Celebrations for Michaelmas 2013

On Monday we celebrated Michaelmas in our home.
I know the feast day was officially on Sunday but we have been known to celebrate later than the prescribed day for feasts before and frankly I forgot until Monday morning and so went immediately into 'feast day organisation overdrive'
I tried to keep it simple and I think we did cover what we wanted without it becoming too time consuming.

 So what did we do-
A little colouring from the pages we use every year.

 These were coloured as I read from

 The Treasure Box series with a sweet little boy on my lap

 Rogan started to cut out a shadow picture (that we actually did not get to use)

 We set up the display for the day with Trahaearn's St Michael painted Saint and his wooden crocodile we turned into a snake/dragon/devil.
I also pinned on the copywork for the day as well for the children to see

 I just love colouring/craft messes on the table.

We also made a harvest loaf following the instructions and the story from  All Year Round one of my absolute favourite seasonal celebration books

 The children were very keen to be a part of it and while I admit I got part of the sequencing wrong the end product turned out pretty good.

 Random photo our our Autumn who is home for mid semester break at Uni

 Watching, listening and waiting for their turn

 Finally we had a loaf of dough from which to make, their favourite part of the day, Dragon Bread

 The children teamed up and Vellvin tried to make a dragon while Trahaearn kept quashing it down to roll out like he does with play dough.

 Rogan did all the work for his and Saxon's who was at work at this stage

 Arwen and Corbyn, well what can I say they were enthusiastic to say the least

Moran and Myffwyn did a really good job for their Dragon and even thought to add some extra wings with gold cardboard.

 This poor dragon must have had his tail rearranged many times by one or the other of these two!

 Time to let rise before putting in the oven.

 Now on to making some angels for the rest of the day

 WE made two types - the packet Christmas variety that was coloured in

 And one type using a shape of a man and adding some

 golden wings from a paper plate

 and some tissue paper for clothes

 Now for our records we have put them in our Liturgical Notebooks after taking some photos too

 Yummy dragon bread from the oven ready for eating

For sweets we had blackberries and cream a simpler version of using blackberries rather than the strudel we have done in the past

 It was a little difficult to keep a berry loving toddler out of the blackberries though so their would be enough for all.

And last but not least our Angel shaped cake had a slight mishap and so was relegated to being part of the side dish to the blackberries and cream.

Oh well hopefully we can do better for the Feast of the Guardian Angels tomorrow.

Thank you for sharing our celebrations with us again

Blessings to you and your homes,
 

Michaelmas 2013

We are celebrating this feast day today.
A day late for us and we are really choosing our activities late in what we will do today, but I thought I would share two of our favourite activities from past years.
These two slideshows were really some of the most fun activities that we have done together.
Make sure you read the captions that go along with the photos.


and this one another year I look forward to sharing what we did this year later
Blessings to you and your homes,
 

Ideas for Michaelmas

I have given very little thought to this feast day this year and it suddenly struck me that it marks the start of a couple of weeks of intense feast day celebrations.

So for now looking at Saturday, I think we will be focusing on ~
colouring in pictures,
making a row of angel folds,
making some felted angels,
read the story of St Michael in this book,
 and some simple foods perhaps a cake of some sort.

If you are looking for more ideas than these simple ones I have written up plans in the past HERE

 We have also clebrated by performing two plays in the past : The Battle for Heaven and Who Reigns Supreme?

Have a most blessed feast day of St Michael
Prayer~
Saint Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host -
by the Divine Power of God -
cast into hell, satan and all the evil spirits,
who roam throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.

Blessings to you and your homes,

Our Un-Feast Feast Days

October is a very busy month for Liturgical feasting right from the start of the month, well even from the  last days of September. There are just so many feast days to celebrate.
Usually we would be very much into the celebrations of these.
This year how ever it seems we just couldn't keep up with the constant celebrations.
we would start a few things, have ingredients and craft materials ready but just not be able to pull it all together. Not because anything major had happened, just life in our home.

So to share the few things that did come together for these Feast Days we have just had (and I really hope we full fill our desire to celebrate Our Lady of the Rosary (our celebrations from last year) on Thursday.
Here are some pics from our home~

Profiteroles for St Therese. We did so much more last year and I was a little disappointed as it is one of our favourite Feast days.

The children did colour in some pictures from Charlotte and Vee for the Feast of the Guardian Angels, St Therese and The Feast of St Michael and the Archangels.

We did manage to do a little more with the Feast of St Francis, at least we read some of the books, and I printed out a card for everyone to keep. Hmmm just remembering did I give them to everybody...not sure I did. Oops!!!!

Corbyn is really enjoying colouring ...finally. Notice the grubby faces on him and Arwen as they were colouring while eating lunch too.

This is a couple of waiting to be wonderful feast day cookie dough, mixed up and ready , to be used finally today.
So all our cookies representing each of the feast days were all made in one day...shock, horror gasp.

Our St Francis books

Our Animal Shape cookies for St Francis

Our St Francis cookies. Autumn made these and the chocolate drops are in a pattern. They represent the Stigmata given to St Francis.

Our St Jerome lion cookies. If you use your imagination you can see a lion shape head, with eyes and a nose.
Well if you look REALLY HARD!

So that is a little round up of how we did sort of celebrate these feast days this year in our home.

Blessings to you and your homes,