All Saints’ Day is one of our favorite days to celebrate when living the liturgical year at home. We love participating in church carnivals and celebrations outside of the house, as well as things like at-home All Saints’ Day tea parties and games. Another super fun way to celebrate is to make and hand out these All Saints’ Day goody bags!
I made these All Saints’ Day treat bag toppers in 2020 and included them in the Symbolic Saint Food Labels set. Over the years, I many people have asked if they could purchase the All Saints’ Day treat bag toppers separately. Up until now, they were only available in that set. And while they are still available as part of that set, I am making them available as a separate purchase now!
These can be used in the following ways:
- Leave on the doorstep of friends, family, or neighbors
- Give out to your RE class kids (mailed or in-person)
- Take to an All Saints’ Day party
The All Saints’ Day Goody Bags are an excellent way to:
- Spread the faith
- Evangelize to those who know nothing of All Saints’ Day
- Teach a few facts about the Saints to those you bless with some candy
- Have fun this All Saints’ Day spreading the joy of the Saints!
The Symbolic Saint Trail Mix “Recipe”
For the actual bags, I chose things that are easy to find to mix your own Saint trail mix. I am going to provide some healthier alternatives in this list, but just to go ahead and defend myself (lol), I meant for my bags to be heavy on candy. These are somewhat of a Halloween alternative for us, and given that candy is so ingrained in the celebration of that holiday, that’s what I included in ours.
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Mix together:
- Saintly Halos- Peach rings OR anything ring-shaped, such as Cheerios.
- Crawly Treats- We used gummy worms and frogs. You could alternatively use Annie’s organic bees bugs and butterflies fruit snacks.
- Fish- Swedish fish or goldfish crackers (these can be purchased in whole grain)
- Pumpkins- Ours has pumpkin-shaped candy corn, but you could include toasted pumpkin seeds for a healthier option.
- St. Francis’ Friends- Animal crackers, of course! There’s a whole grain organic version here.
- Firewood- just some simple pretzel sticks! We were out, so I used some little breadsticks in our bags, but pretzel sticks would have been much cuter.
To make a healthier trail mix, you can also adjust the candy ratio to include only a little bit of candy. Or your bags can have no candy at all.
I have printable labels for these bags, and explanations for all of the Saint symbols are included on the backs.
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All you do is cut out the labels (they print two per page and are full color), fold them in half on the line, and then staple them to the top of your filled sandwich baggie. It’s so easy!
The labels’ fronts feature colorful Saints holding signs for the symbol in the bag.
The bag toppers are in my Saint food labels download, and you can get your set here in the Catholic Icing shop!
If you would like to purchase only the All Saints’ Day Treat Bag topper printable (and not all of the other printables in the Saint Food Labels set), you can now do that here for just a few dollars:
You can find all my resources for celebrating All Saints’ Day with your kids here.
This post, All Saints’ Day Goody Bags (Printable All Saints’ Day Treat Toppers), was originally published on Catholic Icing on October 23, 2020. It was most recently updated plus a separate option for purchasing the toppers was added to the post on September 29, 2024.
I love the All Saints Day goodie bag! I like to give out some kind of goodie pack with a Christian message to “trick-or-treaters” and this is ideal – also for neighbours.
I used a similar pack you had for Easter and it was really popular talking pint in the street.