Several years ago we put together a Holy Spirit faithfolder, which gave me another idea. We are dreadfully inept at taking things down once they are put up, so May came along and our Jesse tree was still up on the dining room wall. While I was pulling the symbols off the tree, it reminded me of the small tree on the back of the
faithfolder. So I printed out 12 clipart apples and 7 clipart gifts and gave them to the kids to color. Then we looked up the Holy Spirit in the CCC - articles 1831-1832 - and labeled the cutouts accordingly.
The 12 fruits of the Holy Spirit:
charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control, and chastity.
The 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit:
wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord which is sometimes referred to as awe.
We also found some great Holy Spirit prayers and quotes which the kids could use for copywork and mounted them onto red cardstock along with a picture of the descent of the Holy Spirit.
Some other things you may choose to do is to research the history of the celebration of Pentecost, both in the Jewish and Christian traditions. I love connections to our Jewish roots, esp. as I study Exodus in my bible study class ;-) You could also delve into the CCC or the YouCat and do some more reading on the Holy Spirit, or reflect together where in the life of Christ the Holy Spirit has made an appearance.
For our actual Pentecost celebration we usually make a Twelve Fruit salad, with the children choosing the fruits until we have 12 varieties. It's never the same, but always delicious and I get so much joy out of them selecting the fruits and maybe even mentioning a virtue or two ;-)
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