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I hope everyone takes pictures (I'm visual) so we can see all these great ideas coming to fruition!
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MicheleQ wrote:
No it was Dollar Tree. Our local store just relocated across the parking lot to a bigger space and like I said I need batteries. $17 later I had batteries and a votive candle holder and a few other things. 
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Thanks Michelle! Maybe I can get there over the weekend. If dh can get the van out of the ice block it seems to be stuck, that is 
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Another sale for Dollar Tree!! Got mine today, thanks for the photo, Michelle!
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I just bought these willow branches today, there were two colours to choose from, natural and red - perfect! I bought 5 natural and 1 red - one for each week of lent and the red one for the Passion Week.
Here is a picture:
This way, is probably more child friendly for my 2 year old.
So what could I do with them? Maybe the sacrifices could be added on to a branch of the week in the form of leaves, beads, something.....and then flowers to replace them during Easter? Any ideas?
Or maybe leaving it as is for an austere look?
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This is expensive but it would be such a lovely picture to hang in the Lenten season!
Very meditative.
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From the book Arts and Crafts for Lent by Jeanne Heiberg, I got the idea of filling bottles of sand. She suggested using a glass bowl, bt I bought some plastic bottles with corks and the craft store and we filled them with the colored sand.
Biege was for the desert
Yellow for Christ
Blue for Baptism
Greens for new life
Purple for Christ the King
Red for the passion.
You can see a picture of one of the bottles below.
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It's not gorgeous, but I finished our Lenten tile that I'll use as a trivet. You can see it and an explanation here.
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It is excellent Jenn - gorgeous is a word for Easter  and this is Lenten, it captures that spirit perfectly. 
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I have been thinking (as my children have been plaiting a crown of thorns from some artifical rose stems - that has got me wondering..) of the idea of having the children make bit by bit -all the different images/elements of the passion during Holy Week. Placing them on our altar (you can see the photos up higher and using the statue of Our Lord in these decorations.) The children could make them all slowly through Lent and then start displaying them in Holy Week.
Palm sunday - a palm that they can place in Our Lord's arm. A halter and lead. (donkey's)
The cup and bread at the last supper, the bowl with a cloth for the washing of the feet.
The cup of the angel in the garden. A cloth with red blobs of paint to signify Our Lord's sweating.
The bag of 30 silver pieces. A cloth rent, that the High Priest tore during his condemnation of Jesus. Chains and key for when Our Lord was imprisoned overnight.
The scourge, the reed, the crown of thorns, the 'kingly' robe.
The nails, the IRNI sign, Veronica's veil, the sponge and vinegar, skull and crossbones (Adam's)
Just some ideas I have, is there anything else I may have overlooked? Some of these images could be place on the statue (kingly robe - reed in His hand - the crown of thorns etc.)
Our altar is very big and so we'll would have room for all of this!
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aussieannie wrote:
This is expensive but it would be such a lovely picture to hang in the Lenten season!
Very meditative.
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Anne, this is gorgeous! I happen to have a devotion to the Holy Face, and today, Shrove Tuesday is the feast of the Holy Face of Jesus (unfortunately I missed the novena leading up to it )
BTW Anne, your new Avatar is simply breathtaking! You are an image of the Madonna!
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This Stations of the Cross craft is very easy to make. I bought the glass candle holders, candles included, and hot glued them to the wood. It only cost me $10.00. We will light all 14 candles, and as we anounce each Station, we will blow out the candle, and as the 14th Station is read and the last candle is blown out, the room will be dark.
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Ruth, I like the simplicity and effect. Yours looks better than the make shift one I did years ago. Nice.
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Lovely, Ruth! I always think I have to do a candleabra of some sort but your idea is GREAT!
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Ruth, you read miy mind!! WE ill also be doing our stations with the candle lighting and blowing out, it's so powerful and mysterious fot the children!! Thanks for sharing, and everyone's ideas are amazing!! I love the building of the altar gradually to put together for Holy Week Annie, just awesome!!
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What if you applied the stations of the cross pictures to the votives???
I'd love to try this, just had the idea, and haven't tried it out but in the interest of sharing the idea before the board closes up tomorrow couldn't you print off some pictures of the stations and size them to fit the candles? I'd probably do B&W as I don't have a color printer and I like the idea of the starkness anyhow. Then I'd grab my big roll of clear packing tape and wrap the picture to the votive, I don't have any liquid glue handy and I do try to use what I have available.
ETA: B&W Images of the Stations of the Cross
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marihalojen wrote:
What if you applied the stations of the cross pictures to the votives???
I'd love to try this, just had the idea, and haven't tried it out but in the interest of sharing the idea before the board closes up tomorrow couldn't you print off some pictures of the stations and size them to fit the candles? I'd probably do B&W as I don't have a color printer and I like the idea of the starkness anyhow. Then I'd grab my big roll of clear packing tape and wrap the picture to the votive, I don't have any liquid glue handy and I do try to use what I have available.
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I like that idea...but I'm worried a little of the tape handling the heat?
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I struck out at Dollar Tree, no lovely candle like Michelle's at all. Now I'm searching for a purple pillar candle to put in the center of our grapevine wreath, I've looked two places so far, no luck.
I did pick up a bag of those polished stones for the boys to use when performing a sacrifice for another to be switched in for pastel m&m's Easter morning.
And we had fasnaughts today, so we're on the right track!
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I'm jumping in late here, but can anyone help me with quantities for the salt dough crown of thorns? I've never made salt dough before and fear that we would either end up with a miniature, or a giant, one... Could you also tell me what temp to bake and for how long, pls?
TIA...
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I have this old Morton Salt Booklet that had detailed directions for the salt dough that I typed up here.
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Ooops, sorry, it didn't have actual ratios
2 cups wheat flour
1 cup salt
3/4 cup water
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