If you’re having trouble deciding how you’d like to grow spiritually, this Lent, try our
no frills Lent Roulette!
Pick a number from 1-14, from each list, each morning
and challenge your family to commit to at least one of them for that day.
Print and Pray Craft Kits for Lent
February 9, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Have you thought of what you’d like to do for Lent this year?
Giving up something, adding a prayerful devotion, donating money or time for the needs of the poor?
Here are a couple of links to print-and-pray craft kits that are EASY to adopt for a prayerFULL LENT, even if it’s totally LAST MINUTE!
Ash Wednesday is next week already!
February 8, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Just in time…the Catholic Mom Bundle for Lent 2026 is available now!
Now, with this being my 21st Catholic Mom Bundle I’m participating in, I always look forward to sharing some sneak peeks into the Bundle and while I’m always kind of excited about the collection of resources, this Lent’s Bundle has some amazing offerings from some NEW contributors! One of the printables is over 200 pages and it outlines the different charisms we can encourage in our kids…and how to do just that!
Gospel Graces: a Scripture-centered Lent Devotional
February 6, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Gospel Graces
This craft kit makes a good review ANY time of year of Jesus’ Public Ministry. It includes full Lenten Calendars (for all three Liturgical Cycles) AND postcard Prayer Prompts of all the key events with Gospel Reading references, illustrations and Prayer Prompts!
Use year after year during LENT…and ALL through the Year for Prompts to Pray through Jesus’ Public Ministry!
Gospel Graces
$27 $20 PDF Download
This is a Scripture and Illustration- DENSE Craft Kit that you can enjoy year after year!
This Catholic Craft Kit includes 56 Prompt to Pray cards, one for each day of Lent (including Cycles, A, B and C).
Each prayer card features an illustration and Scriptural quote from the particular Gospel for each day of Lent, along with a prompt to pray and a specific Gospel Grace or Virtue we can learn from the teaching and life of Jesus.
This Catholic Craft Kit also includes a double-sided, letter-sized,
fully illustrated calendar
Live Liturgically this February!
February 2, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Equipping Catholic Families for February Saints Days!
This is our monthly summary of crafts and family traditions related to the Monthly Devotion, Key Feast Days, and the appropriate Season of the Liturgical Calendar. As our kids get older, our activities and commitment to Catholic crafts have changed and adjusted (at least for our last TEEN and young adult kids)! While we haven’t exactly been adding a lot of Catholic crafts around here, we do enjoy pulling out the crafts and programs we’ve developed over the years, sometimes sharing them with younger families in our parish!
The Monthly Devotion for February is
the Holy Family
This month, the official Devotion focuses on the Holy Family. What an awesome example of family life, St Joseph, Mother Mary, and Jesus offer us!
Holy Family Felt Friends Tutorial
NEW! Ordo Liturgical Seasons Calendar!
January 20, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Just released!
The Ordo Liturgical Seasons Calendar for this FIRST span of Ordinary Time is now available for FREE to subscribers.
This Craft Kit offers a Liturgical Calendar page for the first span of the Season of Ordinary Time. The 5 1/2 weeks from January 12 to February 17 (Pancake Tuesday) are illustrated with Saints Feast Days. The Season Calendar also includes a recommended Prompt to Pray, relevant to the Monthly Devotion of the Holy Name of Jesus, and a Brainstorming exercise to create your own custom Prompts to Pray that fit your life (or your whole family life) to be recorded for easy reference.
Pick up your Ordo: Ordinary Time HERE
January Saints and Celebrations!
January 5, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Equipping Catholic Families for
January 2026 Saints!
Welcome to our monthly summary of crafts and family traditions related to the Monthly Devotion, Key Feast Days and the appropriate Season of the Liturgical Calendar.
Key Feast Days in January:
- Solemnity of Mary (January 1) Mary Crafts, In the Arms of Mary
- World Day of Peace (January 1)
- St. Basil the Great (January 2)
- St. Gregory Nazianzen (January 2)
- Most Holy Name of Jesus (January 3)
- St. Genevieve (January 3)
- Epiphany of the Lord (January 4) Felt Kings Tutorial
- St. Elizabeth Seton (January 4)
- St. John Neumann (January 5)
- St. Andre Bessette (January 6)
- St. Raymond of Penysfort (January 7)
- Baptism of the Lord (January 11)
- St. Hilary (January 13)
- St. Anthony of Egypt (January 17)
- St. Sebastian (January 20)
- St. Agnes (January 21)
- Day of Prayer for the Unborn (January 22)
- St. Francis de Sales (January 24)
- Conversion of St. Paul (January 25)
- St. Timothy and St. Titus (January 26)
- St. Angela Merici (January 27)
- St. Thomas Aquinas (January 28)
- St. John Bosco (January 31)
He’s still a little BABY! Sock Baby Jesus can still hang around in his crib as we bask in the Baptism of the Lord (January 12) and await the Presentation of the Lord on February 2nd.
