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Wiccacraft for Families

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This was one of the first books I bought for our family library. I found it very helpful. I love the traditional recipies and the music in it.I also enjoyed the rituals. They were great for our first year of celebrating and now we borrow a bit form them and add our own bits to make them ours. I think this is better to use with older children than with toddlers or preschoolers but a must have!

This is a good book to have in supplement to "Circle Round" by Starhawk. Although it doesn't have nearly as much information, it does have one thing Circle Round doesn't: the rituals themselves. The seasonal rituals are actually family plays- a very creative way to celebrate a holiday. There are also songs, fun crafts, and recipes for each holiday. This book also goes into detail with life passage rituals. Even Pagan families who are not Wiccan may find this title helpful.

My family and I very much enjoyed this book. The rituals, projects, recipies, and songs were imaginative, fun, and easily adaptable to any family. It was immediately obvious that the author was writing from experience and had actually tried out all these things with her own children. We particularly enjoyed trying out the recipes for our family gatherings. While there are a plethora of Pagan "how-to" books on the market, until now there have been no good books on bringing up Pagan children. Highly recommended: a much needed addition to any Pagan family's library.

Yet not as good as "Circle Round" but a great and wonderful put together book. The crafts, songs, and the folk lore that follows the wheel of the year are very well put together. I think the author could have put more into the book, but, other than that, thats the only bad part about it, but, i do have to say that this book should be right next to "Circle Round". Highly recommended

WiccaCraft for Families is one of the few books I refer to often for pagan friendly parenting and family ritual ideas. The book has rituals, foods, music, crafts & activities broken down into the eight sabbats for quick reference to seasonal holidays.
Ms. McArthur also provides informative chapters on various Rites of Passage: Women's Mysteries, Men's Mysteries, Youth Passages, Handfastings, Age, and Death rituals and observances.
All in all a great book for a pagan parents' library.

Margie's book is full of really great ritual ideas for your family. Actually, this book has great celebration ideas even if you don't have small children. The food suggestions, ritual, craft, and lore are top notch. Margie writes in a very readable way that makes this book a fun read as well as being informative. Margie's book is one of the best books written on Witchcraft in general. Her style is user-friendly and you can learn a lot about Witchcraft from this book regardless of whether or not you plan to celebrate the Holy Days with small children or not!

I loved this book! I found much of value in this book, and it inspired me with so many ideas for working spiritually with my own children. I really liked how it tended toward everyday practicality - with morning prayers, night prayers, blessings for meals, etc; yet also provided resource material for the Sabbats, Moons and major life passages.

It covered a lot of ground, for such a small book. Oh yes, I forgot to mention the music: lots of good songs - some traditional, some modern - for each of the Sabbats.

I highly recommend this book!

This is a great book over all, but what I love most is the pagan music in it. I don't read music, but I have friends that do and they sing at my rituals often!

Thank you Margie! She has created a great reference book for those of us who are trying to raise our children in the path of the Old Religion. Each festival is outlined with rituals written for children. The Rites of Passage, so desparately needed these days, are creative, meaningful, and above all fun!

I first read Ms. McArthur's book several years ago. Since then I have recommended and given it away to all my Wiccan friends with children at home. (Many.) Using simple but delightful rites for celebrating any family's holidays she gives us a great "cookbook." I wouldn't be without this book. It is a must-have reference book for any Pagan,Wiccan or Nature Religion family.