they are choosing to serve God as adult men. We also had some "quiet" sit down activities that the boys did in between things and at the beginning while we were waiting for everyone to arrive. Most popular was the scratch art shield: ...but they also enjoyed the Armor of God bookmarks, coloring pages, etc. We then made some giant shields using posterboard and duct tape. Cut out, designed, and they had to decorate them with symbols of faith. We added a duct tape handle: And then talked about all of the things that can attack our faith in the world- temptation, bad choices, sin, forgetting about God...etc. They had quite the specific list. Then we went outside. And I told them that these water balloons represented all of the things of the world that make it hard for us to love God like we should. We have to use our shields of faith to keep those things from attacking us. They then spread out and had at it, firing away each other and using their poster board shields as a defense. The only other highlight was that they got their foam "sword of Spirit" to take home with their shield of faith at the end of the day. Here are some links to some of the activities to go along with this retreat: Draw Your Sword Scripture Game Armor of God Folder Cover Armor of God Bookmarks "Be Soldiers!" Bulletin Board Armor of God Theme Decorations You might also like to check out the Princess Day that we had, which would make a great companion retreat for girls.

Our church hosted a "Kingdom Chronicles" VBS this year so I needed to come up with some simple and inexpensive medieval decorations. Here's what I made... Poster board torches (Yield 10) 3 sheets of each red, orange, and yellow tissue paper 2 sheets of black poster board (you can get 5 cones from each sheet) staples hot glue gun 11" quarter circle made using a measuring tape and pencil like a compass sticky tack or pushpins to hand the torches with Roll your quarter circle into a cone Add one staple at the outside upper corner Take one sheet of each color tissue paper (red, orange, and yellow) Lay them on top of each other and cut into quarters Bunch the centers together and staple Hot glue the stapled tip of the tissue paper to the inside of the poster board cone Toilet paper roll chandelier (Yields 2) 1 sheet of each red, orange, and yellow tissue paper, each cut into 16 rectangles 1 sheet of black poster board 12 toilet paper tubes 4 large cardboard circles (14"-16" diameter) like the ones pictured below staples hot glue gun 1. Glue 2 circles together (for strength) 2. Makes 1/2" cuts around the bottom of every toilet paper tube 3. Open up the slits and hot glue the tubes evenly around the outer edge of your circles 4. Spray paint your chandeliers from top to bottom with black spray paint 5. Make "flame" tufts out of your tissue paper and staple them at the bottom (like the torches above) 6. Stuff tissue paper "flames" into each toilet paper tube 7. Cut poster board into 1" x 6 1/4" strips (you should be able to get at least 90 strips of paper) 8. Make 6 separate paper chains of 13-15 links each (depending on how long you want them) 9. Glue 3 paper chains to each chandelier 10. Connect your three chains together with one final link. 11. Hang your chandeliers using fishing line and ceiling hooks. Dollar store tablecloth banners 2 different color dollar store tablecloths for each banner 16"-20" piece of ribbon to tie each banner fishing line or yarn to tie the two tablecloths together at the top corners duct tape or ceiling hooks to hang the banners from the ceiling The finished product - teaching section up front, craft and coloring station at the back. Display area for our week's verses

