Pascha Handwriting
Give a try at writing a new language! Ask your students to write "Christ is Risen" with the appropriate responses. Print the letters inside the white spaces of the following foreign languages inside...
View ArticleHoly Week for Kids
Anyone with kids knows that Holy Week can be a challenging yet extremely rich experience! Although the night services postpone bed time, we try to remember, it's just for one week, and nothing else...
View ArticleLazarus - Arise!
This is a great way to involve your kids in the Raising of Lazarus! Wrap them in "burial" cloth and see who will be first to break free on your command!It's extremely significant that the Church places...
View ArticleHoly Week Kids Orthodox Chart
Download for free and print this helpful lesson in chart format HERE to remind your students about each day of Holy Week in the Orthodox Church. The PDF file is filled with icons and a short...
View ArticleInternational Orthodoxy
This is a favorite project of ours and fitting for just after Pascha as the disciples were commanded to..."Go and preach the Gospel to all nations"As a global Orthodox project, I recorded fellow...
View ArticlePreparing for Pentecost
Christ is Risen!But then what?The story continues of course, with more exciting details and events to engage our young listeners. Christ spends the next 40 days displaying His physical Resurrection. He...
View Article12 Apostles Activity
For the 'Apostles fast' in the Orthodox Church, and here's an activity to assemble the icon day by day until the feast on June 29/30. On the first day, the children will cut out and glue the icon of...
View ArticleAscension Orthodox Worksheet
Download and print this worksheet for the upcoming feast of the Ascension of Christ. We will discuss how Christ appeared for the forty day period after Pascha, but at different times in different ways....
View ArticleHoly Fire Worksheet
Most Orthodox Christians children in America are unaware of the greatest miracle which still takes place every year. The miracle of the HOLY FIRE in the Sepulchre Tomb of Christ in Jerusalem is truly...
View ArticleThe "Orthodox Kids Journal Project"
NEW: Introducing a free weekly curriculum to create Orthodox Christian Kids Journals about our faith! Each week, come back to this website and download the handout to print yourselves.The handouts...
View ArticleChristmas Crossword
********REVISED**********Click on the crossword puzzleto the right for a little Christmas trivia!Located for free download here.Hopefully, it will be challenging for parents and kids of all ages. "Make...
View Article10 Fun Facts About Angels
"Whom Christ loves, His angels love too."St. Nicholai of Zica (1880-+1956) One often says the youngest of children can see the angels in the Orthodox Church, chasing them through the pews. You may have...
View ArticleChristmas Bible Verse Craft
God is with us(Matthew 1:23)All the Earth worships Thee (Psalm 66:4)Â His name shall endure forever (Psalm 72: 17)He is our God, the God of salvation (Psalm 68:20)There shall come a Star out of Jacob...
View ArticleRoot of Jesse Tree: Christmas Activity
The sayings of the prophets are now fulfilled!Use this study to learn the prophecies of the Old Testament with your children and teenagers. (Download the free printable PDF file here, in color or...
View ArticleHalloween, Thanksgiving, and Pre-Christmas Parties
As Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Pre-Christmas parties are approaching with great popularity, for us, it is a frequent reminder to "stay the course" and focus on the calendar of the Church. We are...
View ArticleOrthodox Handout Lesson for Christmas
For our 'Orthodox Kids Journals,'(see this post) we will be adding the great feast of Christmas by using this handout. Join with us to study the Prophecies! Cut and glue an Orthodox Jesse Tree icon...
View ArticleSew 40 day Advent Calendar
Bravo to the ladies at "Draw Near Designs" for creatingthis beautiful Orthodox Advent Calendar tapestry. It's a sew-it-yourself project that is reasonably priced and filled with Orthodox artwork. Check...
View ArticleDwelling Place for Christmas
The Nativity lenten season has begun...will God find an available "dwelling place" to be born? Will there be room at our inn? When He comes, as He did then to the city of Bethlehem, to knock on our...
View ArticleSt Basil: At a Time of Need
Ayios Vasilios bears a title that few Saints share with him. He is known as"Saint Basil the Great." Some attribute this title to him because he organized cenobitic monasticism, or because he was a...
View ArticleSaints Synaxarion in English
Wonderful news ! Our favorite series is being translated into English. If you haven't heard yet, visit https://www.newromepress.com/collections/youth to order "FRIENDS OF CHRIST"There are three volumes...
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