Chapter 1: Silly Things to Do Together

Be “Crazy”

Sing a Camp Song

• Camp Songs - http://www.ultimatecampresource.com/site/camp-activities/camp-songs.html

  
  

• Songs for Camp - http://www.angelfire.com/mi2/campsongs/

  
  

• YouTube videos of camp songs (to get the tunes and motions):

  
  

  • The Bear Song -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meL8HvpBl6Q

  • Father Abraham - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKbmqYqWKXY

  • Little Bunny Foo Foo -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4sjunHREzI

  • Old Lady Leary - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fDAXwmGaf4

Joke Time

• Kids Jokes - http://www.ahajokes.com/kids_jokes.html
  
• 101Kidz Clean Jokes - http://www.101kidz.com/jokes/
  
• Brownielocks’ Jokes - http://www.brownielocks.com/jokes.html
  
• Jokes By Kids - http://www.jokesbykids.com/ (also on Twitter - http://twitter.com/JokesByKids/)
  

Unbirthday Party

• info about saints  http://saints.sqpn.com
  

Opposite Season

Chapter 2: Story Starters

Create a Skit

• Scout Skits: http://www.scoutorama.com/skit/
  
• Camp Skits: http://www.ultimatecampresource.com/site/camp-activities/camp-skits.html
  

Silly Story

• Silly Stories: http://www.chevroncars.com/games/madlib2/html/
  

Spotlight Storytelling

Puppet Show

• Puppet Craft links: http://familycrafts.about.com/od/puppets/Puppet_Craft_Projects.htm
  
• Puppet Crafts for Kids: http://www.daniellesplace.com/html/puppets.html
  
• How to Make a Puppet video series: http://www.ehow.com/video_2389536_tools-supplies_-make-puppet.html
  
• Making Puppets: http://www.teacherhelp.org/puppets.htm
  
• Make a Muppet-Style Puppet: http://curbly.com/indymogul/posts/1699-how-to-make-a-muppet-style-puppet
  
• Creativity Institute Puppet Show scripts: http://www.creativityinstitute.com/puppettheaterscriptideas.aspx
  
• CatholicMom.com Index of Puppet Show scripts: http://www.catholicmom.com/puppet.htm
  

Pantomime

Chapter 3: Craft Projects

            http://www.ohdeedoh.com/    and http://catholicicing.blogspot.com/

Family Scrapbooking

The Great Canning Jar

• Canning Jar Candles instructions: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/133758/vintage_canning_jar_candles_you_can.html?cat=24
  
• Canning Jar lamp instructions: http://www.allfreecrafts.com/homemade-gifts/canning-jar-lamp.shtml
  
• Christ Candle: http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=274
  
• Snow globe: http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/how-to-make-a-snow-globe-1263.html
  

Placemats

• Mealtime Prayers: http://home.pcisys.net/~tbc/mealpryr.htm
  
• liturgical calendar info http://www.wf-f.org/LiturgicalCalendar-info.html
  

Nature Hunt Creation

Canticle of the Sun prayer

Homemade Greeting Cards

Holy Cards

• Archangel Books: http://www.archangelbooks.com/pages-shop/Catholicmerchandise-66/holy-cards.html
  
• JMJ Products LLC: http://www.totallycatholic.com/category.php?id=55
  
• CathlicPrayerCards.org: http://www.catholicprayercards.org/freeprayercards.html
  
• Bridge Building Images: http://www.bridgebuilding.com/catalog/holycard.html

Chapter 4: Meals to Share

Restaurant

Dinner with a Twist

Picnic

Mystery Food Night

Sabbath Meal

• Judaism 101: Shabbat: http://www.jewfaq.org/shabbat.htm
• Shabbat Meals: http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/707109/jewish/Shabbat-Meals.htm
• Jewish Festivals – the Sabbath: http://www.logosbiblestudy.org/press_room/jewish-festivals%E2%80%94-sabbath-9172010-1043am
• Christian Passover Seder Meal for Holy Thursday: http://www.wf-f.org/Seder.html
• The Seder Meal as a Christian Home Celebration: Preparing and Celebrating the Holy Thursday Meal: http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=544
• Family Seder Meal: http://www.littlethingscount.com/lentseder.htm
• Holy Thursday Meal Menu: http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/recipes/view.cfm?id=349
• The Passover Meal: http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=1253

