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no more towels on the floor
This will be part of our “Inside the Keep” page, where I post any small victories within ourhome.
OK, so it isn’t rocket science, but I finally splurged to get a set of towels in a specially assigned color for each of the 5 kids. I know it sounds kind of geeky and the idea is anything but new…but I’m still impressed.
I bought a bath towel, hand towel and face cloth from IKEA for each kid. The cloth loop on the towels somehow makes it FUN to return the towel to the hook (as explained by my soon-to-be 15 year old!)
It has been almost 3 weeks, and I haven’t picked even one towel off of the floor! We’re hoping that this will reduce our flu and cold season too as they won’t be grabbing the first (shared) towel that they see.
I also picked up these little bins at IKEA…and although I couldn’t get them in the kids’ assigned colors…they are taking care of some of the clutter! My trip to IKEA has actually turned the kids’ bathroom into a cool bathroom. OK, The IKEA shag rug isn’t all that hygenic, but it’s really cool and I’ll try washing it as often as possible. (It matches the turquoise towels.)
The kids are no longer messing up their bathroom and then taking over ours. wooHOO!
draft Craft Kits
Cathletics Craft Kits: Treasure Chest Series
Select from 7 already-researched and formatted templates for Catechism and Prayer based activities and crafts. Limited permission to photocopy for single home or one classroom for one term.
Advent & Lent Quest 40 days worth of activities for Lent or Advent printed on strips to create a paper chain
Catechism Catcher classic folded craft, packed with Catechism terms & graphics for quizzing activity or reference tool
Color Me Catholic 4 mini-booklets, each offering 8 coloring pages of treasured Vessels & Vestments & Sacramentals plus phrases from the Mass
Prayer Petal Flowers hands-on craft creating a flower representing Rosary and Divine Mercy prayers
Prayer Bank create a book with folders to hold collection of prayers (29 sample prayer cards included)
Catechism Cube 3D cube, packed with Catechism terms and graphics for a quizzing tool or classroom decoration
Catholic Lingo Bingo has a set of bingo cards displaying different vessels and vestments and sacramentals. It can also be used as a matching game.
Cathletics Craft Kits: Journey with Jesus Series:
These kits teach and celebrate the Sacraments. Each kit comes with permission to photocopy for one full class for one term.
The square templates can be cut to fit into an 8”x8” constructed or store-bought scrapbook or folded according to the enclosed instructions for an ACCORDIAN BOOK. Coloring and scrapbooking techniques are recommended to embellish the layouts.
Journey with Jesus through the Sacraments
This kit offers layouts of catechism questions and reflection questions to help teach and celebrate all 7 Sacraments.
Journey with Jesus through Reconciliation and Holy Communion
This kit offers layouts of catechism questions and reflection questions tracing the preparation for and celebration of First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion.
Journey with Jesus through Confirmation
This kit offers layouts of catechism questions and reflection questions tracing the preparation for and celebration of the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Quiet book from So You Think You’re Crafty
I love this Quiet Book craft from So You Think You’re Crafty
Craft #7 – Quiet Book
Have you ever struggled with wanting something for your kids but also wanting something you don’t mind looking at either? This quiet book is like that for me. I could have bought one or made a really simple one but I wanted one that I don’t mind carting around with me to church, doctor appointments and on long car rides for years to come.
The front (above) has a large oblong button that is easy for small hands to open but it has a wrap around strip of fabric to keep everything inside. The pages of the book are held together with two large rings, making each page removable. This is awesome if you have more than one kid using the book. You can pass the pages around. You can also add pages here and there.
The house page has a bed and a dresser. The little boy gets out of bed and you can put on his felt clothes.
Below is an abacus counting page using orange beads.
Above is the number recognition page as well as buttons. The numbers come off so you can put them in the correct order and perfect your buttoning skills.
Every quiet book needs a car page. This one comes complete with a garage, trees, a pond and a stop sign.
This is the apple tree page. Each apple comes off and snaps back on.
A Treasure Chest of Traditions for Catholic Families is a 304 page book offering ideas for activities, crafts and recipes to help families celebrate the various Seasons and Feast Days of the year.
With fun-filled activities, we can build our own family traditions while passing on the richness of our Catholic Faith. Guided by the Liturgical Calendar, the book journeys through the Seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter and the 2 spans of Ordinary Time. The months of the secular calendar are woven in, providing the context for Feasts and monthly Devotions. Saints are introduced as their Feast Days occur, offering details and legends about their lives and providing suggestions for family activities surrounding them.
Various sections within Ordinary Time suggest that this time can be anything but ordinary! A section entitled “Extraordinary Events in Ordinary Time” offers activities surrounding special events in family life (births, moving, Sacraments and “firsts”).
A section entitled “Everyday in Ordinary Time” offers ideas for installing other family rituals to bring the family together and integrate the Catholic Faith into daily living.
The summer months bring “Cathletics” to Ordinary Time, offering activities to pass on basic catechism, while another section introduces simple prayers for children.
A section entitled “Everyday in Ordinary Time” offers ideas for installing other family rituals to bring the family together and integrate the Catholic Faith into daily living.
The summer months bring “Cathletics” to Ordinary Time, offering activities to pass on basic catechism, while another section introduces simple prayers for children.
Suggested activities are intended to prompt families to actively practice their Faith, delving into Church celebrations and allowing these festivities to spill back into home life.
Cootie Catcher turned Catholic
Reflecting our desire to take crafts and games and activities that kids like to do, and ‘convert them Catholic’, this is one of our Cathletics Craft Kits: the Catechism Catcher. Kid’s versions have been called the “cootie catcher” …what better way to catch some Catechism? It’s packed with categories of our Faith!
