Best 20 VBS Craft Printables for Kids (Christian Vacation Bible School)

VBS week at our church means my husband disappears into youth group mode by 7am and I am running the little-kids craft station on prayer and whatever I printed the night before. Last summer that was 11pm, yellow ink reading “low,” and me counting whether we had enough pages for 22 four-year-olds. We did not. I ran a second print job at midnight and the last eight sheets came out so faded you could barely see the cross outlines. The kids colored them anyway and called them “ghost crafts.” I am still not over it.

I’ve done this enough times now to have a system. Download everything at least three days out. Check ink levels on day two. Print a test sheet on day one. And please, for the love of the Holy Spirit, have a backup activity ready because the laminator will jam at least once. The printables I’m sharing below are ones I’ve actually used at VBS stations or little-kids Sunday school — or ones I wish I’d had when I was standing in the dollar store at 9pm trying to improvise.

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God Is Good All the Time PNG – Classic VBS Poster Design

This is the one I printed for our memory verse station last year. Bold text, clean layout, reads from across a folding table covered in glitter glue. My six-year-old memorized the phrase off the sheet before we even started. I printed it at 8×10 on cardstock and the ink held up fine — our printer is a mid-range HP and I was using off-brand cartridges, which I do not recommend but also cannot afford to stop doing.

The file comes as a PNG so you’re not fussing with vector software. One thing to know: the transparency layer means if you print on yellow or cream paper the background picks up that color. White cardstock only. Simple fix, but worth knowing before you load the tray.

Christian Clipart Bundle – Mix-and-Match VBS Craft Sheets

This bundle has enough variety that I used different pieces across four separate craft stations without anyone noticing it was the same source file. Crosses, doves, Bible imagery — all on white backgrounds, all clean enough to print small without going muddy. I resized several to fit a half-sheet layout to stretch paper further, which matters when you’re printing for 30 kids on a church budget.

Honest note: the preview thumbnails make some images look crisper than they print at smaller sizes. Anything below 3 inches across starts losing edge detail. Keep the dove images at 4 inches minimum and they’re fine. Use them as coloring page accents or cut-and-paste craft elements — both work.

Cute Nativity Clipart Bundle – Shepherd and Manger Craft Set

I know nativity is technically Christmas but every VBS I’ve run eventually hits “the story of Jesus” week and this bundle covers it without screaming December. The illustration style is genuinely cute — rounded, soft, the kind of thing a three-year-old will recognize as a baby without needing explanation. My youngest pointed at the manger scene and said “baby!” which is honestly the correct response.

The bundle includes multiple characters as separate PNGs, so you can build a craft where kids assemble the scene themselves. Cut out the shepherd, the star, the manger. Glue onto blue construction paper. Done in fifteen minutes even with a distracted group. Watch the star — it’s detailed and gets fiddly at small print sizes.

God Is Good PNG Vintage Rose – For Older Kids and Teen Helpers

The vintage rose colorway on this one skews older — muted pinks, dusty greens, a hand-lettered feel. I wouldn’t use it for the four-year-old station but it worked well when I made a thank-you card template for our teen volunteers. Print it on a half-fold card blank, have the little kids sign their names, and the teens actually kept them. That’s a win.

The file is a single PNG with a transparent background, which means you can layer it over a colored card without a white box appearing around the design. That took me two failed prints to figure out. Open it in your print software and set the paper color manually before previewing — saves ink.

Teacher You Are Faith Crayon Clipart – Appreciate Your VBS Volunteers

This one is not a kid craft. This is for the adults who showed up at 8am all week and smiled through the fourth off-key rendition of the theme song. Print it on a mug transfer, frame it, slap it on a sticker — the crayon motif works for anyone who teaches kids and the faith language makes it church-specific without being over the top.

I used it to make a small card insert for the gift bags we put together for VBS volunteers at the end of the week. The file is sized for standard printing and the colors are bright enough that they pop even on our older printer. The crayons are the main visual element, so if you print at anything under 5×7 they’ll still read clearly.

