The Big Book of Catholic Customs and Traditions: For Children's Faith Formation

by Sue Robinson and Beth Branigan McNamara

Book Overview

So much fun, kids will forget they're learning about the Faith

With the same classroom-tested style that made our Big Book of Ideas for Children's Faith Formation so popular, this book shows you step-by-step how to make learning fun for children ages 3 to 8, and beyond.

Your favorite characters from the first book return to lead us through Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, and a few secular holidays, too. Short stories,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931709440
• ISBN13: 9781931709446
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.6" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

A learning experience for the whole family

This was a great book and it gave me a great "plan" to follow in educating my children about the catholic faith and it also provided great ideas on family projects that we could do to celebrate and understand the deeper meaning of many catholic customs and traditions.

Great book for education

My children enjoy this book and it is helping us to understand the traditions. The children like the activities and art projects as well. This would actually be a good book for the Catholic churches to use in their elementary programs.

I've been looking for a book like this!!

I LOVE this book! It follows the liturgical year and month-by-month (often day-by-day) offers suggestions for things to do with kids. It includes the theme for the month (like "Month of the Holy Rosary"), major saints of the day (including an interesting story about the saint), discussion starters, activities and crafts for children, explanations of holidays, etc. This book contains a wealth of information and plenty of "white space" for adding your own notes and ideas in the margins. I've been looking for something like this and God finally lead me to it!! It's provides a great curriculum for sharing the faith with our kids!

Great book

This is a nice book. The format is appealing and well organized, and it is helpfully divided into months. It is full of crafts and activities, information on holidays, saint days, and the liturgical seasons, information on different customs--some old and some new, and more. I was particularly pleased that the crafts were simple, but nice. I also found it refreshing to find a lot of prayers that are new to us. For example, in the December section there are a lot of suggested prayers for each week of Advent, etc. It is hard to do this book justice in a short review. I am looking forward to using this book for years to come.