Consistent with all of our Cathletics Craft Kits, it comes with permission to photocopy for a whole class of kids for one year…or for all the kids who live in your house! There are two black and white templates for photocopying and 5 sheets, printed on colored stock.
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please email me here with your order.
Catechism Catcher, $11.95 + $5 shipping.
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by ordering additional
Catechism-and-Prayer-based products from Arma Dei!
HOLY RummOLI! The Catholic Edition!
We have this great deck of cards called the Cathletics Playing Cards. Each of the numbered cards have elements of the Catechism and the face cards are St Joseph (the Jack), Mother Mary (the Queen), Jesus (the King!) and the Trinity (the Ace).
How awesome is our Faith!?
We boast that you can play regular card games with this deck, or use them as flashcards…or use them in a combination of the two (asking ‘Catholic’ questions with each play of the game).
For years…(as evident on page 193 of A Treasure Chest of Traditions for Catholic Families), I have wanted to create a Holy Rummoli game, using these Catholic cards.
Check out the FREE Catholic Rummoli artwork for use with a regular playing card deck.
Cathletics Rummoli artwork is available as well. Email me for the secret link!
Now, the Cathletics Playing Cards have their own set of suits reflecting the Trinity, but I think I can show the transformation of the black spade to the cross, and the red diamond to the Holy Spirit.
Now, I’m not going to show you the entire deck of Cathletics Playing Cards…because I have to keep something secret for those incented to buy our Cathletics Playing Cards!
Now, I know that there are many out there, who won’t buy this deck of cards…
as nicely illustrated and as packed with Catholic info
as they are!
For the sake of Holy Rummoli! I suggest that you can use some Sharpies and write some Catholic stuff on a deck of dollar store cards. These are the basics as I see them:
3 of Clubs: the Trinity
5’s: all 5 Mysteries of the Rosary
6 of Diamonds: 6+6 Fruits of the Holy Spirit
(I know, tricky! =)
7 of Hearts : Virtues
7 of Diamonds: Gifts of the Holy Spirit
7 of Clubs: Sacraments
9 of Diamonds: Charisms of the Holy Spirit
10 of Hearts: Commandments
Q of Hearts: Immaculate Heart of Mary
K of Hearts: Sacred Heart of Jesus
K of Spades: King of the Cross
A of Clubs: the Trinity
Using a dollar store party platter, decide on which cards or combinations of cards will be most valuable, as regular Rummoli. Download Arma Dei Catholic Rummoli artwork for your regular deck of cards.
Check this out for regular Rummoli Rules.
Here’s a sneak peek at the Holy Rummoli artwork for the regular playing card deck,
we’re offering by pdf.
we’re offering by pdf.
Go ahead, you can download this for FREE!
Also available for Cathletics Playing Card customers:
Artwork customized for use with
Actually, I’m just playing with the PayLoadz pdf application.
You can download the Holy Rummoli! Cathletics Edition pdf for FREE.
You can download the Holy Rummoli! Cathletics Edition pdf for FREE.
newest member of The Catholic Illustrator’s Guild
Our Kelly is the newest member of The Catholic Illustrator’s Guild.
Check out her introduction.
Hello!
My name is Kelly and I will be 13 in November.
When I was in Kindergarten, I was very unapproachable and stubborn. I cried. a lot. On my first day of school, my teacher suggested that we all draw self-portraits. Though all the other kids had A LOT of fun doing so, I tried and tried to make my drawing as good as something my older sister would draw, and failed. I cried and cried and even said the “s” word (”stupid”). What can I say? I was a Kindergarten rebel. I vowed never to draw again. But how could I do THAT?!? As weeks followed, although I remained unmanageable, I began to draw. In fact, the classroom was suddenly covered in my drawings. Yes, THAT is where I got my start.
I now draw everywhere,
on everything and all the time.
When I’m not doing so, I’m probably being pestered by one of my four other siblings or my crazy Dad.
(Sorry, Dad.)
I recently started drawing comics with characters of my own. My favorites are the ones I do about what my baby brother Adam does when no one is looking… like cooking, sky-diving, teaching spanish to the elderly (even though he can’t really talk yet)
and looking for a job.
I hope one day to be a famous artist…
but for now, I’d just like to show you some of my work.
Sincerely,
Kelly
Check out Kelly’s first animated movie “Adam-ation” and her introduction to Kelly Comics on our family blog called Equipping Catholic Families.
Kelly’s got her own facebook page too.
Watch for Kelly’s comic strips in upcoming issues of Faith & Family magazine!
Do-It-Yourself Light Table
Because of news of publication of Kelly’s Comics in FOUR upcoming issues of an awesome Catholic magazine that we all know and love, we were in need of a light table!
We needed Kelly to trace over her awesome sketches with a nice clean sharpie…and then add some color.
Without the use of power tools, we created our very own light table out of things we had on hand, purchasing only the picture frame for the drawing surface. We could have used a picture frame we already have, but I wanted a new one to have on hand for easy set-up. Check it out!
These are the supplies I used for my Do-It-Yourself Light table.
I already had the little table (plant stand) and the clip-on light.
I bought a reasonable sized frame.
I would recommend a frame with glass,
although mine is plexi-glass.
I doubled up the plexi-glass,
cutting a cracked piece down to size.
I flipped the frame upside down so that the small ledge holds the glass and the little annoying metal clips just hold the glass in place, at the top.
The table top hangs over the side of my kitchen table…
helping to steady the light table.
helping to steady the light table.
We use masking tape to secure the drawings to the glass,
and more masking table to secure the blank sheet over top.
Ready to go!