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converted 2 Catholic games & crafts
 

This special linky offers previews of activities that we think you’re going to love! 
The ideas on this linky originate from a desire to take games and crafts that kids love to do…
and convert those games and crafts to be Catholic for Faith-filled family fun!!

Join in with your own favorite
converted 2 Catholic 
games and crafts! 

The Equipping Catholic Families blog

offers ideas for crafts and activities to help teach the Catholic Faith and to build family fun!
Watch for free GIVEAWAYS of
Arma Dei Catholic teaching tools and gifts and for BONUS TIPS for enjoying these products! 

Celebrate each child’s Journey of Faith

with Arma Dei teaching tools and gifts.  Check out our book A Treasure Chest of Traditions for Catholic Families, our various Cathletics playing cards and quizzing cards and our ten different Cathletics Craft Kits!
Don’t forget Hand in Hand with Jesus!
It’s a Faith Journal that your child will treasure!
Check out the product pages at
www.ArmaDei.com.
Email us for ordering info!
 

Converted 2 Catholic Games & Crafts Linky

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This is my new converted 2 Catholic games & crafts linky!
Our Arma Dei products and our ideas on Equipping Catholic Families sprout from a desire to take games and crafts that kids love to do…and convert those games and crafts Catholic!
With our own 5 children, we have noticed that kids love to do crafts, play board games, scrapbook, journal.

A Treasure Chest of Traditions for Catholic Families offers many classic traditions and crafts, but we also included secular craft and activity ideas and infused them with our awesome Catholic Faith, offering a fun way to get the kids soaking up our Catholic Faith, often without even realizing it!
Our Catechism Catcher offers a special craft that most kids love to make anyway, but it’s packed with Catechism! 
We even have a video, if you’d like to check it out!
If you would like to add to our linky, please include our button and a link here, within your post.
Check back often for more converted 2 Catholic games and crafts!

my little stow-away for the Seton Homeschool Conference

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Adam is helping me pack.  Well, not really.
 He’s just sorry he can’t join Emily and me (Monica) on our road trip to the Seton Homeschool Conference.
Please drop by the Arma Dei booth for Catholic prayer-and-catechism-based crafts and activities. 
We would love to meet you!

Please leave us a comment if you’re coming to the conference!

List-O-my-Linkies

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Crafty-Bucket List Linky
This is a linky I started a while back, collecting ideas from other blogs that I would like to try someday!

Did your awesome craft idea
make the linky?
a.k.a.

This is linky page, with another collection of ideas from other blogs…this time related to the Seasons and Feastdays of the Catholic Calendar.


Favorite Prayer Share
This is another linky, on my other blog!  This is a collection of favorite prayers.  Please add links to your own favorite prayers!  Add one…and take another one with you.  Include your own spontaneous prayers and your favorite classic prayers.  I would love to see this linky GROW…and so could our prayer repertoire!

IKEA helped me with my felt fort!

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I can’t believe that IKEA is selling these soft fruit, vegetables and carpenter tools…and that I discovered them just when I finished making my FELT FORT for Smidge’s birthday! 
They are a whole $10 per kit, with anywhere from 9 to 15 pieces, but they are already made and come with little material baskets or a tool belt!  They have more sets too!  I think I saw cupcakes and a whole breakfast tray of food.



As you can see from my previous post, I had made a few little pieces (a cob of corn, a carrot, a couple flowers and a hammer)…for my two youngest kids to play with and sneak into pockets in the walls of the fort.

They were very time consuming to make
and would take me forever to make a reasonable collection!

I think Adam looks pretty cute in his new little tool belt!
The kids are having a blast with their new felt fort!

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Spiritual Bouquet of
Prayer Petal Flowers
Cathletics Craft Kit (Treasure Chest Series)

Monica McConkey (Author)
Price: $12 U.S.
Product Details
1 color cover, 7 black and white templates,
7 page starter set on colored paper
permission to photocopy for single household or single class term use

This kit includes instructions, templates and clipart to create 3 prayer petal flowers based on the prayers of the Rosary, as well as 1 prayer petal flower based on the prayers of the Divine Mercy Chaplet.  Clipart is included to explain the concept of a Spiritual Bouquet and to create beautiful cards for the person who is prayed for.

A starter set is included, printed on suggested colored stock.

The pages are contained in a clear plastic 11″x 9″ envelope.

This kit includes permission to photocopy for one class (for one term) or for all the kids who live in your house.

Publisher:  Arma Dei (2007)

Language:  English
Product Dimension:  9″x11″
Shipping Weight: 96g

Look inside Spiritual Bouquet