Special projects

This section contains special projects and activities that we have worked on over the years. They can be used as complementary resources to the rest of our material.

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Holy Icon crafts

A selection of crafts and resources for teaching young children about holy icons.

Christmas cards for Orthodox prisoners

Making Christmas cards in Sunday School class to send to Orthodox prisoners.

Online religious education resources

Ideas and resources for planning an online religious education session.

Craft: DIY Orthodox Christmas cards

Making beautiful Orthodox Christmas cards based on original Byzantine and post-Byzantine art.

Online Vacation Church School Ideas

Ideas and resources for organizing a virtual VCS program.

Holy Week: Creative Projects

Creative activities to help explore Holy Week themes.

Games for online instruction

Digital games to play when teaching an online religious education class.

Introducing… the HOLY WEEK CRAFT KIT!

Holy Week Craft Kit: A collection of already planned Orthodox-focused creative projects for exploring Holy Week with young children.

Holy Week Craft Group by OCN

Join Presv. Mallory Kasapakis and Alyssa Kyritsis in a LIVE online crafting group using our resources, every day from April 25 to May 1, 2021!

Orthodox Pebbles animations in Arabic

We were contacted by the “Come and See” group of the Greek Orthodox Archbishopric of the United Arab Emirates, as our friends there enjoyed our animation videos for teaching their classes, and they offered to translate them into Arabic. We very gratefully accepted their offer and we thank them wholeheartedly! We have created a YouTube… Continue reading Orthodox Pebbles animations in Arabic

Prayer buddy kits

A project to help children remember to say their prayers in the morning and evening.