I started my annual All Saints’ Day costume share over on facebook– you can share your pictures in the comments to enter, and “like” all of your favorites. The photo with the most likes will receive some children’s Saint books for a fun prize. 🙂 We’ve got some really cute costumes over there- check them out and vote! (PS. There are no rules so you can “like” as many as you want)
I thought it would also be fun to go through our past All Saints’ day costumes with the kids, so here goes!
2015
Lydia as Our Lady of Fatima
Julian as St. George
Violet as St. Mary Magdalene
Anabelle as Little Nellie of Holy God
2014
Lydia as St. Cecilia
Julian as St. Juan Diego
Violet as Our Lady of Guadalupe
Anabelle as an Angel
2013
Lydia as Blessed Imelda
(Lydia is wearing my First Communion dress for this one) <3
Violet as an angel
(and Violet is wearing the flower girl dress from my wedding in this one!) <3 <3
Anabelle as an angel
My 3 little heavenly girls! <3 <3 <3
…and… Julian as… Spider Man. *sigh*
I still hear about this one from the kids. “Remember that year Mommy let Julian be Spider Man?”
2012
Lydia as St. Kateri
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Julian as St. George
Violet as an angel
Anabelle as the “Little Flower” (St. Therese)
2011
Lydia as St. Cecilia
Julian as Juan Diego and Violet as Our Lady of Guadalupe
And Anabelle makes an appearance! 😉
2010
Lydia as St. Elizabeth
Julian as St. Florian
Violet as Mother Teresa!
2009
Lydia as St. Elizabeth
Julian as St. Padre Pio
2008
Lydia as St. Cecilia
Julian as St. Michael
I have to add here that this 2008 All Saints’ Day party I threw was the birth of Catholic Icing. It was the first time I was like “Hey, why not celebrate something Catholic rather than throwing a Halloween party?” and when I went looking for All Saints’ day games online, the best idea I found was “Baptize Barbie,” and I didn’t even allow Barbies. Soooo… I started a website with Catholic ideas. Of course, the internet has come a loooong way since then, and there are now tons of great ideas available. 🙂
What I learned while going through All Saints’ Day pictures:
- For some unknown reason, a lot of these pictures never made it onto Catholic Icing before… weird!
- Julian really likes to wear costumes that involve armor
- I really over-use white dresses for costumes (angel, angel, first communion girl, angel, St. Cecilia…)
- I really re-use a lot of costume pieces again and again
- It seems that whatever Saint I dress my kids up as for the first All Saints’ Day, that kid takes up a special devotion to that Saint. Interesting. We’ll see if Anabelle turns out to love St. Therese…
- When you dress up a kid as an angel for All Saints’ day, you should probably pick a specific one (Such as St. Gabriel, St. Raphael, etc.)
Prizes
So the 3 photos that get the most votes will each receive this pack of Saint books for kids. Also, let’s have the voting go through Wednesday, shall we?
Ok, now it’s your turn! Share your pictures here and start voting! 🙂
If you are looking for ideas for All Saints’ Day costume ideas for kids, be sure to check out my Saint Costume Directory!
Adorable!
And Totally OT:
When did you have seven kids?! The last count I had was four (? I think…) I’m assuming you didn’t borrow someone else’s children? 😉
Haha! The extras are my nieces and nephews. 😛
What precious little peaches! Thank you so much for sharing.
Thanks for this fun post, I loved seeing all the pictures of your sweet kids over the years, and thank you for Catholic Icing. It is a great site and I use it alot in my role as a children’s catechist. Have a great day.
Spiderman?! Here is a story that elevated the spider by associating it with a saint!
St. Felix and the Spider, by Dessi Jackson.
http://www.amazon.com/Saint-Felix-Spider-Dessi-Jackson/dp/0615914136