Lent-Easter Book

Description

Lent-Easter Book, Living and Celebrating Our Catholic Customs and Traditions, is a book of projects, stories, prayers, and activities to help children of all ages celebrate Lent and Easter. This book is perfect for families and also for classrooms.

A complete guide to the Lent-Easter season for teachers and parents!

Lenten symbols such as ashes received on Ash Wednesday and the palms on Palm Sunday call attention in a singular way to this most important of the Church seasons: Lent-Easter. The Lent-Easter Book is the answer for teachers and parents who want to make these seasons powerful renewals of Christian life for their children, create meaningful family traditions, and celebrate the season in classroom and home with handmade kid-friendly crafts, gifts, and recipes.

The Lent-Easter Book offers teachers and parents:

• Stories, crafts, activities, and discussion starters for each week based on the major themes of Lent and the feasts of the Easter Season
• Almost fifty pages of reproducibles for classroom and home use
• Easy-to-follow format by theme
• Community building activities for all ages
• Hands-on crafts, activities, and kitchen fun that are easy for students to complete on their own
• Family Take-Home Pages and other reproducible pages for teachers
• Reproducible booklets for the Stations of the Cross (for younger and older grades) and How to Go to the Sacrament of Reconciliation
• Suggestions for beginning family Lenten and Easter customs and traditions
• Celebration and activity ideas for Easter Feasts including: Divine Mercy Sunday, Good Shepherd Sunday, Ascension, and Pentecost
• Lent/Easter reflections for parents and teachers.

Live the Lenten-Easter season at home or at school with this faith-filled activity guide! Perfect for teachers, parents, and religious education programs, this resource provides background information on the key traditions of this holy season and creative ideas to renew one’s Christian commitment. Easy-to-make crafts, fun activities, delicious recipes, and reproducibles make it easy for children to learn about the central mystery of our Catholic Faith—the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus—and engage more deeply in the liturgical celebrations of Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Easter Sunday, Divine Mercy Sunday, Good Shepherd Sunday, the Solemnity of the Ascension, Pentecost, and more. Includes two reproducible versions of the Stations of the Cross for children and a guide for the Sacrament of Reconciliation.