Religious Easter Craft for Kids -- Make a Resurrection Set! {It's Printable!}

I've been working on something that I've had in my head since last Easter, and I'm very excited to reveal it to you today- my new Printable Resurrection Set!

We all put nativity sets out at Christmas time, and I'm not sure why resurrection sets aren't more popular. So I made a printable version that's the counterpart to my printable nativity set.

What you need to make your own resurrection set:

• 10 cardboard tissue tubes (or about 4 paper towel tubes, or like 1 wrapping paper tube)
• 1 empty (square) tissue box
• Glue or a stapler
• Something to color them with (optional)
• Resurrection Set Printables
• Scissors

All you do is print the pages provided from this post, color them, cut them out, and glue them around toilet paper tubes.  The cutting is very easy... if you want it to be. For the most part, just cut around the outside lines. If you want something to stick out from the sides (like Jesus' arms or the angels' wings) you can cut them out around the edges and let them flap free from the sides of the tubes.

The tomb is cut out and glued to the top of a tissue box. This part could actually stand alone as an empty tomb craft for Easter. The rock and tomb print on the same page. I used a brad to attach our rock so that we can swing it open or closed. I found brads in the scrapbooking section of our craft store. Cut the hole out of the middle of the tomb and glue it over the open hole in your tissue box, and turn it on it's side. This makes a tomb you can actually place Jesus in.

The cross definitely needs to be cut free, so on that one I provided dotted lines to cut on.

On the cross page, I also provide a Jesus that can go on the cross. The way you use this is to have your children tape Jesus onto the cross on Good Friday at noon. Then at 3, take Him down, place his body in the tomb, and close the stone. On Easter morning, replace Jesus' body with the empty linen cloths. 

 

The linen cloths can just be folded to stand up and placed inside the tissue box.


I wanted my Resurrection Set to hold up a little longer than our nativity set did, so I painted them with watercolor paints, laminated them from the top with contact paper, and then cut them out. I didn't laminate them on the backs because they just glued around the cardboard tubes anyway. It would have been easier to attach them in the back with a stapler, but I couldn't find mine, so I used glue and held them in place with clothes pins until they dried. Now, here are the printables so you can make your own resurrection set!

Free Printable Resurrection Set 

in Black and White

Resurrection Set Page 1

Resurrection Set Page 2

Resurrection Set Page 3

Resurrection Set Page 4

Resurrection Set Page 5

Resurrection Set Page 6

Resurrection Set Page 7

My printable resurrection set includes Risen Jesus, St. Mary Magdalen, Mary the mother of John, St. Peter, 2 Angels, a Tomb with a rock, Linen cloths, 2 Roman soldiers, a Cross, and Crucified Jesus.

Use this set to teach your kids about the Resurrection
You can use this set as an interactive way to teach your kids the story of the Resurrection! If you'd like to use this as a religious Montessori activity for kids, I made a printable resurrection story for kids that you can use. Read the story aloud to your kids while you act it out with the pieces. I have included all the pieces you need for this biblical story. When you're done teaching with it, use it as a religious Easter mantle display! ;-)

You can also print this Resurrection set for free in Color! 

 I painted this Resurrection sets with watercolors, and scanned them again so I could offer them to all of you already in color as well! (It's pretty cute to have your kids color them, but sometimes it's nice to have this option as well.)

The colored set is available on my new special page for those who are subscribers of Catholic Icing! If you've already made yourself a friend of Catholic Icing by subscribing, just look to the bottom of this post in your reader or email, and you'll find a link to the "Subscriber Bonus Page". If you'd like to print the colored Resurrection set for free, but are not yet a subscriber, no problem! Subscribe here, or by entering your email address into the box below. After entering your email address, an email will be rushed to your inbox with access to the Subscriber bonus page!

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Linking this up at Tatertots and Jello and A Holy Experience.
 
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