MCA Activities

Together, in trying to keep our missionary spirit during this Lenten Season, Missionary Childhood Association has compiled a list of activities you can do with your children. Designed by grade levels, we invite you to take a look at their material. If a (*) is next to a lesson, then it means the material is bilingual (Spanish and English).

Lenten Material

• Lent Calendar (Recommended for Students in Upper Grades)*
• Lent Calendar (Recommended for Students in Lower Grades)*
• The Way of the Cross (Activity to make into Booklet–English)
• El Viacrucis (Actividad para hacer un folleto–Spanish)
• Prayer Service (Recommended for All Grade Levels)*
• Student Activity (Recommended for All Grade Levels)*
  • Students can do a Lenten Prayer Chain, create the Three Pillars of Lent, or find a “Lenten Companion”.
• Stations of the Cross–Missionary Reflections (Recommended for All Grade Levels–English)
• Via Crucis–Reflexiones Misioneras (Recomendado para todos los niveles de grado–Spanish)
• Holy Week: Reflections of the Events of Holy Week (Recommended for Students in K-2nd Grade)*
  • Students are invited to reflect on the events of Holy Week and make a Wreath
• Holy Week: Reflections of the Events of Holy Week (Recommended for Students in 3rd-5th Grade)*
  • Students are invited to read, reflect on the events of Holy Week and make a Easter Garden of Butterflies
• Holy Week: Reflections of the Events of Holy Week (Recommended for Students in 6th-8th Grade)*
  • Students are invited to read and reflect in more detail the events of Holy Week and make a Paschal candle

Other Student Activities

• Answering the Call to Mission (Recommended for All Grade Levels)*
  • Inside you will find different activities for K-8th grade students. Including a Poem and monogram activity.
• Be the Light of Christ in the World! (Recommended for All Grade Levels)* 
  • Inside you will find the story of Blessed Stanley Rother, and activities on how to be a “light of christ”.
• Everyday Heroes: How Saints are our Heroes (Recommended for All Grade Levels)*
  • Inside you will find the story of St. José Luis Sánchez del Rio, and activities on finding a person they admire, writing a letter to St. José Luis, or collect shoes and socks to donate!
• Create a Celtic Cross (Recommended for All Grade Levels)*
  • Inside you will find different ways of creating Celtic crosses, and learn more about the meaning of the Cross.
• Giving Thanks for Our Call to Sainthood (Recommended for All Grade Levels)*
  • Inside you will find activities to make a placemat, to create a picture frame, or make silhouette of themselves.
• Be Thankful and Learn the Gifts of the Holy Spirit (Recommended for All Grade Levels)*
  • Inside you will find activities to make a Hawaiian Lei, a box or doves of with the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Founded in 1843, the Missionary Childhood Association (formerly Holy Childhood Association) is an international organization whose membership is made up of students in Catholic elementary schools and religious education programs. It is an organization dedicated to fostering children’s awareness of the missionary nature of the Church.

The Missionary Childhood Association (MCA) program in the Mission Office exists to be of service to schools and religious education programs in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.