In preparation for this year's All Hallows' Eve Party, I have been working on a few new games. This year, instead of organizing and/or attending a homeschool party, we will be hosting one at our home and inviting some of our close friends and family. It is going to be so much fun!!
We've decided not to do any of the carnival style games this year, but rather some fun outdoor group games. I have also been working on a few indoor games, in case the weather isn't very cooperative, or for after it gets too dark to stay outside.
One of the games I created was this All Saints Bingo Game! I thought about ordering the Saint Search Game from Illuminated Ink, or downloading the 14 Saint Bingo cards from Catholic Mom, but I really wanted at least 30 variations of the cards so I decided to create my own set.
Of course I had to do so in the most difficult way (without the help of an online bingo generator) since I really had a specific idea in mind and wanted to include pictures of all the saints with a free space in the center.
Here is a sample of one of the cards that I came up with:
All of the 67 saint images that I choose to include are from the Picture Book of Saints by Father Lovasik and will be easily recognized by my children. I titled each card with "SAINT," listed each saint's name under their picture, and then put "Ora Pro Nobis!" (Pray for us!) in the free space. For markers I decided to use clear and gold glass gems.
I printed the cards on 8.5"x11" white card stock and, trimmed them (though that wasn't really necessary, and then started laminating them, along with all the small bingo call cards. Tomorrow I plan to laminate the rest, just as soon as I have some more laminating pouches... I ran out!
If you'd like, you can download my documents here:
(Includes 30 original cards)
Wow! Another great post...and another great printable...I look forward to printing them out when we return home from a Catholic Conference in Dallas. I hope you will add to my "cele-linky with the saints" and I will try to add it to my current All Saints Link list as soon as I can! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteJessica,
ReplyDeleteYou are a lifesaver!!! I was planning to do a Saints bingo game with my catechism class. I have the saints bingo game published by Illuminated Ink, but it doesn't have enough cards in it for my entire class. So I was thinking I would need to create some cards myself. Then I just saw your blog post and can't believe my luck! Thank you for providing this wonderful resource! I am so very, very grateful!
Cheryl Basile
http://www.diary-of-a-sower.blogspot.com
You are amazing! This will be a great addition to our First Friday Devotion/All Saints Day party. Thanks so much for being so generous!
ReplyDeleteThis is fabulous, Jessica! Thank you for sharing it with us, too. You are so generous.
ReplyDeleteGod bless!
have fun!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jessica for sharing your hard work!! I feel quite guilty just downloading the fruits of your labor.
ReplyDeleteWe are having a quiet All Saints celebration at home this year and these will be perfect!
God bless!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank yoiu. And God Bless you and Your family. I just printed and laminated these tonight. I will use pennies for "markers"
ReplyDeleteThanks! We played your saintly BINGO 3 times so far and my kids have had so much fun with it and Charlotte's scavenger hunt. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteHi Jessica. These are wonderful! I'm printing now to use tomorrow. Thanks so much for sharing!
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Lori
Thank you for sharing, Jessica! We're taking this to our homeschool group's All Saints Party today :)
ReplyDeleteGod Bless,
April
+JMJ+
ReplyDeleteDear Jessica,
Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful ideas and templates with others. We had a lovely All Saints party in our parish today. I introduced quite a few of your games suggestions from previous years, but the saints bingo was especially commented on.
May God bless all your hard work.
Marion (from the UK)
Jessica,
ReplyDeleteMy family and I have been blessed by your blog many, many times, but this just might take the cake. I can't tell you how excited and grateful I am to just be able to print these off. I wouldn't have changed a single thing if I had done them myself. We're celebrating our saints at our First Friday homeschool gathering this week, and this will be the perfect addition to what I already had planned. I'm going to laminate them as you suggested so we can use them for years to come.
Thank you, and God bless!
Melanie
Jessica, look, I did a portuguese version of your Bingo:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.blogpassos.com.br/2012/08/bingo-dos-santos-instrumento-catequetico.html
Here in Brazil we need ideas like yours! Thank you very much!
Lord bless you and your beautiful family.