Author: Natalie T

Dear friends,

Please enjoy our new Pascha animation and accept our warmest wishes for a blessed and joyous Pascha!

With love in Christ,
The Orthodox Pebbles team

This is a product series from our collaboration with St. Tabitha’s Workshop.

Dear friends, 

We have been working for a while now, to create a variety of educational fabric Pascha toys. They are made out of soft fleece and can be used in a number of ways. We are really excited to offer this new product series, which we hope will make the core concepts and traditions of Pascha more accessible to young children.

Please click on the links below to learn more about each product.

1. PASCHA PLAY SET

An act-out set to help teach core Pascha traditions, concepts and facts.

2. MINI PASCHA PLAY SET:
DECORATE THE SEPULCHER

A mini-set, perfect as a Pascha basket stuffer.

3. MINI PASCHA PLAY SET:
PASCHA SCENES

A mini-set, perfect as a Pascha basket stuffer.

4. ADDITIONAL ITEM:
BACKDROP SCENE SET

Background fabric that can very easily be turned into a felt board, offering a variety of backdrop scenes for our play sets.

With love in Christ,
The Orthodox Pebbles team

Dear friends,

Visit our full page of teaching resources for the Veneration of the Holy Cross, complete this year with new lesson material and a variety of creative and enriching activities on the Cross of our Lord. It includes material inspired by the Ancient Faith book and podcast “Tending the Garden of our Hearts” by Kristina Garrett Wenger and Elissa D. Bjeletich. Thank you Elissa and Kristina for the collaboration!

NEW VIDEO on HOLY ICONS!

Dear friends, please enjoy our new animation video to help teach the little ones about Orthodox icons tomorrow. Also included on our new page ALL ABOUT ICONS are printable activities and many icon craft ideas.

Warmest wishes for a blessed Sunday of Orthodoxy!

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Dear friends,

On our Great Lent web page you will find all you need to teach young Orthodox children about Great Lent. New material added this year (B/W coloring pages and Lady Lent printable poster).

Don’t miss our Lady Lent calendar, either as a printable poster or as a fabric wall hanging.

If you have been enjoying our work, please consider supporting our project.

Have a blessed Great Lent!

Dear friends,

We are so grateful for the warm welcome our Lady Lent Wall Hanging Banner had these past few days! St. Tabitha’s Workshop Etsy store has sold out of finished banners right now – but you can still buy a piece of our fabric to make the banner yourself; a very quick and easy DIY project that requires little to no sewing. The fabric can be found at “St. Tabitha’s Workshop” Spoonflower shop.

DIY TUTORIAL

There are many ways to make the banner, either sewing it or not.

Here we will demonstrate a very quick and easy way that requires no sewing. After you cut out all the pieces, you can use fabric glue to attach the pocket on Lady’s skirt and self-adhesive Velcro dots (hook and loop) to attach the legs. We have used a clothes’ hanger for hanging, but you could alternatively use a hanging rod or staple ribbon loops on top.

STEP 1

Order fabric.

For one banner, you will need to order a “fat quarter” of fabric. For multiple banners, change the amount to yard and indicate how many yards you wish to order – the display will change to show what will be printed.

We recommend using fleece fabric, as it is sturdy, doesn’t fray, and is soft and cuddly for the little ones.

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STEP 2

Cut out all the banner pieces.

STEP 3

Spread glue all around the back side of the pocket, but not across the top. Position pocket on Lady’s skirt and press down to glue.

STEP 4

Stick Velcro dots on the top part of the legs (front side) and on the bottom part of Lady’s skirt (back side).

STEP 5

Spread glue on the top edge of the banner. Fold top part of banner over hanger and press down to glue.

READY!

Please note: We do not receive any financial compensation for the external links that we mention in our posts. We are only including them to share our experience and to make it easier for the reader, if interested, to find the products we used.

We are so excited to have created our first physical – not digital – product, in collaboration with the online store St. Tabitha’s Workshop, a wonderful source for handmade, Orthodox-themed, fabric items.

It is a Lady Lent hanging banner, made out of fleece fabric, based on the Greek Lenten tradition of Kira-Sarakosti. It works like an Advent calendar, to count down the weeks from Clean Monday to Pascha.

Lady Lent’s feet are removable. Each Sunday of Great Lent one leg is removed and placed inside Lady’s pocket. When all the legs are gone, it is Pascha!

You can order a finished banner at St. Tabitha’s Workshop Etsy store or, if you like to sew, you will very soon be able to order the fabric with our design from St. Tabitha’s Spoonflower account, to cut and make your own banner.

Special thanks to Christina Romas – Connant, for giving us permission to use her poem “Easter is a special time” on the wall hanging. It is included in the children’s book Since God Loves you and You Know It… Sing Out Loud!, a wonderful teaching resource for young children. 

Dear friends,

If you will be teaching young children about the Parable of the Prodigal Son this weekend, don’t miss our creative teaching material – includes a short video animation based on the Orthodox icon to make storytelling easier.

Additionally… a sneak peek!

We are super excited, as we are getting ready to launch our first physical – not digital – product. Details to follow soon; please stay tuned!

We wish you all a blessed and fruitful Triodion period,
The Orthodox Pebbles team

Will you be teaching the feast of the HOLY THREE HIERARCHS this week? Don’t miss our collection of fun activities for young children – with a special emphasis on words of wisdom from these great Fathers of our Church!