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Catholic Traditions in the Home and Classroom: 365 Days to Celebrate a Catholic Year

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As parents, most of us want to share our faith with our children by teaching, but also by truly living our faith in our homes. This new book by the wonderfully talented Ann Ball will become one of your most used resources in this goal!

Ann Ball shares a project for every day of the year in this great book. Topics included are crafts, recipes related to the liturgical seasons, gardening tips and ideas and much more.

The photos which accompany each project will encourage you to try some new things with your family or students.

Templates and easy to follow directions for the crafts and recipes make this a great resource for crafters and chefs of any experience level. The book is chock full of wonderful stories, information, and lore related to our beautiful Catholic traditions.

This book is one of my new favorites, and I know that you and your family will love it too!

Catholic Traditions In the Home and Classrooms: 365 Days to Celebrate A Catholic Year is a great resource and find. It can get you through the class if you are looking for supplemental material or you can base an entire class or lesson on one of the ideas/traditions found in this book. It is a real great resource for every Director of a Program to have. Some of the traditions would be "lost" if it weren't for this book.

I criticized what I believe is the newest Ann Ball book for many reasons, not the least of which were the crafts.

This book is all anyone could ask for in an interactive Catholic book.

Each day is either identified as a saint's day or as an ordinary day to be enjoyed with God. There are crafts, recipes, information about plants and herbs, and of course information about each named saint.

So far I've tried two of the recipes, and they were big hits-piroshkies and chicken paprikas.

The best way to use this book would be to check it out over the weekend and see what you and your family could incorporate into the coming week. There's just so much to read about and do, you could cycle this book through many years and never repeat anything (unless you wanted to).

When I first flipped through the pages of this book, I new this would be a resource I'd return to throughout the year. Not only that, but it's a book I'd find very useful for years to come! Although I was baptized Catholic, my CCD did not include much information about the saints. I came upon a true treasure for my children and me. My only gripe is the small black and white pictures of some of the craft projects-very hard to see what some of them are supposed to be!

I love that this is an ACTIVE book. Reading daily Scripture, attending Mass are all important parts of faith, but the activities in this book are tangible things to DO with your children.

Reminding them of the Church and their faith though crafts and activities is a concrete way for kids to get involved - and with an activity every day, you'll never run out of ideas.

I'm no super mom, and there's no way I could actually accomplish every activity each and every day - so one of the nicest things about this book is you can pick up on whatever calendar day you happen to be on. No need to go back or feel guilty for missed days, just begin wherever you are.

I received my order in a timely manner and was well pleased. The book is supposedly used, but it appears to be new. Thanks so much!

Do not buy this book at these prices! 900.00 dollars! are you insane. These people are trying to rip you off.