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Easy Ways to Teach Your Children About Catholic Saints: How to Celebrate the Liturgical Year

October 22, 2018 By Dianna Kennedy · PRINTABLES TIP: Always go toward the end of a post to find the printable. · Disclosure: This Post May Contain Affiliate Links. {I may be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on my links.}

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Easy Ways to Teach Your Children About Catholic Saints is a post from contributing writer Dianna of The Kennedy Adventures:

As a Catholic homeschooling mom, teaching my children about our faith is at the top of our list. One of our major points of focus is teaching our children about the Church Triumphant – the holy men and women who have gone one before us to become saints.

Want to teach your children about Catholic saints? These ideas are perfect for families and teachers to add the saints into your daily life and learning.

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Teaching your children about Catholic saints doesn’t have to be hard, scary, or complicated. Take a look at some of the ideas we put into use in our home and choose one that works for you.

Easy Ways to Teach Your Children About Catholic Saints

Studying Catholic Saints in Your Home

Catholic Picture Books

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One of the easiest ways to teach your children about the saints of our Catholic Church is through stories. There are so many children’s picture books about the Saints available!

The Ultimate List of Catholic picture books

We have quite a collection in our library, and I’m always looking to add more.

Start with a few of the saints you hold most dear, or a saint you want to study. Grab a collection of saints stories and add it to your morning time routine.

saints for young readers for everyday (january - june) - book
We use this book and read the saint of the day after we say our morning prayers.

Loyola Kids Book of Saints

The Catholic saints and Catholic heroes books by Amy Welborn are other great sources for saints stories.

Word Search Printables for Catholic Kids {Free!} | RealLifeAtHome.com

Catholic Printables

You can start here with these Catholic printables – word searches, saints studies, and more.

Catholic Saints and Heroes Printables Packets

These Catholic family calendars are perfect for planning ahead to celebrate the saints in your home. You’ll find plenty of ideas for crafts, recipes, prayers, books, and more.

Catholic family calendars

Here are also free monthly pages of 10 Activities for Catholic Families in Each Month:

12 Activities for Catholic Families in February Free Printable: This includes 12 faith formation activities to do with your children that are centered around February feast days #CatholicPrintables #CatholicKids #ReligiousEducation

  • January
  • February
  • March
  • 40 Things to Do During Lent (also available as a paper chain activity with 50 ideas)
  • Lent and Holy Week
  • Holy Week
  • April
  • May
  • June
  • July
  • August
  • September
  • October
  • November
  • December
  • Advent (26 ideas for Advent!)

If you want to teach your children about Catholic saints that have feast days in one particular month, you might love including these monthly saint coloring books:

Looking for a saint activity to do with children? This bundle includes saints coloring books for the whole year and is perfect for Catholic kids! | Real Life at Home

Want to focus on a particular saint all month long? Don’t miss these Saint Fun Fact Cards or individual saints printable packets.

saint fun fact cards

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Teach Your Children about Catholic Saints Using Recipes for Catholic Feast Days

king cake cupcakes

Feast days are more fun when you make a special meal. Over at Catholic Cuisine, you can find hundreds of ideas for foods to prepare for your favorite saint or liturgical season.

We’ve done Taco Rings and Mexican Wedding Cakes for Our Lady of Guadalupe, as well as King Cakes (in cupcake form) for Epiphany and Shrove Tuesday.

Need a Mardi Gras King Cake but short on time? This recipe, perfect for Fat Tuesday, is a super easy King Cake recipe to make in around 20 minutes. | Real Life at Home

We always make Shepherd’s Pie to celebrate Irish saints’ feast days, like St Patrick, St Brigid, St Brendan, and more.

Strength in numbers

When you’re looking at living the year liturgically and celebrating feast days, it can be a little daunting. Most of your friends may say, “What? You’re planning a special day for St Blaise? Blessing of the Throats?”

For me, it’s a little easier if I convince one of my Catholic friends to join in the fun and planning with me. It’s an excuse to see our friends and it takes some of the burden off of me. Like taking my children to Adoration, it’s easier when someone else is coming along.

Using Pinterest to Organize Your Liturgical Year

Catholic Crafts and Activities for Teaching Your Children about Catholic Saints

Pinterest is my go-to resource for planning Catholic liturgical celebrations. It’s always the first place I look for crafts, activities, recipes, books, and more.

Looking for a starting point? Don’t miss this list of must follow Catholic Pinterest boards.

celebrating Catholic saints

Check Your Parish

We’ve gone to St Nicholas Day parties in the past, and attended a potluck to celebrate St Francis Xavier at our local parish. Many times, the activities committee will have a special celebration for the parish’s patron saint. Don’t see anything like that in your bulletin? Call the office and chat about getting something started.

How do you study saints in your home?

{Read Other Posts by Dianna at Real Life at Home}

Other Catholics Activities and Printables You Might Enjoy:

All Saints' Day Printables Packet featuring puzzles, coloring pages, a mini book, and more all about saints | Real Life at Home

tips for saying the Rosary with your children

Mary coloring pages set that's perfect for any time of year, but especially great as a May crowning activity! Grab these May crowning printables as a free download from Real Life at Home

Printable Stations of the Cross for Children including Three Different Formats with Prayers and Reflections for Kids (Free and Paid Options Available) #CatholicPrintables #Lent #LentPrintables #StationsOfTheCross | Real Life at Home


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Easy Ways to Teach Your Children About Catholic Saints was originally published on March 7, 2016. It was last updated in October 2018.

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About Dianna Kennedy

Dianna Kennedy is the mother of six, writing at The Kennedy Adventures. She's a relaxed classical homeschooler, and loves to share practical tips for today's Catholic parent.
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  1. Tracy Bua Smith says

    March 7, 2016 at 7:24 am

    Hi Dianna! I love the Saints and love learning more about them with my children! Great list here! We use Saints for Young Readers for Every Day book too during our “Couch Catechism” time. :). It’s my favorite Saint book for children (and me!) Another Saint resource that I helped with is the site SaintNook, where the Saints are always online! 🙂 May the Saints be praised!

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  2. Lis says

    March 17, 2016 at 11:05 pm

    I think a lot of moms get overwhelmed with trying to keep up with all the feast days, but I love that idea of studying one saint every month! 🙂

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    • Angie Kauffman says

      March 21, 2016 at 1:05 am

      I think that all of the awesome ideas online make it too easy to get overwhelmed. It’s so hard to know what to do and what to just put on the back burner for another time. Thanks for stopping by! 🙂

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  3. Frankie says

    March 21, 2016 at 3:04 pm

    I home schooled my three children until Jr. High. I did an look job, but I know and learned things that I would do different…….I would love to homeschooling my grandchildren. I have six!! Be blessed and love this pin.

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