Showing posts with label Holy Spirit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holy Spirit. Show all posts

Monday, March 31, 2025

April Radiant Roundup- Ideas for Holy Week, Easter, and April Saints

Happy April! Here's the Radiant Roundup for the month, filled with resources for Holy Week, the whole Season of Easter, the month of the Holy Spirit, and Saint Feast Days for April!

Holy Week & The Sacred Triduum
Holy Week Family Retreat & Journal* (In English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese)
This post has ideas for each day of Holy Week, including a printable journal and clickable links to activities and videos.



The Easter Season 4/20/25-6/8/25
50 Ways to Celebrate the 50 Days* Easy to share pdf with ideas for the whole Easter Season
Fifty Days of Easter* Post with collection of ideas for celebrating Easter

Divine Mercy Sunday- 4/27/25
Divine Mercy Watercolor Art* (printable coloring page-2nd-6th)
Divine Mercy Melty Bead Craft* (printable pattern and examples-2nd-8th)
Pop Out Divine Mercy Chaplet* (Connection to Reconciliation-2nd-6th)


April: The Month of the Holy Spirit
Feast Days this Month

4/16- St. Bernadette Soubirous



4/27/25- Canonization of SAINT Carlo Acutis! (Feast Day 10/12)

4/28- St. Gianna Molla
4/28- St. Louis de Montfort


4/29- St. Catherine of Siena



April Books for Catholic Kids
Click here for a list of book recommendations for Holy Week, the Easter Season, and Saint Feast Days this month:


May the Lord bless and keep you! 

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Thursday, June 6, 2024

Books about the Holy Spirit for Catholic Kids


Holy Spirit Book List for Catholic Kids
Here's a list of books to help your children grow closer to the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity. Some books are about the Holy Spirit and some specifically about Pentecost. I also included titles that would be great for Confirmation preparation (or continuing to grow after receiving the Sacrament) as well as books about the Acts of the Apostles and the work of the Holy Spirit in the early Church. If you have any other great titles, make sure you let us know in the comments!

This list contains Amazon Affiliate links, which means if you click through and make a purchase, I earn a small commission at no cost to you. I'd also love to encourage you to shop directly with the publisher or with your local bookshop, or try to request these at your local library! You can find my giant list of Catholic Kid Books by topic here.

The Holy Spirit
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Wednesday, June 1, 2022

June Radiant Roundup


Hello friends! Happy June, the Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus! There are so many beautiful feasts to celebrate this month, and I'm happy to share some ideas below. Whether you are looking for quick projects to beat summer boredom or need resources for a parish VBS, I hope you find tools to help your kiddos pray, learn, and celebrate!

 
Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: June 24th


Pentecost: June 5th
Gifts of the Holy Spirit Retreat* (editable calendar, printable prayer journal, recommended prayer, scripture, videos, and activities)
Who is the Holy Spirit? Resources* (editable google classroom assignment & paper version)
Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit Printables* (Scroll down in the post)

Ordinary Time Begins: June 6th

Mary, Mother of the Church: June 6th 
Mary, Mother of the Church Activities* 

Trinity Sunday: June 12th

Corpus Christi: June 19th


St. Peter & Paul: June 29th

And its's not a Feast Day, but most schools will be out for summer soon! If you are looking for a way to keep your teen or preteen growing and praying this summer, you could try this editable retreat plan!

Happy June! Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us!
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Thursday, February 17, 2022

Who is the Holy Spirit? Intro or Review (Editable for Google Classroom!)

 

Confirmation season is drawing near in my neck of the woods, so the Holy Spirit has been on my brain quite a bit! Regardless of when the Sacrament of Confirmation takes place in your school or parish, it's never a bad time to help your students grow closer to the Third Person of the Trinity.

Using this Catholic Central video (which is less than five minutes long), I set up some slides to help provide a quick intro to the Holy Spirit (or this could also function as a great review!). I really like using the Catholic Central videos in my classroom because they are short in addition to being both informative and entertaining. The videos make great tools as a quick overview for important material that can then be taught with more depth based on what we are studying.

The accompanying slides are meant to slow down the info and record the content shared within the video. The students could also do their own research (even using their own Bible or Catechism to complete the questions). Simple, but effective!

If you'd like to assign the Google Slides to your students, remember that you have to make a copy in order to edit. This is just a template. That also means that once you make a copy you can edit to your heart's content, making it just right for your students. Not a Google Classroom user? You also can download this as a PowerPoint and share through other classroom sites. And I also have a printable version too if you want to go low-tech (which I try to do as often as possible!).

Click here for the Google Slides version:


Click here for the pdf of the handout with the same questions, or here for an editable version of the handout in Google Docs.


If you are using this activity as part of Confirmation prep, I have lots of other resources you might like!

Gifts of the Holy Spirit Retreat, including Lectio Divina Journal and digital resources:


Tons of Confirmation Saint Graphic Organizers- including printables on the Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit:

A Saint Scavenger Hunt (fun for All Saints Day, or in the early days of researching Confirmation Saints). This one is on paper:

And here's a Saint Scavenger Hunt in a digital version with lots of links to help with research:

Come Holy Spirit!

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Tuesday, April 6, 2021

50 Ways to Celebrate the 50 Days of Easter!

 

I LOVE the Easter Season- all 50 days of it! The truth of the Resurrection is real! Christ is risen from the dead, has triumphed over the grave, and has saved us from our sin! And that news is worth sharing. After such a warm response to the need of the Holy Week at Home Family Retreat over the past two years, I wanted to provide something to help you keep the momentum going in your own home or a resource easily shared with your classroom or parish. This set of 50 ideas is updated for 2021 with corrected dates and some new resources, including a free printable of my Paschal Lamb carving: 

***Dates updated for 2022!***


As with Holy Week resources, the internet has blessed us with SO many options for celebrating. You can carry on your favorite traditions and do some research to add in new ones. This 50 Ways in 50 Days guide is intended to give you a starting point as well as to make it easy to share those ideas with others who might not know where (or have the time, etc.) to begin.

