Free Printable Resurrection Story Activity for Kids
As Holy Week and Easter approach this year, share the true story of Easter with your young children with this free printable resurrection storybook! It’s the most important part of our Christian faith! This is a great way to share the story with a hands-on activity. Best of all, there’s no prep! This free printable includes pages for your children to color, cut, and customize while reading scriptures about Jesus’ death and resurrection.
This may seem like such a simple activity, but your child can practice scissor skills, reading skills, sequencing, and more while learning all about the most important story of all.
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Keeping the Focus on the Real Reason for Easter
As parents, we know that the Easter holiday can easily become focused on candy, egg hunts, and baskets. While those traditions can be fun, teaching our children the real reason we celebrate is what matters most. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the foundation of our faith. Finding an interactive way to help little hearts understand Christ’s resurrection can feel overwhelming, but simple tools like this free printable make a great resource for busy moms.
Instead of just hearing the story once, they are engaging with it in a hands-on way. For different ages, you can adjust expectations. Younger kids can focus on coloring and listening, while older children can read the scriptures aloud, retell the events in their own words, and even add their own illustrations.
So if you’re looking for a great Easter resource that doesn’t require complicated prep, this is it. This download comes as easy-to-use PDF files. You can print them again and again for your family or church classroom.
However you choose to use it, the goal remains the same, helping our children understand the real reason we celebrate. And that’s Jesus’ victory over the grave!
Free Printable Resurrection Story Activity
This free printable download of the resurrection story includes six pages! Each page features two rectangles with a related image and scripture for your child to color, cut, and staple together to create their very own resurrection storybook. There are additional pages for your child to draw their own images and write their own sentences about the resurrection story if they choose. These pages would be great for the older kids!
How to Download the Resurrection Story Activity
Downloading this free printable resurrection storybook is easy! Just drop your email address below. The digital file will be sent straight to your inbox for you to print immediately. When you join my email list, you also gain instant access to my entire free printable library, which contains over 50 free printables! Everything from home management to seasonal printables for kids! This free printable is for personal use only. You can print as many copies as you need and even use it for your Sunday school class.
Supplies for Free Printable Resurrection Story Activity
There is no fancy prep work for this activity (all the moms said, “Amen!” ). All you need is to grab a few simple supplies for the kids to use:
- Print the download
- Regular white printer paper or white cardstock
- Crayons, markers, or coloring pencils
- Scissors
- Stapler
- Any other craft supplies your children choose to use, like glitter, if you dare!
Instructions for Printable Resurrection Story Activity
- Download this free printable
- Print on your choice of regular printer paper or cardstock
- Have your child write their name on the front page and color the images throughout the book
- You or your child should use the dotted lines to cut on each page
- Put the pages in the correct order of Jesus’ resurrection
- Staple together
- Done
Once it’s assembled, read the book together! It’s that easy, but don’t underestimate what they will gain from learning about the resurrection story from a simple activity like this. You’ll be amazed at what they can remember and the conversation this book can spark in their little minds.
How to Use This Resurrection Story for Easter
This activity is great for anyone to use! Use it at home with your younger children or in your Sunday school room! But I have a few more creative ways to use this resurrection storybook for your kids!
- Take it on the go if you’re running errands, eating at a restaurant, or even waiting in the doctor’s office. The best screen-free time! Just let them color and decorate their book, cut and assemble when you arrive back home.
- Read one part of the resurrection story each day leading up to Easter Sunday.
- Use this as a gift in their Easter baskets for a fun activity on Easter morning, a candy-free gift for the win!
- Pack in your church-busy bag.
I hope you and your little ones enjoy these Easter story printables. Have a blessed Easter celebration!
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