Finding Truth in Halloween Update, Crossword Puzzle, & Spanish Versions

This Finding Truth in Halloween Coloring Book is by far one of my most popular resources- I just looked as I was prepping this update, and from 2013 until today, it has received well over 100,000 clicks! Crazy! I will say that I feel like a revamp and redesign should be in this little resource's future, but for today I can at least offer an update that fixes a couple of typos. AND we also have a Spanish version thanks to some faithful readers! (You can see the original post here, which also includes some individual coloring pages.) Another new addition is a crossword puzzle that pulls answers from the info in the booklet. You can find all of those downloads linked below!

Click here for the most recent update to the Finding Truth in Halloween Coloring Book:

And click here for the Spanish version:

Click here for a crossword puzzle based on the info in the booklet:

Click here for a crossword puzzle with a word bank to make it a little easier:

And click here for the key:

Finding Truth in Halloween- Spanish

I'm happy to share that the long time favorite Finding Truth in Halloween booklet is now ready to be shared in Spanish thanks to the generous translation skills of a LHBR reader! Click here to download and print this tool for teaching about Catholic connections to Halloween traditions.

And here are some other Hallowtide activities available in English:

12+ Ideas for Celebrating Halloween, All Saints, and All Souls Day*

Finding Truth in Halloween* (all ages)

All About Relics* (6th & up)
Saint Scavenger Hunt* (4th & up)
Digital Saint Scavenger Hunt (6th & up)
All Saints Day Art Project (2nd & up)
All Saints and All Souls Day Letters* (2nd & up)
Beatitudes and Modern Saints Card Game* (2nd & up)
All Saints Day Info Coloring Page*(2nd & up)
Happy All Saints Day Coloring Page*(2nd & up)
All Saints Day Litany Prayer Cards*(2nd & up)
All Souls Day Prayer Cards (Eternal Rest Prayer)*(2nd & up)

Mass Offering Cards* (2nd & up) also in Spanish
Memento Mori Printables* (2nd & up)

Memento Mori- Classroom Lesson with Video, Art, Quotes, & Scripture* (6th & up)

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October Radiant Round Up

Month of the Most Holy Rosary

Happy Month of the Most Holy Rosary! There are SO MANY wonderful things to celebrate this month, and I've packed tons ideas into this edition of the Radiant Round Up. 

 

To start off, here are lots and lots of ideas for learning and praying with the Rosary:

Month of the Rosary Shareable Schedule of Activities* 

Rosary Resources in Spanish*

Rosary Resources in Portuguese*

Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary Watercolor Margin Doodles*

Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary Watercolor Margin Doodles*

Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary Watercolor Margin Doodles*

Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary Watercolor Margin Doodles*

World Mission Rosary* (2nd & up)
Hands-On Rosary Resources (Pre-6th)
Ideas for a Rosary Lapbook  (2nd-6th)
Rosary Mystery Match Review Page* (5th & up)
Google Classroom Mysteries of the Rosary Quizzes* (5th & up)

Respect Life Month
Spiritual Adoption Prayer Coloring Page* (2nd & up)
Pro Life Video Playlist (5th & up)
Spiritual Adoption* (all ages)
Spiritual Adoption Update Postcards* (all ages)
Touch of Life Fetal Models (all ages)
Culture of Life Studies Program (all ages)

St. Thérèse of Lisieux: October 1st

St. Therese of Lisieux Art Print and Prayer Cards* (all ages)

St. Thérèse of Lisieux Mini Study (6th & up)
St. Therese Color-A-Novena (Prayer for Vocations)* (2nd & up)
Slides for St. Thérèse Novena* (2nd & up)
St. Thérèse Good Deed Beads (2nd & up)

Guardian Angels: October 2nd
Guardian Angel and St. Michael Prayer Cards (K & up)

St. Francis of Assisi: October 4th
St. Francis of Assisi Coloring Page*(all ages)

St. Faustina Kowalska: October 5th
Divine Mercy Watercolor Art* (printable coloring page-2nd-6th)
Divine Mercy Melty Bead Craft* (printable pattern and examples-2nd-8th)
Pop Out Divine Mercy Chaplet* (2nd-6th)

Our Lady of the Rosary: October 7th

Month of the Rosary Shareable Schedule of Activities*  (all ages)
Rosary Resources in Spanish* (all ages)
World Mission Rosary* (2nd & up)

St. Louis de Montfort Rosary Quote Coloring Page*
Hands-On Rosary Resources (Pre-6th)
Ideas for a Rosary Lapbook  (2nd-6th)
Rosary Mystery Match Review Page* (5th & up)
Google Classroom Mysteries of the Rosary Quizzes* (5th & up)

Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary Watercolor Margin Doodles*

Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary Watercolor Margin Doodles*

Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary Watercolor Margin Doodles*

Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary Watercolor Margin Doodles*

Pope St. John XXIII: October 11th
Two Popes, Two Saints* Trivia about St. John Paul II and St. John XXIII (4th & up)

Play Scripts/ Readers' Theater* about the miracles of St. John Paul II and St. John XXIII (4th & up)

Bl. Carlo Acutis: October 12th

"The Eucharist is My Highway to Heaven" Coloring Page* (2nd & up) Also in Spanish

Eucharistic Miracle Investigation* (version for younger & older kids) Also in Spanish

Eucharist Bulletin Board*(2nd & up)

Jesus in the Monstrance Art Project (2nd & up)

Eucharist Video Playlists: Eucharist Videos, Eucharistic Saints, Eucharistic Processions (all ages)

Bl. Carlo Acutis & Eucharistic Miracles on the National Eucharistic Revival Website

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque: October 17th

Sacred Heart of Jesus Coloring Pages* (K-8th)

Sacred Heart of Jesus and Anima Christi Prayer Cards* (2nd-8th)

Pope St. John Paul II: October 22nd

"Be Soldiers!" Bulletin Board* (all ages)

JP2 Quote Journal* (6th & up)

JP2 Marian Quote Coloring Page*

Two Popes, Two Saints* Trivia about St. John Paul II and St. John XXIII (4th & up)

Play Scripts/ Readers' Theater* about the miracles of St. John Paul II and St. John XXIII (4th & up)

Sts. Simon and Jude: October 28th

Apostles Mini Posters*

All Hallows Eve/All Saints Day/All Souls: October 31st-November 2nd 

Since these feasts are so interwoven, you'll find ideas for Halloween along with All Saints & All Souls. I'll include these and more in the November Radiant Round Up!

12+ Ideas for Celebrating Halloween, All Saints, and All Souls Day*

Finding Truth in Halloween* (all ages)

All About Relics* (6th & up)
Saint Scavenger Hunt* (4th & up)
Digital Saint Scavenger Hunt (6th & up)
All Saints Day Art Project (2nd & up)
All Saints and All Souls Day Letters* (2nd & up)
Beatitudes and Modern Saints Card Game* (2nd & up)
All Saints Day Info Coloring Page*(2nd & up)
Happy All Saints Day Coloring Page*(2nd & up)
All Saints Day Litany Prayer Cards*(2nd & up)
All Souls Day Prayer Cards (Eternal Rest Prayer)*(2nd & up)

Mass Offering Cards* (2nd & up) also in Spanish
Memento Mori Printables* (2nd & up)

Memento Mori- Classroom Lesson with Video, Art, Quotes, & Scripture* (6th & up)

October Catholic Book List

Click here for a list of books for Catholic kids that fit well with devotions and feast days this month! 

A Quick Grown Up Book Recommendation: The Every Sacred Sunday Mass Journal

Hands down, the best prayer resource I've ever invested in for myself is the Every Sacred Sunday Mass Journal. I've used it consistently for going on seven years! I've shared about it a few times on the blog (here and here and here) and just love its full Mass Readings, space to journal, original art, and heirloom quality. Preorders for the 2024 journals open on October 4th. You can use code KATIE10 for a discount with your order! 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us!

You can find the links to the monthly Radiant Roundups here:

Memento Mori- Classroom Lesson with Video, Art, Quotes, & Scripture

The phrase Memento Mori, “remember your death,” helps us keep in mind that this life is only temporary and that we were made for Heaven. I talk with my students about these three elements of Memento Mori:

• For the future: Remember that one day you will die and your life on earth will end
• For the Present: Live each day aiming for Heaven with hope, joy, and peace
• For the Past: Remember you have died with Christ through your Baptism- Die to sin and rise to new life

I've used these Memento Mori Printables in my classroom for years, but this year deepened my study with my 8th graders. In our unit on the Four Last Things, we used this slideshow about Memento Mori. It includes a video, collection of art for Visio Divina, and a set of quotes from Saints & Scripture for discussion.

We did this lesson in my classroom in November, the Month of All Souls, but it also would be a great reflection for junior/senior high during Lent!

Click here to open the Memento Mori slides:

If you'd like a reflection sheet to help your students record their thoughts, click here:

Paired with the Memento Mori study, you also could use this study of the Bone Church, St. Mary of the Conception of the Friars Minor Capuchin in Rome:

Remember you are dust and to dust you will return. 
May your Lent be a prayerful retreat leading up to Easter!

