Free Printable Manger Scenes, Nativity Scenes to color

Are you looking for great Bible Christmas crafts for little ones? Here are free printable manger scenes, Bible nativity sets to color with coloring pages from the Christmas story. Catholic Icing offers free printable Bible Christmas coloring pages to make into nativity sets. Children color characters from the Bible Christmas story. Then they wrap pictures around paper towel and toilet paper tubes. This makes 3D, standup manger scenes. The blog owner created eight pages of coloring pages for so kids can make complete nativity sets and gives permission to print one for each person so long as you don't sell anything you make with it.

Children might make the entire set all at once or countdown to Christmas making and adding one new piece each day. Manger scenes have 15 parts so begin 15 days before Christmas and color one per night. Or begin later in Advent and add the wisemen and camels in Epiphany (Three Kings Day, Twelfth Night). Color nativity sets in this order--stable, palm tree, shepherd, sheep, angel, donkey, Joseph, Mary, Baby Jesus, wiseman, camel. Check out the other awesome Bible Christmas activities on the website.

Here are more free printable nativity sets and manger scenes (also called creche or nacimiento). Let children color their manger scenes during devotions to help them stay focused. Paper Toys is an amazing website overflowing with cool free printable models of buildings, cars and dioramas. Scroll through to find a Chanukah menorah and a gazillion other 3D paper models. 

Here are free printable nativity sets. Print in color or black and white and use for Bible Christmas coloring pages. Both manger scenes come with cut and paste stable, star, manger, Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus and the three wisemen. Use free printable manger scenes as a follow up craft activity for Advent devotions. Catholic families could use nativity sets to pray the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary and to countdown to Christmas. Use Magi (three wisemen) images for Epiphany or Three Kings Day, celebrated on January 6. Many countries celebrate Christmas and Epiphany. In countries like Spain, Three Kings Day is the major gift-giving holiday. It is the Magi who are said, by tradition to bring gifts to children. This makes sense as it was the wisemen who brought gifts for Baby Jesus.

Free Printable Feast of the Immaculate Conception Lesson Plans, Crafts, Activities

December 8 marks the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. The Immaculate Conception is one of six recognized Holy Days in the liturgical calendar. Here are free printable activities and lessons to celebrate this feast day. I've gone through all the noted Catholic websites and linked this article to children's liturgy activities that explore the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Our Blessed Mother. free printable Immaculate Conception crafts

Free Printable Advent Calendar Craft Project

Looking for a cute Advent countdown to Christmas calendar? Here is a complete free printable advent countdown calendar activity featuring teddy bears labeled from 1-25. This Christmas countdown craft can be adapted in many ways for religious and secular advent calendars. free printable advent calendars

Free Printable Jewish Calendars and Calendar Converters

Calendars help mark time, but not everyone follows the same calendar. The Jewish luni-solar calendar dates time differently than the western Gregorian calendar. Here are free printable lunisolar Jewish calendars and calendar converter tools. Calendars are marked with Jewish holy days. You can print monthly calendars for each month of the Jewish year. You can also print calendars cross-referenced with the western Gregorian calendar.

For free printable Jewish calendars, visit Printable Jewish Calendar. The 12 Jewish months of the calendar include: Nissan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul, Tishri, Cheshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar I (found only in leap years) and Adar. These months are listed in the order they occur within the Jewish calendar year. Their western equivalents are March-April: Nissan, April-May: Iyan, May-June: Tammuz, etc. Free printable Jewish calendars are dated for 5776, the current year in the Jewish calendar. Get equivalent free printable western calendars for 2016 and updated ones as each new year arrives. Free printable Jewish calendars include Hebrew holidays. You can print lunisolar Jewish calendars, with or without a calendar converter of western dates.

The Jewish calendar begins with Pesach or Passover in Nissan, but the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah takes place in Tishri (the seventh month which is equivalent to September-October in the western calendar). This is when the new year is numbered. It is difficult to make direct comparison between western Gregorian and Jewish calendars as the two calendars differ by orientation. The older Julian calendar which Orthodox Christians use and the later Gregorian calendar (western calendar now used) are solar calendars. They are based upon the earth's path around the sun. The Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar. It is also called lunisolar calendar because the Hebrew calendar reconciles the phases or cycles of the moon with the earth's orbit around the sun. See Abdicate for details on how the Jewish and Gregorian (western) calendars coincide and mark time. This site also has a free calendar converter tool to convert calendars written in English or Hebrew.

