St. Gerard Majella - Pro-Life Craft {Liturgical Ornament}

St. Gerard Majella, the patron saint of mothers, is one of my favorite saints. It’s very fitting that his feat day is in the month of October – pro-life month – since he is such a pro-life saint. His feast day is historically on Oct. 16th. Read more about him at the bottom of THIS page. 

This ornament depicts a pair of baby feet inside a blue heart, which is inside a pink heart. This is my symbolic way of showing pregnancy. The hearts are attached to a cross to show that life is meant to be sacrificial. 

To create this ornament you will need:

• light blue felt

• pink felt

• medium brown felt

• peach or tan felt

• brown sharpie permanent marker

• scissors (these kind work well)

• glue (hot glue, felt glue,  or tacky glue – like this or this)

• needle and thread to create the looped hanger

Draw the feet onto the peach felt using a brown sharpie marker. Use a set of side-by-side dots to \”draw\” the feet. This gives the lines a cleaner look. First make a bean-shape which as a flatter end at the top. Then add a few circles to make the toes. Ours only has 4 toes. It can be difficult to make the smaller toes with the marker – so we just made 4 on each foot. Now cut out the two feet.

Cut out the pieces like those pictured above.

Place the shorter brown strip over the longer strip to make a cross. Glue them together in the center.

Glue on the larger, pink, heart – like shown.

Then glue on the blue heart. 

Add the feet to the blue cross, and then add a threaded-loop to the top of the cross to hang it up.

St. Gerard, pray for us!

~JenMarie and Elizabeth