This Summer, create special moments to help your kids connect and grow in the faith. Here are some ideas and activities to keep your summer Catholic!
- Check out Catholic events and landmarks in your area (or wherever you are traveling to)! You can attend Bible studies, conferences, Bible camps, retreats, and festivals just by searching within the right diocese. For landmarks, I simply type in “Catholic shrine” or “Catholic cathedral/grotto” into Google maps on my phone and it gives me some ideas of places close to me. Just double-check the websites that these are indeed Catholic and and open at the time you want to visit!
- Plant a faith-focused garden! Here are some ideas to decorate your garden as a prayer space and flowers the symbolize Our Blessed Mother. You can also get an outdoor statue of Mary and plant flowers around her. Finish it off by saying or singing a prayer and placing a crown made of flowers on her head. What kid wouldn’t enjoy that?
- Need an indoor idea? How about some family time putting together a puzzle of the Last Supper or a puzzle featuring Mary and the angels?
- Build a time capsule by collecting some prayer cards, write down prayer intentions or letters to Jesus, and small statues or Catholic toys and bury them to open next year. Your kids will love digging a hole and rediscovering their treasures next year!
- For the older kids, make a scavenger hunt! Check out these neat ideas and printables to create a Catholic scavenger hunt from Ave Maria Press.
- Create something fun in the kitchen using Catholic feast day-inspired recipes. You can see some ideas on Pinterest here and even more on Catholic
- Check out these Catholic crafts ideas for when the kids have had just enough sun and need some time to focus on a project (like this St. Francis bird feeder). These are also great ideas for starting a park day together on certain feast days. Bring the supplies, let the kids do a faithful project, and let them run around and be crazy!
I hope these ideas give you a good direction for fun and faithful activities for your Catholic kids to do this Summer. For more ideas, please follow us on Pinterest and follow our Catholic kids Facebook page!
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