Jew FAQ or Judaism 101 explains the Hebrew calendar on several levels, from basic to more advanced. Sources agree that the Hebrew calendar has the least degree of error of all the calendars. Formulab has a free calendar converter tool with converts date in the Western Gregorian calendar to dates in Jewish calendars and from the lunisolar Hebrew calendar to Gregorian solar calendar. Use these free printable calendars and calendar converter tools in Hebrew school or in social studies classes for multicultural lesson plans. 

Homemade Advent Calendar

Easy Homemade Advent Calendar Craft to Countdown to Christmas Advent is the four week period before Christmas. Advent calendars make a great way to countdown the days until Christmas. You can purchase an Advent calendar, print of of the many free Advent calendars or make your own using this easy pattern.
advent calendar craft

Advent Countdown to Christmas Activities for Catholic Families and Homeschoolers

 We homeschooled our four children for over 10 years. As a Catholic family, the month of December was devoted to Advent. Advent begins on the 4th Sunday before Christmas and countdowns to the feast of Christmas. Here are Advent countdown activities. Parents can use these activities to raise awareness, teach generosity, develop empathy with the world church. Kids learn compassion through gospel poverty and living in solidarity with the poor, as Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Feast Day, September 5) taught. As a lesser penitential season, Advent activities should focus on missionary outreach. Some kids missions work activities I've listed may count toward their school-required student volunteer service credit hours too.  Read More Advent Countdown to Christmas Activities 

Free Printable Advent Calendars to Countdown to Christmas

Advent begins four Sundays before Christmas. During Advent we focus on prayer, fasting and almsgiving in preparation for the Feast of Christmas. Many people use an Advent calendar to countdown to Christmas. Here are free printable advent calendars. Read More Free Printable Advent Calendar Countdown to Christmas Crafts 

Emotional Healing in Catholic Sacrament of Reconciliation

Overactive Conscience and Guilt Trips; My Journey of Faith to Catholic Confession and Reconciliation I didn't understand guilt complex until I was an adult. Listening to healthier adult friends, I discovered that my guilt was pathological. When I became a Catholic and went to confession, I found that much of the guilt what the church terms 'scruples.' scruples vs. confession

Free Printable Catholic Christian Christmas Nativity Coloring Pages

Looking for free printable Christian and religious Christmas and Bible story coloring pages? Papa Jan has hundreds of holiday and religious coloring pages, including fifty Bible story coloring pages and Christian Christmas coloring pages. Free Printable Christian Christmas Coloring Pages

Free Printable Catholic Saints Coloring Pages

I've just found a lovely blog today, called Waltzing Matilda, that features a whole collection of free printable Catholic saints organized in order of the Catholic liturgical and saints feast day calendar. This blog features beautiful hand drawn images. Read More Free Printable Catholic Saints Coloring Pages

Free Printable Liturgical Calendars and Activities

 Ordinary time is a great time to research free printable Catholic lesson plans, activities and crafts. Here are free printable Catholic liturgical calendars and church season activities for families, home school, Catholic school and CCD. Read More Free Printable Liturgical Calendars

Free Printable Rosary Coloring Pages, Blessed Virgin Mary Devotions

Catholic and Orthodox Christians have a devotion to the Mother of God, the Blessed Virgin Mary. Our Lady taught to the Catholic faithful to pray the rosary--the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious mysteries--to turn the focus away from selfishness and onto her son Jesus Christ. Here are free printable Catholic rosary coloring pages and Marian devotional activities. The events in the rosary are called mysteries because they are so miraculous that human beings can't fully understand them.

Family in Feast and Feria has made available in free printable PDFs a lovely little Catholic rosary devotional booklet entitled "The Rosary Color Book" written and illustrated in 1949 by Ettore Fattori. These free printable Blessed Virgin Mary rosary coloring pages feature vintage image. They evoke a prayerful, devotional sense of peace. The booklet has a prayer and meditation for each of the Joyful Mysteries, Sorrowful Mysteries, Glorious Mysteries and Luminous Mysteries of the rosary (added by Pope John Paul about 10 years ago). Each mystery is followed by a coloring page depicting each event. The booklet is one single book, but each set of mysteries of the rosary opens separately. You must open each set of mysteries of the rosary from attached links.

The Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary include: The Annunciation of the Angel Gabriel (the angel announces to the Blessed Virgin Mary that she has been overshadowed by the power of the Almighty and bring forth a Son who will be savior of the world). The Visitation (the Blessed Virgin Mary visits her cousin Elizabeth who is carrying John the Baptist), The Birth of Jesus (Christmas), The Presentation of the Child Jesus in the Temple (for circumcision and blessing) and The Finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple (Jesus, at 12 was found in the temple teaching the elders.) There are coloring pages for each

The Sorrowful mysteries of the rosary include The Agony in the Garden, The Scourging at the Pillar, The Crowning With Thorns, Jesus Carries His Cross, The Crucifixion. Free printable coloring pages details each sad event from the Bible story of the life of Jesus so they are called the Sorrowful Mysteries. Some of them are Catholic Stations of the Cross as well.

The Glorious Mysteries of the rosary include The Resurrection of Our Lord, The Ascension into Heaven, The Descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven, The Crowing of Blessed Virgin Mary Queen of Heaven. These are the events that show the divinity of Jesus, so they are called Glorious Mysteries. The Catholic rosary coloring pages were made before the Luminous Mysteries of the rosary were added, so here are other links for free printable Luminous Mysteries of the Catholic rosary.

This free printable Catholic rosary prayer book is written with meditations. It includes a place for the child to write a response or promise to Jesus while praying the rosary as she reflects on each mystery of the rosary. When you pray the rosary with children, encourage each family member to go off into a private spot to meditate. Ponder what Jesus and Our Lady may be saying to you. Write your response directly to them. For example, "My Jesus, I promise to love thee more, pray more faithfully."

Free Printable Bible Story Coloring Pages: Old and New Testament

 Teaching VBS- Vacation Bible School this summer? Or maybe your gearing up for Sunday School, Christian school, Hebrew school or homeschool in the fall? Here are free printable Bible story, old and new testament coloring pages. Free Printable Bible Coloring Pages, Activities

Free Printable Natural Family Planning Ovulation and Fertility Charts

Birth control is a very personal choice between couples but in the Catholic church and some protestant denominations, use of artificial contraception is forbidden by church law. If you're a Catholic Christian or concerned about the safety of taking the pill, oral contraceptives or using artificial birth control, why not consider NFP or Natural Family Planning? 

Natural Family Planning International, a ministry of the Catholic Church, teaches couples to chart monthly menstrual cycles, using the symptom-thermal or calendar method of birth control. Fertility awareness helps couples with natural family planning without artificial birth control. It helps them achieve pregnancy by understanding a woman's monthly cycle. Here are free printable ovulation charts, also called fertility charts.

Ovulation is the time of the month when the egg is released from the ovary and begins its way down the Fallopian tube to the uterus. The uterus prepares for possible pregnancy each month and the BBT or basal body temperature rises slightly around fertile times of the month. The uterus also builds up mucus which appears in the cervix and around a woman's genital area. The consistency and type of mucus indicates more and less fertile times. Couples plot information about CM (cervical mucus) and BBT on fertility charts to know when ovulation is occurring.

Using the information on fertility charts, couples plan to when to engage in intercourse to get pregnant. Charting cervical mucus and daily BBT is called the symptothermal method of Natural Family Planning. With the health risks involved with artificial contraceptives, many couples use symptothermal birth control to know when to avoid intercourse and pregnancy, for safe and natural family planning.

Free printable medical forms has a free printable fertility charts. These BBT charts track ovulation signs using the symptothermal calendar method. There are simple free printable fertility charts and more advanced BBT charts for a cost. Just Mommies has free printable ovulation charts that use just the BBT calendar method and not the symptothermal method of birth control. Fertility charts are simple to use. Instead of writing the clinical sexual intercourse or SI used on most fertility charts, couples write BD (baby dance).

Baby Center is a great for folks trying to achieve pregnancy. Its supportive and includes a free e-newsletter to receive helpful fertility advice. Baby Center has tutorials on how to use basal thermometers and free CM and BBT fertility charts. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the free printable BBT charts. Use fertility awareness tools in natural family planning.

