For Fast the girls put together Sacrifice Tubs. They were each given a small shoe box size tub to fill with the toys, and books that they were willing to sacrifice for the Lent. We put a sign on the top of each box that reads "Sacrifice Tub for Christ. No playing, Just Praying" (Just realized that Sacrifice is not spelled correctly on their tubs. Good thing they are too young to read.)
I found the Cross Calendar on Pinterest.com I forgot to pin it and have searched but can not find it again. Their is no website listed on the copy I have. (if someone knows where I found it, let me know in the comments and I will give credit where credit is do)
Anyways, the girls color a cross each day until Easter. Since we were sick we are a little behind on the coloring.
For Prayer, we are doing Prayer Chain for Lent that I found on Catholic Inspired. http://www.catholicinspired.com/search?q=prayer+chain+for+lent&x=0&y=0
We went with their premade pray strips, since we were sick and not up to doing to much thinking.
The girls help to glue and tape the strips together. They have enjoyed taking one off each day and saying an extra prayer.
We have several different hands on Station of the Cross Activities that the kids use to play and pray.
We also have resurrection egg set.
The following Stations of The Cross, I made from a poster from Oriental Trading, and the symbols for each station came from ideas found on Catholic Icing It all stores in a bag that I sewed to store all the pieces.
One morning before the girls got up, I start to make a Easter Egg Rosary. I found on Pinterest which lead me to www.designsbybirgit.blogspot.com.
We really have not done anything with it but add it to our table. It was easy to make but does get rather large so I decide to just make a decade this time.
For Alms giving the girls have gone through their clothes and have gotten rid of 4 bags of clothes to take Rose Garden Mission in Covington. We also are planning to go buy some diapers for the mission we just have not to do it.
As for mommy, she is participating in a small group Lenten study with other homeschool mothers. That our church is doing. It was nice to be able to make one this week.
It is never to late to get started on your Lenten Journey.
Some of my favorite resources are
"Whenever you fast, do not put on a gloomy face as the hypocrites do, for they neglect their appearance so that they will be noticed by men when they are fasting. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full." Matthew 6:16 (NAS)
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