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It’s that time of year again! The liturgical calendar is chock full of Memorials and Feast Days for some of the world’s favorite Saints. And this year, there will be new Saints added on October 10, 2024, to the already 10,000 dearly departed we’re sure made it to heaven. Then, sometime in 2025, yet more…
Check out our All Saints Day Party plan done for you! Find games, crafts, and face painting to make your party a huge success. It includes free printables and step-by-step photos to make it easy. Click on each craft and activity headline for detailed information. What Is All Saints Day All Saints Day celebrates over…
In the grip of covid-19 shut downs and quarantine, my kids received three weeks worth of rays of hope in July from the beautiful nuns, novices, postulates, and volunteers of the Salesian Sisters. They host an annual summer camp at their locations across the U.S. This year, it just had to be over Zoom. Clearly,…
What better way to honor the very Apostle who was given the keys to the Kingdom and compared to a rock sturdy enough upon which to build the entire Church than in pumpkin form? If you happen to live near a creek, you might snag some large flat rocks to put your finished St. Peter…
All Saints Day Pumpkin Craft Last year, our third was attending PreK at a Catholic school. To my joyful surprise, she agreed to be a Saint in the Halloween parade for the PreK and Kinder students. The big sister influence rubbed off on my fourth, who was more than happy to wear a wreath of…
All Saints Day Crafts Sometime in October each year, our church, St. Luke, hosts a Christmas craft fair. There are some fantastic artisans and vendors, with everything from hand-made fabric books to fresh kettle corn (which I do not pass up!) to gorgeously framed icons. One year at the fair, a blended family with 8…
All Saints Day Crafts To come up with the idea for St. Helen as a pumpkin for our annual All Souls/All Saints Day Party, I just had to look around my neck. With the birth of each of our children came the gift of a Saint pendant from my husband that corresponded to the new…
The first year we hosted an All Souls/All Saints Day party for our moms group, I scoured the web looking for brilliant ideas. I of course found CatholicIcing.com and CatholicPlayground.com, as well as a few others. One of the ideas on Catholic Icing used glow stick halos and American Girl-size dolls dressed as Saints for…
I am not an artist, but boy do I like pretending I could be one! Thinking up ideas for our All Saints/All Souls Day Party the first year had me reminiscing about school carnivals and the Halloween party our church always threw for little kids. Two years in a row, I had helped at the…
Fill this year’s Halloween celebration for your kids with prayers for the dead on the Feast of All Souls Day. Kids go trick-or-treating to collect names of those who have passed away in addition to candy. Somehow, despite our moms group’s tiny size, we’ve managed a fantastic, fair-like All Souls and All Saints Day Party…