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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Christmas Angel Crafts

Halo! Today I bring you good tidings of great joy- Choirs of heavenly angel crafts! Do not be afraid to attempt them yourself. :-)

I love this beautiful Angel Ornament from Crafts By Amanda.

Craft Angels from Doilies with Sycamore Stirrings.

Make Pine Cone Angels with Nini Makes.

Bake some Angel Cookies with Cookies and Cups.

Here's an Angel Ornament Craft from Kaboose.

Make this Angel Ornament out of ribbon! Also from Kaboose.

Find these adorable Clay Angel Plates on That Artist Woman.

Pink Paper Peppermints shares the printable template

for this Angel Candy Cane Holder.

Find this Printable Angel Tree Topper on Family Fun.

You can also craft this Angel Garland with Family Fun.

You could also make the Cardboard Tube Angel from

my printable nativity set. Very easy to do!

 Don't miss my Angel Round-up from last Christmas. You can see all my angel posts by clicking here. 

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"A" is for Angel Craft

Catholic ABC's Week: 6
Letter of the week: A
Theme: Angels
Saint of the Week: St. Anthony
Craft: "A" is for Angel Craft

This week we are learning the letter "A", and "A" is for Angel! When you're making this craft with your little angel, take the opportunity to teach them about angels.

Materials Needed to Complete this Craft:

• Construction paper (white and blue)
• Manila file folder
• Doll hair (available at any craft store for a very reasonable price) or hair colored yarn
• glue
• paint (blue)
• marker
• foam letter stickers (optional)

If you're doing this with a preschooler, you need to do some prepping before you start. Trace a circle onto a manila file folder and cut it out. Draw a simple angel face onto the circle with a marker. Also cut out a triangular dress shape for the angel from blue construction paper. 

Give your child a piece of white construction paper and have them glue down their angel dress, and then their angel head onto the paper. Paint their hands with the blue paint and help them to stick hand prints onto the angel for the "wings". Put glue all around the angel's head and let your little one stick on the doll hair or yarn to give the angel hair. Let them stick on an "A" sticker or just write on Angel with a marker.

This would be a great Guardian Angel Craft if you wrote "Angel of God my Guardian Dear" on it.

Grab Bag Ideas for the Letter Aa: (be sure to check out the Classroom Script for directions on using the grab bag.) Apple, American flag, Acorn, Arm (from Mr. Potato Head), Angel (statue or holy card), Airplane, Ace, Alien, Ant, Ape, Alligator, Altar Boy (holy card), Arrow, Astronaut, Ax.

For More Resources, check out the Catholic Toolbox lesson plans for the Letter Aa. (Her Aa lesson is on "Adam & Eve")

Catholic ABC's runs here at Catholic Icing every Wednesday with the new letter of the week. You can get the details of this program by checking out the Classroom Script.


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Celebrate Michaelmas - St. Michael and all the Archangels!

Michaelmas comes every year on September 29. It is the feast day of St. Michael, St. Gabriel, St. Raphael, and well- basically the Archangels :-) When getting ready to celebrate Michaelmas with your kids, think "tough angels". Because that's what archangels are. Save your "fluffy angel" ideas for the feast of Guardian Angels in October.

I love this Angel Mobile Craft from Bountiful Blessings.

If you're not crafts enough to cut the pieces out like she did,

Charlotte has a Printable Page of these Kitchen Angels.

 Here's a Coloring Page of St. Michael

from Catholic Kingdom.

They made these Archangel Candle Crafts over

on Sweetness and Light.

Find an Archangel Coloring Page

on Coloring Saints.

Waltzing Matilda has Archangel Coloring Sheets

for Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael.

(These colored versions from Bountiful Blessings).

Domestic Church has a St. Michael Cross Stitch Pattern

with the prayer of St. Michael.

Some food ideas could include having angel food cake, angel hair pasta, or "angel wings" (aka buffalo wings). You could also go in the opposite direction and serve deviled eggs or devil's food cake. Bountiful Blessings made this archangel cake in celebration of Michaelmas.

You could also decorate a cake with a small St. Michael or other angel statue, or stand up a laminated holy card in your cake. Enjoy celebrating Michaelmas!

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Angel Snack- Play With Your Food!

I just love crafty food! I needed an angel, and cutting out a sandwich with my angel shaped cookie cutter just wasn't scratching my creative itch. It took me longer to come up with a way to make edible angels then I though it would, but here they are in all their glory!

Praying Angel, Singing Angel, and Smiling Angel :-)

Making Your Angel Snack:
Bugle- for her dress
Oyster Cracker- for her head
Pretzel- for her wings
Cheerio- for her halo

Stick your angels all together with some cream cheese frosting:

Here they are from the back:

You could totally stop here, and for most of my choir of angels, I did. Or you can give them a little face and some praying hands. The face was drawn on with the cream cheese frosting. The praying hands are the center part of a pretzel with the outside loops chopped off. 

This will be useful next month as a snack for the feast of St. Michael, Gabriel, & Raphael (September 29) and the feast of guardian angels (on October 2)! 

These would be cute to serve to younger kids, and fun for older kids to assemble for themselves.

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Annunciation Coloring Page

The feast of the Annunciation is coming up tomorrow, March 25. (Sorry about the short notice. Lol!) Anyways, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to share this AMAZING coloring page with you guys.

Link to Coloring Page

Post on the Annunciation from Familia Catolica.

Isn't it beautiful? I love it! Happy coloring :-)

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Religious Christmas Cookies

Here's some eye-candy inspiration for rolling out some home-made religious Christmas cookies :-)

I loved this beautiful angel cookie I found on flickr.

I love these stained glass church cookies from

Catholic Bakery
Make a whole nativity cookie set with a
Wilton Project Kit.
Candy Canes and Stars are both religious
symbols this time of year :-)
Love this set of sweet nativity cookies from
Frantically Simple.

If these candle cookies were iced pink and purple, wouldn't
they make great advent cookies? I found these on flickr too!

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Angel Art Projects

I thought it would be fun to post some Angel art projects for the Christmas season! All of these ideas come from That Artist Woman. She is the art teacher at a Catholic school. I absolutely adore her blog because she gives very detailed photo tutorials on each of her projects. If you home school, please bookmark her site and come back to all of her amazing art projects for your little ones! :-)

Click the Links to see the full directions of completing each project:

Tissue Paper Angels

Hand and Footprint Angels

Angel Pencil Toppers

Paper Chain Angels

Angel Clothesline

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