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Easter Bible Printables

March 6, 2016 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

Easter is right around the corner and I wanted to share some newly updated resources with you!

On our sister site Christian Preschool Printables you’ll find a great collection of printable coloring pages, games, worksheets, and crafts you can use to teach your children about the true meaning of Easter. New this year, we’ve added in a a Resurrection BINGO game as well as some colorful Easter Matching Cards you can use to play table games. You’ll also find a great collection of Jelly Bean Prayer printables if you want to send children home with a special treat.

If you’re looking for an easy solution for teaching your Easter lessons this year, be sure to check out our Christian Easter Activity Pack:

Easter Activity Pack

Over 80 pages of printable resources at your fingertips this Easter season! This Bible Easter Activity Pack is filled with Bible games, worksheets, crafts and activity pages you can use to teach your little ones the story of Easter. This set is designed for the K-5 teacher or homeschool family and includes multi age resources to connect with different ages and abilities. Look Inside

More Christian Easter Teaching Resources:

New Easter Resources:

Easter Coloring Pages (above)

Color Your Own Bookmarks (above)

Easter Cross Bookmarks

Editable Easter Verse Cards

Most Popular Easter Resources

Bible Verse Easter Eggs

Cross Egg Craft for Kids

Cross Watercolor Art Project

Resurrection Egg Printables

Resurrection Lapbook

Easter Story Coloring Pages

Easter Story Folder Game

Easter Spin to Win Game

Bible Verse Printables for Easter

verse 1 verse 2 verse 3

Resurrection Crafts & Activities

Easter File Folder Games (Bible)

Easter File Folder Games (Eggs)

Jelly Bean Prayer Printables

Naturally Dyed Easter Egg Tips

Jelly Bean Prayer Printables

March 6, 2016 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

The Jellybean prayer is a simple teaching tool you can use with you students during the Easter season.

Like Easter Story Eggs, the Jellybean Prayer is used to tell the story of redemption in Christ.

Each colored jellybean represents a different piece of the resurrection story and when you combine this story with a small bag of Jellybeans, children are sure to remember this lesson!

I’ve created quite a few resources for teaching with this Jellybean theme:

Jellybean Prayer Bookmarks
Jellybean Prayer Coloring Pages
Jellybean Prayer Chart & Poem
Jellybean Prayer Write & Color Booklet
Jellybean Prayer Bible Puzzle

These are all available free on Christian Preschool Printables.

Learn more about our Christian Easter Activity Pack Here:

Easter Activity Pack

Christian Easter Activity Pack

January 31, 2016 By Valerie Mcclintick 5 Comments

We had such a huge response to our Christmas Activity Pack last year, that I thought it would be a good idea to put together a similar resource for Easter!

I know many of you are already planning your Easter lessons, so I wanted to get this out in January to give you plenty of time to put these resources to work for you.

And since it’s the 31st I can pat myself on the back for that goal met…. ha!

You can download our Easter Activity Pack from our Teachers Pay Teachers eStore

Want to peek inside?

This pack is filled with 80 pages of multi-level games, activities and resources to take all the work out of your Easter Sunday School Lesson planning.

Three Different Easter Bible Games:

Seven Easter Arts and Craft Activities:

(Five shown below)

Easter Story Wheel & Easter Story Resurrection Eggs:

Easter Cross Geometric Art Project for Kids:

Easter Story Eggs for Art Projects

(Wreaths, Storybooks, Easter Baskets….etc)

Easter Crowns for Take Home:

There are TONS of coloring pages and Worksheets:

Full Size Easter Egg Coloring Pages

Three Levels of Easter Mazes for Kids

Easter Crosswords, Word Scramble and Word Search

(these make great take home items!)

Easter Copywork

Print, Cursive and Blank available with NIV

You can download our Easter Activity Pack from our Teachers Pay Teachers eStore

Easter Bible Bookmarks

March 21, 2015 By Valerie Mcclintick 3 Comments

Easter is right around the corner and I’ve got some more printable resources for you!

These Color Your Own Easter Bible Bookmarks are perfect for children of all ages.

Featuring four different designs, each have their own image to color and the following sayings;

‘He is Risen.” “Jesus Lives,” “Happy Easter,” and “Hosanna!.”

Print Christian Easter Bookmarks Here

I recommend printing these on heavy carstock for children to color in with fine tip markers.

If you have a laminator in your classroom you can turn these into long lasting bookmarks for your children.

