This simple craft for younger children can foster their love of country and pride for our nation, essential lessons for educating them well.
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This simple craft for younger children can foster their love of country and pride for our nation, essential lessons for educating them well.
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A word to the wise: best-kept secrets can be in our backyard, our home state, so don't let these golden opportunities to explore and discover pass us by.
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For Pope Francis, his favorite treat is the humble empanada, the popular, hearty portable meal for workers brought to South America by Spanish settlers.
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A fun craft for both boys and girls and even younger children, saintly peg dolls make it easy to teach about the lives of the saints we are celebrating.
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Helping the children create special notebooks of their religious studies from the start of the school year has resulted in wonderful memories for all of us.
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Why not create a little beauty in a corner of your yard this year using some plaster and flowers to honor Our Lady. Editor Mary Ellen Barrett shows you how.
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This hand print paper lily is a sweet craft to keep little hands busy and is perfect to decorate your Saint Joseph statue or altar and later used at Easter.
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Making this Advent Calendar is a great way to keep your children in the spirit of Advent, and prepare for the coming of the Christ Child.
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Be creative! You make lapbooks from two file folders for math, science, literature, religion, history, even music. You are only limited by your imagination.
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Summer, long car rides, and picnic blanket lunches - even occasional rainy days are all great times to introduce new ways to learn math with fun math games.
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Mary Ellen has a fun craft for children to create pocket shrines honoring the Blessed Mother and the Sacred Heart of Jesus in their months of May and June.
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