Religious Easter Crafts for Kids

One way to make Easter more meaningful for kids with a religious background is to incorporate some religions Easter crafts, which give you time to talk about the meaning of Easter while you create something. (Check out more Easter activities for kids.)

Mom on Timeout takes the classic tissue paper “stained glass” craft and makes it into an Easter craft with a cross shape. This one is easy enough for kids of all ages to make.

Or use all your leftover construction paper to make this paper plate craft from Conservamome. This religious Easter craft has printables in English and Spanish to celebrate the season.

If you want to tell the story of Easter to kids while they craft, try this printable Last Supper template from Crafting the Word of God. You can print out and have kids color and assemble the table while you talk about what’s going on or read about it from the Bible.

Older kids can make this resurrection cross with stones from Simple at Home. It’s an easy craft but since hot glue is involved its not recommended for younger kids (at least without supervision).

Another good one for older kids (or younger kids with some initial help from a grownup) is this hoop art Easter craft from Made with Happy. The only tricky bit is shaping the wire to make a cross shape. You could also do something like this just drawing a cross shape on fabric and stitching around it instead of wrapping the yarn around the cross.

This one starts as a craft for adults or older kids (because there’s cutting plastic with scissors or a box cutter involved) but younger kids will enjoy playing with this resurrection craft from Meaningful Mama which allows them to move the rock from the front of the cave. This is a good one for storytelling, too.

Thinking Kids Blog has an easy Easter wreath kids can make as well as a reading from Philippians and discussion questions you can talk about while you are crafting.

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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