Fridge Art

Fridge Art is the heart of the Domestic-Church.com web site. This is where you'll find fun family centred activities - only some are crafts, we also have games or other activities - all designed to bring the liturgical life of church into the home, and teach children about living the Catholic faith. Making faithful activities a 'normal' part of family life goes a long way towards building an enduring family faith life.

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Advent & Christmas † Family † Young Children † Older Children	Epiphany † Family † Young Children † Older Children	Lent & Easter † Family † Young Children † Older Children
St. Joseph the Worker † Family † Young Children † Older Children	Queenship of Mary † Family † Young Children † Older Children	Angels & Archangels † Family † Young Children † Older Children

Advent and Christmas

Family

Hold A Feast of Christ the King Party by Lisa Beaulieu End the liturgical year with a great party for all the parish children! and teach them that Christ really is OUR KING.
Family Christmas tree Pictures This craft puts the family in the centre of the Christmas celebrations.
Advent Wreath Prayers by Daria Sockey. Short, expressive prayers to say while lighting the Advent Wreath each evening.
Making Advent Wreaths Lighting the advent wreath every evening is an important tradition in our home
The 'O' Antiphons Old songs of longing and praise for the last week of Advent.
The Jesse tree
The bride's tree traditional ornaments for a new bride's first Christmas tree. A lovely teaching tradition, and a great gift idea.
Gifts for the Christ Child Family traditions of sacrifice, love and charity that prepare the manger and our hearts for the coming of the Christ Child.
Christmas Puzzles Family traditions of fun.

Young Children

Make a Paper Bag Tilma. A cute and easy craft to celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Great for all ages!
Perfect Playdough Something to keep the children busy and entertained through the holiday week.

Coloring Pages

Each link will download a PDF file of the coloring picture.

The Angel's News "Behold, I bring you glad tidings of great joy."	The Holy Family "And she wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, "	Visit of the WiseMen "Three Wise Men came from the East"
The Nativity	Simple Holy Family	Nativity Woodcut
St. Nicholas An image of the good bishop that inspired the legend of Santa Claus	St. Christopher An ancient woodcut modified into a colouring page - for young and old.	St. Lucia The early Christian martyr and patron saint of Sweden
Our Lady of Guadalupe	The Immaculate Conception	Our Blessed Mother
The Advent Wreath A safer version of an Advent wreath to put in a child's bedroom...	Jesus, Our Savior	Angel Blowing a Horn

Older Children

Christmas Cross Stitch or Needlepoint. Liturgically appropriate to the season, small and simple designs for decoration.
Saint Michael the Archangel Cross Stitch Pattern. An easy craft for older children and adults.
Word Search A simple reading activity using some familiar words of the Advent season.
Making Gift Boxes An easy craft for older children making small gift boxes out of old Christmas cards.
Making a Pinata Celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe with a traditional Mexican decoration and game.

Epiphany

Family

Read the Bible in a Year An easy addition to evening prayers that leads the reader through the whole Bible in one year.
Celebrating Saint's Days Some ideas for a Saint's Feast Day celebrations. What's your favorite saint? Send us some ideas for a party honouring that saint!
Spiritual Gifts Gifts from the Christ Child to enrich the life of the family for the coming year.
Blessing Your Home Another traditional Epiphany celebration - and a wonderful protection for your home.
Hidden Life - Forcing Bulbs A family activity to illustrate the hidden life of Christ and the hidden treasure of our faith.
Celebrating Mardi Gras. Some ideas for a multi-family party.
Epiphany Cake A traditional celebration of Epiphany. Includes two easy cake recipes (chocolate and white) and frosting recipes.
Lenten Reading Series for Families A new reading series, patterned after Advent's Jesse tree to bring the family through Lent with prophecy and teaching. An interactive (between Domestic-Church and the readers) activity.
Following Yonder Star - Astronomy. What is that yonder star? An enjoyable, inexpensive and fascinating hobby for the whole family.

Young Children

Cards for Saint Valentine An easy craft that gently introduces children to the idea of giving and service.
Activity Page: Exploring Epiphany by Mary Ellen Vice A week or day's worth of educational activities designed by Mary Ellen Vice.
A Balancing Act - Making Mobiles A craft that demonstrates the importance of balancing our faith in our lives.
Under Tens Using the theme of Epiphany, these crossword puzzles will challenge your children's spelling skills and their grasp of the meanings of the season of Epiphany. Solutions are given.
Epiphany colouring and More The Feast of the Epiphany is one that fires the imagination of children. These colouring images can be used in several craft ways.

