Crafts for the Chair of St. Peter

The feast of the Chair of St. Peter is coming up on February 22. You can read more about it here at Catholic Culture (a site that I love!). Here are some ideas for celebrating the feast of the Chair of St. Peter with kids. (Start by checking out some pictures of the Chair of St. Peter, then move onto some of these fun ideas!)

This stained glass window craft from By Sun and Candlelight

looks just like the stained glass window above the chair!!!

I couldn't love this craft more, and she posted great directions!

Try crafting a chair yourself to go in front of your stained glass

window. I love the idea of making one from a tissue tube!

I found these at Mid-Craft Crisis. (I think it goes without saying
to modify this craft- think less Barbie, more St. Peter). ;-)

Love this edible chair for this feast day celebration from  

Catholic Cuisine! Adorable and easy- doesn't get better than that!

(This picture was posted with permission)

I love this St. Peter cake from Our Daily Life and Work!

She also suggests playing musical chairs.What a cute idea!

Find another Chair of St. Peter Round-up on Familia Catolica. Happy celebrating! If you have a minute, I'm still up for best Catholic blog and you can vote here daily. Thanks so much for all your support on facebook! You guys are the best! :-)

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Papal Flag Idea for Kids

This week at our house is "P" week. P will be for prayer, priest, pope, papal flag, and St. Peter! The feast of the chair of St. Peter is coming up next week on February 22, so even for those of you not learning about the alphabet this should be a useful idea! ;-) As a learning activity to teach my kids about St. Peter and the Papal flag, we made this kid-appealing version:

As I'm sure you know, crossed keys are St. Peter's most popular symbol, and you can find them on the papal flag. See?

We started by making a batch of my favorite soft pretzel dough (yes, I do bake sometimes, and I even use yeast. Lol!) and we rolled/stretched it into long coils to shape some simple keys.

When they were baked we just set out some simple yellow and white paper and put the keys on. Use this opportunity to talk to your kids about the history of the Papal Flag, and also where the Papal Flag got it's colors! If I had some red yarn on hand, I would have wound it through the pretzels to look more like the flag, but I wasn't going to make a special trip for it.

Say a prayer for priests and the pope, then enjoy your pretzels! Now, go and bring excitement for the faith to your children through a fun Papal Flag treat! ;-) God bless!

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Religious St. Valentine's Day Ideas

I thought with St. Valentine's Day literally right around the corner, you guys would appreciate some crafty ideas!

I love this St. Valentine's Day wreath! It's 

a scripture wreath that looks like conversation hearts!

(I like to call Tiffany the "Liturgical Wreath Lady". 

She never disappoints). :-)

I love this bible word search! You have to find the
words from Corinthians 13:4-8. So cute!

Busy With Blessings made an awesome
Beatitudes Valentine Project and the final
project made for a beautiful decoration!

Joyfilled Family shared some beautiful
Religious Love Printables with prayers!

Family at the Foot of the Cross also made these
Saintly Valentines for Jesus. :-)

Make some sun catcher heart crosses with

That Artist Woman using toilet paper tubes.

I love this "Jesus Loves Me" Valentine tutorial
from Inspiring Ideas!

My Little Flower used loving religious pictures
to create some St. Valentine's Day decorations.

This Printable Valentine Angel is free on All Sorts.

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John 3:16 Valentine Craft

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Rice Krispie Treat Grotto for Our Lady of Lourdes

The feast of Our Lady of Lourdes is on February 11. Last year I saw this grotto made from fruity pebbles on Catholic Cuisine, and I thought it was one of the most adorable Catholic feast day celebration ideas I had ever seen! I knew I had to try my hand at making one this year! :-)

I didn't actually have a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, so we just used the Mary from our Little People Nativity set. I get that it's cute to make a grotto out of fruity pebbles or cocoa pebbles because of the play on words "pebbles", but I opted for regular rice krispies.

First I made a regular batch of rice krispie treats. Some of them were spread flat into a pan like normal, but some of it I molded for the grotto using my bunt pan.

Warm rice krispie treats are surprisingly easy to mold any which way you want to. I read somewhere that if they start to set up too fast, you can use your hair dryer to make them pliable again. (If you wanted to make a big grotto, I think you could totally fill the bunt pan and cut it in half for the grotto piece.) Then I cut the sheet of rice krispie treats into squares and built my grotto as best I could.

