Saint Themed Guessing Jars {Free printable labels and more!}

It took several days of brainstorming, but I finally came up with a new table game for our All Saints day party – Saint-themed guessing jars! My first thought was to make a guessing jar that had “3 Musketeers” in it and call it a “Holy Trinity Guessing Jar”. Then I (with my husband’s help) tried to think of all kinds of candies and crackers that could be a symbol or have a meaning that centered around a saint. We came up with several – some are not included here, but maybe I can add them to a future post.

Basically, these jars are filled with candy or crackers that have a saint theme. The kids (and adults) can guess how many candies or crackers are in the jar. The person with the closest guess wins the jar! It’s simple, saint-inspired fun!

These could be fun for any Catholic event, like youth groups or a CCD/RE class.

Check them all out in our downloadable file!!

Download ALL of our jar labels (our old ones and our 6 new ones) below!! The Guessing Sheet is also included in this download!

Guessing Jar Label Set - Download Here:

Our jar ideas included:

The Holy Trinity Guessing Jar

In my opinion, I think this is the tastiest jar listed here!

To symbolize our 3 in 1 God, I put 3 musketeers mini bars in this jar.

St. Nicholas (Candy or Money)

A jar for St. Nicholas could be filled with candy coins, but they can be hard to find so you may prefer to put Christmas mints in the jar. ~OR~ If you are doing this with older kids, teens, or adults you may like to add pennies, nickels, and dimes to the jar and have them guess the dollar amount.

Choose the correct label below.

This jar would be great for a Christmas party!

St. Francis Guessing Jar

The jar for St. Francis could be filled with animal crackers.

St. Peter Guessing Jar

St. Peter’s jar could be filled with fish crackers of Swedish fish!

St. Isidore Guessing Jar

St. Isidore could have a few different candies in his jar.

Pumpkin candies, Runts, fruit-flavored candy, or any produce themed candy will work! Personally, I like Runts, but I didn’t have any so I used some cute Raspberry gumdrops!

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Guessing Jar

Yes, I know that Carmel and caramel are not the same things, but they sound much the same and they tend to wear the same color! 😉 So in this jar, I added caramels. You can use several different varieties of caramel candy: Rolos, caramel creams (like ours), or plain caramel squares.

St. Kateri Tekakwitha Guessing Jar

This jar was filled with candy corn and candy pumpkins.

Doctors of the Church Guessing Jar

In honor of all the Church Doctors, I filled this jar with Smarties – because the Doctors are known for being so smart about God and the faith!

St. Andrew Guessing Jar

For St. Andrew I added those fun waffle pretzels because they look like fishing nets! You could add Chex mix, too, since Chex can look like fishing nets also!

St. Thomas Aquinas Guessing Jar

Because St. Thomas Aquinas was called the “dumb ox” in his youth, I added Dum-Dums to this jar.

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Guessing Jar

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton started a school for girls in Maryland in the early 1800’s so letter cookies seemed to be appropriate for her jar!

St. Catherine of Alexandria Guessing Jar

St. Catherine was condemned to death on the spiked wheel, but, at her touch, the wheel was miraculously destroyed (although later she was martyred by beheading). Those little wheel pretzels seemed appropriate for her jar.

The PDF files which include the labels for these jars.

NOTE: The St. Nicholas money guessing label is only available in the image at the top of this post. It is not included in the PDF files. The other labels are in the above download.

How I created these jars:

After Jon (my husband) and I made our list of saint themed candies and crackers, I started cleaning out used peanut butter jars (We eat a lot of peanut butter at our house!). I saved the jars for when I would need them. If you want you can buy some jars at the dollar store, Walmart, etc. Next, I created the labels for the jars. (Those labels are free to print above.)

When I put these jars together for the party, I first added as many of the candies or crackers to the jars as I could (without cracking or breaking them). I counted them as I added them. For larger amounts of candies/crackers, I filled the jar then dumped it out onto a clean surface and separated them into groups of ten. Then after I counted them I put them all back into the jar. Each time I finished counting the contents for a jar I wrote the number down on a slip of SUPER SECRET paper so I would remember the number. After I added all the food to the jars, I closed the lid and I used clear shipping tape to attach the labels to the jars.

I also added a few strips of tape around the lid, too. (Just to be safe.)