Liturgical Colors...and shapes.

We went to the craft store and and found solid color dishtowels - now banners - to mark the liturgical seasons. Amazingly, there were options of blue-purple for Advent and red-purple for Lent. The other bonus was that they were on clearance!

We have a book called Jesus Speaks to me about the Mass from Word Among Us that has a picture of several priests in different colored vestments. Since dressing dollies and playing dress up is a big thing these days, having different outfits for the priest was of great curiousity. This prompted the question: "What color is Fr. wearing? Why that color?"

The banner hangs proudly by the calendar (thanks CW!) and I will try not to use it to clean up spills.

Next we made the Liturgical Season Wheel that is on Lacy's website Catholic Icing. (See link to your right). This is her picture since I forgot to take one:

My circle was smaller, so I couldn't get the inner hole done that has the name of the season. I just wrote it on the colored section. It will work for us. My daughter keeps asking about her birthday, so I was mentioning that we have Advent, then Christmas, then some family birthdays, then Lent, then Easter and THEN it is her birthday... She obviously just had one. Her response: "Mommy, is it Easter yet?" The wheel will be helpful in all kinds of ways!

This prompted some discussion about circles. Mat Man has a circle! We drew Mat Man this time. She claims this drawing is of her baby brother. You can see her little hand going "ta-da!"

There is a slight resemblance...