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Free Printable Rosary Coloring Pages, Stations of the Cross Coloring Activities

The rosary and stations of the cross are often shown in stained glass on church windows. They tell the story of Our Lord's passion. Here are free printable coloring pages of images from the rosary, made from stained glass window images. Read More Free Printable Stations of the Cross Crafts

Free Printable Bible Bingo Games

 Bingo is one of the oldest and most beloved board games. Bingo games can be converted into an endless number of configurations. Teachers use bingo games to teach content. Here are free printable bingo games. Free Printable Bible Bingo Games

Free Printable Baptism and Christening Cards

Many faiths celebrate the sacrament of baptism and christening, whether it be infant or adult baptism. With all the event to attend and bring gifts, cards can get expensive. Here are free printable baptism and confirmation cards and invitations. Read More Free Printable Baptism Cards, Christening Invitations

Free Printable Blessed Virgin Mary Coloring Pages

Mary, the mother of Jesus, is honored on several different Catholic and Orthodox Christian holidays. Some are holy days of obligation. December 8 is the Feast Immaculate Conception, January 1 is Solemnity of Mary and August 15 is the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Advent and Christmas honor Our Lady. She is revered in the Sorrowful, Joyful, Glorious and Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary, too.

May and October are dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Catholics believe Mary appeared as Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal, Our Lady of Lourdes in France, Our Lady of Medjugorie in Bosnia-Herzegovina; Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Our Lady of Knock in Ireland and Our Lady of Czestochowa in Poland. There are other Marion feast days, too. Here are free printable Virgin Mary coloring pages and printables of Our Lady in her different titles and roles.

Vintage Holiday Crafts has beautiful antique religious clip art from greeting cards and holy cards. Click to print free images of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Christmasand in the nativity. Women for Family and Faith has a free printable Virgin Mary coloring page with children. The words to the Ave Maria are printed below.

Waltzing Mathilda is a blog with free printable Catholic coloring pages. There are printable images of saints, lenten calendars, Catholic games and activities. There are coloring pages of Mary, Mother or God (Jan.1), the Apparition of the Immaculate Conception (at Lourdes, Feb. 11), Our Lady of the Rosary (Oct. 8), Feast of the Immaculate Conception (Dec. 8) and Our Lady of Guadalupe (Dec.13).

Holy Spirit Interactive has several free printable Bible coloring pages with images of Jesus with his Mother, plus some other religious Christmas coloring pages with Mary. Coloring Pages has a diverse collection of Virgin Mary coloring pages to print. Printable Blessed Mother images are from stained glass, Gothic and modern pictures, holy cards, old Bibles and story books. Keep clicking for otherfree printable Virgin Mary coloring sheets.

Free Christian Wallpapers has several free printable Christmas coloring pages featuring the Blessed Mother and Baby Jesus, Mary and St. Joseph and the holy family. Family Feast and Feria offers free printable rosary coloring pages made from an old prayer book. There are printables of the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary, plus a link to the newer Luminous Mysteries. Look for the link to the printable Miraculous medal coloring page, too.

Pic Gifs is mostly a secular graphics website. Click the free printable Christmas coloring pages links. Scroll through for the religious Christmas coloring pages featuring Mary and Baby Jesus and St. Joseph.

Free Printable Vacation Bible School Crafts and Activities

Summer means Vacation Bible School in many churches. Here are hundreds of free printable crafts, activities, puzzles, games to cut and paste on almost any VBS theme you will use. Save money, have fun with kids, spread the Word! Perfect for protestant and Catholic Christian VBS programs. Some Jewish yeshiva programs may find useful printables, too. Read More Free Printable Vacation Bible School Activities

Free Printable Felt Board Bible Patterns

Do you want activities for Sunday School, home school, VBS or CCD that involve more than coloring? Here are free printable hands-on crafts. Children get to cut, assemble, paste, color and fold puppets, paper dolls and other crafts. Perfect for felt board stories.  Free Printable Felt Board Bible Patterns

Free Printable Mothers Day Greeting Cards

Mothers Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May. May is also dedicated to Mary, Mother of God. What better way to honor the Blessed Mother than to show love to our mothers? Looking for free printable crafts to make with children for Mothers Day? Children feel proud to make crafts for mom. Here are free printable cards that children can color themselves. This article links to my free printable Fathers Day cards article. But all the websites listed there have free printable Mothers Day cards too. Just click the links for thos. Don't forget nuns when sending Mothers Day greeting cards--they're spiritual  mothers. Read more 

Free Printable Easter Triduum Coloring Pages, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil Coloring Pages

 Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil, Easter Sunday The Easter Triduum begins at sundown on Holy Thursday, also called Maundy Thursday and continues through Good Friday and Easter Vigil or Holy Saturday. Here are free printable coloring pages to help children explore the Easter Triduum. Read More Free Printable Easter Triduum Coloring Pages

