Little Saints, Big Hearts

Free printables

Prayers, activities and classroom packs for children aged 4 to 9, from the Little Saints, Big Hearts picture books. Free to print for home, class or parish.

Be a Little Saint pagesFeast-day packs

Be a Little Saint

A page for each saint with a short prayer and three simple challenges for the week. One printable for the whole series.

Three pages of the Be a Little Saint printable: the introduction page, Saint Francis's page and Saint Nicholas's page.
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PDF, 6 pages, US Letter. Opens in a new tab.

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.
  • For Saint Nicholas Day: tuck the Saint Nicholas page into each child's shoe on December 6. See our Saint Nicholas Day ideas.

Feast-day activity packs

Ready-to-use activities for a class, parish group or family, planned so that no child is left out. In school-year order.

The Saint Clare “Clare Means Light” page: a pointed stained-glass window to color, with her covered cup at the centre, rays of light, stars and an oil lamp.

August 11

Saint Clare activity pack

A stained-glass window to color, “You are a light!” friendship cards, and a letter asking the Poor Clare sisters to pray.

PDF, 4 pages, US Letter, with a leader's guide.

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Rose cards from the Shower of Roses kindness pack, each with a small rose, a To and From line, and a sentence starter such as I noticed you, or You were kind when.

October 1

Saint Thérèse's Shower of Roses

A kindness activity: each child makes a pocket, and the class fills every pocket with rose cards, so no one is left out.

PDF, 3 pages, US Letter, with a leader's guide.

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The Saint Francis Song of Creation coloring page: six pictures to color, Brother Sun, Sister Moon and the stars, Brother Wind, Sister Water, Brother Fire and Sister Earth, and a box to draw your own.

October 4

Saint Francis activity pack

A Song of Creation coloring page, and a ready-made letter to families for a class animal-shelter collection.

PDF, 2 pages, US Letter.

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The All Saints Day classroom pack: six prize-ribbon saint badges reading “I am”, with a line for the saint's name and space to draw the saint's sign.

November 1

All Saints Day classroom pack

Twelve “Who am I?” saint cards, a saint badge for every child, and a plan for a saint parade and class litany.

PDF, 3 pages, US Letter, with a leader's guide.

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The Saint Nicholas Shoes printable: a wooden shoe to color, cut out and fold into a pocket, with a name line, a bag of gold, a moon and stars.

December 6

Saint Nicholas Shoes

A paper shoe for each child to find filled on his feast day, three ways to give to take home, and a letter for a class collection.

PDF, 4 pages, US Letter, with a leader's guide.

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The Saint Joan's journey map printable: a map of France with five numbered stops joined by a dotted line, and Joan's banner to color with a space to write how you will be brave.

May 30

Saint Joan's journey map

A coloring map of Joan's journey across France, her banner to cut out and carry, and what to say at each stop.

PDF, 2 pages, US Letter, with a leader's guide.

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Share them with others

Please share these 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 here before they download.

You're welcome to print, copy and share the printables. Please don't sell them or change their 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.