Free Printable Fathers Day Crafts

Help the children print and design free printable Father's Day cards, coloring pages and greetings with these easy links. Don't forget priests, grandfathers, godfathers and senior friends this Fathers Day. Card-making is a good hands-on Corporal Works of Mercy activity for kids. Free Printable Fathers Day Cards

Free Printable Fathers Day Gift Coupons

Gift coupons or love coupons make perfect gifts from children to parents. Here's a language arts lesson plan for homeschool or classroom use. Design and write love coupons for Mother's Day as a writing, spelling and punctuation lesson plan.
Fathers Day Gift Coupons

Religious Oberservance without Love Does Not Please God

Pious Religious Observance Without Love Does Not Honor God All religions have prohibitions, rites and observances. Restrictions on food or beverages, dress codes, worship etiquette, religious 'thou shalts' and 'thou shalt nots.' In some cases, rigid adherence to form supersedes common sense and compassion. Read More

Guide for Catholics to Celebrate Memorial Day

Memorial Day, formerly known as Decoration Day is a perfect time to remember our fallen American veterans as well as public safety officials. In our family as in many others, we also decorate the graves of our loved ones. Each year we have a few more. If you want to celebrate Memorial Day in the good old way, here are some easy family fun ideas. Go to a parade. Every local community has parades. Dress in red, white and blue. Bring flags. Decorate your bikes with streamers. Cheer for the soldiers and veterans. Say thank you to them. For more ideas, read on

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