The Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary

Last year around this time, the kiddos and I made candy corn/pumpkin rosaries. It was so much fun, that I made a mental note to do it every year. So, this year, I thought it would be perfect to make them today, October 7th, as it is the feast day for Our Lady of the Rosary.

We were all excited as we gathered all of the supplies - the candy corn. candy pumpkins. construction paper and poster board. hot glue and white glue. There was 1 big decision that needed to be made - do we make one big one (poster board and hot glue) or individual ones (construction paper and white glue). We took a vote and the poster board won - I think mostly because there would be more candy left over if we only made 1!
 
In making the Rosaries, we not only spoke about our faith and what the Rosary means to us, its history, etc, but we were also able to turn this into a math lesson as the kiddos counted out the candy corn and pumpkins. We also incorporated a bit of science as they ate the candy corn and tried to figure out what was in them - honey!

 

After we organized all of the candy corn into piles for the Hail Mary's and the candy pumpkins into piles for the Our Father and other prayers, we were ready to assemble the Rosary! The kiddos and I decided upon a shape and went to work. After we hot glues everything into place, Robert and Hannah decided to draw pictures of them and Holy Mary. Then, Robert wrote out Ave Maria for the center of the Rosary and it was complete. . .

 We are all quite proud of how it turned out and after nap, we will all say the entire Rosary using this as our guide.