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Resurrection Eggs

March 9, 2011 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: Crafts, Lent

 

 

SUPPLIES:

  • cardboard egg carton (styrofoam does not take well to paint) 
  • purple paint
  • paint brush
  • 12 plastic eggs
  • purple sharpie
  • glue stick
  • printed carton cover
  • printed narration
  • scissors
  • 2 pieces of small plastic wrap
  • egg contents
    • 1 – aluminum foil cut into 30 small pieces.
    • 2 – plastic chalice (can be found at your local Catholic supply store or party store)
    • 2 – pita bread cut into a small circle
    • 3 – olive pits or olive branch
    • 4 – 2 sticks
    • 5 – string/twine
    • 6 – thorns from a rush bush
    • 7 – purple cloth
    • 8 – sticks and string
    • 9 – 3 nails
    • 10 – cut sponge
    • 11 – white cloth
    • 12 – this egg will remain empty

DIRECTIONS:

paint the outside of the egg carton with purple paint

print, cut and color the carton cover.  glue it to the top of the egg carton

Resurrection Eggs - Carton Cover

label the plastic eggs #1-12

insert the egg’s contents

  • 1 – cut and roll 30 pieces of aluminum foil.  wrap with plastic wrap
  • 2 – plastic chalice.  cut pita bread and wrap with plastic wrap.  (my pita bread has lasted for years w/o mold)
  • 3 – olive pits or olive branch
  • 4 – 2 sticks
  • 5 – tie several pieces of string/twine together
  • 6 – thorns from a rush bush
  • 7 – purple cloth
  • 8 – create a cross using the sticks and string
  • 9 – 3 nails
  • 10 – cut a small piece of sponge and mark it with a purple sharpie
  • 11 – white cloth
  • 12 – this egg will remain empty

print narration onto purple paper.  fold.  insert into egg carton.

Resurrection Eggs - Narration

 

share, recite and meditate as desired.

 

Saint Tiles

February 10, 2011 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: Crafts, St. Sc, St. Scholastica

 Equipping Catholic Families – Unique Handmade Gifts Linky
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Here’s a simple and inexpensive craft that I use to help celebrate the liturgical year.  It’s much more affordable for us to make these than purchase numerous statues of the saints.  These tiles are also much easier to store.  They are long lasting.
 st scholastica sain tiles display  joy

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SUPPLIES:

  • tile (I was gifted a FREE box of tiles that were left over from a home project.)
  • image (I like to recycle calendars for this craft)
  • scissors
  • mod podge
  • foam brush
  • nail file
follow the detailed directions from this craft.
scholastic tile suppiliescut image.  scholastica tile step 1 joyadhere image to tile with mod podge.
file edges with the nail file.
scholastica tile step 2 joycover the image with more mod podge.
let dry.
optional:  repeat the steps for the back of the tile.

saint tiles back joy

Love Notebooks

February 10, 2011 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: Crafts, St. Valentine's Day

vnb love notebooksI made these notebooks to give away for St. Valentine’s Day.  The notebooks are small composition books.  I use the books for my Daily Examen, an Ignatian Exercise that I adopted back in 2009.

Rose uses the small notebooks for sermon notes.  Sweetie and Sparkles just enjoy the beauty of the notebooks and have multipurposes for them.

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SUPPLIES:

  • notebook
  • image (we used the images found here.  note that inkjet printed images will bleed.)
  • scissors
  • mod podge
  • foam brush
  • nail file
  • embellishments

         vnb supplies joy trim image to desired size

vnb joyspread mod podge to surface of the notebook.  i placed waxed paper between the front cover and additional pages to avoid gluing the pages together.

place image on notebook

vnb file joyfile edges with a nail file

let set.

vnb dec. joyspread additional layers of mod podge onto of the image.  let set.  repeat

vnb correct spine joyvnb what not to do joy

repeat the above steps for the back cover.

do not place the image completely over the spine as in the image on the right.  this will break the spine.  leave the spine free as shown in the image on the left.

vnb complete joyadd embellishments.  i added glitter.

let dry.

place decorated notebooks under some weights (I used 2 phonebooks).  this will set the notebooks back to their original shape.

vnb back joy

 

St. Valentine’s Clips

February 3, 2011 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: Crafts, St. Valentine's Day

sweetie joy

My girls are out growing my bows.  I think I may have burnt them out.  I couldn’t resist, they had a head full of hair since birth.

