Our Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day

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Today after our morning work we started some activities to celebrate the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. There are so many wonderful ideas out there in the blogsphere. But I know my limitations. I need something simple and fun.

And so ALL our projects for most of the feast days are the same. The girls color a sheet for the saint from one of our various coloring books (I own about 15 of them) and then they decorate their colored pictures with glitter glue. We usually follow our coloring project with a book and video along with a meal or snack that's appropriate.

So this is how we are celebrating today:

1. Color sheets from Fresh Flowers in Winter. Use glitter glue.
2. Listen to Songs of Mary while coloring.
3. Eat quesadillas for lunch (the easiest Mexican fare I could think of).
4. Watch CCC Juan Diego Video.
5. Read Tomie De Paola's Our Lady of Guadalupe book.
6. Eat chalupas for dinner and have buenelos for dessert with Mexican hot cocoa.
7. Attend evening mass.
8. Listen to the Glory Story on CD.
* 9. Make Juan Diego paper dolls. Instructions are here.
* 10. TRY to learn to draw Our Lady of Guadalupe. Instructions here. We weren't very successful. ;-)

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We LOVE glitter glue. It turns a regular colored sheet into a work of wonder.

Sophia likes to use a a brush and coordinate the glitter glue with the same colors on her sheet. She uses the brush to spread the glitter glue to give it a light overall glittery effect.

Anna likes to use her glitter to accent some aspects of her projects.

Isabelle tends to apply her glitter heavily. Her projects take the longest to dry.

And Kolbe, well, he just skips the coloring all together and gets to the good part ......
painting with glitter glue!!

I have several glitter glue kits, my favorite being the ones with 50+ colors in small tubes. The big tubes don't allow you to get those fine lines. And there aren't as many colors in those kits.

Juan Diego Paper Dolls

* The picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe actually belonged to my grandmother, Guadalupe!! She gave it to my mother who gave it to me. This picture has endured much traveling and storage (as seen by the creases). As a child I used to LOVE looking at it. No matter where we where, this picture made our new dwelling feel like home. I feel so lucky to have her in my own home. Also, as a child I never really knew much about the other titles/names/roles of Mary. I was only familiar with Our Lady of Guadalupe. As a result, my devotion to her is VERY GREAT!! My grandmother, little sister and cousin are all named after her. Craig's great grandmother has the same namesake.