Többnyire olyan ötleteket szoktam írni, amelyeket negyed-félóra időráfordítással el lehet készíteni - nos, a lenti nem ilyen. :-) Persze, ehhez sem kellenek napok, csak a festéssel kell egy kicsit hosszabban bíbelődni, de ha van a családban férfiember-kezdemény, az ő öröméért garantáltan meg fogja érni a plusz idő, ezt megígérhetem. A dolog előzménye az volt, hogy ugye korábban a Nagyobbik már megkapta az ő kislányos tejesdoboz-királyságát (itt írtam róla) - amit azóta sem használunk írószertartónak, ellenben rengeteg királylány és hercegnő lakik benne -, és olyan nem lehet, hogy a testvére ne kapjon valami hasonlót... úgyhogy arra gondoltam, őt egy kisfiús lovagvárral fogom meglepni. Ehhez sem kellett semmilyen extra alapanyag, mindössze négy tejesdobozra, négy papírtörlő-gurigára, egy alufólia-gurigára, hullámkarton-lapokra (egyszerű barna csomagolódobozból), kevés kartonpapírra, akrilfestékre, alkoholos filcre, ragasztópisztolyra, pillanatragasztóra, sniccerre, ollóra és pár opcionális apróságra volt szükség. Először is fogtam a négy tejesdobozt, és sniccerrel ablakokat és ajtókat vágtam rájuk. A barna hullámkarton-dobozról (fent az első képen ebben vannak a dobozok és gurigák) levágtam a négy felső lapot, a széleiket egyenesre ollóztam, és sniccerrel bástyafal-szerűen bevagdostam a tetejüket. Az egyikre vágtam egy széles kaput is. Következett a vár sarkán majdan álló négy torony: a négy papírgurigát egyenként bevágtam, olyan hosszan, mint amilyen magasak a hullámkarton falak. Ezután a vágások mellett 45 fokkal vágtam még egy ugyanekkora nyílást. Ez azért kell, hogy a négyzet alapú várfalra egyszerűen csak rá tudjam húzni ezeket a tornyokat, pontosan a négy sarokra. A kartonpapírból készítettem négy kúpot - ezek lesznek a tornyok tetején. A kúpok csúcsán érdemes hagyni egy pici rést, hogy tudjunk zászlót tűzni rájuk. Minden elemet lefestettem fehér akrilfestékkel, pacsmagolós mozdulatokkal, ettől szép textúrásak lesznek a falak. :-) Az elemekre bézs festékkel foltokat festettem. (Ezen ponton életem társa megkérdezte: ebben tehenek fognak lakni? Mondtam, vicceeeeeeeeeees :-) ) Száradás után a fekete alkoholos filccel téglamintát rajzoltam a bézs foltokra. Jöhetett az összeállítás: először a négy falat ragasztottam össze, ragasztópisztollyal. Ezután a sarkokra ráhúztam a négy papírtörlő-gurigát, és ezeket is odaragasztottam a falakhoz. A tornyok tetejére ráragasztottam a kartonkúpokat. Beragasztottam az építménybe a tejesdobozokat is: Az épületek teteje vécépapír-gurigákból készült: a tekercseket hosszában elvágtam, középen meghajtottam, ragasztóval rögzítettem és barnára lefestettem. A tetőket felragasztottam. Ezen a ponton jutott eszembe, hogy kell egy magas torony is, úgyhogy az alufóliás gurigát is megfestettem, befedtem és beragasztottam a várba, az épületek közé. Utolsó előtti simításként néhány futónövényt rajzoltam a falakra: Végül pedig hurkapálcára (pontosabban saslikpálcikákra) filcanyagból kivágott zászlókat ragasztottam, és ezzel készen is lett az újrahasznosított alapanyagokból készült lovagvár. :-) Az egész készítési folyamat kb. 3 órát vett igénybe - de szerintem vannak olyan apukák, akik szívesen asszisztálnak egy ilyen fiús projekthez, és akkor még gyorsabban befejezhető a lovagvár... :-)

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This summer, we had a Boys' retreat centering around the Armor of God. We wanted the boys to have a fun day and leave with the message that they can grow up to be strong, faithful, Catholic men who live for God in whatever they do. Big task, but we tried to do it in little ways. The food is very important, and honestly I think that this is the only reason that most of the boys could name the "weapons" of the Armor of God by the end of the day. I had this set up on our counter: Squares of green bell pepper for the Breastplate of Righteousness: Skinny carrot and celery sticks for the Sword of the Spirit: Mandarin oranges for the Shoes of Peace: Pringles for the Shields of Faith: Tostitos Scoops for Helmets of Salvation: Licorice for Belts of Truth: I honestly did not think of this ahead of time, but the first thing that most of the boys did as they sat down was something like this: Pretty cute, huh? They then memorized the parts with no prompting, because they would have conversations like this: "I'm going to dip my sword of Spirit in the ranch dressing. Does that make this Holy Spirit sauce?" "I'll trade you two shoes of peace for a belt of truth." "I don't know about you, but I need six shields of faith for protection." It was cool. We also used the book the Squire and the Scroll. I found a reproducible coloring book with a simpler version of the story to send home with the boys. We also had some guest speakers, including a video chat with my Army Lt. brother-in-law stationed at Ft. Benning, GA. He spoke about his decision to join the Army and how he feels he is serving God as a soldier. (He did such a good job! If you you can keep kids attention through a video chat, you know that it is quality!) We also had a visit from a couple local Knights of Columbus, who spoke about the symbolism of Knights of Columbus regalia, their mission, and how they are choosing to serve God as adult men. We also had some "quiet" sit down activities that the boys did in between things and at the beginning while we were waiting for everyone to arrive. Most popular was the scratch art shield: ...but they also enjoyed the Armor of God bookmarks, coloring pages, etc. We then made some giant shields using posterboard and duct tape. Cut out, designed, and they had to decorate them with symbols of faith. We added a duct tape handle: And then talked about all of the things that can attack our faith in the world- temptation, bad choices, sin, forgetting about God...etc. They had quite the specific list. Then we went outside. And I told them that these water balloons represented all of the things of the world that make it hard for us to love God like we should. We have to use our shields of faith to keep those things from attacking us. They then spread out and had at it, firing away each other and using their poster board shields as a defense. The only other highlight was that they got their foam "sword of Spirit" to take home with their shield of faith at the end of the day. Here are some links to some of the activities to go along with this retreat: Draw Your Sword Scripture Game Armor of God Folder Cover Armor of God Bookmarks "Be Soldiers!" Bulletin Board Armor of God Theme Decorations You might also like to check out the Princess Day that we had, which would make a great companion retreat for girls.