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Christian Easter Coloring Pages

March 21, 2015 By Valerie Mcclintick 2 Comments

Today I have two different Easter coloring pages for you!

Each page features an easy color cross with a heart and reads, “He is Risen” or “Happy Easter.”

These are simple coloring pages that make it super simple for children to color in, or add patterns and designs of their own.

Easter Cross Coloring

Easter Cross Coloring 2

Find More Easter Coloring Pages Here

Find TONS of Easter Printables Here

Easter Cross Watercolor Craft

March 29, 2014 By Valerie Mcclintick 2 Comments

Today we have an Easter Cross Watercolor Craft for children of all ages.

Calvary Cross Watercolor Craft

What makes this easy and fun is that you can provide younger children with our printable template, making it easier for them to follow along. Â Older children can start with a blank paper.

You start out with a little Â white crayon in select areas:

And you finish up with an amazing watercolor of the cross on Calvary

Click Here for the full Craft Tutorial

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Easy Easter Sunday School Craft

March 28, 2014 By Valerie Mcclintick 1 Comment

Today we’ve got an Easy but Beautiful Easter Sunday School Craft for you!

All you need is a set of watercolors & our Easter Craft Template

Sometimes Photos are the best way to explain a craft project:

Don’t they turn out so beautiful!

These would be great affixed to a card or something for children to take home.

Print your Template Here

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NEW: Easter Activity Pack! Click here

Easter Bible Verse Cards for Kids

March 27, 2014 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

Every year we try to add new and useful printables to our Easter Crafts Page.

This year we’ve added some colorful Bible Verse Cards for Kids!

This set features 10 different verse cards.

Each card is a colorful egg shape and features a key scripture pertaining to the resurrection of Christ.

We’ve even included a printable pocket with a verse checklist you use use to track progress.

This would be a great set to use with your own Easter Curriculum.

Print our Easter Bible Verse Cards From Here

Find More Holiday Bible Verse Card Sets Here

Looking for more Easter Ideas?

Check out our HUGE Easter Freebies List &

Hop over to our latest Subscriber Newsletter,

it’s filled with freebies & links to our most popular resources!

Also, be sure you check out Amanda’s latest eBook A Sense of the Resurrection,

this is a great way to make meaningful memories with your family this season!

Stay tuned for more!

DIY Stained Glass Coloring Pages

March 26, 2013 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

So last week, while browsing around Pinterest,
I found this cheepo way to make DIY stained glass coloring pages.

And the timing couldn’t have been better.
(As my children had just tore out the very last page in their stained glass coloring book)

So I thought I’d give it a try to see if we got a comparable result:

Not bad right?

The sun kept popping in and out from behind the clouds, so this shot is a tad more “cloudy”
but you can see the DIY on the left and the purchased on the right.
So the DIV version is not EXACTLY the same as a prepaid sheet,
but it is way cheaper then buying a set of pages or even a stack of vellum to print on.

Plus you can really turn ANY coloring page into a stained glass project.
And what kiddo does’t love to see their own creations on display?

Just in case you wanted to try out this method for yourself,
I whipped up some beautiful Easter pages that would look great as stained glass.

Head on over to our main site for the printable pages and the full tutorial!

Blessings,

Valerie

Easter Printables and Resources

March 4, 2013 By Valerie Mcclintick 7 Comments

Easter is just around the corner!
Here is a “Pinnable” list of our most popular resources!

On Christian Preschool Printables we have:
Printable Resurrection Eggs
Easter Memory Match
Easter Wordwall Cards
Printable Puzzles
He is Risen Crafts
The Empty Tomb Craft
Easter Bingo
Easter Bookmarks
Easter Cross File Folder Games
Easter Memory Match
Easter Game
Hosanna Crafts
Easter Bible Verse Printables
and more

On Bible Story Printabes we have:

Easter Timeline Cards
Easter Storyboard Set
Easter Coloring Pages
Bible Story Minibook
Bible Verse Copywork Pages
The Story of Easter File Folder Game
and more….

Our Sponsors, Hearts at Home Curriculum
have an amazing deal right now on these animated Easter DVD’s.
You can get one DVD for $5 or 3 for $12.95 until 3/30/13.
(these are high quality videos produced by NEST entertainment!!)

On File Folder Fun we have five different Easter themed games:

Chick-n-Place
Colorful Easter Eggs
Eggciting “e”
Spring Peeps
Shattered Patterns

On LapbookLessons we have a free Easter Lapbook!
Even a Lapbook video for how to put it together.

