Constructing Faith Fun

Since we have been quite focused this week on extended family and homeschooling, I have not had time to put together my usual Sunday piece in order to share a tip, tale, reflection or activity about training young children up to know and love God. 

However, since you were kind enough to stop in today, I don't want you to go away uninspired.  So, I encourage you to pop on over to some of the links listed below for ideas on integrating faith-based fun into your daily life at home or school.  (Of course, I also encourage you to add your own links to list!)

In addition, for homeschoolers and faith formation instructors who are in the midst of planning activities and curriculum for the new year, might I direct you to a piece I shared over at Catholic Mothers Online entitled Catholic Kids Construct: A How-To for Making Picture Books into Faith-Based Pre-Engineering Experiences?  In it, I share the Six Steps to Planning Faith-Based, Picture Book Pre-Engineering Challenges that I used to develop a a co-op course that overflowed into delightful learning and discovery at home as well.

Have a blessed week!

 

(If you receive this post via email and cannot see the linky, be sure to actually click over to the blog to read browse the rich catalog of ideas there.)

Training Happy Hearts:

A Call to Faith Formation for Young Children

You are invited link up anytime with posts -- old or new -- that share your ideas, wisdom, reflections, activities and practical tips and tales about training up young children so that they may have happy hearts, united with God.  Henceforth, this link-up will be posted anew each Sunday, but will contain all linked ideas to date, creating, in effect, a library of ideas for sharing our faith with little ones.  Enjoy browsing the links as well as adding new ones each week.  Thank you and God bless!

1. Dramatize Visitation/Answer Where Babies Come from	2. Corpus Christi Monstrance Activity	3. guess who's my favorite saint?
4. Immaculate Heart of Mary Crafts	5. A Call to Faith Formation	6. The Holy Water Font
7. Bedtime Blessings	8. Scripture Memory	9. Children with Faith
10. Scrapboking Sacraments	11. Cataloguing Family Holy Cards	12. I Spy August Saints
13. Monstrance Activities for Saint Claire	14. Kathie Morrissey	15. Review: Catholic Lingo Bingo
16. Teaching Kids to be a Blessing to others	17. Angel Craft for Archangels or Guardian Angels	18. Tabletop Rosary
19. Jesus in the Eucharist Art Project	20. Catholic I Spy (Free Printables)	21. Giant Pro-Life Active Rosary {Great for all ages}
22. Catholic Child's Lesson Planner free downwload	23. Liturgical Year Bulletin Board	24. Free Catholic File Folder Games!
25. Catholic Child's Daily Journal	26. Notebooking Butler's Lives of the Saints	27. Misc. Catholic Printables FREE to download!
28. Catholic Liturgical Homeschool Planner	29. Catholic homeschool Helps!	30. Cloud of Saints Craft
31. Noreen	32. Faith Activities for An Advent Calendar	33. More Faith Activities for Advent and Books
34. Our Lady of Guadalupe Mexican Flower	35. Juan Diego's Paper Tilma for kids	36. Keeping Christ in Christmas
37. St Stephen ~ Rock Candy	38. Most Holy Name of Jesus Plaque	39. Decorated Star of Bethlehem
40. First Communion Preparation at Home	41. Teaching my kids to love the land	42. Preparing for Eucharistic Adoration
43. Monstrance Chalk Craft	44. Lent,St. Valentine's Day	45. Make Heart Rosary Decades
46. Home Made Children's Book&Recipe	47. Crayon Resist Holy Trinity Shamrocks	48. Saint Joseph as the First Knight
49. Easter Wreath/St. Patrick	50. Faith Filled Freebies	51. Divine Mercy
52. Pentecost Lapbook & Activities	53. Pentecost Dessert	54. Pentecost Lesson
55. Ascension of Jesus	56. Saint Catherine of Sienna: Cards for the Sick	57. Most Holy Trinity Link up
58. Trinity Candles	59. Free Bible Stories for Children Unit Study	60. Guide to Catholic Craft Kits
61. Sacred Seasons Liturgical Calendar + Stickers	62. Making Religion Come Alive for Children	63.
64. What I Learned in Austin: Grace and Mercy	65. FREE Reconciliation Prep Printable	66. Catholic Advent Crafts for Kids
67. Advent: Time of Waiting Craft	68. Jesse Tree Ornaments	69. Saint Nicholas Crafts for Kids

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