Best 20 Holy Week Printable Activities for Kids (Palm Sunday to Easter)
Holy Week used to sneak up on me. Not spiritually — I knew it was coming — but practically. Palm Sunday would arrive and I’d be standing at the printer at 9 PM the night before, downloading something off Pinterest that was definitely not loading fast enough. Three kids, a husband who disappears into church mode from Tuesday to Sunday, and a Sunday school rotation I cover on alternating weeks. Now I prep the whole week in one print run, usually the Saturday before Palm Sunday. Everything laminated or in sheet protectors if I have time. Not always. Heads up: some links below are affiliate links, so if you grab something through one it helps keep PsalmKids going at no extra cost to you.
The truth about Holy Week activities is that you don’t need twenty of them — you need four or five that actually match your kids’ ages and attention spans. My three-year-old, Nora, wants to color and carry things in the Palm Sunday parade. My six-year-old, Eli, asks questions. Sharp ones. Last year he asked ‘did it hurt’ about Good Friday and just nodded when I said yes, filed it away. My eight-year-old, Clara, wants to read and do and make sense of the timeline. One activity that works for all three of them simultaneously does not exist. I’ve stopped looking.
What I’ve put together here is what I actually use — printables and digital graphics that cover the arc from Palm Sunday through Easter morning. Some are coloring sheets. Some are graphics you print onto card stock and turn into something with your kids. A few are SVG files for the crafters in the room. I’ll tell you what worked, what needed more prep than I expected, and what Nora immediately destroyed in under four minutes.
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3D Standing Crosses Kids Can Actually Build on Good Friday
Good Friday is the hardest day to do activities with kids because you don’t want to make it cute. These 3D standing crosses are a laser-cut bundle — you print them on card stock, score the fold lines, and end up with crosses that stand on their own on the windowsill or table. We did this the year Eli asked his question about whether it hurt. He built his cross while I answered. Having something to do with his hands helped him sit with the answer.
The files come as a bundle with multiple cross styles. Print on white card stock, 65-lb minimum — anything lighter and the tabs don’t hold when you fold. I made three sizes for three kids. Nora’s lasted about six minutes before she tried to make it dance, so laminate the smaller ones if you’re handing them to a toddler.
Whimsical Easter Clipart Bundle for Palm Sunday Cards Kids Make
Palm Sunday at our church involves a kids’ parade with palms and a lot of excited chaos before the service. The week before, Clara and Eli make cards to give to people after the parade — something to mark the start of Holy Week for whoever receives them. This whimsical Christian Easter clipart set has exactly the kind of cheerful-but-still-Jesus imagery that works for that: crosses, florals, resurrection themes that aren’t grim but also aren’t just bunnies.
Print the images at 4×6 on photo paper and fold in half for a simple card. Or print on regular copy paper and let kids color-in the line art versions. The bundle includes multiple graphics, so you get variety without hunting for separate files. Download, pick three or four, print, and hand the kids markers.
Boho Praise PNG That Becomes a Maundy Thursday Table Banner
Maundy Thursday dinner at our house is the one night we actually sit down and talk about the Last Supper while eating something vaguely resembling a shared meal. The ‘I Will Praise Him’ boho PNG makes a banner across the table — I print it tiled across three sheets of cardstock, tape them together on the back, and hang it on the wall behind the table. Takes ten minutes including tape.
The boho aesthetic is softer than traditional church graphics, which means it works for kids who respond better to watercolor tones than stained-glass imagery. Eli thinks it looks ‘like a painting’ which in six-year-old terms is high praise. Print at full bleed if your printer allows it, otherwise leave the white margin — it still looks intentional at this scale.
Resurrected Jesus Clipart for Easter Morning Retelling Printouts
Easter morning, before the egg hunt, we read the resurrection account and I put up the image that matches each part of the story. The resurrected Jesus clipart in this set is clear enough for kids to understand who they’re looking at — not abstract, not frightening, just a figure in white with visible wounds if the kids look closely. Clara noticed on her own last year. That started a conversation that lasted into breakfast.
Print this one at 8×10 on regular printer paper — you don’t need photo quality for what’s essentially a story prop. One print, one lamination pass if you want it to last, and it becomes a reusable piece you pull out every Easter. The file is a PNG so no special software needed to resize before printing.
Easter Jesus Faith SVG Set for a Full Week of Story Crafts
This PNG and SVG bundle carries cross, crown of thorns, empty tomb, and risen Jesus imagery — enough to cover Palm Sunday through Easter if you spread the images across the week. I assign one image per day for coloring, then we put them in order on the fridge by Saturday so the kids can see the whole story laid out before Easter morning.
The SVG files mean you can scale them to any size without quality loss, which matters if you’re printing for a Sunday school class and need some poster-sized, some hand-held. PNG versions print straight from a browser or photo viewer. No special software needed unless you’re doing the SVG route, which requires a free program like Inkscape or Canva’s free tier.
