Easter & the Easter Season |
Easter Activities
For Families:
Build a Better Easter BasketLooking 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. |
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Easter Resources from
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.
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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. |
Invite children to decorate this seasonal prayer card for the family Easter table or to share as a gift to others.
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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. |
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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.
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Doubting Thomas in Lego!
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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!
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A Big Catch and Breakfast on the Beach
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Easter Recipes & Traditions to try at home!
Italian Easter Meat Pie Recipe
Paska -- Easter Bread Recipe
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Poppyseed Kolachi Recipe from Poland
Hot Cross Buns Recipe
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Easter Resources from the Diocesan Library
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. |
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For children:
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 |