Monthly Devotion for January: Holy Name of Jesus
- Holy Name of Jesus by PBandGrace
Season of the Liturgical Calendar: Christmas, then Ordinary Time!
12 Days of Christmas
Advent isn’t just for kids!
November 18, 2025 by Leave a Comment
With Advent just around the corner, we know that things are going to ramp up with Christmas shopping, Christmas parties, Christmas music in every store and Christmas decor all around.
Craft for Christmas with “DIY Catholic Gifts: Handmade with Grace” from 12th and Blossom
Learn Scripture with “O Antiphons Daily Printable Prayer Bundle” by Cultivating Catholics
Nourish your health with “Micro-Wellness: Tiny Habits for Busy Moms” from Veritas Fitness
Recharge and rest with “Peace in the Chaos: Helping Catholic Caregivers Refill” by Rooted Soul Grounded Mind
Seek serenity with “Prayers for the Weary Wife: A 25 Day Christmas Prayer Journal” from Desiring Peace
Pursue wellness with “The Burnt Out Moms Health Reset” by Live Well With Tresa
There will be Christmas concerts and wishlists…and it’s hard not to get caught up in the rush of it all.
But we Catholics have ADVENT!
Now, it’s not difficult to get caught up in ADVENT either…at least the Advent traditions, programs and practices. There are Advent Wreaths and Advent Calendars, Straw for the Crib, Mary on the Mantle, the Three Kings journeying to the Manger.
But it can feel like the opposite of Hope, Peace, Joy and Love!
That’s why I was so happy to find these prayerful, Advent Journey Guides within this year’s Advent Catholic Mom Bundle…and these are the ones that stood out to me, and I printed them right away!
1. Refresh your prayer life with “Advent in 5 Minutes a Day – A Marian Battle Guide to Praying More” from Come Holy Spirit Rosaries
I printed this 2-up on letter size paper to make a nice 20-page booklet.
It has brief reflections, weekly prayers, daily verses and prompts for reflection.
2. Start your health journey with “Await With Grace: An Advent Wellness Journey for Busy Catholic Moms” by Fiat Wellness
Once again, I printed this 2-up on letter-size paper and cerlox-bound it for a 60-page booklet. It guides us through reflective prompts, scripture and reflections and includes a weekly wellness focus, questions to reflect on, action steps and short prayers
3. Wait in joyful hope with “Stations of the Crib Meditation Booklet” by Karen Oblinger
I was able to print this file double-sided and it is formatted so that once folded, the pages are in order in a nice 16-page booklet. It is accompanied by beautiful artwork depicting the 11 Stations of the Crib, and I printed these single-sided on cover stock.
I think the combination of these 3 Prayer Journal/Devotionals will be just what I need, along with a little notebook to reflect, pray and prayer-journal, for just 5-10 minutes a day throughout the full season of Advent.
If you’d like to join me with these print-and-pray resources for HOPE, PEACE, JOY and LOVE this Advent, you can pick these resources up along with 30 others!
My fellow Catholic Creators and I have put a lot of love and effort into these resources and this $700 collection is available for just $25 until midnight on Friday.
These are on my TO DO list to print, once I’m feeling hopeful and refreshed with my printed resources above. =)
equipping Catholics for Advent and December SAINTS
November 17, 2025 by Leave a Comment
December Saints Days and ADVENT!
Equipping Catholic Families for December Saints!
Advent starts on November 30th!
Here is our monthly summary of crafts and family traditions related to the Monthly Devotion, Key Feast Days, and the appropriate Season of the Liturgical Calendar: Advent!
We’ve got a very special Advent Calendar Craft Kit available and it combines the Jesse Tree, O Antiphons and December Saints Days, all in one!
It also includes 36 Jesse Tree / O Antiphon / Christmas ornaments and the St. Andrew’s Christmas Novena Prayer Tracker…and all of these you can print at home!
It’s not too late to get a little Christmas Shopping done AND jumpstart your Advent Prayer!
Buy Prompt Me to Pray for your best buddy who prays, and pick up the Prompt Me to Pray through Advent and Prompt Me to Pray through Christmas booklets to bump up your prayer right into the new year!
See the
Prompt Me to Pray through Advent
Prompt Me to Pray through Christmas
Prompt Me to Pray Advent and Book BUNDLE
are available by PDF or printed and shipped to you!
Key Feast Days in December:
- St Francis Xavier (December 3)
- St John Damascene (December 4)
- St Nicholas (December 6)
- St Ambrose (December 7)
- Immaculate Conception (December 8)
- St Juan Diego (December 9)
- Our Lady of Loretto (December 10)
- Our Lady, Queen of Angels (December 11)
- St Damasus I (December 11)
- Our Lady of Guadalupe (December 12)
- St Lucy (December 13)
- Bambinelli Sunday (December 14)
- St John of the Cross (December 14)
- O Antiphons (December 17-23)
- Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Dec 18)
- St Abraham, St Isaac, St Jacob (December 20)
- St Thomas, St Peter Canisius (December 21)
- St John of Kanty (December 23)
- The Birth of Jesus (December 25)
- St Stephen (December 26)
- St John Apostle (December 27)
- Holy Innocents (December 28)
- St Thomas Becket (December 29)
- Feast of the Holy Family (December 30)
Season of the Liturgical Calendar: Advent!
