Celebrating Catholic Homeschool Week

Supporting Catholic Education at home
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This week is Catholic School weeks.  It has been fun to do new and different activities to support our Catholic Faith at home this week.     The girls and I have painted religious peg dolls, built a church, and added items to Mass kit. On Monday, we went to  Michael’s to buy our supplies for making peg dolls and church. We did some research on Pinterest and Catholic Icing for the Mass kit, stoles, peg dolls, and church.

On Tuesday, we got started painting our church and peg dolls.  We cut our vestments for the priest peg dolls.  It was a lot of fun to see how creative the girls could be.  We added a Paten, white candles, and stoles.  For the paten we spray painted a plastic plate gold.  At Dollar Tree I found 2 white candles for a dollar and a red candle (for our Sanctutary Lamp) that are battery operated.  We painted wooden circles white with gold crosses to use for the hosts. For the stoles we took wide ribbon and cut it to fit the girls and painted gold crosses on them. We already had Sacramentary, Lectionary, Chasuble, chalice, ciborium, Corporal, Pall thanks to a wonderful priest friend Father Phillip.  The boys had made a tabernacle years.

 

On Wednesday, we had a  Homeschool Preschool get together at our house.  Our theme this month was Priest.   We made invitations that look like Priest shirts that we gave to our parish priests and invited them to lunch.   Which one of them  graciously accepted the invitation to come to lunch with a house full of preschooler!  Let’s just say he had  know idea what he was getting himself into when he said “Yes.”  We decorated the house inside and out with pictures of priests taped to streamers.  We put out our pretend (although many items were real) Mass Kit for the kids to play Mass.  We set out our newly painted Church and religious peg dolls.  We asked some priest what their favorite snacks were so that the kids could enjoy a special treat.  It was fun to see how differently the priest view the word "snack".  One priest said he ate medium rare ribeyes.  Well you can imagine that would not go well for a preschool get together, but we did enjoy the humor in it.  The adults enjoy the antipasto from another priest.   The kids enjoyed the Pringles, Cheez-Its, and cashews to round off our priest favorite snacks.

Father Nick arrives: The kids talked Father Nick into saying a pretend Mass with them.  He first explained all the vestments that priests wear  before dressing for the his part as Priest of course.   Elisha dressed as the deacon.  The pretend Mass include a procession with an opening song, prayers, readings and even a homily.  The Mass continued with pretend consecration and distribution of the Eucharist by the kids.   Father Nick concluded with a blessing.   We than ate lunch that was blessed to be highly nutritious by one of the kids.  Father Nick than assisted in the battle against the monsters in basement.  (He  graciously blessed the mess down there)  We were sad see Father Nick  leave but understood he had to get to a meeting.  The kids than made priest peg dolls and played Pin the Collar on the Priest.     We concluded with Bible cookies, P-Reece-hood  blessings,  heart shape cookies.  

The kids than enjoyed pretending Mass, playing church and just hanging out in the basement.  I do have to say the kids left at our house did an amazing job cleaning the basement and thanks to Fr. Nick blessing the basement is cleaner today than it was yesterday.

On Thursday, the girls and I went to Rose Garden Home Mission in Covington to serve Christ.   To serve Christ at Rose Garden is one of our favorite activities to do.  Unfortunately our schedule does not always allow us to serve weekly.

We have not settled on what to do on Friday we went another homeschool family house for lunch to  celebrate  Catholic Education at home!