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Thursday, April 25, 2024
Home Lessons and Activities

Lessons and Activities

A Family Together: Mission to Evangelize

by Grace Mazza Urbanski CLICK HERE to download a PDF of this activity.   Copyright 2016, Bayard, Inc. All rights reserved. This article is protected...

Celebrating Saints: Catherine Kasper (Feast Day: February 1)

PATRICIA MATHSON Catherine Kasper lived in a village in Germany. She was often sick as a child and missed school. But even as a...

How to Teach the Ten Commandments to Children

PEGGY WEBER When people think of the Ten Commandments, the words "covet" and "neighbor's wife" comes to mind—or the image of Charlton Heston holding two...

Celebrating Saint Joseph Moscati

Doctor to the Poor, Feast Day: November 16

Liturgy is Catechetical

On Why Your Lesson Time Ought to be Liturgical MARC CARDARONELLA The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that liturgy is a “privileged place” for catechesis....

Free coloring pages — perfect for younger Catholic children!

Looking for coloring pages for kids? Pflaum Publishing is offering these free pages for download with art by Deacon Jim Burrows. They are great for...

Ten Commandments Bingo

CLAIRE PELLETIER Children love playing Ten Commandments Bingo! Second-grade teacher Claire Pelletier created this special version of Bingo to check her students’ understanding of the...

A Gift for Baby Jesus

VICKI PAVALKO  With the help of catechist Vicki Pavalko, third graders at St. Nicholas Church in Struthers, OH, wrap their Advent good deeds up into...

The Joyful Mysteries

A Family Together

Advice from Master Catechists—February 2012

How can our class fast together during Lent? How is having students pray at home as part of a lesson on prayer a good idea, a bad idea?