Children's Activities for Holy Week(Week Prior to Easter)

Stations of the Cross for children online.

Printable Coloring Booklet (PDF)

Family Activities from Christianity Today for the week prior to Easter.

The Seder Meal as a Christian Home Celebration: Preparing and Celebrating the Holy Thursday Meal

Read Sermons4kids, super reflections for children during Lent or any day during the year. These are readable online and printable. Also included are coloring pages, word jumbles, crossword puzzles, etc.

Bake Resurrection cookies(Scripture included). Traditionally made on Holy Saturday, or the day before Easter.

Pick special Easter or Christian themed movies to watch this week.

Read the Gospel of Mark; it is the shortest, most understandable, and easiest to read to children.

If the children are older, make a special sacrifice this week. Make an extraordinary donation of your time, service or money to an organization or individual. Offer this up. Give to the poorest of the poor, the ones for whom Jesus came and for whom the kingdom belongs.

If you are Catholic and have not yet gone to adoration or reconciliation during Lent, attend to these early during Holy Week as a family. Good Friday and Holy Saturday should be a time for quiet reflection in the household, and no outside secular activities.

Palm Sunday: directions for palm cross

Bumped up from 2009.