Older Children

Starting a Youth Group by Matt Pinto. The Why and How of giving your parish's youth some guidance.
CrossWord Puzzles: For Over Tens
colour Your Initial A colouring activity that can be used for letter recognition or some embellishment - a letter to Gramma, a sign for your door, a cover page for a book report.
Making Beeswax Candles Celebrating the Feast of the Presentation, also known as Candlemas Day by making beeswax candles. A enjoyable and easy! way for the whole family to welcome Light of Christ into the domestic church.
Candy Making The Sweetness of God, bring the 'taste' of fulfillment in God to your children.

Lent and Easter

Family

Family Stations of the Cross A short explanation of this devotion with meditations written for children and coloring pictures.
HTML version of Stations of the Cross for a Children's Liturgy prepared by Andy Figueroa of Hope Anglican Fellowship at Christ the King Reformed Episcopal Church. A moving devotion for a Good Friday service.
PDF version of Stations of the Cross for a Children's Liturgy
Stations of the Cross A web collection of meditations and images.
Sample pages from the Stations of the Cross Activity and coloring Book. For those of you who are curious and want to peek before you buy.
Christian Passover Seder Passover celebrates the Jew's release from slavery. Recreate the seder (meal) which Christ transformed into the Eucharist, releasing us from the slavery of sin.
The Practice of Lenten Practices The guiding principles behind different forms of Lenten Fast, with practical suggestions for living them out.
Easter tree by Sandy Partridge A twelve day Easter devotion similar to the Jesse tree.
The Family altar Creating and maintaining a family altar will make a difference to your family's prayer life and to the atmosphere of the home.
The Lenten Cross A Lenten Reading Series for Families to bring the family through Lent following the prophecies and teachings of the Old and New Testament.
Making bread If you're going to fast on bread and water, you want it to be good bread, don't you? Everyone in the family can help make bread.

Young Children

Lent for Little Ones by Lillian Silver. Group activities for six year olds to increase their understanding of the great season of Lent.
Making a Sacrifice by Robert Kisling A simple activity that gives an example of obeying the fourth commandment and encourages sacrifice.
Exploring Lent by Mary Ellen Vice Family Activities, crafts, songs, almsgiving to celebrate and learn through the Lent and Easter season.
Lenten Theme Cross Word Puzzle A fun way to gain some familiarity with the words and ideas we examine in Lent.
Pretzels and Easter Cookies Two baking activities to speed the arrival of Easter Sunday morning.
Saint George Pictures of Saint George, the dragon and the damsel to colour.
Easy Easter Basketswith thanks to colleen and Darcy Hammond. Cute and quick enough to make on Holy Saturday or even Easter morning before Gramma comes for a visit.
Be A Friend of Jesus by Monica McConkey Three Lenten family activities.
Make a Basket of Blessing Eggs by Monica McConkey A family activity teaching generosity, service to others, and sacrifice during the Lenten season.
A Spiritual Bouquet by Monica McConkey A creative and interesting way to introduce your children to the Rosary, and give a spiritual bouquet of prayers to a loved one.
Put Our Sins on the Cross by Monica McConkey Observe Lent with your children in a powerfully visual way.

Older Children

The Light of Confessions by Carole Asselin. A great visual activity to demonstrate to children and the family how sin affects us.
A Catechism Cube another great fridge art idea from Monica McConkey. A Catholic catechism trivia game you can make yourself.
From Creche to Cave by Sheila O'brien A creative project for all ages, to bring the Passion and Burial of Christ into your home.
Holy Card Shrines What to do with all those holy cards and saints cards, while encouraging devotions and identification with our heroes in Heaven - the saints.
Making a Paschal Candle by Gwen Wise Make a home-made then blessed Paschal candle part of your family's Easter celebration.
Holy Water Sprinklers An simple craft that fosters the use of Holy water in the home.