He Is Risen Cross PNG for Easter Sunrise Service Table Printouts
Our church does an Easter sunrise service. It is early. 6:30 AM early, with kids who stayed up too late the night before. I print this ‘He Is Risen’ cross PNG as a small card — wallet-size, folded — that each kid holds during the service. Something in their hands keeps them present when they’re running on four hours of sleep and the temperature outside is still April-cold.
This specific PNG has a clean cross design with bold lettering, readable even at 2×3 inches. Print eight to a page on cardstock, cut apart with a paper trimmer. You can also print full-size at 8×10 for a framed piece for Holy Week week, then take it down after Easter. The file downloads immediately and needs no editing to use as-is.
Christian Easter Clipart Bundle for a Week of Rotating Table Art
Seven days, seven images. That’s how I use this clipart bundle — one new image each morning of Holy Week on the breakfast table, printed on cardstock and propped against the salt shaker. No explanation required from me. The kids eat breakfast, they look at it, sometimes they ask questions. Palm Sunday gets the triumphal entry image. Good Friday gets the cross. Easter gets the empty tomb.
The bundle has enough variety to cover the full week with distinct imagery for each day. Print the night before each day if you’re a one-at-a-time person, or print all seven on Saturday and stack them face-down. Second approach means Tuesday’s breakfast image doesn’t accidentally appear on Sunday. Ask me how I know this matters to an eight-year-old.
Faith-Based Easter Bunny Graphic for Kids Who Need the Bridge
Nora is three. She knows bunnies are part of Easter and she knows Jesus is part of Easter and she has not yet sorted out that those are two different things happening. This faith-based Easter bunny graphic threads the needle — it’s a bunny, clearly, but placed in the context of Christian Easter imagery. She colors it. She’s happy. The connection builds slowly.
For parents of toddlers trying to keep Easter Christ-centered without eliminating every secular element entirely, this is the image that bridges it. Print on regular white paper, hand over the crayons, step back. The graphic line weights are thick enough for small kids to color without going too far outside the lines, which matters more than you’d think at 3 years old.
Watercolor Easter Story Sublimation Set for Framed Holy Week Art
This watercolor set tells the Easter story across multiple scenes — not individual clipart images but sequential watercolor-style panels. I printed three of the panels, framed them in the cheap 5×7 frames from the dollar section, and put them on the mantel as the week’s art. Clara, who is eight and has opinions about aesthetics, said it looked ‘like a real painting.’ She was not wrong.
The watercolor style reads as art, not craft supply, which means you can put it somewhere visible without it looking like a children’s classroom project. Download note: these are sublimation-file dimensions, meaning they print large and sharp. Scale down to 5×7 or 8×10 before sending to your home printer to avoid unexpected cropping.
He Is Risen Pink Floral Cross PNG for Easter Basket Note Cards
I put a note card in each kid’s Easter basket with a verse — not instead of chocolate, let’s be clear, but alongside it. The pink floral cross on this PNG is soft enough that even Eli, who is skeptical of anything described as ‘pretty,’ didn’t complain. I printed it at 4×6, folded, wrote the verse inside with a Sharpie. Took four minutes total for three cards.
The floral detail on this one is high resolution — it looks good printed small. The pink reads more blush than hot pink, so it works for boys and girls without adjustment. If you want to use it for Easter Sunday table cards at a larger gathering, print at 5×7 on photo paper and the detail holds beautifully. One of the more versatile single-image files in this list.
PRAY Patchwork Easter PNG for a Holy Week Prayer Corner Printout
Holy Week is the week I actually get the kids to stop and pray, not just before meals. We have a small corner of the living room — a candle, a cross, a printed image — and we use it for maybe three minutes each evening. The PRAY patchwork Easter PNG is the image that goes in that corner all week. The patchwork style is visually interesting enough that kids look at it rather than through it.
Print at 8×10 on regular paper and put it in a frame you already own, or tape it to a piece of dark cardstock for a matted look without buying anything. The lettering is large and clear, which matters when you’re doing a three-minute evening prayer with a three-year-old who needs visual anchors to stay on topic. Swap it out for a different image Easter Sunday morning.
Vintage Easter Bunny Clipart for Secular-Bridge Easter Crafts
My kids have grandparents who send Easter baskets focused entirely on candy and bunnies. I don’t fight this. What I do is make sure that by Saturday, the religious content of the week has landed, so Sunday morning the baskets are a celebration on top of something they already know. This vintage Easter bunny clipart is for the craft side — egg decorating labels, bag tags for treats, the basket liner sheet I print every year.