Chapter 5: Outdoor Adventures

Treasure Hunts

• Resurrection Eggs - http://www.rainbowcastle.org/resurrectioneggs.html

Scavenger Hunt

• Jesse Tree symbols - http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=542
• Jesse Tree symbols - http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Christianity/2000/12/The-Jesse-Tree.aspx

Backyard Circus

• Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey – www.ringling.com
• Make your own face paint - http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Face-Paint
• circus priest  http://www.circusrev.com/PR-Department.html.

Water Fights and Fun

Obstacle Course

Chapter 6: Places to Go

The Zoo

• Saints with affiliations for animals: http://www.all-creatures.org/ca/ark-196-saints.html
  

The Library

Horseback Riding

Hiking

Traveling Dinner

Chapter 7: Saints to Celebrate

A Mary Garden

• History and ideas: http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/resources/m_garden/marygardensmain.html
  
• Introduction for new gardeners: http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/resources/m_garden/marygardensmain.html
  

Saint Lucy: Eyes and Fires

• Edible Googly Eyes: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/edibleeyes
  
• Eyeball Cookies: http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Eyeball-Cookies
  
• Background on Saint Lucy:
  

http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2007-12-13

http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-lucy-of-syracuse/

http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=5284

http://www.stlucychurch.org/index.php/Saint_Lucy

http://www.eldrbarry.net/mous/saint/luciaday.htm

• Saint Lucia’s Braided Bread: http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/saint-lucias-braided-bread-682493/
  
• Lussekatter (Swedish sweet buns): http://www.inmamaskitchen.com/RECIPES/RECIPES/Breads/lussekatter.html
  

Holy Card Heaven

Holy Cards

• Archangel Books: http://www.archangelbooks.com/pages-shop/Catholicmerchandise-66/holy-cards.html
  
• JMJ Products LLC: http://www.totallycatholic.com/category.php?id=55
  
• CathlicPrayerCards.org: http://www.catholicprayercards.org/freeprayercards.html
  
• Bridge Building Images: http://www.bridgebuilding.com/catalog/holycard.html
  

Saints Calendar and Saints Celebration

Saint Poster

Chapter 8: Ways to Serve

Pregnancy Center

Novenas for Life:

• USCCB Novenas for Life: http://www.nccbuscc.org/prolife/liturgy/novenas.shtml
  
• Nine Days of Prayer for Life to Our Lady of Sorrows: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/novena/sorrow.htm
  

Food Pantry

Missionaries of Charity http://www.motherteresa.org/ 

Sant’Egidio Society http://www.santegidio.org/

Soup Kitchen

Nursing Homes or Lonely Neighbors

New Baby or Surgery Supper

Chapter 9: Ways to Pray

The Hands-On Decade

Eucharistic Adoration

• www.childrenofhope.org
  
• Directory of Churches and Chapels with Eucharistic Adoration: http://www.therealpresence.org/chap_fr.htm
  

Stations of the Cross

• Michelle Reitemeyer’s Stations of the Cross for Children - http://mreitemeyer.blogspot.com/2010/02/stations-of-cross-for-children.html
  
• Stations of the Cross Especially for Children - http://www.cptryon.org/prayer/child/stations/index.html
  

Ora et Labora

• http://www.kofc.org/un/en/resources/cis/cis327.pdf  St. Benedict for Busy Parents
  
• Text of the Rule of St. Benedict - http://www.ccel.org/ccel/gregory/life_rule.iv.i.html
  
• Chaplet of Divine Mercy in Song - http://www.divshare.com/download/4070241-a31
  

Tea with God

• Manners - Emily Post - http://www.emilypost.com/
  
• Miss Manners - http://www.missmanners.com/
  

FUN EXTRAS:

Singing Grace:

• Graces for Scouts and Others - http://www.angelfire.com/oh/claremansfield/Graces.html
  
• Johnny Appleseed (complete text and link to the tune) - http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/miscellaneous/johnny_appleseed_grace.htm