Activities to Introduce Lenten for Kids

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Today is the first day of Lenten. We went to church at 05:00 this morning to have Ash Wednesday Mass. Lenten this year is quite different from the previous years. Kids behaved and followed the mass much better. I was so surprised that my 6 years old sone brought his new bible that I just bought for him last month to church. It was an Indonesian bible for adults with tiny letters. I helped him opened the readings and he just followed them very well. That is just another interesting story that I cannot hide. It is not easy to introduce lenten to kids. Therefore, I was looking for Activities to Introduce Lenten for Kids. I found some free lenten journey and stations of the cross journal as parts of Lenten activities.

I know that kids have known about Ash Wednesday from the lessons they had with their grandma. Yesterday It came to my mind to have a discussion about Ash Wednesday with them today to review and follow up what they have learnt with their grandma. I visited That Resource Site, a fabulous Catholic website for children education, to get more resources rather than lecturing and to anticipate if kids got sleepy after getting up so early. It is great to see how the site has changed a lot since the last time I visited it. It provided free resources , but it is a paid site. I just signed up thinking that it should worth around $10/year knowing that it was an awesome site. Guess what, it is more than what I thought. The site is just like a portable daily Catholic religion lesson plan and materials I can say. I am not an affiliate of That Resource Site at all, but I would like to recommend to all Catholics to visit and have a look at this site.

Well, I found a couple of great resources about lenten to do together with kids:

Activities to Introduce Lenten for Kids

It is a nice introduction to lenten and also practical activity for us to reflect it daily in our real life

Kids are cutting the flap book, trimming the small paper for prayer, and writing the prayer.

• Kids make a flap book about 4 special things we can participate during Lenten. Of course, it was started by vocabulary lesson as we are English as foreign language learners. I wrote on the whiteboard and the copied them on their mini flap book to be pasted on the action track.

This is how the flap book looks like when it is opened and put on a notebooking page of action tracker.

• We have a lent action track. There are 4 kinds of colours we can use to show what we have done and got focused during the days of lenten: Penitence (blue), Almsgiving (green), Fasting (red), and Prayer (yellow)

Here is the action tracker with color codes to use during the lenten period

Lenten Prayer Project

It is a daily intentional prayer activities which is closed by a decade of rosary. Here is the process:

• Kids write the prayer intention on a piece of small paper which is a part of the lenten prayer project printable. They can pray about someone or something.

Jim was writing his prayer for his dad seriously in Bahasa Indonesia

I love to see how the baby hands have changed into a 6 years old sturdy writer

• We start our prayer project together. After making the cross sign, everyone reads their intention.
• We have a decade rosary prayer. Here are the sequence of the short rosary.
  • Apostle Creed
  • Be Glory
  • One Our Father
  • Three Hail Mary
  • Be Glory
  • Rosary mistery
  • One Our Father
  • Ten Hail Mary, closed by Be Glory.
• Kids wrote their intention or prayer of the day in a worksheet provided by Lenten Prayer Project.

The Lenten Prayer List

We put those projects on our bulletin board. It needs a consistency to do this one.

Our Lenten Period Bulletin Board

I also just found a couple very interesting activity book of Lenten that ask us to do reflection based on the bible during the lenten:

My Lenten Journey

My Lenten Journey is designed to help your child explore Lenten themes like prayer, sacrifice, charity and Scripture. This 74 page printable activity book combines faith, fun and learning.

It includes:

• a brief history of Lent
• Lent-themed worksheets
• crafts
• family activities
• daily journal with Scripture passage and writing prompts

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Stations of The Cross

My Stations of the Cross {Activity Book and Devotional for Kids} 
This booklet is a tool to help children personalize common devotion, complete with coloring pages, scripture passages for each Station, and space for children to write their own prayer or reflection about each Station.

Click the image below to get the download