Saint George  is often pictured slaying a dragon. Read more about St. George  here . My oldest son is St. George and daughter #4 is the dragon. Okay, I had a very hard time getting a serous picture of these two, they wouldn’t quit fighting!! 😉 But I thought you might like to see these crazy kids! The dragon costume was bought a second-hand store many years ago, but my son carried his stuffed dragon to the All Saint’s Day Party About the St. George costumes: The silver/gray armor was bought, but the cloak is just a piece of red material. The “skirt” was hand made. I used a old belt, and leather-like material which was cut into strips to create this Roman apparel. Super-glue worked great for getting the two leather-like materials to stick together. The white under skirt was just a piece of white material. I also create gold circles on the skirt strips. I used a cap to make an indentation on the end of each flap, so I could use it as a guide to make them all the same size. Then I used gold fabric paint to make the gold buttons.

St. Patrick, patron of Ireland. Read more  here .  St. Patrick could wear a brown robe, but I kind of liked green. It matched his mitre. I made the mitre by cutting two green felt sheets into a mitre shape and sewing just the bottom sides together. I added white and gold trimmed ribbon to the bottom and the two “tails” on the back.It also has a three leaf clover and a white felt cross on the front. I also hot glued a strip of heavy cardboard to the inside of each felt piece to keep it up-right. The staff, robe, and beard were purchased.

St Lucy (Patron for eye sight)St. Lucy is wearing a white dress, with a red sash. On her head is a evergreen wreath with red roses and candles. A red ribbon was used to tie the wreath to her head and under her chin.(In honor of St Lucy’s day) Read more about this saint  here . You can also make a paper crown Click here

St. Tarcisius was a young boy who died to protect Jesus in the Eucharist. Read more  here. Our  St. Tarcisius is holding a wrapped-up loaf of fake bread and a palm. I bought both the bread and the palm from our local Dollar Tree. I purchased the brown robe.

Our Lady of Lourdes appeared to Bernadette in Lourdes, France. Read more  here. Our lovely little Lourdes lady is dressed in a white gown with a blue ribbon around her waste. Her veil is just a piece of white material. I sewed on a gold ribbon to the edge. I also sewed on a gold rose to each front/bottom corner. The roses were actually at Our Lady’s feet, but I didn’t think my daughter would like those on her shoes! 😉 My hubby spray painted a few yellow roses with gold paint to give them their golden color. I bought the white gown. Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us!~Jen-Marie

St. Stephen was a deacon and was the very first Christian martyr. Read more  here . Our St. Stephen is wearing a brown robe, and white vestments with a brown cross. The white part was made from white felt which was folded in half . I cut a hole for the head in the middle. He also is holding a rock that is drizzled with red paint (for blood). I bought the brown robe.

My oldest daughter (who is age 14 and has out-grown me!) wanted to be Kateri Tekakwitha for All Saints Day this year. Finding a modest Indian costume in a woman’s size is a difficult task. So we decided to try our hand at creating one from tan colored felt material. I don’t have a grand talent of sewing so our design needed to be simple.  Because this is made to fit my daughter I can’t give exact measurements, but I took a few pictures (actually it’s a lot!) so you could get the idea of how we made ours…. We used 3 felt sheets that measured 36 inches by 36 inches. Two of the felt sheets were used for the skirt: The other felt sheet was folded in half diagonally and made into the shirt: The only part that needed sewn was the bottom of the sleeves and in the arm-pit area. We didn’t even sew the sides – for ease of movement and removal. The two skirt parts were wrapped around the waste. The first one was pinned in the back. The second was wrapped around the waste and pinned in the front. This gave it a nice ruffled look. The top was then added. The pointed front and back covered our pins. Rachel did all the fringes and bead work. She added beads around all the edges. She also made the stick cross necklace and beads to wear around her neck. See another necklace idea here. And don’t forget the shoes…. How to make moccasins from flip-flops (Thanks  to my second oldest daughter for taking pictures.) The moccasins were fun! But please note: If you have a fidgety child don’t leave the child’s foot in the flip-flop as you work. My daughter is 14 and could stand 100% still as I used a glue gun around her feet.These were made totally from old flip-flops, light brown felt scraps, hot glue, string for lace, and Indian beads. Wrap a piece of felt around the front/top of each foot. Use a sharpie marker to trace around it. You must trace the bottom of the shoe edge. Cut it out. I flipped them over and switched the feet that I traced them from so you wouldn’t be able to see the marker line. Hot glue them to the side of the flip-flop. Again, don’t try this with the child’s foot in the flip-flop if you are working with a fidgety child. Wrap a long triangle piece of felt around the back edge of the flip-flop so each of the triangle’s side points wraps around to the front of the shoe. Hot glue it in to place by adding hot glue around the flip-flop’s edge. Fold the top of the triangle down and cut the top off. Use a string to sew through the two side felt pieces at the top of the foot. Tie it together. This creates a lace for a tight fit and easy removal. Cut off any extra felt that is hanging off the bottom. Cut fringes in the folded sides of the shoes. My daughter added beads to each shoe. Here is one finished with beads and here is the other one with out beads. They turned out great and she loves to wear them!! Her entire costume was fun to create and we are both pleased with how it turned out! Till later, God bless, ~Jen-Marie