Don’t forget to check out the fun Stained Glass Easter Crosses we made a couple years back.

One year we even tried out some natural methods of egg dying!
Best of all, most of the resources we had in stock in our kitchen.

Jelly Beans make great resources when teaching children about salvation!
On Little Blots of Faith we have these fun printable poems you can share
with children, as well as MANY more links and resources for planning out an Easter Lesson!

Hope that gets you off to a good start!

Last Minute Easter Baskets

April 24, 2011 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

When I was a child, I had my very own Easter Bunny Basket.
It was handmade (in the 80’s) by the nursery worker at our local bowling alley.
It was a compliation of yarn, ribbon, and a plastic milk jug.

I’m pretty sure it’s long gone now, but here is a photo of the closest thing I could find online.

You can imagine how much I loved it.

And you can imagine how guilty I feel to admit that:

My children do not have Easter baskets.

gasp.

Why? you ask.

How could I have let that happen?

It’s a mixture between wanting their baskets to be keepsakes, keeping Christ in Easter, and just an overall lack of time.

(and a whole lot of procrastination)

…ahem

But that is all in the past, and this year, I was not about to let another Easter morning pass without baskets.

So I bought four identical baskets from Walmart,

And sewed little liners for them:

One for the girl:

And Three for the boys:

You can tell I din’t measure because they are kinda baggy

But for twenty minutes I’m pretty happy….All I did was sew the sides up a fat quarter and then make corners at the bottom:

Then I just added a strip of dotted fabric to make them all a bit similar:

And even though I didn’t have time to make them perfect, I’m glad we now have some!

Eventually I’d like to add a bit more customization for each kiddo,
maybe the first letter of their name or something to make it special for each child.

Any Ideas?

These would look really beautiful with the Naturally dyed Eggs we did last year!

Stained Glass Easter Cross

April 11, 2011 By Valerie Mcclintick 5 Comments

Today we started off our day making these beautiful
Stained Glass Easter Crosses!

They turned out wonderful and made a fantastic
display in our window!

We used watercolors so that the light would shine through,
Look how pretty:

I uploaded a free template on ChristianPreschoolPrintables
where you can print it out for your own kiddos to try!

easter cross craft

Stained Glass Easter Cross

These would make fantastic bulletin board displays if you
have a large classroom too!

What Easter Crafts do you have planned this year?

A Hybrid Easter

April 4, 2010 By Valerie Mcclintick 4 Comments

This year for the first time……..
We attempted to use Natural Dying techniques to color our eggs.

(And before you get all “eggy” and Easter Bunny…Pagan Fertility on me….I’ll have you know that my daughter….on her own accord prayed this evening that we would not get caught up in all the chocolate eggs tomorrow and forget what Easter is really about!)

Ha. She thinks she’s getting Chocolate!

(Doesn’t she know that at precisely midnight tonight her mother will be found scouraging the kitchen cupboards, for any kind of sweet morsel left over from Halloween? (A holiday we’ve also discussed at great lengths but that’s another post) Seriously, instead of writing this I should be pulling out the fridge and checking to see what kinds of goodies have fallen behind it over the last year…..lest the kids get only Easter eggs in their baskets. (Baskets that I haven’t found yet).

Anyway, back to the egg making.

So, having laid somewhat of a foundation with the wee ones, I thought a little Easter Egg fun wasn’t completly out of the question.

So this afternoon we scoured around the house for anything and everything that might leave a lasting color on our eggs. Here’s what we came up with:

BlueBerries for Grey/Blue:

Orange Peels & Curry for Yellow:

Coffee for Beige/Brown:

Beets for Red/Pink:

Okay, you got me.

I didn’t really have Beets in my fridge. Totally made an extra trip to the store for these….buy hey, we picked up some eggs while we were there, and those were completely necessary.

We had great fun ~~all~~ ALL afternoon making the different dyes and letting our eggs soak up the color! (Yes, we added vinager to make the color stay….we’re not complete doofs.) Okay, well we might have forgot it for part of the afternoon….but NOT the whole afternoon.

For first timers, we had a blast, and the kiddos thought Mom was a flippin genius pulling out a trick like that.

(Kuddos to Me)

And then of course we helped the colors along a bit with those Natural little Tabs that you can pick up in the Organic Kits at the Whole Foods Store. You know the ones…..