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Posted: Oct 14 2010 at 3:20pm | IP Logged Quote Jenn Sal

A lot of crafts needed lately...

In two weeks we will actually have a Catholic Mosaic class on the feast day of St. Tekla.    I was wondering if anyone has done a craft that would be easy to do with a large group of children? We have the Fenestrae Fidei coloring page, but would love another idea.

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Posted: Oct 14 2010 at 8:12pm | IP Logged Quote Susana

I wonder if you could make an African craft? I know there are multicultural kids craft books out there. Maybe a browse on Amazon.com could give you some ideas and then you could see if your local library carries the book.

Good Luck! I'll be keeping an eye on this post to see if anyone else has ideas :)

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We once made lion faces with broken spaghetti for the manes. I cut out a face shape with ears then they traced it onto brown/gold paper and drew the features. We glued these face shapes to brown paper adn then glued spaghetti around the face to make the mane. Well...I hope that made sense! Anyway, it was fun and the kids enjoyed it.

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Some links to get the ideas going

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Posted: Oct 19 2010 at 2:41pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM

Jenn Sal wrote:
A lot of crafts needed lately...

In two weeks we will actually have a Catholic Mosaic class on the feast day of St. Tekla.    I was wondering if anyone has done a craft that would be easy to do with a large group of children? We have the Fenestrae Fidei coloring page, but would love another idea. Thank you!


This isn't exactly a craft idea, but perhaps it could lead into one. I was doing research with another member about a possible error in a history book, and found out a few things, somewhat related to this.

The Ethiopians have two separate Churches, the Ethiopian Catholic Church, which is connected with Rome and recognizes the Pope, and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which is separated in schism from Rome. In the 6th century, this Church adopted a heresy called "Monophysite." The Monophysites taught that Christ is only truly God, not man which goes against that Jesus was both God and man. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church was part of this tradition, united with the Coptic Church off and on over the centuries. It is now on its own.

St. Tekla (sometimes spelled Takla) is not part of the canon of Catholic saints like we know of St. Francis of Assisi, St. Bernadette, etc. He is a saint in the tradition of the Coptic/Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

You might want to draw in Patrons of Ethiopia: St. Frumentius, who was trained by St. Athanasius to fight the Monophysite heresy as a missionary, and St. George, our wonderful soldier/saint.

St. Frumentius is recognized in both the Ethiopian churches as a saint.

So, this is my long way of saying, perhaps you could find out some things about the different liturgies, find music of that rite (even the Ethiopian Catholic Rite would be a great introduction) to give a flavor to the child of how these saints actually heard when they went to Mass in their time so long ago.

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