Letter V crafts

We took a break from our alphabet book crafts over Thanksgiving and Christmas, and it's taken awhile to get back, but here are the pages we just added for Letter V to our alphabet book.  

These are my almost-4-year-old's pictures

1. Vegetables - Just cut out construction paper veggies and let the kiddos glue them on.  

"Look, Mom! It's Larry the Cucumber and Bob the Tomato!"

This is why the picture could not be completed without all the vegetables having faces...

 

Merida apparently wanted to watch us work on Letter V projects.  And really, it's quite fitting, since she's a Viking and all...

2. Volcano- I saw this project on Pinterest--too cute!  Make a big red V, glue it to a piece of paper, color in brown to make it into a mountain, and make some lava spewing out!

These are the 2 year old's pictures (her big sis added the faces for her)

3. Violets and Vase- Draw a vase.  Let the kiddos paint stems green and then stamp violets (we used both Q-tips and those round paintbrushes) in purple.  Add some yellow dots in the center of each violet and paint some blue water in the vase as well. 

These are my Kindergartener's projects

And we accidently timed our Letter V study around St. Valentine's Day, so we made a bunch of homemade valentines today and filled them with sweet messages and Bible verses to send to friends and family.  

V for St. Veronica

Little is known about St. Veronica, but she is said to be the woman who wiped the face of Jesus when he was carrying his cross to Calvary (and his image is said to have appeared on the cloth she used).  Her feast day is celebrated on July 12 and her act of love is remembered as one of the Stations of the Cross (click on the link to pray Mother Angelica's version).  

We aren't anywhere near Lent at the moment, but as we near the season of Advent, it's still a great time to reflect on this great act of charity and Christ's sacrifice for us.  As we prepare our hearts to receive him at Christmas, we can remember that he calls us daily to serve the needy, the sick, the lonely, the lost because when "we do it for these least brothers..we do it for" Him.