Saints for children?

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My granddaughter attends a Catholic school. We are not Catholics and, as such, I’m afraid our knowledge of the saints is quite lacking. The end of this month her school is having a saints parade. They are to dress up as their favorite saint. I need a recommendation on a book of children’s stories of the saints so we can read them together and she can choose her favorite. Or maybe someone can give me some ideas of some good saints to start her off learning about. Since she has to dress up, I’m guessing a female would be best. 🙂
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!!
 
I’m afraid I don’t have a recommendation, but I think it’s great that you are doing this. Hope you get some good responses!
 
belange said:
I’m not sure if this question belongs here. If not, please advise where I can post.

My granddaughter attends a Catholic school. We are not Catholics and, as such, I’m afraid our knowledge of the saints is quite lacking. The end of this month her school is having a saints parade. They are to dress up as their favorite saint. I need a recommendation on a book of children’s stories of the saints so we can read them together and she can choose her favorite. Or maybe someone can give me some ideas of some good saints to start her off learning about. Since she has to dress up, I’m guessing a female would be best. 🙂
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!!
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you might want to google saints, catholic, and her first name or middle name for biographies. americancatholic.com is one of many websites with good saint stories. her school library should have books on “saints for girls” she could check out.

Every year we get some little girls who still want to come dressed as a princess so we check out St. Elizabeth of Hungary, who was a queen, and let them tell her story. If anybody knows a pirate saint let me know, because some boys still want to wear that costume at our All Saints fiesta. any boy who comes as a power ranger or super hero is given St. Michael the Archangel as his saint and asked to tell his story. we work with what we get.

a girl dressed as an Indian maid, with the addition of a cross on a string, could be Kateri Tekakwitha, and so on.

easy costume is a caftan style, cut fabric in a tee shape with a slit for her head, black for a nun, add a white paper collar, black veil, a belt, and pin a rosary to the waist. Brown would be a Carmelite such as St. Therese, black any of a dozen saints who were nuns, with glasses she could be Sr Katherine Drexel. For a boy that same costume without a veil, and rope tie could be saint Francis or any monk saint.
 
I’m sure the last post directed you, but for the purpose of those I love, I speak, Valient saint Joan of Arc, virgin saint Maria Goretti, Ultimate saint Mary the Mother of Jesus, Mother Elizebeth Seton (first saint of the US) religious. The little Flower Threse Lisieux, first century saint Philemon women of grat courage! “Praise be Jesus”:signofcross:
 
St Joan is another easy costume as is any soldier saint like Martin. Grey turtleneck and tights or long johns, with black gym shorts, and cut a sleeveless coverlet to hang below the waist halfway to the knees, secured with a belt. Paint a red cross on the white coverlet, or use marker. dollar stores have plastic shields and swords, and you can also cut a paper cross to tape on the shield.

Mary is the same caftan (there is a pattern but it is easy to cut to fit the child w/o a pattern) in blue, with a white veil. to secure any veil, an elastic headband is helpful, one with sequins makes it a halo, or hot glue a line of gold sequin trim on it. Obviously an angel is a white caftan, with white posterboard wings, with glitter glue if you have time.

Joseph is a darker caftan, possibly a striped fabric, with a fabric band tied around the head, or a skull cap, and a crook==grandpa’s cane works well
 
St. Bernadette Soubirous - tanbooks.com/index.php/page/shop:flypage/product_id/232
http://home.earthlink.net/~cantanima/images/BernadetteBest.jpg

St. Gemma Galgani - tanbooks.com/index.php/page/shop:flypage/product_id/572
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St. Teresa the Little Flower - tanbooks.com/index.php/page/shop:flypage/product_id/828 (there is also an e-book of this on the same site)
http://www.jesus-passion.com/SaintTherese3.jpg
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-2/653261/Therese.jpg

those would be my top 3 picks,
but for some more really good stories of woman saints, here are some from a magazine i would highly recommend, i’ve been reading these for years and they really do very good work, and they are only $2 each :] - saintbenedict.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=FTH_WMN

ok, hope this helps, take care.
 
Thank you everyone for the replies! We decided on St. Joan of Arc. I found some things online about her and condensed it down to “St. Joan listened to God and had the courage to do what God was telling her to do. She led armies for her country of France and was very brave.”
My granddaughter will be dressed in grey tights and a grey tunic. We found a plastic shield, helmet and sword at the dollar. We are putting a red cross on the shield. Since we live in Florida, grey sweat pants and a grey sweat shirt are out. It’s just too hot! Her parade is Friday. They will walk around the block where their school is. What a great witness they will be!!
I enjoyed reading about all the saints from your suggestions. Thank you for helping!👍
 
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