Easter Ideas for the kids

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Do you have any Easter Ideas that would be fun for little one’s that you could share with me? I have 3 year old twin boys and a 16 month old baby boy, trying to think of some fun crafts with a Catholic twist to the Easter stuff. So far just got popcicple sticks to make crosses lol !!
 
I can remember growing up that on Holy Saturday when my siblings and I did the dying of Easter Eggs, we always added religious phrases like “Jesus is risen today!” and stuff like that.
 
Catholic Icing is a great site for tons of fun crafts, activities, and food to go with all of the liturgical year, including easter. 👍
 
I second catholic icing. This is too short of notice to make but growing up we made confetti eggs.
Right around the beginning of Lent we start collecting the eggs. Whenever we use eggs we break off only the top, and rinse out the egg, later they are dyed filled with confetti, or in our case bird seed, sealed with tissue paper and glue.
They are hidden in our egg hunt and you crack them on people’s heads. This is something we learned when we lived in Mexico, it originated in rennisance Italy.
You can google confetti eggs for more info. They are lots of fun.👍
 
Check out the website CatholicCuisine. It has recipes, crafts and all manner of things. Sorry that I can’t provide the proper URL. My skills don’t go that far. :o
 
This isn’t really a Catholic idea but it’s really fun.

When we were kids, my sister and I used to make paper mache string baskets to give to family members.

Nowadays, you might be able to find something online with instructions, but it’s pretty much just a balloon, coat it in vaseline, wrap with colorful string until it’s fully covered, then dip in sugar water (or paper mache stuff… flour and water, but we used sugar) and let dry completely.

Typically we let them dry for a week…so this might be good for next year or another holiday project.

Then pop the baloon, and cut into a basket shape. We would go to the craft store and get flowers to hot-glue onto the rim of the basket to cover the edge, and fill it with Easter goodies!
 
Hi RoxyGirl1488,:angel1:

Those web links mentioned earlier by some posting here sound great.

For the twins, coloring on paper plates is fun. You could draw an outline of the empty tomb with some flowers, on one side, which they could color, and ask

“Where did Jesus go?”
On the other side, you have already drawn a huge heart surrounded by clouds and say “Right from Heaven:heaven: into your heart!”

I liked to explain that to my grand-daughter, that Jesus is very close, right in our hearts, so that He can help us every moment.

For the little one, crafts might be more a challenge, but I’d get lots of photos of the whole family so you will have all the memories!
Have a blessed Easter!:heaven:
Kathryn Ann
 
I remember a few years ago one of my nieces had a neat little craft that somebody made for her. It was an egg carton filled with plastic Easter eggs, and inside each egg was something that symbolized Holy Week and Easter.

I had to Google it because I couldn’t remember what was inside of the eggs. Here it is:
Resurrection Eggs

I’m sure you might even think of your own ideas of symbolic items to put inside the eggs.
It’s a great way to teach young kids about the story of Easter!
 
Today (Good Friday) use a flat container that is filled with sand, “decorate” with stones and add three crosses.

On Sunday decorate the same sandy expanse with flowers - a simple way to illustrate the bleakness of Good Friday as opposed to the joy of Easter.
 
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