Catholic Kid Activities for Each Day of Lent

What better way to go through Lent with your Catholic kids than to do crafts and activities with them? Hands on activities help to solidify learning for children and it’s the perfect creative outlet for the season!

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Here are 40 Days Worth of Lenten Crafts:

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1. 1. Use chalk to promote a “dust” feeling with this Ash Wednesday craft
   2. Fill out a Lenten promises card
   3. Make a crown of thorns sacrifice wreath
   4. Create your own stations of the cross at home (or buy them here)
   5. Print out these free Catholic art bookmarks to walk through the week with you
   6. Get busy in the kitchen with easy Lenten pretzels!
   7. Make these awesome Palm Sunday branches
   8. Make this Jesus and donkey paper doll for Palm Sunday
   9. Make a coin-covered cross (Paid in Full)
   10. Paint your own crucifix
   11. Create a Lenten good deeds chart
   12. Make a Holy Week lapbook
   13. Make a resurrection garden (but roll a rock in front of the tomb until Easter!) (PSST! I bought wheatgrass and had the grass grow throughout Lent around the tomb. We trimmed the wheatgrass and planted flowers on Easter. The wheatgrass made a great addition to a Easter celebration smoothie!)
   14. Make a chalice and bread for Holy Thursday
   15. Recreate Calvary Hill with this easy printable
   16. Build a Lego Last Supper and/or Lego resurrection garden
   17. Make a Jesus felt finger puppet (good for older kids or a parent can make it for kids to play with)
   18. Create stepping stones as a visual of Jesus’ walk to the crucifix
   19. Fold this EASY stations of the cross prayers mini-book
   20. Paint wooden resurrection eggs (buy the wooden eggs here)
   21. Create an egg carton Holy Thursday Last Supper craft
   22. Color Stations of the Cross Brother Francis pages or watch a Brother Francis Stations of the Cross video (doesn’t get much easier!)
   23. Paint a watercolor crucifix
   24. Make an Agony in the Garden diorama
   25. Color the Sorrowful Mysteries
   26. Glue this Stations of the Cross lift flap notebook
   27. Draw a St Veronica ornament 
   28. Make an Easter Wreath for the door to your child’s room
   29. Color foil to make beautiful crosses
   30. Make a Stations of the Cross Carousel
   31. Make an empty tomb craft
   32. Help your kids create a Holy Week banner
   33. Make a Jesus peg doll with the 5 wounds of Christ
   34. Create a Jesus peg doll reenactment
   35. Make pray, fast, give magnets
   36. While you’re doing magnets, check out these Stations of the Cross magnets
   37. Make shadow Stations of the Cross
   38. Color a Lenten prayer stained glass coloring page
   39. Create this pray, fast, give placemat
   40. Make a “stained glass” cross
   41. Fold your palms branches into the shape of a cross

I hope these help you! Want more ideas? Check out SO many more ideas on our Lent Pinterest board. Follow it here!

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(This post was last updated March 9, 2020)