Teaching Tuesdays~ God is Our Creator!

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Happy Tuesday, friends! I'm back with a new lesson! Sunday school has been a blast. I love getting to know our new little friends every year. Their personalities are hysterical. Little kids are the best. 

Check out this week's class!

Prayer~ 

We continued to work on the Sign of the Cross and started learning the Glory Be. Since they are very similar, I group these together. 

Saint~ Saint Martha

I read a short story about her life. I use a variety of resources for learning about a saint's life. The students are always amazed that Saint Martha knew Jesus. They think it's cool that she actually got to talk to him. 

The kids worked on their coloring page of Saint Martha while I read about her life. We then added her picture to our Saint board.

Resources~ 

A Saint a Day: 365 True Stories of Faith and Heroism

Saints for Young Readers for Every Day Volume 1 January-June

Saints for Young Readers for Every Day Volume 2 July-December

The Loyola Treasury of Saints

Boy Saints for Little Ones

Girl Saints for Little Ones

Book of Saints by Reverand Lawerance G. Lovasik- I have a few of these that I have purchased over the years for my kids. There are multiple books and they are numbered. I know I have 1 through 6, and number 10. I'm not sure how many there are. I keep meaning to see and get the rest. 

Virtue~ Faith

Faith is believing in God, believing in all He has revealed to you, and trusting in God's plan. For our virtue study, I use a resource I found years ago to use with my kids. I saved it and added it to our Sunday school lessons years ago.  It's called Virtues in Practice and is from the Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia in Nashville. 

After learning about faith and how to apply it to their lives, we added the colorful word to our virtue board.

Old Testament Lesson~

Paradise Landscape with the Creation of the Animals

Jan Brueghel II

So this week, we started at the very beginning. We learned about God being the creator of all things! We read about the story of creation. I like to use the Alice in Bible Land Series - The Story of Creation. The students seem to enjoy the story and it's written in simple terms for them to understand. It rhymes, so I think they like the sing-song pattern. 

I have two worksheets that I used for this lesson, God's Creation Worksheet and the 7 Days of Creation Matching Worksheet. 

We talked about who God is and how He created us in His image and likeness. We learned about God's love for us. He loves us more than we could ever know. 

Catechism Lesson~ 

We learned about the Blessed Trinity. We learned how the Blessed Trinity is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. I have a coloring page that shows this and a handwriting page too.

Our craft this week went with this part of our lessons. The students made a Blessed Trinity triangle. We took 3 large popsicle sticks, glued them together to form a triangle, and then labeled the three sides: God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit. You can find directions here.

We shared a snack of apples. I use the apple to demonstrate the 3-in-1 meaning of the Blessed Trinity. 

Skin, flesh, and seeds all make up an apple. It helps them understand it a little better, plus they enjoy a simple snack. 

We closed class with the Glory Be and the Our Father. 

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Till Next Time,

Monique

 

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The winners of the candy canes are......

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Tamara

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~Monique 

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Christmas Giveaway~ Candy Canes for American Girl Dolls

It's been a long time since I did a giveaway. So Princess P and I have decided to do a fun giveaway just in time for Christmas.

A few months ago, Princess P and I opened up a Etsy store called Treasured Pearls. 

We will be selling girls clothes, American Girl doll clothes, and American Girl doll food. 

Princess P has been hard at work making doll food. 

Unfortunately, I haven't held up to my side of the bargain. I have been too busy sewing the tree skirt for our Christmas tree (the one from last year I never finished).

Well, Princess P had her first sale!! 

So in honor of her first sale, we are going to be giving away candy canes! 

Two, yep I said TWO, lucky readers will win 3 candy canes for their dolls.

doll and plate not included

Candy canes are a perfect fit for American Girl dolls or any 15-18 inch doll.

Candy canes are made out of polymer clay. Clay is baked in the oven and is hardened. I would not recommend candy canes for little one since they are small and can be swallowed. 

Candy Canes have been made by my young daughter. To see more of what she has made, please check out our store.

So onto the details. I am going to make this easy. To enter just leave a comment. For additional entries, you can like my 

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  pinterest page.

Just leave a comment for each page you liked. If you leave a comment and like all 3 pages, you'll name will be entered into the drawing 4 times. 

See super easy!

Princess P will pick the winners on

Tuesday, December 16th. 

Till next time,

 ~Monique 

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DIY~ Comfy Chair for American Girl Dolls

While Princess P was sick with the flu, I decided to do a fun project with once she started feeling a little better. We made a comfy chair for her dolls.