I decided it looked boring and unfinished. It needed something more. So I whipped up another batch of rice krispie treats (only with cornflakes and green food coloring- like the cornflake wreaths you can make at Christmas time) to add some greenery cascading down our grotto. This was super easy to do while this stuff was warm! Just blob it on there- it looks so natural! ;-)

It still seemed to be missing something... so I added a few roses at Mary's feet. They were also really easy to make. Just take a long skinny piece of a fruit roll up and roll it into a tiny rose. Voila!

I think the greenery and roses are just what this grotto called for! Now all this grotto needed was Mary! (Honestly, I seriously considered making a little spring filled with blue jello also, but sometimes you just gotta know when to stop. Lol!) If I had a little Fisher Price St. Bernadette, I might have made the jello spring.

By the way, I'm in love with this platter it's on!

I had waaaay too much fun making this with Lydia! Then, we brought the grotto to a super bowl party. Ya, don't invite the freaky Catholic Icing lady to your super bowl party without expecting a Marian treat- lol!

It might be more fitting to watch this St. Bernadette children's movie while enjoying this edible grotto treat, but whatever floats your boat. Go check out the fruity pebbles grotto on Catholic Cuisine- Jessica has a completely different way of assembling one of these than I do!

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Healthy Saint Valentine's Day Snack

When we made our Saint Valentine Puppets the other day, it just seemed that we should have a special snack in preparation for his feast day as well. :-)

There are 2 reasons we didn't make heart shaped cookies.

1. I soooo need to cut back on how much sugar my kids (and I) eat.
2. I don't enjoy baking.

So I opted for something easy and a little more nutritious. Doesn't it look healthy???

No?! Well, these aren't made out of spinach or anything gross and clever like that. They're just toasted English muffins "iced" with cream cheese and with added sprinkles. Who gets to say sprinkles are only for dessert? (I didn't have strawberry cream cheese, so I just added a little food coloring to regular cream cheese. Lydia was sure this made the cream cheese taste like "strawberry ice cream". lol.)

This one is decorated with strawberry flavored yogurt covered raisins. :-)

I just put some raspberry jam on mine. It was yummy! 

My children loved them!

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Grotto Craft for Our Lady of Lourdes

Have you guys seen these Catholic grotto craft kits yet? You can get them for Our Lady of Lourdes, Fatima, and Guadalupe. I personally feel like they make most since for Our Lady of Lourdes because the grotto from that apparition is very famous! The feast of Our Lady of Lourdes is coming up on February 11. Here are the grotto craft kits Lydia and I made:

This craft would be a great pair with the children's movie Bernadette, Princess of Lourdes.(I have and love that movie by the way- one of my favorites of the CCC collection!). I just love the story of St. Bernadette! (And if you're looking for an adult movie, you can try The Song of Bernadette). 

The grotto kits we made were soooo much fun, so easy, and the results are striking! I couldn't tell from the pictures in the catalog, but the finished project is actually very 3 dimensional and stands on it's own! Also, it came with a great explination of grottos and information about Our Lady that was awesome! The instructions were very easy to follow. This craft kit would make anyone look like a professional crafter.

What I also couldn't tell from the other pictures of this craft- these gem stones it comes with are just beautiful! Lydia loved them! (And I did, too!)

It was so nice to have everything ready to go for me. I think these kits would make excellent gifts for Catholic children (especially from Godparents) for sacraments and Baptism anniversaries! So cute! They recommend coloring the pictures with colored pencils, so I pulled out my all-time-favorite colored pencils... Prismacolor! They are a little pricey, but man are they awesome! I have been using them for more than 10 years and I would never pick up another crayola or rose art brand colored pencil. They're great for kids because you can get such rich colors from them without too much pressure. They're also great for blending and mixing.

Even though it said for ages 6 and up, Lydia is only 4 and this was an awesome craft for her! She did need help keeping the bottom flat, but she did the majority of this herself.

This craft kit was so much fun and kept Lydia busy for over 2 hours. We had a great afternoon making these together! I would fully recommend getting these kits for your kids! It's very relaxing to have everything ready to go without a million trips to the craft store- a real luxury! For more ideas for celebrating the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, see my post from last year.

Disclaimer: I was not paid to write this post, but I was provided with these kits for free from Catholic Child Catalog. Every recommendation you see on this site is 100% honest from me. This post does contain affiliate links which help support the costs of running this site. Thanks for your support!
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