Click here to download a seven page pdf file. The pdf contains 50 little thumbnails that are all links to FREE Easter related resources, theoretically one for each day of the Season. They are loosely arranged from Easter to Pentecost, with special Feast Days (Divine Mercy, Ascension, Saints, etc.) labeled in between.


The resources are intended to reach a wide variety of ages, while of course some are meant for older kids and some for younger, hopefully families can find ways to make them work for most K-8th kids. The links lead to different ideas for art, coloring pages, prayer, food, videos, music, and more. And again, they are all free! (Here's what one sample page looks like)

Many of the ideas come from my blog, just organized in a different way. But I also have some favorite resources from many other parents, teachers, creators, and small business owners. Once you get to their sites, I hope you check out all they have to offer.

Please feel free to take this pdf and email it directly to anyone you think can use it. You are welcome to include it in a school/parish newsletter or include a link to it on your website. I designed it this way for exactly that purpose- hopefully it is easy to get in the hands of your family and the families you know and work with, helping all of us have a happier and holier Easter.

I pray that we all experience the true joy of the Resurrection and look forward to dwelling richly in the hope of Easter all season long!



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Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Confirmation Saint Graphic Organizers


My students are just a little over a month away from receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation.  I'm feeling the crunch of trying to teach-them-all-the-things, which we all know is impossible- thank goodness we have a lifetime to keep learning about the Mysteries of God!  In an effort to teach two concepts at once as well as help the students apply what they are learning, we are working through a series of tasks relating to their chosen Confirmation Saint.  Every Confirmation class requires the students to choose a Saint and using write a report or do a project about that Saint.  My students had to do the basics late last fall when they made their Saint choices, but I wanted to also help them create a keepsake which also getting to know their Saint a little better.

I had a stack of unused 8"x8" blank books (found mine in the Target dollar aisle, but they can be found on school supply websites too), and we have been creating artifacts to assemble into a Confirmation Saint book.  I'd like to share some of the pages with you today if they would be helpful in your own Confirmation prep and instruction.  My students will also add a cross curricular Math project they are making that results in a Stained Glass window of their Saint, and in Art they are working on creating an icon that will be displayed at their Confirmation Mass.  We'll print a small photo of it to include in their book, and I'll also set up a page where the students can add a photo of themselves and their sponsor, etc. 

The graphic organizers I'm sharing are intentionally blank so that you can use them any way that fits the needs of your students.  I'll also share a version that can easily be cut down to 8"x8" if you'd like to try the blank book (or nicer scrapbook) idea, or there are full page versions to use for individual tasks or in a notebook or folder.

First up, here is a basic Saint biography page.  This would be a great intro project once the students have chosen their Saint, but my students will be using this as a review and hopefully sharing genuine and detailed info after all these months of getting to know their Saints ;)  The full page version has an extra section for a quote by or about the Saint, or a Bible verse that describes them.


This project we worked on for St. Valentine's Day.  We discussed that Saints often come in pairs or groups- holiness begets holiness- and therefore they should look for friends and family members themselves who they can walk together in the faith with.  For this task, they had to connect their Saint to another Saint.  It could be (preferably) someone they knew in real life, or a Saint they looked up to and was known to ask for the intercession of.  Honestly, even I was surprised with how many connections we were able to find.  (Out of my 54 students, there was only one we really struggled with, and he has a particularly obscure Saint.)  It was really neat for the kids to see how many of the Saints had an immediate family member that also became a Saint, or for them to read about a group of friends that pursued holiness together. This has been my favorite Confirmation activity we have done so far!  The full page version has an extra box asking the student to connect their own life to the Saints.

This page was a great way to apply knowledge of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.  After doing a typical lesson learning about the Gifts (I'll have a post soon with our notes from that), the students had to apply their new knowledge by writing one way that their Saint showed the manifestation of that Gift of the Holy Spirit in their life.  This one really made them think, but hopefully helped them see how the Holy Spirit worked in their Saint and can work in them.  The full page version includes a short definition of the Gifts in the seven boxes.

I don't have my example page done for this one yet but I wanted to include it with the group. ;) This one has the students show how the Fruits of the Holy Spirit could be seen in the life of their Saint.  After learning about the Fruits (again, printables will be in another post soon), they'll apply what they know by choosing four out of the twelve fruits that their Saint particularly exemplified.  In these four boxes they will create a simple comic strip with a caption about four stories from the Saint's life.  The full page version has a spot for a reflection at the bottom.

There are tons of ways to use these printables, whether individually or as a whole project.  There will probably be a few more added to the collection, so check back for more posts! If you are currently preparing a group of students for Confirmation, please know of my prayers both for you and the Confirmands!



Click on the images below for the printables:


Saint Bio 8X8:
Saint Bio Regular:

Saintly BFFs 8x8:

Saintly BFFs Regular:

Saint & Gifts of HS 8x8:

Saint & Gifts of HS Regular:

Saint & Fruits of HS 8x8:

Gifts of the Holy Spirit Cards:

Gifts of the Holy Spirit Mini Book:


Fruits of the Holy Spirit Foldable:

Saint & Fruits of the HS Regular:

Saint and the Corporal/Spiritual Works of Mercy:






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