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Religious St. Valentine's Day Ideas

on Friday, February 11, 2011

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.

Related Posts:

St. Valentine Paper Bag Puppet

Sacred Heart of Jesus Wreath

Sacred and Immaculate Heart Ideas for Kids

Sacred and Immaculate Heart Crafts, Food, and More!

St. Valentine Link Up

St. Valentine Feast Day Ideas

John 3:16 Valentine Craft

Bible Verse Valentines

Catholic St. Valentine Crafts

Vows for your Valentine

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Healthy Saint Valentine's Day Snack

on Saturday, February 05, 2011

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.

I soooo need to cut back on how much sugar my kids (and I) eat.
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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Catholic Saint Valentine Craft

on Thursday, February 03, 2011

There's not much that we're certain of about Saint Valentine, but he might have been a bishop and he is often depicted that way. Since making the nun craft from yesterday, I've been obsessed with paper bag puppets! They are so much fun and my kids love them! So... we made St. Valentine!

To make your own, start with a paper bag. The head and clothes are cut from colored paper. Add googly eyes, and a pom pom ball beard. I didn't use cotton balls because I didn't want him to look like St. Nicholas. I made his bishop's hat out of a heart shaped doily with the top cut off, and embellished it with some gold colored paper. I used another heart shaped doily on his body, and added a pipe cleaner for his bishop's staff. "St. Valentine" was written with glue and then sprinkled with red glitter. (See the nun puppets for a picture of an unassembled saint puppet.).

I think this is a great craft that's kind of a cross between doing something authentic that says "Hey, Valentine's Day is actually a saint feast day!" but you also get to use some fun cliched red heart doilies and red glitter. :-)

Here's the one Lydia made:

She really wanted her bishop's staff to be a candy cane (guess all that drilling it into her head at Christmas that a candy cane is a shepherd's staff really stuck) but it wouldn't stick with glue so we had to tape it on.

I wish I had a St. Valentine holy card to glue in the middle of the heart. I think that would be really cute! A prayer of St. Valentine would be equally awesome, but my printer is out of commission right now. :-/ I hope you guys are enjoying these paper bag saint puppets as much as we are!

You can find more Saint Valentine crafts in some of my previous posts. His feast day is just around the corner! :-)

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Celebrate St. Valentine's Feast Day- And Link Up Your Ideas, Too! :-)

on Thursday, January 27, 2011

As promised on Catholic Icing's facebook page, I'm hosting a St. Valentine's Day Link up in honor of this oh-so-popular saint. That's right- a saint! Catholics are reclaiming St. Valentine's Day! Whoot!

First I'm going to share my past St. Valentine's Day ideas!

Here are the heart shaped cinnamon rolls

I made for St. Valentine's Day.

Last year we made some

awesome decoder Valentines!

Also check out my post on

how to make a Catholic John 3:16 Valentine.

These are my favorite- check out these

cleverly paired Bible Verse Valentines!

I also have a few Saint Valentine's Day round ups from last year including making a Valentine for your sweetheart (this includes some ideas for Valentines with your vows- so cute!), Spiritual bouquets for St. Valentine's Day, Catholic St. Valentine's Day Crafts, and some more St. Valentine's Day ideas (including a coloring page and a printable from Paper Dali). And I still have more to come this year! :-)

We'll also be reading this St. Valentine Book. It's a cute book, and my children and I did learn a thing or two about St. Valentine. ;-) I was actually lucky enough to find a great deal on this book a few years ago at Ross.

Now it's your turn! What are you doing for St. Valentine's day? How have you celebrated in the past? Link 'em up! :-)

If adding a link, please link back to this post within your post. Feel free to use the image above, but it's not required. Also, link straight to your Saint Valentine post, not your generic blog address.

URG! Linky Tools started charging for link ups since I posted this, and they seriously deleted the existing links! I put up a new linky below, so please put your links back up! I didn't even get a chance to visit them all yet! :'(

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St. Valentine's Day Cinnamon Rolls

on Tuesday, February 09, 2010

As most people on this planet know quite well, St. Valentine's most popular symbol is the heart given that he is the patron saint of love, married couples, engaged couples, etc. Here is an easy breakfast treat we made for celebrating the feast day of St. Valentine!

Heart Shaped Cinnamon Rolls! :-)

What you need:

One can of instant cinnamon rolls
red food coloring (optional)

Take each pre-sliced cinnamon roll, and unroll it. Then, roll from both ends until it meets in the middle. Pinch the bottom for the "point" of the heart, and then bake as usual.