Category: nativities

What have you been up to lately?

Posted on

 

I finally have an intro page…complete with photos from our photo shoot yesterday.  Wow…it’s difficult to get 7 people with their eyes open, nice smiles, out of the shadow (Kelly!) and looking in the same direction, all at the same time, especially when one is only 19 months.  This is my new Intro Page!

The first of it’s kind!  An index of Link Ups…just for Catholics!
Check it out, link up your ideas and please share the button AND a link to CathoLINK LIBRARY…for easy access to Catho-LINKS!

This is the SECOND week using the NEW Roman Missal Mass.
Check out our downloadable Color Me Catholic: New Roman Missal Edition for a fun way to familiarize the kids with the new text as well as Vessels, Vestments, Parts of the Mass, Church Furnishings and Sacraments.

I like to keep my linkies OPEN so that everyone can keep linking their projects.  Add your homemade Nativity (and related nativity activity) posts here at the Nativity Activity Linky.

This is my special post about the Knitted Nativity my Auntie Ingrid MADE me just in time for Advent!!
We love it!

In case you’re not totally sick of posts about Homemade Nativities…here are all the ones we have made!

This is my Advent Calendar Linky…and it’s also STILL open, for people like me who are a little behind.  Yes, I still have yet to post my new Advent Calendar that I’m working on.  I’m not sure if we will end up using it for this Advent or just looking forward to breaking it out next year!
It’s not too late to link up!

Book Badge Review and Doodle Summary 
for The Third Testament
A book by John Eklund.

Homemade Nativities: Links of Light Bulbs (7) + linky!

Posted on
Add your own Homemade Nativity to the linky below!

(3) Shower of Roses Paper Nativity

(5) Felt Nativity from youcanmakethis.com pattern and instructions by pdf

(6) Edible Nativity from AOK Corral

(7) Magnetic Nativity from CutoutandKeep.net

(8) Modelled Nativity from Melanies Crafts

(9) Paper Nativity Dolls from MakingFriends.com
Choose one of the Nativity Activity Buttons below and submit your own Homemade Nativity to the linky below! Thanks for linking back to this page to share our latest link-up with your subscribers!

 Button Code: http://www.equippingcatholicfamilies.com/2011/11/homemade-nativities-links-of-light.html”> border=”0″ hda=”true” height=”200″ src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rb7FFH1fRRo/TtK9AhC_aCI/AAAAAAAABRI/0vAwO38yiU8/s200/nativity_linky_2.jpg” width=”200″ />

Button Code: http://www.equippingcatholicfamilies.com/2011/11/homemade-nativities-links-of-light.html”> border=”0″ hda=”true” height=”200″ src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0sT3Bdfmt2o/TtK9Me7PvwI/AAAAAAAABRQ/d2v5zhyLU4s/s200/nativity_linky_3.jpg” width=”200″ />

Links of Light Bulbs is brought to you by EquippingCatholicFamilies.com, a division of Arma Dei.

Homemade Nativities

Posted on


My clothes peg people are missing now…I’ll post a new (close-up) photo when I find them. They are made with traditional wooden clothes pegs, a painted face (with facial features added with sharpie) and material.  The arms are pipe cleaners.  These are sample crafts from
A Treasure Chest of Traditions for Catholic Families.

What’s the theme here?  Where’s Baby Jesus?  These are all Nativity figures I have made over the years with toilet paper rolls, egg cartons and wooden pegs…but Baby Jesus is missing in each one! 
I need to start re-making Him…

I remember the egg carton Baby Jesus, was just a small piece of the egg carton for a cradle, with construction paper “straw” sticking out behind a fabric bundle of baby. 
I’ll  post pictures when I either find my original or make a new one.

I find that Baby Jesus either gets misplaced by one of my kids parading him around the house during Advent (before Baby Jesus is supposed to be in the manger), or in transit from one of the Catholic conferences we attend. We have actually had the odd sample craft
made from A Treasure Chest of Traditions for Catholic Families
stolen from our booth display!

These Holy Family Felt Friends are made with felt over a pipe-cleaner body, felt clothes, embroidery floss hair and facial features.  I know, I need to make a Baby Jesus version here as well.

I added a quick Baby Jesus for this post.

I made this Nativity before we were married and it’s our special one-of-a-kind family Nativity.  I think I found a pattern for the little bodies and then I improvised for the clothing. (Can you tell ? =) 
I engineered the manger myself with the little skylight for the star to poke through.
The brown manger material already had verticle lines in it, so I quilted it to make it a little more durable.  The manger also has a couple wooden dowels in it, but it’s not too “stable”.  I usually use a little pillow to prop it up.  I didn’t make the tree, but it looks cute with the set.  I like the lighting on the close-up picture…I think it looks like they’re sitting by the fire.
Linked up to the Nativity Activity Linky!