- Anticipating Advent: Prep for Advent: Summary of Crafts and Activities
- from the ARCHIVES: Keep Christ in Christmas: read Him, look for Him, pray to Him, visit him, share Him, give for Him; live for Him Keep Christ in Christmas
The Advent Calendar
The Advent Calendar is a great way to countdown the days until Christmas.
Our own Jesse Tree and O Antiphon Advent Calendar is available by PDF and includes SO much!
This PREMIUM Craft Kit offers black and white templates to help you countdown (and pray!) through the days of Advent, with:
+one Letter-sized (8.5″x11″) fully illustrated Jesse Tree/O Antiphon/Saints Advent Calendar*
+one oversized (10″x15″) fully illustrated Jesse Tree/O Antiphon/Saints Advent Calendar*
+36 double-sided (2.5″) fully illustrated Jesse Tree/O Antiphon Advent Ornaments
+one fully illustrated Catholic Anticipation Prayer / St. Andrew’s Novena Prayer Counter
2025 Jesse Tree and O Antiphon Advent Calendar with Ornaments and Novena Prayer Counter
You’ll find lots of chocolate covered ones in the stores now, but you can make your own and fill it with dollarstore Nativity figures, holy medals, Saint pegs, Super Saints, printable Advent Quest challenges and of course your favorite treats or chocolates. There are so many ways to make an Advent Calendar (including this one we made years ago) and we found 35 [Awesome} DIY Advent Calendars here.
Fill up your Advent Calendar with faith-filled toys, treats and prayers:
- Advent (+Lent) Quest
- Advent Prayer Pockets
- Nativity Figures
- Super Saints Quizzing Cards
- Painted Saints
The Jesse Tree
The Jesse Tree is a wonderful faith-filled activity with Biblical symbols and figures and readings for each day of Advent. Jesus’ Lineage unfolds each day, leading up to His Birth on December 25th. You can make a nicely crafted banner like our The Family Handprint Jesse Tree and bring it out for Advent and Lent each year!
If you don’t want to just print yourself our BRAND NEW, SUPER EASY Jesse Tree Advent Calendar
Here are some of my other favorite Jesse Tree kits and tips:
- Our Family Jesse Tree from Faith and Fabric
- Jesse Tree Ornament Exchange
- My Jesse Tree: The Ultimate Guide to Making a Jesse Tree
- Printable 3-D Jesse Tree Ornaments by Drawn2BCreative!
- The Mosaic Jesse Tree at To Jesus, Sincerely
- Jesse Tree O Antiphon Advent Calendar Printable by Arma Dei
The Advent Wreath
It can be tricky getting those 3 purple and 1 white candles at the last minute, so we often pick them up throughout the year when we see them…or we’ve been known to tie purple and pink ribbons around white candles, in a pinch.
We’ve also used Dollar Store Votive candles and dressed them up in purple and pink!
One year, we made this Mailbox Blessings Advent Wreath and wrote little notes to each other throughout Advent, placing them in these adorable little mailboxes.
DIY Advent Wreath with Dollar Store Votives
Advent Prayers
Advent is an excellent opportunity to ramp up our family prayers…morning, before or after meals, around the Advent Wreath, in the car (bustling around to different events) or at bedtime!
Here are some of our prayerful craft kit printables to get you started:
- Prompt Me to Pray through Advent
- Prompt Me to Pray through Christmas
- Advent (+Lent) Quest
- Advent Prayer Pockets
- All Season Prayer Bank
- Prayer Journal Prompts
- Journal Prayers and Novenas
New Family Traditions
This time of year there is a lot of talk about different activities and family traditions to help focus Advent within the family. Don’t try them all at once! Choose one that’s right for you and get your kids involved to keep it going throughout Advent. If good deeds and sacrifices are part of your Advent tradition…consider Nesting…for Sock Baby Jesus.
This year we hosted a Sock Baby Jesus Workshop! Every kid made their own Sock Baby Jesus and we even made a couple more to give to a few other families in our Parish!
Preparing the Nativity
Christmas Gifts
- Kelly Saints Christmas Ornaments
- Reproducible One-of-a-Kind Gifts
- Stash of Kelly Saints Blessing Cards
Looking for a gift for your Mom or best friend?
Check out our Catholic Stamps at the
Prayer Impressions Journal Stamp Shoppe at Arma Dei!
We now have 145 Consecration, Prayer Journal, Accountability, Signature, Saints, Seasons, Sacraments and Rosary Stamps!