Vintage style means it doesn’t look like clip art from 1997, which matters if you’re decorating anything that goes on the table Easter morning. Print on cardstock and use a punch for basket tags. Or print on regular paper and use as a coloring page for the toddler who needs to be occupied while you finish the eggs.
Faith Like a Mustard Seed SVG for a Holy Week Science and Scripture Moment
This one is the stretch activity for Clara, who is eight and likes to connect things. On Thursday of Holy Week, we plant mustard seeds in a small cup — takes five minutes — and print this SVG alongside it. The verse goes on the cup. She watches for the sprout. It doesn’t usually show by Easter Sunday but that’s actually the point she figured out on her own last year: you plant and you wait.
SVG format means scalable to any size. Print the verse at 2×3 to wrap a seed cup, or 8×10 for a wall piece. The file requires a vector editor or Cricut to use in SVG form, but if you save it as PNG through Creative Fabrica’s download options, it prints straight from any photo viewer. Check your download options before assuming you need special software.
He Is Risen Cross Flower PNG for Easter Sunday Table Centerpiece Cards
Easter dinner at our house is chaotic in the best way — church family, my in-laws, the kids hopped up on candy from their baskets. I print this cross-and-flower PNG as a centerpiece card that stands in the middle of the table. The cross-with-flowers design reads celebratory, not somber — right for a dinner table, especially one that already has a ham and a three-year-old trying to eat a Cadbury egg before grace.
Print at 5×7 on cardstock, score down the center, fold so it stands like a tent card. You can write the date on the back each year and keep them as a record. We have four years of Easter table cards in a box now. Clara reads the ones from when she was four and says she sounds like a baby. She did. It’s great.
No Bunny Loves Me Like Jesus PNG for the Toddler Easter Tote Bag
Nora carries a small canvas tote to Sunday school. It has her name on it and not much else. This Easter I ironed the ‘No Bunny Loves Me Like Jesus’ PNG onto the front using an iron-on transfer sheet from the craft store — fifteen minutes including press time, and she carried that bag to Easter service like she made it herself, which she sort of did since she watched and approved each step.
The PNG transfers cleanly to light-colored fabric. Buy the correct transfer paper for your printer type — inkjet and laser use different sheets and they are not interchangeable, this is one of those things that ruins a project. Print mirrored before ironing if your software doesn’t do it automatically. The image is simple enough that even a slightly imperfect transfer looks intentional.
Vintage Easter Bunny PNG for Printable Easter Basket Liner Sheets
Every Easter I print a basket liner — a sheet that lines the bottom of the basket under the grass. This vintage Easter bunny PNG tiles well across a standard sheet of paper, so I print two or three and layer them. The vintage illustration style means the ink doesn’t show through the grass the way solid-color prints sometimes do. Small thing. Noticed it once and now I always go vintage style for basket liners.
Also works as a simple wrap sheet around a treat box, or cut into individual tags for bags of candy. The resolution on this one is high enough that even printed large it holds detail. Seasonal file, worth downloading and keeping in a folder so you have it ready the following year without buying again — check your Creative Fabrica license terms for personal reuse.
A Few Last Thoughts
By Easter morning, my kitchen table looks like a week happened to it. There are wax crayon bits and scissors and at least one cross someone made that I should probably keep. Eli asks every year whether the stone was really, really big. Clara wants to know what happened next — Acts 1, the ascension, where did he go. Nora just says ‘he wasn’t there’ with complete confidence and goes to find her basket.
That’s what a week of printable activities actually produces. Not crafts. Not projects. The story, landing in three different ways for three different kids who are all at completely different places with it. The printables are just the vehicle. You print them, you sit down, you let the questions come. Some of them you can answer. Some you can’t. That’s fine too.
If you grab a couple things from this list, print them before Thursday of Holy Week — not Friday night, trust me on this. The seasonal files occasionally need a troubleshooting pass on older printers and you don’t want to be doing that at 10 PM. Most of these download instantly. Give yourself one afternoon before Palm Sunday and you’ll have enough to get through the whole week without scrambling.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What Holy Week activities does this set cover from Palm Sunday to Easter?
It walks kids through the events of Holy Week in order, from Palm Sunday through the cross to resurrection morning, using activities like sequence cards, coloring, and reflection pages. Following the week day by day helps kids grasp the full story leading to Easter. Pairing each activity with the gospel reading makes it meaningful.
Can I reuse these Holy Week printables each spring?
Yes, since you keep the PDF you can reprint the activities every year as Holy Week comes around. Laminating reusable pieces like the sequence cards lets you bring them back annually. Save the file in a labeled folder so you find it again next Lent.
Do these work for both family devotions and a children's class?
They fit both, whether you are doing daily devotions at home or leading a Holy Week children's lesson. Print one set for your kids or a stack for a group. Personal and single-group use is the standard license, so reprinting for your own family or class is covered.
