Free printable: Be a Little Saint
A page for each saint with a short prayer and three simple challenges for the week, for children aged 4 to 9. Free to print for home, class or parish.
PDF, 6 pages, US Letter. Opens in a new tab.
What's inside
An introduction page with the saints' feast days and ideas for using the pages, then one page each for Saint Francis, Saint Thérèse, Saint Joan of Arc, Saint Nicholas and Saint Clare. Every page has a short introduction to the saint, a little prayer, three “Be a Little Saint” challenges with tick boxes, and a line for the child's name.
Ways to use it
- At home: pray the saint's prayer together at bedtime and put the page on the fridge for the week.
- In religious education: send a page home after a lesson on the saint, and ask the children about their challenges the next week.
- In the classroom: use a page on or near the saint's feast day, or work through all five over five weeks.
- For All Saints Day: give each child the page for the saint they dress up as. See our All Saints Day ideas.
Share it with others
Please share the printable freely with catechists, teachers, parents and parishes. Here is text you can paste straight into a newsletter, email or parish bulletin. It links to this page, so readers can see what's inside before they download.
You're welcome to print, copy and share the printable. Please don't sell it or change its content.
The stories behind it
The prayers and challenges come from the Little Saints, Big Hearts picture books by Joseph Glazier: true stories of the saints, told gently for reading aloud to children aged 4 to 9. Meet the books, or see how parishes and schools use them.