Themapagina Ridders en kastelen Super leuk dat je aan de slag gaat met het thema Ridders en kastelen! Een super leuk thema. Op deze themapagina vind je inspiratie om de 21e eeuwse vaardigheden in te zetten bij het thema. De activiteiten zijn geschikt voor leerkrachten van het jonge kind (groep 1 t/m 4). Uiteraard zijn dit slechts

During the week that Prince George was born, and my daughters acquired a new castle Lego set, I decided that we had been called to journey on a quest... A quest for knowledge... ...about Knights and Princesses. Here are some of the activities we found ourselves doing during that week... ************************************ Princess Graphing from 1+1+1=1's Princess Preschool Pack Instead of gluing together the die included for the game, I just cut them out and put them into my Education Cubes. We kept track of the Princesses the kiddos rolled by using a set of Disney Princess stamps I found at The Dollar Tree. (The stamping itself proved to be an excellent activity for the tot I watch- she will be 2 in September.) ********************************************** "Off on a Quest!" Game from Homeschool Creation's Knight Preschool Pack We used Playmobil Knights for our game pieces... **************************************** K is for Knight Tracer Page and Other Pre-Writing Pages from Homeschool Creation's Knight Preschool Pack ********************************************* Counting the Crown Jewels Activity After looking at the number written on the foam crown, the kiddos would added that certain number of jewels for counting practice. This counting activity was completed by the 3 year old Puppy Prince, with the help of the 7 year old Little Wild Man. ************************************************* Princess and Knight Patterns from 1+1+1=1's Princess Preschool Pack and Homeschool Creation's Knight Preschool Pack ************************************************* Royal Color Activities from 1+1+1=1's Princess Preschool Pack and Homeschool Creation's Knight Preschool Pack *************************************** Tracing Sheets and Opposite Pages from 1+1+1=1's Princess Preschool Pack and Homeschool Creation's Knight Preschool Pack *********************************************** Princess Poetry and Royal Puppets from 1+1+1=1's Princess Preschool Pack and Homeschool Creation's Knight Preschool Pack The Knight puppet set was included in the Homeschool Creation's Knight Preschool Pack... ...but I had to create my own Princess puppets, by copying some of the images in the 1+1+1=1's Princess Preschool Pack. *************************************************** Crown and Pretty Princess Crafts The foam crowns I found at The Dollar Tree... ...and the kiddos used stickers and markers to decorate them. (They are TOTALLY the Queen and King of the Prom, right?) ;0) These foam princess pieces I have had leftover since one of Baby Girl's birthday parties years ago... ************************************************ All of the kiddos made a Knight Collage, based on THIS idea I saw on Pinterest. Instead of using just aluminum foil, I also pre-cut the body parts out of a leftover Mylar balloon... I would recommend just using foil- the balloon material rolls up easily, making it harder to glue. ****************************************** In lieu of an Explorer Box for this unit... ...I just brought our Playmobil castle in from the garage, along with our giant Knight's horse and unicorn. Our castle set its similar to THIS one... ...but apparently the kiddos thought our king needed some of today's modern conveniences in his castle. I mean, what mid-evil castle DOESN'T have a speedboat parked next to the horse drawn carriage? ;0) ************************************************ During Science time, the kiddos were completing a kit called the Project Genius Light from EEME. (A review on this project will be coming up on my blog very soon...) Since electricity would certainly seem like magic back in the days of yore... ...I gave the kiddos all "magic wands" from The Dollar Tree (which I jazzed up with Washi tape) to add a little fun to the task at hand. Bibbity-bobbity-boo! ************************************ An outdoor activity from the week that my male kiddos especially enjoyed was... ...playing with these inflatable swords I found at Target's Dollar Spot. And amazingly enough, no one lost an eye during playtime... *************************************** Finally, foodie fun is a MUST for a week like this! We had a couple of different pizzas in honor of the royals... I must say, I LOVE it when themed learning just kinda drops into my lap and we choose to run with it- one of the many joys of homeschooling! ************************************** Linking up with Preschool and Kindergarten Corner...

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