Saint Joseph the Worker

Family

Five Fingers of Prayer, presumed public domain. Not a super-hero, but a super way to explain and remember why we pray!
Pentecost - The Red-Hot Celebration! by Gwen Wise. The feast of Pentecost is perfect for picnics. Make it even more impressive with fiery red food.
Saint Joseph, breadwinner by Monica McConkey Celebrate the feast day of Saint Joseph by baking special bread sticks. A fun family activity, previewed from a new book, "A treasure Chest of traditions for Catholic Families"
Mary Stones by Monica McConkey Mary garden markers can punctuate a Mary garden offering subtle reminders giving honour to Mary. A fun family activity, previewed from a new book, "A treasure Chest of traditions for Catholic Families"
How to Make Banners
Home-made Clean-Up Wipes

Young Children

Designs To colour
Exploring Saint Joseph, by Mary Ellen Vice
Play-dough, Bubble soap, Safe paint, Sidewalk Chalk and other Goodies

Older Children

Building With Saint Joseph. A simple woodworking project to make a small statue shelf for every room in the home.
Building a Bird House by Joe Camelon
Tin Can-dle Lanterns Making candle lanterns to celebrate the "Light of the World".

Assumption and Queenship of Mary

Family

Building a Singing Family to Build a Singing Church by Mary Jane Ballou Everyone knows Catholics don't sing. Why not? It's easy and it's fun. Getting your family to sing at home will encourage singing at church.
Catechism Bingo! by Monica McConkey. An easy and fun craft for the family, one that becomes a challenging game for long car trips, evenings at home or as part of a homeschooling or parish based catechism class.
Making the Mary Dress by Regina Doman and Catherine Fournier At very long last, the patiently awaited pattern accompaniment to Regina's great article Mary Dressing.
Making the Mary Jumper by Regina Doman and Catherine Fournier The long awaited companion piece to Regina's Making the Mary Dress and her article about Mary Dressing.
Needlepoint Design Needlepoint is a simple craft that everyone can do, perfect for creating seasonal decorations and devotional objects for the home.
Celebrating Summer Marian Feasts

Young Children

Exploring Mary and Motherhood by Mary Ellen Vice Suggestions for family activities to honour Mary and our own mothers.
Ice-cream, U-scream A delicious summer activity that teaches the family the rewards of following 'God's Road Map.'

Older Children

Bible Games by Carole Asselin and Catherine Fournier Five fun and simple pen-and-paper games that help children learn how to find a scripture reference in the Bible, and learn to read the Bible for information.
Under Mary's Mantle of Protection, by Monica McConkey. A simple craft to demonstrate our place in Mary's heart.
Making Rosaries A wonderful family devotional activity. Rosaries make great gifts and can also be sent overseas as a missionary activity.
Sample pages from the Mysteries of the Rosary Activity and coloring Book. For those of you who are curious and want to peek before you buy.
Making Holy Cards by Sheryl Hobbs A fun and easy way to customize Holy Cards for bookmarks or special gifts.

Angels and Archangels

Family

Saint's Day Celebrations by Margaret Loesel. Great ideas for parish parties, homeschooling gatherings and elementary school fun fairs.
Praying to Saint Jude by Monica McConkey Several versions of prayer posting boards remind us to bring our prayers to the patron of hopeless causes
Bake a First Communion or Confirmation Cake to celebrate by Laura Owens. Confirmations take place in this season too.
Hallowe'en, the holiday we love to hate
All Saint's Party Ideas Suggestions for an All Saint's Party, an alternative to traditional Hallowe'en observances.
Easy Saint's Costumes for Hallowe'en Stumped for what to wear to the neighbourhood All Saint's Party?
Celebrating the Feast of the Archangels
Liturgical table bring the colours of the Church to the family dinner table.
Simple Family altar Cloths A simple craft to create 'altar cloths' for your family altar.
Taking Children Shopping by Unknown Some hints and suggestions from the child's point of view.

Young Children

Exploring Angels by Mary Ellen Vice Our regular language arts, drama and music contribution from Mary Ellen Vice.
Making Christmas Angels An easy craft for children.
Angels to colour Different styles of angels to print out and colour

Older Children

Guardian Angel Prayer Cross Stitch Pattern A nice way to bring the Guardian Angel prayer into your home.
Saint Michael the Archangel Cross Stitch Pattern. An easy craft for older children and adults.
tabletop Angel A craft for older children. This angel is suitable for the top of the tree, or for a table decoration.
Angels All Around Us A cross word puzzle.

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