Highlighting Virtues with A St. George Resource Round Up (Or What Mama Has the Kids Do When She Is Sick)

Luke's St. George and the Dragon Scene

On Friday, I woke to find my voice gone, my eyes burning, my head aching and my mind realizing that I needed a different plan for the morning than I had gone to bed thinking about. Read-togethers and Endangered Species Fair preparation just would work considering my laryngitis and lousy head cold.  I needed another set of morning activities to engage the kids.

With praise be to our Lord for generous folks on the Internet, I put together a new plan rather quickly: a mini-book on the virtues of St. George.

The inside of Jack's finished mini-book.

 

The flap of Jack's mini-book before he opens it to the inside.

Inside Nina's mini-book with a happy, grateful, loving princess and St. George leading a dragon away with a rope.

Why Saint George when we are nowhere near his feast day?

Well, because, Jack and his big siblings are enamored with knights and castles right now and youtube has an Adventures from the Book of Virtues video with the story of St. George and the Dragon in it.



So, while I did breakfast dishes and some laundry, the children watched that.

Then, I squeaked, "What virtues did St. George show?"

Once the children had shared their ideas, I  gave each child a blank tri-fold mini-book, set out pencils and googled for knight how-to-draws.  The children and I decided that we'd try this one:

Nina's in-progress drawing of St. George.

Once we completed our "St. George"s, Luke asked me to find a dragon how-to-draw.  He chose one here for him and I to do, while Nina chose a sleeping one:



Then, the children asked for a princess how-to-draw.  We chose this one.

Drawings done, each child did basic copy work to write, St. George showed bravery, kindness and faith.

Luke chose to embellish his lettering with dragon-fire and swords.

Nina showed persistence each time she wrote words on Friday.

Then, the children proceeded to add color to their mini-books before setting up for and creating their own St. George and the Dragon drama improv in the hallway.

Jack coloring what he'd asked me to draw for him.

What a blessing it was to have them all so engaged in learning about saints and virtues, while reinforcing writing, drama and creative skills without me having to use my almost-gone voice!

Better still was that, as the day unfolded, each child demonstrated personal virtues of kindness, faith and more, and they also decided to begin their own medieval lapbooks using other how-to-draws that they found online.

What are your go-to resources for teaching about St. George?  Virtues?  And how to you keep your children engaged, learning, practicing skills and enjoying when you're feeling poorly?

 

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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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