Free Printable Easter Object Lessons

Use Leftover Jelly Beans for an Easter Craft and Devotional Object Lesson. Gospel and Bible Reading Devotional Use jelly beans to tell the gospel Bible stories of Easter, the Stations of the Cross and spiritual truths. Read More

Lenten Kitchen: Pretzel History and Vegan Soft Pretzel Recipes

Lenten Kitchen: Kosher, Vegan Pretzel Recipes Pretzels date back almost 14 centuries to an Italian monk, who while baking bread for Lent, twisted a roll of dough to resemble the 'sign of the cross', the prayer posture of Christians. Pretzels are a traditional Lenten bread. Here are pretzel recipes. Lenten pretzel recipes

Free Printable Stations of the Cross Lent Devotional Coloring Pages

In the Catholic liturgical calendar, Lent begins on Ash Wednesday continues for 40 days up through Holy Week, the Easter Triduum and Easter. Catholic Christians try to imitate Jesus with prayer, fasting or sacrifice and almsgiving (charity). A Catholic prays the rosary and Stations of the Cross on Friday (and as often as possible).  Here are free printable Stations of the Cross coloring pages to guide Lenten devotions. Each year during the Lenten when our family was homeschooling, the children drew images, one for each of the Station of the Cross. We used these images to guide Lenten devotions and prayer. We created Stations of the Cross in our home and yard, placing the images in order along a path. One year we hung them in the hallway. This way we had our own Via Dolorosa (Way of the Cross, or Way of Sorrows). The children would begin each Friday in Lent praying the Stations of the Cross. Older children can draw Stations of the Cross coloring books for younger children to color. Or you can use free printable Stations of the Cross coloring pages. A favorite source was the Fr. Lovasik coloring books series. Here are free printable Stations of the Cross coloring books. Print a booklet for CCD, VBS, religious education classes, Catholic school, homeschooling and family devotions.
Catholic Mom offers free printable Stations of the Cross coloring books and prayer devotional guide. This is a fifteen page booklet covering each of the 14 Stations of the Cross. The liturgical prayer used at station is printed on the front cover and is repeated at each station. Children may color all the pages in their coloring books at once, or you may use Stations of the Cross coloring books as daily Lenten calendar countdown to Easter activities. Children might color one page each day for Lenten devotions. Here are other free printable Stations of the Cross activities.
Web Archive has free printable Stations of the Cross coloring pages drawn like Victorian church stained glass.  These images are quite small, but could be printed for a flip book or enlarged and printed as quarter or half page coloring pages. Traditionalists will love the neo-classical black and white artwork. St. John the Baptist Religious Ed has loads more free printable Catholic coloring pages for the mysteries of the rosary (Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious and Lumious Mysteries), Easter, Lenten, Bible and other Catholic themed coloring pages). 
Extend Stations of the Cross Lenten devotions and activities by assigning children to compose a prayer or response for each station. Preschool through first grade children might write one word or phrase to represent each station. Grades 1-2 might compose a one sentence prayer. For grades 3-5 assign one or two paragraph Lenten devotions and prayers. This makes good type 1 writing activities. Adjust the length of the prayer to suit the needs and abilities of the child. Some may wish to write their prayer as a poem, song or haiku. Don't make prayer or writing seem like chores or children will dread doing them. 

Special needs children might draw or act out each of the stations of the cross. Children could compose sign language or dance in response to the each Station of the Cross. The objective of this activity is to encourage children to respond to Our Lord's passion, death and resurrection. Encourage children to respond in whatever form they feel most comfortable with. 

Free Printable Catholic Saints Paper Dolls and Crafts

Free Printable Catholic Saints Paper Dolls and Coloring Page Activities
It's been inspiring to see that my most popular articles have been those about Ash Wednesday, Lent, Catholic faith and free printable homeschooling lesson plans activities. Here is yet another free printable Catholic activities website. printable Catholic saints paper dolls

Free Printable Lent Calendars for Homeschool, Family and Religious Education

Free Printable Lent Calendars for Catholic Families and Homeschoolers
Our Lenten journey in the Catholic church begins on Ash Wednesday and follows Jesus Christ for forty days of suffering in the desert, up to Holy Week and the Easter Triduum. Here are free printable lenten calendars to help your experience of Lent. free printable Lent calendars

