Lent art projects

Confirmation art - paper plate dove and stained glass

Can you believe Easter is literally right around the corner!? AHH! I am so not ready! Well, with the coming of Easter comes a very special time for us Christians - Holy Week. This is a time when I get to teach my kinders the true meaning of Easter - and it is not the Easter Bunny! ;) I have compiled some of the ideas I have come across in hopes that it will aide you in your planning for Holy Week. They are low prep activities - because I need to start teaching this next week! During the…

Anyone that knows me knows that I enjoy sacred art and when my mom showed me how cute and simple these wooden crosses are to make, I knew I wanted to share her making this craft with

In making art, students discover grace all around them. Grace is about showing kindness, finding gratitude, letting go, and discovering God working through us. Using God-given creativity, students learn to find grace, and thus become igniters of grace for others.

Christian crafts for kids: ideas for Sunday school, vacation Bible school, CCD classes and home school.

This is a special Lent theme solo post. Lent is the lead up to Easter. It lasts for 40 days from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday (Sundays are not included in the tally) and represents the 40 days Jesus spent in the desert. To follow Lent is very much a personal choice. While advent […]

Elementary grade students will capture the events of Holy Week through drawings in this fun art Lenten art project.

To continue our celebration of Lent in the classroom, and to get the kids thinking about the Stations of the Cross, we made this Sunset and Shadow Stations of the Cross art project over the last two weeks. I am so pleased with how they turned out, and thought that I would share the idea and a few steps that worked for us. 1. First, we assigned the stations to various kids. I don't have 14 or 28 students in my class, which would have been ideal, but we just made sure that there were 14 kids…

Preschool finger print cross art work. Gift Idea.

Colorful Light Ray Cross ~ Put oil pastels along edge of scrap paper cut into cross shape. Tape lightly to second sheet of paper and use finger to smear the pastels onto the paper. Remove cross, revealing a beautiful radiant cross shape!