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.

Did you know that October is Squirrel Awareness Month? I didn’t know we needed more awareness of these little creatures, but let’s take it as a sign to learn more about squirrels!

Let’s start with some fun facts via Kids Konnect: did you know there are five subfamilies and more that 280 species of squirrels? The smallest are pygmy squirrels and the largest, the Bhutan giant flying squirrel, can be longer that 4 feet (1.2 meters).

Tree squirrels can climb down trees so fast because their ankles can rotate 180 degrees, allowing them to grab the tree bark as they go down. While most squirrels don’t survive their first year of life, they can live five to 10 years in the wild and squirrels have been known to live up to 20 years in captivity!

Rhythms of Play has more fun facts and tips for observing squirrels if you want to add some real life nature to your nature study.

We always like to start these collections with life cycle and parts of the animal printables, so let’s grab the squirrel life cycle an parts of a squirrel worksheets from Montessori Nature. (It doesn’t look like these are free any more but they have a whole unit study on squirrels you can buy that includes life cycle and parts activities, characteristics of different kinds of squirrels, a printable poster, information about predators and more.)

Grab the squirrel lapbook printable (free with email address) from Homeschool Share to learn the parts of a squirrel, where they live, what they eat, whether they hibernate and more. There’s also a nut taste test printable, a place for making observations about squirrels, life cycle of an oak tree, games and more.

Simple Everyday Mom has some cute squirrel themed worksheets including tracing the letter s, labeling the parts of a squirrel and a letter s maze. She also has more activity pages with a squirrel theme, including matching, a more traditional maze and a counting and graphing activity.

Work on letter recognition with this squirrel and acorn game printable from Teaching Mama. I love the idea of hiding the letters in a fall themed sensory bin for kids to find, identify and match to the letter on the worksheet.

For older kids you can do this “if I were a squirrel” writing prompt from Lesson Planet.

And throw in a little counting with these squirrel and acorn tens frame printables from JDaniel4’s Mom, which you can use to count real acorns or any other little fall themed thing you have handy.

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