They both are fond of a decorative clip.  I made a version of a decorative felt clip for 4th of July and decided to recreate the clip for St. Valentine’s Day.

The girls can now make their own decorative clips.  They will be making the basic heart clips as an early St. Valentine’s treat for their friends.  Their friends will be able to take the clips home to embellish on their own, in time for St. Valentine’s Day.

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supplies J

Supplies:

  • felt
  • clip
  • scissors
  • paper template
  • hot glue gun
  • embellishments (decorative scissors, embroidery thread and needle, saint medals, stickers….)

Directions:

JJO

Create a heart template out of cardstock.

cut hearts joy

Cut your felt to the desired sizes.  I fold my heart and felt in half when cutting.

 glue heart

Tack the hearts together using a hot glue gun.

hair clips joy

Embellish!

Hot glue the heart onto the clip.

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    sweetie and sparkles joy 

Sparkles chose a glitter-puff sticker of Christ the King for her heart clip.  I reinforced the sticker with hot glue.  The clip can be put everywhere.

Sweetie chose to adhere heart to a headband.  It can also be clipped to a shirt. 

st valentine's hearts joyI clipped it to the ribbon that was attached to this basket. 

ALL FOR JESUS TROUGH MARY!

Candlemas Candles

February 3, 2011 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: Candlemas, Crafts, Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary

candlemas candles joy

I hadn’t planned a craft for any of the feast days this week since I’m prepping for my next Little Flowers meeting.  I was delighted to find Tiffany’s ~ Family at the Foot of the Cross post on the Presentation of the Lord.  She shared a simple and inexpensive craft, Crafty Paper Candles.

I couldn’t pass it up.  I had everything on hand. 

Tiffany gives a complete tutorial and prayer.  Check it out here.

Candlemas Candles

1

apply glue to the tp roll.

tuck in paper

adhere the paper towel to the glued tp roll.  tuck in the top and bottom edges.

 cut picture  

cut your picture decal.  we used images from printed images and old catalogs.

picture decals

glue the image to the candle.

layered fkame

create the flame. 

layer a red, yellow and orange piece of paper.  cut out a flame from the layered papers.  cut out the middle of the red flame.  cut out the middle of the orange flame.

glue the layers together.

flame on a wick c2

glue the flame to a popsicle stick (wick).  fold back the edges and glue and on the reverse side of the popsicle stick. (I used a hot glue gun for a quick set)

inserting the flame and wickcrumble a half sheet of paper towel.

snip the paper towel

snip the center of the paper towel.

 insert wick into the candle insert

insert the popsicle stick w/ flame into the paper towel.

insert the wick and flame into the candle

insert the paper towel and popsicle stick w/flame into the tp roll.

3 candles

let dry.

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papi's candle on his altar joy v2

papi’s bedroom altar

    the children placed their candles on their bedroom altars.

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O Lord Jesus Christ, the true Light who enlightenest every man that cometh into this world: pour forth Thy blessing † upon these candles, and sanctify † them with the light of Thy grace, and mercifully grant, that as these lights enkindled with visible fire dispel the darkness of night, so our hearts illumined by invisible fire, that is, by the splendor of the Holy Spirit, may be free from the blindness of all vice, that the eye of our mind being cleansed, we may be able to discern what is pleasing to Thee and profitable to our salvation; so that after the perilous darkness of this life we may deserve to attain to neverfailing light: through Thee, O Christ Jesus, Savior of the world, who in the perfect Trinity, livest and reignest, God, world without end. Amen.

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Hi! I'm Lena, mama of JOYfilledfamily.
We are a traditional Catholic family striving to live for Jesus Christ in everything we do. We pray to completely surrender our will to His and to become His servants. Our mission of this blog is to share our JOY.

This blog serves as a journal of us making good memories, living the liturgical year, and our spiritual journey.

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