8 WAYS TO CELEBRATE ALL SAINTS DAY

🎊💕8 ACTIVITIES FOR ALL SAINTS' DAY.

Here are some ways that you can celebrate All Saints Day at home or in church:

🗓1. Find a Saintly Calendar.
Look at a list of saints listed by month and date.

🌻2. Make a Visual Display of Saints.
Once you identify saints in any period of history (including our own) who have displayed their love for God, you can display that visually.  Some ideas:
Picture display.
Mobile.
Altar-hanging.
Parade of costumed persons showing how they help or serve.
Banners (hung or carried in procession).

🌷3. Honor the Elders in Your Community.
Many groups use All Saints' Day as an opportunity to remember and respect family members who are elderly or who have lived in other generations. This might be the occasion for telling about where our families have come from and lived, what their lives were like, and what values we honor that they have passed on to us.

⛩4. Study Your Name.
Our names are symbols of who we are, and our Christian names tell who we are in our new life in Christ. Whether or not we share the name of a well-known saint, a study of our names and their meanings can help us see ourselves as particular saints of God whose lives are offered in loving service.

💥5. Make a Display of Names.
A design of everyone's name in a congregation or family can make an interesting All Saints' Day bulletin board or Sunday bulletin cover, or other display. Photos can be made into a mobile or PowerPoint presentation to help convey our common Christian calling to be saints.

🎀6. Create Images or Drama From Scripture.
Biblical illustrations of
Jesus' calling of the disciples, or Jesus' invitation for people to follow him, are excellent discussion starters. Going a step further, we might create art or drama projects about these scenes, and how we too can be followers of Christ today. Think of people in your local community whom are examples of discipleship today, especially those who offer quiet and unnoticed acts.

🚶🚶‍♀7. Walk Among the Departed.
Visit a cemetery and read examples of how friends and loved ones have honored the dead on tombstones.

🏮8. Search Your Church for Stories of Saints.
Look at the memorials in your church and talk about the stories behind them. In many churches, you will find windows, books, liturgical items, and more, which were given in honor of past parishioners.