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4.0/ 5
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4.0/ 5
I bought these expecting them to be pretty generic Christian based links (which was fine w/me) but then when I found the Catholic related Lenten prayers/links, I was thrilled as we are deeply devoted to our Catholic tradition in our home.
Pros: easy for even young children to assemble
Cons: time consuming to sort out links/put them in order
Yes, I would recommend this product to a friend.
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from kaukauna, wi
Price
3.0/ 5
Quality
2.0/ 5
I purchased for our Lutheran church and didn't realize there were 4-5 chains that were very catholic in nature (ex: praying for pope, praying rosary, etc.) I sent them home with families without looking at them first, my mistake!! I would have pulled those chains and supplemented something else if i would have known ahead of time. so this is your warning!! :)
Pros: family friendly
Cons: need to tape each link in the chain
Yes, I would recommend this product to a friend.
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from Seattle, WA
Occasion:VBS or Sunday School
Interests:Sunday School/VBS Planning
Price
5.0/ 5
Quality
4.0/ 5
I teach CCD for our Catholic Church so these catholic-oriented strips were perfect. However, it took a lot of prep work to get it organized. I have 25 in my class so needless to say, it took hours to sort out and reorganize for each student. It would be nice if there was a rhyme or reason to the order of the strips. I finally put them out in piles by picture (praying hands, dove, etc) and by each individual strip within that group. I then rearranged into weeks and what made sense (ie: flowers seemed good for Saturdays, green fish seemed good for Fridays, crosses seemed good for Mondays, red hearts for Wednesdays, holy week was all the reds) I then numbered each day from 1 being Holy Saturday to 46 being Ash Wednesday (l feel that Easter should be at the top). Then I took one from each pile to make a set for each child, in order from 1-46. Whew! Try that 25 times :) I had ordered 2 packages of 24 and there were enough extras to make 25 complete sets plus even more extras. Paper was sturdy and glue worked. Yay!
Pros: Educational, quality, Child's Favorite
Cons: prep work
Yes, I would recommend this product to a friend.
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from Brownsburg, IN
Occasion:VBS or Sunday School
Interests:Sunday School/VBS Planning
Price
2.0/ 5
Quality
2.0/ 5
I spent about 3 hours preparing this craft for my ten students. The strips are not in any order coming out of the package. The pictures on the strips do not indicate a particular week of Lent. It took time to figure out a logical order for the strips, to make sure they were completely punched out, to make a master set in the order I wanted, and then to group the remaining nine sets. I was disappointed to find out that two of the twelve sets did not have an adequate number of strips. Each of those sets were shorted by three strips. Finding these errors took time as well. Because I am a teacher of Catholic religious education, I was happy with the content. I do agree with the other reviewers, tho, that the set should be started with Easter Sunday at the banner and Ash Wednesday at the free end. I will use tape with my students to secure the chains rather than the glue. In all, I hope it goes well, but I have spent a lot of time preparing this for them. It would have never gone well if I had just gone into my classroom and opened the packages!
Pros: Age appropriateness
Cons: Assembly, quality, pieces missing
No, I would not recommend this product to a friend.
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This is a good product, especially for Catholic Religious Ed teachers (includes recommendations to Pray the Rosary, Pray for the Bishop, Pray for our Pope). But is was a bit more complicated than I initially expected (based on the product description). I ended up putting the chains together for our students for the period Ash Wednesday until Palm Sunday. The students only did Holy Week -- all enjoyed it and families have commented on how it's been useful as a family learning experience as well. More work on the teacher's part - - but a good tool overall.
Pros: Educational
Cons: Assembly
Yes, I would recommend this product to a friend.
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from Westchester, NY
Bought for my class of prek / kindergarterners. Links were timely to sort out and ripped easily. Some links weren't premoistened and had to be taped. It was very inexpensive but I would rather of payed more and had a better product. Would like other Lent Crafts
Pros: important season
Cons: Assembly, quality
Yes, I would recommend this product to a friend.
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from Indiana
Occasion:VBS or Sunday School
Price
5.0/ 5
Quality
5.0/ 5
I bought these and had my Sunday School class make them and they worked really well. The sayings on each link were really good suggestions for the kids and made sense to them.
Pros: Educational, Assembly, quality, Age appropriateness
Yes, I would recommend this product to a friend.
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I purchased this for a Shrove Tuesday event hoping this would help our church school children learn about how they can spend the 40 days of Lent. I was disappointed to see that the paper links included such ideas such as "Pray the rosary" and "pray for your Pope and Bishops"Since we are a Protestant denomination this is inappropriate for our use. I wish I had read the reviews of others but I think OT should include a more accurate description about the product that would include the fact that this is a Catholic product. Aside from that, the links were not well organized and I can see how children will need a lot of help getting them apart and assembled correctly. OT did issue me a credit but I was left without an appropriate activity for our event :( For these 2 reasons I am giving the activity 1 star.
Cons: Assembly, only for catholic denominations
No, I would not recommend this product to a friend.
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