Storytelling with Shapes resources offer a unique and engaging way to engage in the Holy Week and Easter stories through creative storytelling and tangram puzzles. These engaging tools are perfect for a wide audience, including children, youth, and adults, making them ideal for intergenerational events.
An Illustrated Holy Week: Including children’s moment illustrations, children’s activity bulletins for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday, coloring pages, and interactive worship guides for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday (which would take some adapting to virtual church, but would give you some great material to get you started); and Holy Week Coloring Pages.
Make your Lenten season 'easier', with Illustrated Ministry's Bread of Life resources or their other Lenten offerings here.
Download Illustrated Ministry's Palm Frond Coloring Page here.
A Place for You Starter Pack introduces new communicants to Holy Communion with Dan Erlander's A Place for You Interactive Edition: My Holy Communion Book.
Find additional resources for preparing for First Communion here.
by Bret Myers
Finding The Way of The Cross (or The Stations of the Cross) in Nature
These guides provide children and adults a way to discover that the story of Good Friday and the cross is written into the natural world about them if they only know where to look!
Seven Last Words: An Immersive and Interactive Experience for Children And Youth
By Patrick Kangrga (he/him/his) of Building Faith
Were You There? Stations of the Cross
What can we learn from the son of the carpenter, the Son of God, about our lives and the path we should follow? To contemplate this powerful re-enactment of Jesus's Passion--where Jerusalem is an African village, and all the characters are African--we reflect upon our own lives and burdens: family divisions, community clashes, poverty and racism, sins of commission and omission.
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Rev. Emily Meyer offers a neighborhood, intergenerational Good Friday Stations of the Cross with preparatory activities throughout Holy Monday, Holy Tuesday and Holy Wednesday and a Leader Guide for you. She also shares creative ideas for sermons and liturgical elements for Palm Sunday, The Easter Vigil and Easter Morning.
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Storytelling with Shapes: Easter guides you through a creative, engaging, and tactile way of experiencing the Easter story. Because of the varying degrees of difficulties in the puzzles, Storytelling with Shapes: Easter can be used by many age groups, children, youth (6th–12th grade), and even during intergenerational events.
Interactive Prayer Stations on Easter & Transformation
These prayer stations focus on Easter and Transformation using the metamorphosis of a caterpillar/butterfly as a metaphor for one’s faith journey.
Traci Smith offers a “redo” of the traditional Jelly Bean Prayer. The traditional one focuses on the darkness of one’s heart and the red blood of Jesus. This redo is more of a general reflection on new life and Spring and can be used during the season after Easter as well as for Lent and Easter. I hope you enjoy it! This prayer is found in Faithful Families for Lent, Easter, and Resurrection by Traci Smith. Chalice Press; 2022.
Illustrated Ministry's Holy Week Coloring Pages join a large library of coloring pages and posters to use during Lent, Holy Week, and Easter. Check them all out here.
The Iona Community offers numerous resources, spanning from Lenten devotionals, liturgies for Ash Wednesday, Mother's Day, Earth Day, and Holy Week to Easter; at-home family activities, and more.
Journey from Easter to Pentecost with 50 Days of Spiritual Practice. Each week takes you through a different theme to deepen your faith. Do all the activities or pick and choose as your schedule allows. This is a “perpetual calendar” designed to be used every year. Match up the weeks with your calendar and pencil them in!
How to Live the 50 Days of Easter
Suggests for living into the Easter Season from Building Faith
