We did this activity and drew a cross with pencil on the forehead. Then we smudged the pencil lines so they would look like ashes.
We learned about the three pillars of Lent, prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. If you look in the bottom right quadrant of the page, you can see that one of the fingerprints was decorated to look like the child who made it.
We talked about prayer, ways to pray, and who we pray for.
We talked about fasting. Each child chose something that they will give up for Lent.
We have a class almsgiving jar where the kids can put change in throughout Lent. Then we are going to donate the money to an organization. The Kindergarten students are thinking about who to give the money too. I think that they are leaning towards Children's Hospital.
We talked about going to confession during Lent. Since the Kindergarten kids are not old enough to sin yet, we talked about doing things that we know are not nice, such as lying, not treating others the way we want to be treated, not doing when our parents ask us to do, etc... The kids are going to draw a picture on the grey hearts and then put them into this box. When we get back from Easter vacation, all of the grey hearts will be gone and there will be clean white hearts in the box to represent God's love and forgiveness.
A seminarian, who is in residence at our parish, came to talk to the kids about vestments. The kids had so much fun talking to him.
It has been a busy first week of Lent. We have more awesome activities to do in the next few weeks.
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