A reprint from last year.

We don’t celebrate Halloween much around here, although we do hand out candy.  We usually celebrate All Saint’s Day on Nov. 1 instead.

Usually, the children will choose a saint and dress in costume.  The parties we’ve attended have a contest where the child gives a brief biography of the saint and the other kids try to guess who it is.  There are often carnival-style games, too, such as “Fishing with St. Peter” (children put fishing lines over a barrier, and “St. Peter” attaches a piece of candy or goody to it.  Sometimes the games veer into the tacky (Archery with St. Sebastian, anyone?) but it’s usually fun.    Quite often the parties will kick off with prayers, such as the litany of the saints.

Last year I had the kids make saint lapbooks for school.  They chose a saint, then put the saint’s symbol, relevant details, etc. inside, with a coloring picture of the saint in the middle.

This year I don’t think we’re not celebrating with a party, since Nov. 1 is on a Sunday.  My homeschool group does have a party planned but it takes place right when our church has Mass so we’ll be at Mass, instead.

Here’s a roundup of All Saint’s activities that can be done at home!

• Look up your birthday saint or name saint, and read their story.
• Print out some of Charlotte’s lovely saint coloring pages.
• Saint O’Lanterns
• Liturgical Living for Catholic Families has more saint ideas.
• Saint costume ideas (men’s t-shirts are you tunic stand in friends!
• Catholic Cuisine hosted an All Saint’s Day blog carnival, chock full of ideas!
• Check out these awesome All Saint’s Day cookies!

If you’ve posted about All Saint’s Day (in the past or this year) please leave me your link and I’ll put it in the post!

I’ll leave you with this Gregorian chant of the Litany of the Saints:

Reposted from 2009 and 2010.