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Danielle Bean

Danielle Bean
Danielle Bean, a mother of eight, is editor-in-chief of Catholic Digest and Faith & Family. She is author of My Cup of Tea, Mom to Mom, Day to Day, and most recently Small Steps for Catholic Moms. Though she once struggled to separate her life and her …
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Rachel Balducci

Rachel Balducci
Rachel Balducci is married to Paul and they are the parents of five lively boys and one precious baby girl. She is the author of How Do You Tuck In A Superhero?, and is a newspaper columnist for the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. For the past four years, she has …
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Lisa Hendey

Lisa Hendey
Lisa Hendey is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com and the author of A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms and The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Lisa is also enjoys speaking around the country, is employed as webmaster for her parish web sites and spends time on various …
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Arwen Mosher

Arwen Mosher
Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their 4-year-old daughter, 2-year-old son, and twin boys born May 2011. She has a bachelor's degree in theology. She dreads laundry, craves sleep, loves to read novels and do logic puzzles, and can't live without tea. Her personal blog site …
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Rebecca Teti

Rebecca Teti
Rebecca Teti is married to Dennis and has four children (3 boys, 1 girl) who -- like yours no doubt -- are pious and kind, gorgeous, and can spin flax into gold. A Washington, DC, native, she converted to Catholicism while an undergrad at the U. Dallas, where she double-majored in …
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Robyn Lee

Robyn Lee
Robyn Lee is a 30-something, single lady, living in Connecticut in a small bungalow-style kit house built by her great uncle in the 1950s. She also conveniently lives next door to her sister, brother-in-law and six kids ... and two doors down are her parents. She received her undergraduate degree from …
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DariaSockey

DariaSockey
Daria Sockey is a freelance writer and veteran of the large family/homeschooling scene. She recently returned home from a three-year experiment in full time outside employment. (Hallelujah!) Daria authored several of the original Faith&Life Catechetical Series student texts (Ignatius Press), and is currently a Senior Writer for Faith&Family magazine. A latecomer …
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Kate Lloyd

Kate Lloyd
Kate Lloyd is a rising senior, and a political science major at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire. While not in school, she lives in Whitehall PA, with her mom, dad, five sisters and little brother. She needs someone to write a piece about how it's possible to …
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Lynn Wehner

Lynn Wehner
As a wife and mother, writer and speaker, Lynn Wehner challenges others to see the blessings that flow when we struggle to say "Yes" to God’s call. Control freak extraordinaire, she is adept at informing God of her brilliant plans and then wondering why the heck they never turn out that …
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Posted by Terri on Thursday, Oct 27, 2011 4:55 PM (EDT):

My 7 y/o daughter is St. Kateri Tekakwitha—an old white pillowcase, holes cut out for head and arms, dyed brown, and fringe cut at shoulders and bottom hem. I added a $1 felt feather headband and her brown sandals. I have a cross, very similar to the one she is usually shown with, for my dd to carry.

My 3 y/o is an angel—another old white pillowcase, cut the same as above. Left over gold fringe, from another project, hot glued to the neck, and used as a belt. Store bought wings on sale (though I have made some by cutting them out of poster board and hot gluing feather boa to the edges) and a halo made of a headband and metalic gold pipe cleaners.  No sewing for either one, and about 1/2 hr of time total, for both.

If your daughter was a princess last year, and the costume still fits her, add a white handkerchief under the crown, carry a basket with bread and roses…voila, St. Elizabeth of Hungary.

 
Posted by RealMom4Life on Thursday, Oct 27, 2011 5:12 PM (EDT):

My sister always comes up with amazingly cute and simple ideas.  My favorite easy one:  Halloween costume (unless there’s a fireman St. I am unaware of).
Raincoat, rainboots, Plastic fireman hat, vacuum cleaner hose.  Voila!

Where we live gets pretty cold - so whatever we do it’s covered with coats and potentially snowpants anyway :(

 
Posted by Leslie on Thursday, Oct 27, 2011 8:21 PM (EDT):

That’s exactly what my ds wore last year! His little brother was a dalmatian. smile This year they are going as St. George and the dragon.

 
Posted by LMJ on Thursday, Oct 27, 2011 6:56 PM (EDT):

Thank you SO MUCH for this article!  We are leaving on a family retreat tomorrow (the first we will go on as a family) and we just received a call from Sister, saying that there would be an All Saints party on Saturday in which the kids are invited to dress up as a saint…yikes, is there a patron saint of dinosaurs?  Your idea for Stephen is great—we just finished the costume for our Stephen in light of your costume idea (i.e. food coloring spattered on my husband’s old undershirt, finished off with a leather belt, voila!).  Thank you for thinking of us who are flying by the seat of our pants this Holy-day season!

 
Posted by Jeni on Friday, Oct 28, 2011 9:39 AM (EDT):

Isn’t there a Saint who killed a dragon? Maybe St. George? Have a wonderful family retreat!! smile

 
Posted by K on Thursday, Oct 27, 2011 8:04 PM (EDT):

I just finished drawing a winged ox in sharpie on a bargain-fabric tunic with a rope belt. Add a stethescope and Bible and my St. Luke will be ready for Tuesday.

 
Posted by Gwen on Thursday, Oct 27, 2011 8:27 PM (EDT):

We have a child who will be a dog, St. Don Bosco’s guardian angel.  Look up the story, it’s a cool one!

 
Posted by Heidi in NJ on Friday, Oct 28, 2011 9:53 AM (EDT):

Wow!  Even though it would add more work to my fall season, I wish our parish would have an All Saints Day party.  It seems like a lot of fun.  Last year I got an American Girl colonial style dress at the Salvation Army for $5 after Halloween (apparently they used to make matching girl-sized dresses to the historic dolls, this is a Felicity dress), it would be a great St. Elizabeth Seton.  I try to get costumes at the after Halloween sales because I am not crafty and don’t know how to sew.  A school near us did a costume fundraiser one year - everyone brought in their old costumes and they sold them for a few bucks each.

 
Posted by Gretchen P on Friday, Oct 28, 2011 12:12 PM (EDT):

Great costume ideas here:  http://catholicicing.blogspot.com/2011/10/all-saints-day-costume-ideas-for-boys.html

 
Posted by Bethany on Friday, Oct 28, 2011 3:58 PM (EDT):

Thank you so much for this post! It is inspiring me to have a last-minute All-Saints party!


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