All saints day game ideas

Ideally you'll need a room big enough to hold a good amount of people and have room to do things like a procession, games and possibly a pot-luck. We rent the gym from a local parish school. All of the kids line up and process around the gym in their costumes while we all sing, you guessed it, "When the Saints Go Marching In". We go around the gym a couple of times so that parents get plenty of photo-ops.

After that, each family goes up on stage, or to the front of the room, and introduces themselves. Each child then announces which Saint they have dressed up as and, if they've prepared one, can give a one minute talk on their Saint. By the way, don't ever let the costumes stop you from going to an All Saints Day Party! I am not a creative costume person so I can tell you that the saints' costumes are some of the easiest to make. Grab some dress-up clothes and some white, black and brown material and you've got the makings of many costumes.

Next, we pray a family rosary. One year one of our member families made a HUGE rosary out of pieces of wood and big wooden spools. It is big enough that each person can sit and hold one bead in their lap while we pray. This is one of the best parts of the day. The grace that is felt at this time is wonderful! After the rosary is finished, we have a big pot-luck dinner.

I love pot-lucks. No matter how many people we have, they always seem to work out. Even when it looks like there won't be enough food, we somehow always get by. Every year each child decorates a paper bag with markers and stickers, puts their name on it and leaves it on a table for candy and treats to be put into it.

Each family is asked to bring enough candy, holy cards, stickers, nickels, etc. Instead of just putting the candy in the kids' bags, we had them do "souling".

This was a neat tradition that was popular in various European countries back before Reformation times. Each family put the names of deceased relatives and friends on slips of paper - one name per piece. Hold a costume contest where the guest of honor often the parish priest has to guess who each child is dressed as!

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