Although I made this as a costume for my youngest son (age 1) It really is cute enough to make just as a decoration to hang out on Dec. 9 -12 for the feast of Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe. Because my little guy is so small and will be growing out of it, I know I will use it as a decoration in the future!  🙂 Click here to read about Juan Diego. You will need: light brown felt an image of O.L. of Guadalupe appropriate size for the cloak / tilma (I used a coloring page that my 8 year old colored.) white glue a paint brush gold fabric paint (optional) artificial roses hot glue and scissors First, cut the felt into the size and shape you like for your tilma. Cover the back of your image with white glue. Place it glue side down onto your tilma and smooth it out. Now add more white glue to the top. Cover the entire picture and brush the glue off the edges, too. This helps to make the paper more pliable and stronger! Allow that to dry over night. After it’s dry you might have edges that could snag. Because mine was going to be worn by a toddler and I didn’t want him to be able to rip the image off, I trimmed the edge of the image with gold fabric paint. I spread the fabric paint over the edge of the image and onto the felt. This made the edges more secure and it looked really neat! Allow that to dry. (about 4 hrs. or more) Now I made a “cup” area on the bottom to hold the roses. I added a few drops of hot glue to the bottom area and pinched it together. I then arranged the roses and hot glued them in place. The next step is totally optional: I used a small straw hat as a counter weight…I tied the ribbons of the hat to the ribbons of the tilma. This worked well for my little guy so he could comfortably wear the tilma without having pressure around his neck. Isn’t he sooooo cute!?!?! The funny thing is that when he wears it he feels he needs to sit or kneel. So maybe I should make him wear it all the time to keep him out of trouble!! 😉 Thanks for visiting!! God Bless. ~Jen-Marie

Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego in Mexico.  Read more Our Lady of Guadalupe  here. She wore a very beautiful outfit, which can be hard to duplicate. My second oldest daughter has asked to be Our Lady of Guadalupe every year for the past 7 years! I finally felt I could do it! And she looks great! The pictures just don’t to it justice!! Using a beautiful blue colored material, large star sequins, and gold ribbon we created this shimmering veil! I sewed a headband to the inside of the veil so it would stay on her head better. Her dress is a rose colored, twin size bedsheet. It’s wrapped in a toga-like style. My daughter is about 5 feet 2 inches and this made a floor length gown on her. First, turn the sheet so the long side is horizontal. Then line the center of the sheet with the center of the wearer’s back. Drape one corner over the opposite shoulder. Then drape the other corner of the sheet over the other shoulder. You should have the two sheet corners behind the wearer’s back. Tuck them in and safety pin them in place. Then fold the sheet down to cover the pins. I used more of the gold ribbon to tie around her waste. However a black ribbon is more correct. It’s high above her hips like Our Lady’s was. In case you missed it, I also just posted our little  Juan Diego Costume , too. Click here  to see the post with instructions on how to make this costume.

St. Joan of Arc was a wonderful saint who fought for Jesus! She’s the Patroness of France. Read more here.  Our Joan is wearing a knight’s top (which we used for St. Michael last year) and a blue skirt. She made her banner…. First we printed off a picture of Jesus and two angels. (Ones I found in a Google search.) Then we cut a felt banner big enough to suit our Jesus and angel pictures. We used white glue to glue them onto the felt banner. We painted glued to the back of the pictures. Then we laid them in place on the banner. Then we covered the front of the pictures with more white glue to make them stronger. It worked well! After the glue was dry (over night) we used gold fabric paint around the edge of the Jesus and Angels pictures to make them less likely to pull off the felt banner. We made sure the fabric paint covered both the edge of the picture and the felt. We used white fabric paint to write “Jhesus Maria” on the banner. (that French for Jesus and Mary) We than allowed this to dry. (about 4 hrs. or more) We then used a red sharpie to make a border around the edge of the banner. (I wish we would have used blue) After finding a nice straight stick (you could buy one if you need or use a broom stick) we hot glued around it and folded the end of the banner over it. I made it so the stick was removable (for storage). St. Joan of Arc, pray for us!~Jen-Marie

St. Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians.  It’s said that as she lay dying, after her captors tried three times to behead her, she sang to herself until Jesus brought her home to heaven. Read more here . Our St. Cecilia is dressed in a simple pink dress and has a lace veil on her head. I made her harp from large electrical wire (romex) and duct tape. My hubby spray painted it with gold spray paint, but I think gold duct tape over top the regular duct tape would be better. After it was dry I added some strings. This would be a great prop for an angel costume or a David costume, too! St. Cecilia, pray for us!~Jen-Marie

St. John the Baptist is another Bible saint. Read more about him  here . Our St. John the Baptist is dressed in a fleece like material that I bought at the local craft store. It looked like a type of camel skin. I also used a brown t-shirt (about the same color as the “camel skin”), a piece of twine around his waist,  a plastic grasshopper(locust) and a large stick for his staff. Here is a picture of the parts and how I cut them.Click the picture to enlarge it. The next pictures are to show how I pieced the costume together.I used a safety pin to fasten the skirt around his waist. Then added the top part over one shoulder.And wrapped the twine around his waist to keep it in place.