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Great Lent Curriculum
For those interested, I'm re-posting a lesson plan chart and soon to follow workbook pages for Great Lent. The lessons are designed for each Sunday leading up to Holy Week, for a brief 1/2 hour...
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Lent Crafts: Pascha Candles
In our parish, we try to offer a small craft related to Great Lent and Pascha each year. This year we have chosen to invite parents to decorate a"Lambatha, or Pascha Candle" with their children after...
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Lenten Boardgame
Search the toy store aisles, and there's no Orthodox games to be found! So, let's develop our own ~ Just think of the possibilities! We could develop game pieces in the form of Saints, and move along...
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Canon of St Andrew
If you are feeling that the Great Fast snuck up on you this year, and you are hoping to get into the "zone" fast give the Canon of St Andrew of Crete a try this week! Over the course of the first four...
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Lent Word Search Activity
Click on the image to view and print this month's activitySearch horizontal, vertical, and diagonal to find all the words related to Great Lent and Holy Pascha. ~ Enjoy ~
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Orthodox Coloring Books for Lent
The time has come for Great Lent 2016 - here are some extra resources to challenge your young ones! We have compiled a printable PDF workbook available for free at this Scribd link.It contains coloring...
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Holy 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...
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Pascha Basket
If you are looking for ways to keep "Christ" in your celebration of Easter, consider making anOrthodox Pascha Basketinstead of the typical egg & candy overload! Each of the following traditional...
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Pascha Poem & Orthodox Craft Idea
With a long white piece of paper, we made three folds and created our very own accordion Pascha card with original poem to accompany the Passion and Resurrection of Christ icons cut out from Orthodox...
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BINGO for Great Lent
Introducing a fun way to get your youth involved in service projects. On this BINGO card are listed 20 ideas for Great Lent that will enhance your spiritual journey to Pascha. Mix up the squares and...
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PASCHA: The Red Egg
Here's a look at the pious custom of red eggs in the Orthodox Church for you and your families to enjoy. Where did the tradition come from anyway? It seems there are a few possible answers to this...
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Lady Sarakosti Poem & Coloring for Great Lent
Quiet Lady Sarakosti, is a custom from long ago, Our grandmothers used to make her, out of flour and H2O.She wears a simple nun’s dress, with a cross upon her head, her hands in prayer without a mouth,...
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Confession & Kite Day
Clean Monday is the very first Monday which begins Great Lent. If your parish has never held a day to invite all the children, big and small, to experience the Sacrament of Confession....keep reading!...
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Spring Cleaning
"Clean up - Clean up, everybody everywhere,Clean up - clean up, everybody do their share."The lyrics to this catchy Barney song might have more use to our Orthodox faith than we've considered before...
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St Mary Egypt Craft - Turn Life Around
The powerful story of repentance that we find in the life of Saint Mary of Egypt which was recorded by the monk Zossimos, can be a memorable one for teenagers and college students. For the younger...
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Sunday Lessons for Ages 8-18
From ages 8-18, many questions arise in our youth...especially what are the differences between your students and their friends at school, etc. Catholic vs Jewish vs Protestants, etc... This can be a...
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Calling All Witnesses
“Therefore I will be brought to trial before you again, says the Lord; and I will be brought to trial before your children's children."(Jeremiah)An excellent activity to introduce our children and...
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Discovering Virtue
Here is a new workbook on "Discovering Virtue" for our Orthodox youth, probably at a pre-teen or teenage level. I offer it with hopes that it will provide a basic framework to discuss the spiritual...
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Orthodox Jeopardy
Gather Orthodox Christians of all ages for a fun and interactive game of Orthodox Jeopardy. Created in Microsoft Powerpoint, you'll sing along to the familiar theme songs of the television gameshow...
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The Way We Worship
Introduce to your children an activity illustrating the way we worship and more importantly, why we worship the way we do in the Orthodox Church. Below are some talking points for the lesson, as well...
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