A real St. Brigid's cross

Look at the St. Brigid's cross made by a granny of one of the girls in our class.

Real crosses are made with rushes, and have many layers.

We really like this one.

Thanks Granny!

If you would like to learn to make one by yourself, follow the instructions on this page:

St. Brigid's Day crosses and pictures

Look at the lovely St. Brigid's crosses we learned to make in school today.

We heard the story of St. Brigid and we coloured her wonderful cloak or we used coloured papers to make a collage of her famous cloak.

St. Brigid's Day

Today is February 1st. It is the first day of Spring. It is St. Brigid's Day. We heard some stories about St. Brigid today - the story about how she got land to build her church, the story about giving away her milk and butter, the story about how a fire was lit for 700 years when she died and the story of how she wove a cross to help explain all about God to the dying chieftain. Teacher found some of these stories on http://www.holyspiritinteractive.net/kids/saints/0201.asp and http://www.fisheaters.com/customstimeafterepiphany2a.html .
Teacher showed us how to make St. Brigid's crosses with 4 strips of paper, then she and Maggie made St. Brigid's crosses out of rushes. Lastly we coloured a lovely picture of St. Brigid and her cloak, and then we used little pieces of felt to decorate the cloak, and to make it feel like a real cloak.