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.

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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