Resources for Pagan Families and Kids

Help with Homework:
Cosmeo – by Discovery Channel, lots of subjects, all grade levels, and can make a selection based on your state’s curriculum.
Discovery School - for strudents

Best Ever Harry Potter Birthday Party -  Everything you need to have your very own incredible Harry Potter theme celebrations, includes recipes, party planning, activites and games, etc.  (Lady Rose’s resources, party planning, recipes, and much more, for Angelgirl’s HUGE 11th birthday partry May 2007.)

BROOMSTIX – an awesome free pagan ezine for kids.

Catechism For a Witch’s Child (by J.L. Stanley)

Coloring Pages For Pagan Kids – (from a wide variety of sources) (List links to subpages – parent page “For Kids”)

• Beltane/May Day
• Candlemas/Imbolc
• Christmas/Winter Solstice/Yule
• Fall Equinox/Harvest/Thanksgiving
• The Gods and Goddesses
• Hallowmas/Samhain/Halloween
• Harry Potter (also includes links to free craft projects)
• Mandalas
• Spring Equinox/Ostara/Easter
• Valentine’s Day

Our Collection Pagan Parenting Sites Around the Web:

1. Pagan Parenting – dedicated to providing Pagan parents with educational, community-building, family-oriented, spiritual-related articles, activities and other parenting resources for modern Pagan families.
2. MamaWitch’s Pagan Parenting Pages – 10 years on the web
3. Crystal Forest Pagan Parenting – simple spells and rites tailored for children’s needs
4. Glass Temple Pagan Parenting – written by DragonFire and features some thoughts and ideas about raising Pagan children.
5. The Meagan Stories – one story for each of the major holidays as well as stories about other issues important to children

Resources for Books & More

Pagan Friendly Coloring Books (on Amazon) – recommended coloring books for kids of all ages, a great collection of mythology, ancient cultures, magical creatures and more to inspire and entertain the kid in everyone.
My Witch Shop Children and Crafts – featuring books, blessed teddy bear, ABC Book of Shadows, and more.

Other Arts & Crafts:

Nature Crafts – using flowers, sea shells, sand, leaf, pine cones.
Enchanted Learning – for younger children, projects based on a animal and nature themes.
Nature Crafts Everlasting – variety of projects such as a Native American talking stick, birdseed wreath, sand candles and magic stones.
Pagan & Wiccan Parenting Arts & Crafts - nice selection of ideas.
Pagan Homeschooling – book, 300 pages packed with tips, quizzes, crafts, and rituals for the home-schooled child as well as any child growing up in a pagan environment.
Yule Crafts - nice collection of ideas.
How-to’s for Paganism & Wiccans – ideas for every Sabbat (Beltane, Imbolc, Lammas, Litha, Mabon, Ostara, Samhain, Yule), Activities, Crafts, Decorations, Recipes, Rituals, Spells.

Recommended Books for Pagan Parenting:

Pagan Parenting by Kristin Madden

Celebrating Times of Change: A Wiccan Book of Shadows for Family and Coven Growth by Stanley J. A. Modrzyk

  A Witch’s Primer by Lorin Manderly – a children’s textbook for kids being raised as Witches and Pagans

  Celebrating the Great Mother: A Handbook of Earth-Honoring Activities for Parents and Children

  Pagan Homeschooling by Kristin Madden

  Circle Round: Raising Children in Goddess Traditions by Starhawk

  Raising Witches: Teaching the Wiccan Faith to Children by Ashleen O’Gaea

  Family Wicca: Practical Paganism for Parents And Children by Ashleen O’Gaea