October Radiant Round Up

Month of the Most Holy Rosary

Happy Month of the Most Holy Rosary! There are SO MANY wonderful things to celebrate this month, and I've packed tons ideas into this edition of the Radiant Round Up. New this month, I'm also including a book recommendations list at the end of the post, so while snuggling up with a picture book or selecting your older kiddo's independent reading, you can weave in some liturgical living! 

 

To start off, here are lots and lots of ideas for learning and praying with the Rosary:

Month of the Rosary Shareable Schedule of Activities* 

Rosary Resources in Spanish*
World Mission Rosary* (2nd & up)
Hands-On Rosary Resources (Pre-6th)
Ideas for a Rosary Lapbook  (2nd-6th)
Rosary Mystery Match Review Page* (5th & up)
Google Classroom Mysteries of the Rosary Quizzes* (5th & up)

Respect Life Month
Spiritual Adoption Prayer Coloring Page* (2nd & up)
Pro Life Video Playlist (5th & up)
Spiritual Adoption* (all ages)
Spiritual Adoption Update Postcards* (all ages)
Touch of Life Fetal Models (all ages)
Culture of Life Studies Program (all ages)

St. Thérèse of Lisieux: October 1st
St. Thérèse of Lisieux Mini Study (6th & up)
St. Therese Color-A-Novena (Prayer for Vocations)* (2nd & up)
Slides for St. Thérèse Novena* (2nd & up)
St. Thérèse Good Deed Beads (2nd & up)

Guardian Angels: October 2nd
Guardian Angel and St. Michael Prayer Cards (K & up)

St. Francis of Assisi: October 4th
St. Francis of Assisi Coloring Page*(all ages)

St. Faustina Kowalska: October 5th
Divine Mercy Watercolor Art* (printable coloring page-2nd-6th)
Divine Mercy Melty Bead Craft* (printable pattern and examples-2nd-8th)
Pop Out Divine Mercy Chaplet* (2nd-6th)

Our Lady of the Rosary: October 7th

Month of the Rosary Shareable Schedule of Activities*  (all ages)
Rosary Resources in Spanish* (all ages)
World Mission Rosary* (2nd & up)

St. Louis de Montfort Rosary Quote Coloring Page*
Hands-On Rosary Resources (Pre-6th)
Ideas for a Rosary Lapbook  (2nd-6th)
Rosary Mystery Match Review Page* (5th & up)
Google Classroom Mysteries of the Rosary Quizzes* (5th & up)

Pope St. John XXIII: October 11th
Two Popes, Two Saints* Trivia about St. John Paul II and St. John XXIII (4th & up)

Play Scripts/ Readers' Theater* about the miracles of St. John Paul II and St. John XXIII (4th & up)

Bl. Carlo Acutis: October 12th

"The Eucharist is My Highway to Heaven" Coloring Page* (2nd & up) Also in Spanish

Eucharistic Miracle Investigation* (version for younger & older kids) Also in Spanish

Eucharist Bulletin Board*(2nd & up)

Jesus in the Monstrance Art Project (2nd & up)

Eucharist Video Playlists: Eucharist Videos, Eucharistic Saints, Eucharistic Processions (all ages)

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque: October 17th

Sacred Heart of Jesus Coloring Pages* (K-8th)

Sacred Heart of Jesus and Anima Christi Prayer Cards* (2nd-8th)

Pope St. John Paul II: October 22nd

"Be Soldiers!" Bulletin Board* (all ages)

JP2 Quote Journal* (6th & up)

JP2 Marian Quote Coloring Page*

Two Popes, Two Saints* Trivia about St. John Paul II and St. John XXIII (4th & up)

Play Scripts/ Readers' Theater* about the miracles of St. John Paul II and St. John XXIII (4th & up)

Sts. Simon and Jude: October 28th

Apostles Mini Posters*

All Hallows Eve/All Saints Day/All Souls: October 31st-November 2nd 

Since these feasts are so interwoven, you'll find ideas for Halloween along with All Saints & All Souls. I'll include these and more in the November Radiant Round Up!

