Easter Activities

For Families:

Build a Better Easter Basket

Looking for an Easter Basket with meaning? 
Check these ideas from Building Faith!
DIY Resurrection Eggs

Teach your children the Easter story using Resurrection Eggs you make at home. Click here for instructions.
​Easter Story Wreath
Make this great printable wreath at home or in class!
Find it HERE 
Find ways to update your Easter rituals to make them be teen friendly. Check out these fun ideas from Vibrant Faith and Home.
Get Easter: A Blossoming Celebration Prayer Service and Activity (a downloadable Easter-themed prayer experience and activity designed for children and families to joyfully and prayerfully celebrate the new life in Jesus Christ during the Easter season) from Sadlier Religion HERE. 
The Legend of the Dogwood
​and links to home activities for Easter from Catholic Icing
 click here
Easter Resources from 
​A variety of activities - in English

... y en espanol.

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Invite children and their families to come together for a joyful activity, prayer, or reflection for each day of the Easter season, from Easter Sunday to Pentecost.
​Help your students and their families to prepare their hearts and homes for a joyful Easter journey.


​Welcome the Easter season as a family with Scripture, prayer, and a simple springtime craft.
I​nvite children to decorate this seasonal prayer card for the family Easter table or to share as a gift to others.

For groups of children or teens: 

Easter Lesson Plans

Enjoy this Easter lesson plan, suitable for children in grades 1-3.
CLICK HERE for this plan from Loyola Press.
Enjoy this Easter lesson plan, suitable for children in grades 4-6.
CLICK HERE for this plan from Loyola Press.
Enjoy this Easter lesson plan, suitable for children in grades 7-8.
​CLICK HERE for this lesson plan from Loyola Press. 
Easter Meal Prayer Activity for Children
​ CLICK HERE for this resource
​from Sadlier Religion.
Easter: Resurrection Relay Race! 
​click here
Help young teens to quickly find gospel passages on Easter themes.
​From Saint Mary Press
Easter Egg Suncatcher Craft
from Saint Mary Press: 
"First review the meaning of the Easter egg (a plain-looking exterior teeming with life inside, a symbol of the tomb and the risen life of Christ) and then let the teens go to town with this project! Remind them also that the Sun itself is a symbol of the Risen Christ."
click here
RCL Benziger has multiple ideas in English and Spanish to celebrate the Easter season on 
this page. 

Find prayer collages, preparing the Easter table, blessing of seeds, Easter butterflies, "Allelulia" activities, and more!

Second Sunday of Easter: John 20: 19-31
​Saint Thomas (the doubting one!) 

Fr. James Martin reflects on the Resurrection
​through the story of Doubting Thomas.
Retells the story of Doubting Thomas for children in Grades K-4.
Doubting Thomas in Lego!

 Lesson for Primary Grades - Meet Doubting Thomas
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Gospel Stories for the Easter Season

Fun retelling of the Easter Story by kids!
A Big Catch and Breakfast on the Beach

Easter Recipes & Traditions to try at home!

Italian Easter Meat Pie Recipe
Paska -- Easter Bread Recipe
Poppyseed Kolachi Recipe from Poland
Hot Cross Buns Recipe

Easter Resources from the Diocesan Library

CLICK HERE TO RESERVE LIBRARY MATERIALS 
or call 330 744-8451 ext 297, or email [email protected].

For adults: 

Faces of Easter: Meeting the Paschal Mystery in the People Around Us.
by Albert Holtz. 
​Liturgical Press, 2019.
Using vignettes set in or near his monastery in downtown Newark, New Jersey, Benedictine monk Albert Holtz helps us to see that the Easter mystery, which can often seem abstract and distant, is in fact present all around us. As we accompany him through the fifty days of the Easter season, we listen in on his intriguing interactions with local street people and his inner-city high school students-an insider's look at what goes on in a monk's heart as he chants Vespers to the sound of police sirens. Anyone wishing to deepen his or her experience of the Easter mystery will find this a valuable and engaging book.
New Beginning, New Hope: Words of Pope Francis, Holy Week Through Pentecost.  Our Sunday Visitor, 2014.
Pope Francis' homilies and audiences from Holy Week through Pentecost reflect his joy, compassion, and love for all people, which has captivated the world. The Pope's grace-filled perspective during this most hopeful season of the Church year will inspire and encourage you. But no matter what the season, New Beginning, New Hope will engage your spirit and help you live your Catholic faith, share the Good News, and make your own profound difference in the world.
Risen. (DVD)
Columbia Pictures and LD Entertainment, 2016.
Clavius, a powerful Roman Military Tribune, and his aide Lucius, are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in Jerusalem.

For children: 

On Easter Day in the Morning.
by Vicki Howie and Honor Ayres. 
Liguori, 2011.
A picture book for younger children which offers an illustrated adaptation of the biblical story of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Easter Bunny's Amazing Day. 
by Carol Benoist and Cathy Gilmore.
​Liguori, 2012.

Meet the Risen Jesus with an amazing bunny -- and his amazing tale. Children will learn Jesus' friendship and comfort through the eyes of a timid bunny rabbit who experiences the love and joy that Jesus brings first hand.

"I love this book!! Wonderful for Preschool or K-3 children!!! it will make you cry." - Carla