Two Feast Days

September 14th- The Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross
and
September 15th- The Feast of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary

You can listen to a brief explanation of these feast days by clicking on the feast day name.

We did a craft for each of these days as well as reading about each feast day in our Saint of the Day book. My "go-to" craft source is our Seton Art 1- it is a first grade book (my boys are a bit older than that), but it has a nice simple craft for many of our feast days throughout the year.

While the crafts in this book are simple, they are not childish, so even my older two boys don't balk at helping out. The purpose of these crafts is for us to spend some time together creating while learning about some of the treasures of our faith.

Our two projects:

The boys worked together to make these two crafts.

The cross for the Sept. 14 feast day.

Our Lady of Sorrows mobile- the pictures don't do it justice. Mary is at on top with 7 hearts hanging from a ribbon below- each heart has one of the sorrows printed on it. The bottom oval has the title "The Seven Sorrows of Our Lady".

Even if you missed the Sept. 15th feast day, it is not too late to honor "Our Lady of Sorrows". The month of September is dedicated to this devotion. You can read more about it at About (dot) com and find some more cool craft ideas at Catholic Icing.