All Saints' Day - The Matching Game

Got your Saints? Picked some games?  Maybe you already have some ideas!  Sometimes a game will automatically point you to a saint or two.  Fishing of some sort matches well with several apostles. Tossing something pairs well with Saint Nicholas. But what about some of these other games?  And all those saints!
I suggest you start with what each saint you picked is the patron saint of.  Or look at the story of their life.

St. Therese promised a shower of roses from Heaven so many times you will find a toss the roses sort of game associated with her.  One year we painted 'roses' on clothes pins and the kids took turns tossing them into a large plastic biscotti container - It's what I had! Even nicer was that the container had a lid so after the party we could store the clothes pins in the container until we wanted to use them again. And we did use them again.  To play that game and for other uses too.  It's nice when something has multi uses and lasts for years.  We still have a few of those clothes pins floating around.

I will list some game options here and their possible saints.  I won't go into detail at this time though.  In the coming days I will run through a bunch of them more in-depth, but for now, here's a starter list:

Ambrose - Bounce the Bees

Andrew - Fishing for Men

Augustine of Hippo - Hungry, Hungry Humans 

Barbara - Mountain tunnels

Cecilia - Musical Chairs/cake walk

Christopher - carry baby Jesus balance beams

Communion of Saints - Photo Booth, Ring Toss, Hula Hoop Toss, Candy Jar Guessing Game

Felix - Spider Toss

Francis of Assisi - Toss the …. Animal

George - Punch the Dragon, Sword Practice, Dragon Piñata

Gianna - Knock out Disease

Isidore and Maria - Pumpkin Roll, Pumpkin Patch Balloon Pop, Pumpkin Pass, Pumpkin Piñata

John the Baptist - Holy Water bottle games

John Paul II - Back to Base

Juan Diego - Flower Toss, Pin the Rose on the Tilma

Kateri Tekakwitha - Yarn Cross

Lawrence - Comedy Corner, Fire Pit

Lucy - Bounce the (eye) Balls, Hide and Seek, Scavenger Hunt

Mary - Pin the Halo, Pin the Flowers

Nicholas - Toss the Coins

Padre Pio - Bi-location Seek and Find

Patrick - Toss the Coins, Snake Fling

Pier Giorgio Frassati - Ski ball

Sebastian - Arrow Throw 

Stephen - Stone Throw

Pin the Halo on Saint Kateri, 2012 (they were so little!)