St. Jerome Day Resource Round Up

St. Jerome in His Study by Jan van Eyck  from Wikimedia

Today is a day to celebrate here at our house.  Not only is it the eighth anniversary of our beach betrothal, but it is one of the kids favorite Saint Play Feast Days:  St. Jerome's Day.

So, we started our morning off with some readings about St. Jerome at breakfast...

 ... as well as some dramatic play about St. Jerome and his lion.

Then, it was off to celebrate Mass and, soon, will be headed out for a rainy day walk at the beach that Mike and I got betrothed at.

Eight Years Ago This Evening

Before we head out, though, I wanted to share a resource round up for anyone who wants to enjoy some last-minute exploration of St. Jerome with young children.

Celebrating St. Jerome

• Enjoy reading the picture book St. Jerome and the Lion, another book by the same title or the St. Jerome excerpt from the New Picture Book of Saints: Illustrated Lives of the Saints for Young and Old, Saint Joseph Edition.

• Gather up some figurines, stuffed toys or homemade paper dolls and make a Storybasket or dramatic play scene.

 

• Enjoy hands-on play, such as making playdough lion figurines as we did as part of our St. Jerome study a few years ago.

• Enjoy some St. Jerome coloring, such as from the St. Jerome coloring book (and its printable preview) from Nuemann Press, a print out of St. Jerome and Paula as found at Goldenwood Studio's site, a print out of Lucas Van Leyden, Engraving, St. Jerome, 1513 as found at Masterworks Fine Art's site or a download of St. Jerome by Pollard Willow or St. Jerome in His Study by Albrecht Durer from Aiwaz.net.

• Practice handwriting with St. Jerome Spiritual Copywork from That Resource Site.

• If you don;t have access to storybooks about St. Jerome, you might simply share the page on St. Jerome from Holy Spirit Interactive Kids.

Enjoy celebrating, and, if you have favorite St. Jerome resources, please share about them in a comment!

 

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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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