Lent Altar or Tablecloth Family/ Homeschool Craft Project

Lenten Church, Religious Education or Family Devotional Craft
The supper table is the hub of family life. Make a tablecloth with the entire family or as a religious education project as a Lenten craft and devotional project. Inexpensive and easy. Makes a great family altar cloth and a great family tradition. Perfect for homeschooling families. Family tablecloth devotional craft

Lent Candle Holder Craft

Like an Advent Wreath, this Lenten cross candle holder, counts the weeks of lent. Easy, inexpensive family craft and devotional activity. Family, home school or religious education Ash Wednesday craft.
Ash Wednesday Cross Candle Holder Craft

Free Printable Lent Lesson Plans and Activities

Free Printable Lent Lesson Plans, Activities Print materials to guide your family, home school and religious education programs in the observance of Lent. Free printable Catholic lessons, activities, games, crafts. printable lenten lesson plans

Free Printable St. Patricks Day Lessons, Games Coloring and Activities

Free Printable St. Patricks Day Lesson Plans St. Patrick's Day, March 17 has a silly holiday aspect. Wearing green, the blarney stone, leprechauns, 'Kiss Me, I'm Irish' pins. There was a man and a story behind St. Patricks Day. Here are free printable lesson plans to explore these stories. There are some silly St. Patrick's Day coloring and activities, but some informative and educational websites and free printable activities also. St Patricks Day printables

Free printable St. Valentine Lesson Plans, Valentines Day worksheets, crafts, coloring pages

Valentine Craft Project - Treasure Box A history of  St. Valentine and the early church martyrs. Origin of the tradition of giving valentines. Plus free printable valentines, lesson plans, worksheets and crafts. Literature suggestions for Valentine's Day and how-to guide for design of an inexpensive or free memory box for Valentine's Day. Read More

Free Printable Lent Coloring Pages for Ash Wednesday to Holy Week

Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant Christians observe Palm Sunday which celebrates the Biblical triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem one week before His crucifixion. Palm Sunday begins Holy Week and the countdown to the Paschal Triduum (Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday or Easter Vigil). Holy Week culminates on Easter Sunday. 

Here are free printable Holy Week activities, Palm Sunday crafts, Easter printables and Bible coloring pages. Use as lessons in homeschool, Christian school, Sunday school or Catholic religious education.

DL-TK offers free printable Palm Sunday crafts. There are cut and paste crafts featuring Jesus, donkeys and palms. Sunday-School-Fun-Zone has several dozen free printable Holy Week coloring pages, Easter crafts, Bible puzzles and Catholic Christian holiday games. There are Bible verse memorization activities, images of people waving palms, a donkey and Bible character lessons. Print a countdown-to-Easter craft which for Holy Week.

Ministry-to-Children has eight free printable religious Easter coloring pages. These could be used as a Holy Week countdown. Give children one page color each day. When the pages are complete, they might be combined into a devotional prayer booklet. Catholic Mom has free printable Bible activities geared to each Sunday's gospel reading. All the guesswork for lesson planning and cross-curricular connections has been done for you. These printable units are useful for all ages from preschool through middle school. They're adaptable for special needs students, too. There are printable versions of the Bible reading, an accompanying coloring page, mass worksheets, fill-in-the-blank and crossword puzzles.

Catholic Mom is cross-referenced with specific webpages for holidays and feast days. There are links for crafts, readings, additional resources, printables and supplemental activities. Catholic Mom hasprintable activities for Palm Sunday, Holy Week and the Easter Triduum, including Holy (or Maundy) Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil (called Holy Saturday) and Easter Sunday.  Palm Sunday and Holy Week fluctuate by year. March 29 was Palm Sunday for 2015.

Roman Catholic Holy Days, Feast Days, Liturgical Calendar and Church Seasons

Catholic Holidays and Holy Days; An Explanation of the Liturgical Calendar The word 'holiday' takes its origin from the term 'holy day'. Different faiths have various 'holy days' and seasons. In Catholicism, holy days also referred to as 'feast days', are organized around the Liturgical Calendar.
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Free Printable Epiphany Party Crafts, Twelfth Night, Three Kings

Free Printable Epiphany, Three Kings Day Party Crafts and Game Activities Epiphany celebrates the Twelfth Night after Christmas. Epiphany, or Three Kings' Day, on January 6, celebrates the visititation of the Magi or Wisemen. Here are free printable Epiphany games and crafts to celebrate Three Kings Day. free printable epiphany crafts