What better way to go through Lent with your Catholic kids than to do crafts and activities with them? Hands on activities help to solidify learning for children and it’s the perfect creative outlet for the season!
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Here are 40 Days Worth of Lenten Crafts:
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- Use chalk to promote a “dust” feeling with this Ash Wednesday craft
- Fill out a Lenten promises card
- Make a crown of thorns sacrifice wreath
- Create your own stations of the cross at home (or buy them here)
- Print out these free Catholic art bookmarks to walk through the week with you
- Get busy in the kitchen with easy Lenten pretzels!
- Make these awesome Palm Sunday branches
- Make this Jesus and donkey paper doll for Palm Sunday
- Make a coin-covered cross (Paid in Full)
- Paint your own crucifix
- Create a Lenten good deeds chart
- Make a Holy Week lapbook
- Make a resurrection garden (but roll a rock in front of the tomb until Easter!) (PSST! I bought wheatgrass and had the grass grow throughout Lent around the tomb. We trimmed the wheatgrass and planted flowers on Easter. The wheatgrass made a great addition to a Easter celebration smoothie!)
- Make a chalice and bread for Holy Thursday
- Recreate Calvary Hill with this easy printable
- Build a Lego Last Supper and/or Lego resurrection garden
- Make a Jesus felt finger puppet (good for older kids or a parent can make it for kids to play with)
- Create stepping stones as a visual of Jesus’ walk to the crucifix
- Fold this EASY stations of the cross prayers mini-book
- Paint wooden resurrection eggs (buy the wooden eggs here)
- Create an egg carton Holy Thursday Last Supper craft
- Color Stations of the Cross Brother Francis pages or watch a Brother Francis Stations of the Cross video (doesn’t get much easier!)
- Paint a watercolor crucifix
- Make an Agony in the Garden diorama
- Color the Sorrowful Mysteries
- Glue this Stations of the Cross lift flap notebook
- Draw a St Veronica ornament
- Make an Easter Wreath for the door to your child’s room
- Color foil to make beautiful crosses
- Make a Stations of the Cross Carousel
- Make an empty tomb craft
- Help your kids create a Holy Week banner
- Make a Jesus peg doll with the 5 wounds of Christ
- Create a Jesus peg doll reenactment
- Make pray, fast, give magnets
- While you’re doing magnets, check out these Stations of the Cross magnets
- Make shadow Stations of the Cross
- Color a Lenten prayer stained glass coloring page
- Create this pray, fast, give placemat
- Make a “stained glass” cross
- Fold your palms branches into the shape of a cross
I hope these help you! Want more ideas? Check out SO many more ideas on our Lent Pinterest board. Follow it here!
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(This post was last updated March 9, 2020)