Supplies Needed
small wooden box
fabric
foam
stuffing
glue
needle and thread
sewing machine

I have been saving a wooden box that our clementines came in just for this project.

Princess P had to decided which dolls she wanted the chair for.... a historical doll or one of her modern dolls. She decided to go with the modern dolls. She picked out two fabrics, a pink and a green one. We measured out the fabric so it would cover the box.

We cut out a piece of foam to cover the top of the box.

I fold the fabric over the box and glued with a fabric glue.

I did the two longest sides first and then worked on the shorter sides.

I folded in the sides to form a clean edge. I then folded down the fabric and glued it in place.

I pressed down firmly to get a clean  fold.

I used clips to keep the fabric in place while the glue dried.

While chair dried, we worked on the pillows. I cut a rectangle a little bigger than the box to allow for seam allowance. Princess P sewed up the sides. We then stuffed the pillow with stuffing and hand stitched the pillows closed.

Once the bottom part of the chair was done, our mama cat immediately climbed on top for a nap.

Our finished chair had a back pillow and two small accent pillows.

It was an easy project to do and I had fun working with my daughter. She loved the chair and couldn't wait to play with it!

Winter Sweets for American Girl Dolls

During the big arctic freeze, most of the US has been experiencing, Princess P and I made some more fun food for her dolls out of clay.

She was super excited to help.

She even suggested we make some to sell. We may just add it to the Etsy store I plan on opening this month.

We made eggs and bacon.

Cinnamon Rolls.

Red and pink valentine heart cookies with sprinkles.

Pink sandwich valentine cookies with a cream middle.

Animal crackers made by Princess P herself.

and we made some pink, white, and red lollipops just in time for Valentine's Day!

Here is Emily holding her new treat.

The food turned out cute and I had fun with my sweet little girl!

Making food for American Girl dolls

A friend of mine recently posted about how she made some play food for her daughter's newly acquired American Girl doll.

You can find her blog spot over at Saree Wearing Mam's blog. She is a fantastic lady who is very creative. We once worked together in our previous lives before kids!

So after seeing her fun idea, Princess P immediately said, "We can do that!" So this past weekend we headed to our local Hobby Lobby and bought some clay to make our own creations.

At the store, we bought 4 packs of Sculpey clay. Princess P chose brown, cream, bright pink and red.

W decided to make the ice cream, thin mints, Oreo cookies, doughnuts, pretzels, cupcakes, crackers and some tiny strawberries.

We first softened the clay by working it in our hands. Once the clay was right for shaping we went to work.

We created Oreo cookies first. We shaped the brown clay into brown cookies and then places cream clay in between the two cookie layers.

 To create the thin mint cookies, just shape the brown clay into cookie shapes.

Very easy! I did try to leave some wavy imprints from my fingers, since thin mints have a wavy look to them.

I then created the cup cakes.

I used a small tea cup to for the cupcake bottom. I pressed the clay into the cup filling it about halfway. I then took the clay out and shaped it to look like the bottom of a cupcake. I tool a sculpting tool and made indents along the sides to form the cupcake paper liner. Princess P decided what color frosting she wanted, we shaped it to look like a mound of frosting and then added to the cupcake bottom.

To finish off we added a small red cherry to the top.

To make the crackers and doughnuts, we blended together the leftover brown and some cream to get a tan/beige color.

For the doughnuts, we rolled out the clay. Make a snake! We cut up the long piece into a few strips and connect the ends. Make sure to conceal the seams. Just gently smooth the clay with your finger. Princess P did the same things to make the colored frosting.

We made the crackers the same way we made the chocolate wafer cookies. I then took another sculpting tool and added a few holes so they would look like Ritz crackers.

We made pretzels too.

We rolled the clay into a snake and then folded the sides in to make a pretzel. Perfect for Lent!

We made chocolate, strawberry, vanilla and cherry ice cream.

We rolled the clay into ice cream scoop shapes. To add the texture look to the ice cream, I took a small piece of rolled up tin foil and gently pressed into the clay.

The strawberries were a last minute idea.

We had a little bit of red left. I rolled the clay into an egg shape. I pressed the egg shape clay down onto the table and made the one end flat. It worked perfectly. They look like strawberries that have had the stem cut off.  To make the seeds, I took the sculpting tool and poked holes into the strawberry.  A toothpick would work great too.

We placed all of our goodies onto a cookie sheet lined with tin foil.

I baked them in the oven on 250 degrees for 35 minutes. Princess P couldn't wait for her new goodies.

We now have plans to get more clay and make even more food. We have some many fun ideas.

The best of the day was spending time with my little girl. I love how she loves to do crafty things like her mama!

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