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Hi ladies. :) I've been lurking on this forum for forever, but I have never introduced myself. I have 3 kiddos - my son is 4 yo, my first daughter is a little saint in heaven, and my youngest daughter is 1.5yo. I am also expecting #4 on New Year's Day. 
I've been thinking about kindergarten, specifically religion stuff. I know in DYOCC, Berquist mentions reading bible stories and doing narrations and illustrations to make a personal little Bible Story Book. My son very much enjoys crafts (nothing elaborate, necessarily - stuff like in the Who Am I? curriculum, which he loves). So I was wondering if any of you have done a version of a Bible Notebook but with crafty activities (almost like lapbooks, but simpler?) interspersed with simple narrations. Sort of like http://www.walkingbytheway.com/blog/?p=464 (Letter of the Week). I don't know if I'm creative enough to come up with it all on my own, so I figured I'd see if anyone could direct me to any blogs or websites.
Thanks so much!
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Welcome, Michele! I am glad you posted.
Have you checked the Catholic Icing blog yet? I love browsing through it for ideas.
On a very, very simple level, you could start a Bible Character book by collecting coloring pages and having your ds color a picture for one or more of the key figures in each story. That would be fun to flip through during the year, and it would also help keep the figures and names fresh in his mind. If he likes to print, he could print each name on the page himself.
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here is the link for Catholic Icing
If you scroll down, she has a preschool prayer book craft that looks really cute. Your ds might enjoy making that.
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This blog is just the sort of thing I was looking for - thank you so much! I love her swim noodle Rosary. Too funny!
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I use this site MSSS Crafts and Resources for Bible Stories to find crafts to go along with our Bible Story book readings.
Crafts which don't fit into a notebook can be photographed and the photos used as illustrations for a bible book (my oldest dd's favorite way to notebook --annotated photos of hands-on activities)
We've done collage's for other bible stories, I print up a mix of clip art images for my child to choose from and cut and paste into a picture (I still have a seven days of creation book my oldest did somewhere).
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Do you think the crafts helped your kids learn the stories? I know some people consider crafts busy work, and part of me just wants to do more of them b/c it forces me to sit and have fun with my kids (instead of doing the other kind of busy work - chores.  ) But I'm hoping it also helps the stories sink in a bit more than if I just read from the bible.
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One easy and fun way to reinforce the idea without having a specific craft is just to have paper and crayons set out on a pretty tray. After the story he can draw a picture of it. This is a type of narration, but don't tell my kids that
Also- they like to recreate the story with play dough figures. Again, I don't say a word, but I just happen to have a couple of cans of play dough sitting nearby.
I agree- noodle rosaries- too funny! 
ETA: My kids love crafts, and for them they are a treat and not busy work at all.
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MWeber wrote:
| Do you think the crafts helped your kids learn the stories? I know some people consider crafts busy work, and part of me just wants to do more of them b/c it forces me to sit and have fun with my kids (instead of doing the other kind of busy work - chores. ) But I'm hoping it also helps the stories sink in a bit more than if I just read from the bible. |
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First of all, if your child enjoys crafts they are worth doing simply for the fun and fine motor control practice.
As for helping the child learn the story?
With some children the crafts have been a fun reminder, we'd read the story one day and the next day we'd do a craft and talk about the story.
With one daughter, coloring or paper crafts have been a way to help her listen. She needs to DO something while listening, and this wasn't as disruptive to the other children as pacing back and forth.
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You both have been a lot of help. Thank you. I really enjoy these books that were referred to in one of the sites you mentioned. May be cheesy art, but fun illustrations to color on weeks when we're burnt out of all the cutting and pasting. 
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I'm glad you guys got a kick out of pool noodle rosaries! My kids really liked making it, and it's going to be quite handy for "R" week this year.
I'm teaching a homeschool preschool co-op this year, and we are going to be going through the Catholic alphabet, 1 letter a week. Each letter will have a Catholic craft, but I honestly don't have many biblical lessons planned. It will be more generic than that. A is for Angel, B is for Bible, C is for Crucifix, D is for Divine Mercy, etc. It's going to be for young kids. My current lesson plans will have us "pausing" the alphabet for big liturgical things like All Saint's Day, Advent, etc to do something more relevant. Anyway, if you're at all interested, I will start posting the projects on Catholic Icing the last week of August and they will run the length of the school year. I'm very excited about it!
I'm hoping the Catholic Alphabet Curriculum will also include a saint for each letter, but we'll see what I'm able to handle.
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Hi Lacy, I love your blog!
I have George and Brenda Nippert's book An Alphabet of Catholic Saints which has a saint for each letter. I also just ordered their Faith Keepers Combo cd-rom and Teacher's Helper #7 cd-rom (which has a coloring page to correspond to each saint in the book).
I am doing an extremely simplified year based around this book with my preschooler this year. Can't wait to see how yours turns out!
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