12+ Ideas for Celebrating Halloween, All Saints, and All Souls Day*

Finding Truth in Halloween* (all ages)

All About Relics* (6th & up)
Saint Scavenger Hunt* (4th & up)
Digital Saint Scavenger Hunt (6th & up)
All Saints Day Art Project (2nd & up)
All Saints and All Souls Day Letters* (2nd & up)
Beatitudes and Modern Saints Card Game* (2nd & up)
All Saints Day Info Coloring Page*(2nd & up)
Happy All Saints Day Coloring Page*(2nd & up)
All Saints Day Litany Prayer Cards*(2nd & up)
All Souls Day Prayer Cards (Eternal Rest Prayer)*(2nd & up)

Mass Offering Cards* (2nd & up) also in Spanish
Memento Mori Printables* (2nd & up)

Memento Mori- Classroom Lesson with Video, Art, Quotes, & Scripture* (6th & up)

October Catholic Book List

Below are a few favorite titles that fit well with devotions and feast days this month! This list contains Amazon Affiliate links, which means if you click through and make a purchase, I earn a small commission at no cost to you. I'd also love to encourage you to shop directly with the publisher or with your local bookshop, or try to request these at your local library! I'm sure I've missed some books that would be great for this month, so feel free to add your own recommendations in the comments! You can find my giant list of Catholic Kid Books by topic here.

All Month- On a Mission to Love- Staresinic, Debbie

All Month- On a Mission to Love: Rosary Flash Cards- Debbie Staresinic

All Month-A Painted Rosary, Kate Frantz

All Month- A Stained Glass Rosary, Kate Franz

All Month- The Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sunpoint Studio

All Month-Mary Holds My Hand- Chronister, Michelle

All Month- Let's Pray Together: Meditating on the Mysteries & Virtues of the Rosary, Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist

All Month- Champions of the Rosary- Laurie Schmitt

All Month- Angel in the Waters

10/1- St. Therese of Lisieux: Loving is Giving Everything Away- Coline Dupuy

10/1- St. Therese of Lisieux: The Way of Love, Mary Kathleen Glavich

10/1- The Little Way: A Journey to the Summit of Love- Judith Bouilloc

10/1- Saint Therese of Lisieux: Living on Love, Fr. Didier-Marie Golay

10/1- Louis and Zelie: The Holy Parents of St. Therese, Ginamaria Tennant

10/2- Praying to Holy Angels, Kerri Davison

10/2- Sam the Guardian Angel, Lis Luwia

10/4- Francis, the Poor Man of Assisi- de Paola, Tomie

10/4- Saint Francis of Assisi, Messenger of Peace- Matas, Toni

10/4- Saint Chronicles Collection 2

10/5- Divine Mercy for Children- Vinny Flynn

10/7- Lepanto's Lady- Laurie Schmitt

10/12- Carlo Acutis: God's Computer Genius by Ellen Labrecque

10/12- Dare to Be More: The Witness of Blessed Carlo Acutis- Swaim, Colleen & Matt

10/12- Blessed Carlo Acutis: The Amazing Discovery of a Teenager in Heaven- Sabrina Arena Ferrisi

10/12- Carlo Acutis: The First Millennial Saint, Nicola Gori

10/15- St. Teresa of Avila: God's Troublemaker- Yoon Song-i

10/15- St. Teresa of Avila: Joyful in the Lord, Susan Helen Walace

10/15- The Interior Castle: A Boy's Journey into the Riches of Prayer, Judith Bouilloc

10/17- Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque and the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Emily Beata Marsh

10/17- Heart to Heart: A Guide to Prayer for Catholic Teens

10/18- The Life of Jesus According to St. Luke- DeMullenheim, Sophie

10/18- The Catholic Comic Book Bible: The Gospel of Luke

10/22- A Boy Who Became Pope- Garza, Fabiola

10/22- Lolek: The Boy Who Became Pope John Paul II - Hramiec, Mary

10/22- Pope John Paul II: Young Man of the Church, George Stanley

10/31-11/1- You Were Born to Be a Saint, Kortnee Senn

10/31-11/1- Light of the Saints, Cory Heimann

10/31-11/1- Lily Lolek, Future Saint, Warner, Katie

10/31-11/1- Ablaze: Stories of Daring Teen Saints- Swaim, Colleen

10/31-11/1- In Caelo et in Terra: 365 Days with the Saints- The Daughters of St. Paul

A Quick Grown Up Book Recommendation: The Every Sacred Sunday Mass Journal

Hands down, the best prayer resource I've ever invested in for myself is the Every Sacred Sunday Mass Journal. I've used it consistently for going on six years! I've shared about it a few times on the blog (here and here and here) and just love its full Mass Readings, space to journal, original art, and heirloom quality. Preorders for the 2023 journals open on October 3rd. You can use code KATIE10 for a discount with your order! 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us!