St. Therese Lap Book

Last month my children enjoyed creating Lap Books in honor of St. Therese using the excellent St. Therese the Little Flower Faith Folder created by Holy Learning (previously Faith Folders for Catholics)!

In addition to the studying/completing the mini-books for our Lap Books we also enjoyed many books and activities in honor of St. Therese during the month of October.   You can find them (and other ideas!) listed in this post: Ideas for Celebrating the Feast of St. Therese.

Here are some pictures of Twinkle Toes' completed Lap Book:

~ Front Cover ~

Twinkle Toes opted to use Scrapbook Paper & Stickers, Cut-out Letters and an Image of St. Therese for her front cover.  She also decided to create her lap book using a 2 folder layout.  

~ Inside First Folder ~ 

Right Flap:

• Charlotte's St. Therese Coloring Page (reduced size for printing)

Center:

• "The Martin Family" Open-Up Book Set
• "The Road to Carmel" Pick-a-Tab Book
• "The Martin Sisters" Square Fold-Out Book
• "St. Therese Facts" Triple-Decker Book Set

Left Flap:

• "The Little Flower Timeline"

~ Inside Second Folder ~ 

Left Flap:

• "Our Lady of the Smile" Open the Doors Book
• "The Infant Jesus of Prague" Open the Doors Book

Center:

• Words of the Little Flower" Rose Shape Book
• "Sacrifices for Jesus" Cone Pouch
• "The Process of Sainthood" Multiple Flaps Book
• "Discalced Carmelites" Pentagon Book
• "Unlikely Patron of Missions" Rectangle Book
• "Doctors of the Church" Square Fold-Up Book
• "Sacrifices and the Little Way" Heart Shape Book

Right Flap:

• "Building My Own Little Way" Graduated Pages Book
• "St. Therese the Little Flower Novenas" Pocket and Prayer Cards Set

~ Back Cover ~ 

My children love all of the paper dolls at Paper Dali, and Twinkle Toes decided to create a pocket on the back cover of her lap book for her St. Therese paper doll! 

She used a lovely coloring page (pdf) for the outside of the Paper Doll pocket. 

Please Pray...

I came home from town this evening to an email from my friend Shelly asking for prayers for Liz.

"This sweet family is awaiting the inevitable. Liz has made it to 41 weeks carrying her 7th child. She is so thankful for the extra time with her son, Jedidiah Joseph. You see, Jedi has Trisomy 13..."

We have recently been praying for Liz's brother, Father Kevin Peek, and will most definitely be adding Liz and her family to our prayers as well. . .  Will you please join me?

I just visited Liz's blog and saw the beautiful picture of her with her precious little one, who was indeed born today!! 

"Please drop by Liz's blog

Leave her some words of comfort and peace.

Let her know you're praying."

{this moment}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. If you're inspired to do the same, visit Soulemama to leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see.

A Few More Pictures...

... from this year's All Saints' Party!

Group Photo of all the little ones dressed as Saints

This year instead of just a few moms bringing all the games, each family was asked to bring one.   It worked out great and the children all loved all the new (and old!) games this year! 

~ Saint Search ~

This game is from Illuminated Ink.  I loved howmy friend Jacinta had prizes that tied in to the various saints:  St Francis = Animal Crackers, St. Lucy = Chocolate Eyeballs, St. Apollonia (patron of dentists) = Gummy Teeth,  St. Peter = Goldfish, etc...

~ St. Nicholas' Coin Toss ~

This new game idea came from Charlotte and was implemented by Erica.  It was so much fun, and the children loved the addition of Chocolate Coins for prizes!

~ Feed My Sheep ~ 

~ St. Peter's Fishing ~

~ Toss the Roses into St. Juan Diego's Tilma ~

"St. Therese" had particularly good aim with the roses! ;) 

~ Saint Anthony's Lost Keys ~

Don't you just love that picture of Snuggles with his chin sitting on the table!  :-)

My kids loved the Lost Key game that Amy's family brought to the party!

~ Mary Magdalene's Scented Oil Match ~

This was another idea from Charlotte, though Trina (a mom of 5 boys and 2 girls) decided to change the name from "perfume" to "oil" in case there were any boys out there that might not want to play a game even remotely connected to "perfumes!" lol! 

~ 7 Deadly Sins Golf~ 

Practice Swing! ;-) 

~ Wall of Saints ~

This year we had a wall of saints!  Each child brought a colored picture and/or story about their saint to hang on the wall.  I only snapped a picture of a few, but it was so neat! 

~ The Graveyard ~ 

In addition to coordinating and decorating for the party this year, Marci also set up the "graveyard." At the base of the crosses, the tombstones are labeled: Departed Family, Forgotten Dead, Departed Clergy, and Departed Friends. There were markers available so that everyone was able to write their departed loved ones names down.

~ Heavenly Back Drop ~

Marci and I attempted to paint a "Heavenly" backdrop this year, at the last minute, the day before our party.   I told her it turned out looking more like an overcast day in purgatory! lol!  (It doesn't look quite as bad in the pictures...)  Anyhow, perhaps next year we can find someone that can really paint to make one for us!

Just like every year, my children had a wonderful time!

Carving our Saint O Lanterns ~ 2010

Since I've had a few emails asking where we got our templates, here you go: 

IHS Template (we created this template from an online image) 

Unborn Baby (free from American Life League)

Yellow Rose (purchased for $1.49)

The Knight Shift (purchased for $1.49)

Other ideas can be found at Catholic Cuisine!

You can view our Saint-O-Lanterns, glowing in the dark, in this post.