Faith Butterfly Floral Cross PNG – Purple Colorway Coloring Base

The purple version of this cross design is the one I keep coming back to for spring VBS sessions. It’s detailed enough that older kids — my eight-year-old calls anything with actual shading “a real drawing” — want to color it carefully. For the younger group I printed it at 8×10 with thicker lines and it worked fine as a basic coloring page.

Fair warning: the floral detail around the cross is tight. It will print soft if your printer is more than a few years old or if you’re not on the high-quality setting. Run one test sheet. If the petals look blobby, simplify by printing larger — 10×13 on legal paper. That extra inch makes a real difference on the fine lines.

Faith Butterfly Floral Cross PNG – Pink Colorway Spring Craft Option

Same design as the purple version but in pink, which means I can hand a different colorway to different tables and keep things from looking identical. Kids notice that stuff more than adults do. My six-year-old specifically said she wanted “the pink one not the purple one” and I was grateful I had both downloaded.

This prints well on white or light cream cardstock. The pink tones are warm enough that they look intentional even on slightly off-white paper. I’d skip the hot-pink construction paper if you’re thinking of printing on colored stock — the tones fight each other. Keep it on white and let the kids add their own color around the design.

Faith Butterfly Floral Cross PNG – Gold Colorway for VBS Decor

The gold version of this cross is the one I didn’t expect to like best, but it prints with a warmth that the digital preview undersells. Printed at 8×10 on white cardstock and stuck in a basic black frame, it looked like actual art on our VBS station table. Three parents asked where I got it. I said “online” and felt smug about it.

Be aware the gold tones are yellow-heavy. On a printer with a dry yellow cartridge they’ll go flat and look more tan than gold. Check your yellow ink before this one specifically. If you’re low on yellow, save this design for when you’ve restocked — it’s worth doing right.

Christian Girls Bold and Easy Coloring Book – Whole-Week Station Supply

This is a full coloring book, which means it goes in the printer once and covers you for the whole week. Bold outlines, age-appropriate images, pages that actually fit on standard letter paper without weird cropping. I printed the whole thing double-sided and stapled sets for each kid at our station. My three-year-old got through four pages in one sitting, which is roughly three more pages than he usually manages.

The “bold and easy” description is accurate — lines are thick, shapes are simple, nothing requires fine motor skills beyond holding a crayon. One honest thing: it’s a download-and-print file, not a physical book, so you are doing the printing and binding. Build that time into your prep. Thirty copies takes a while.

Whimsical Jesus Clipart – Storyboard and Bulletin Board Station

The art style on this one is soft and illustrated — not realistic, not cartoon, somewhere in between that kids respond to without being distracted by the style itself. I used several of these images to build a felt-board story sequence for the little-kids class. Printed, laminated, stuck velcro on the back. Lasted the whole week without one piece going missing, which is a miracle in the literal sense.

The whimsical style means the images work well on bulletin boards too — large format on a poster printer if your church has one, or tiled across multiple sheets for a banner effect. The file resolution holds up at larger sizes without going pixelated. Check the preview at 200% zoom before printing big — that tells you how it’ll hold up.

20 Whimsical Easter Cross Floral Spring PNGs – Versatile Craft Bundle

Twenty images is genuinely a lot. I used eight of them across two VBS sessions and still have designs left over for Sunday school through October. The Easter cross designs skew spring — pastel florals, soft crosses, nothing that screams one specific holiday — so they work across more of the year than a purely Christmas or Easter bundle would.

Mix and match for different craft stations: one image per kid as a coloring base, a different one as the cover for a simple booklet, a third printed large for the table centerpiece. The variety means no two tables look the same even if you’re using the same source. Watch file naming — twenty PNGs downloaded at once need a few minutes to organize before you start printing or you will absolutely mix them up.

The Lord Is My Shepherd Christian PNG – Psalm 23 Memory Verse Craft

Psalm 23 is the one most kids either already know or will learn in their lifetime, so printing a visual anchor for it is worth doing. This design is clean and readable — scripture text with supporting imagery, nothing cluttered. I printed it as an 8×10 and had kids trace the letters during quiet time, which kept my three-year-old occupied for seven full minutes. A personal record.

The image has a landscape-orientation layout so make sure your print settings match — portrait printing will crop the edges. It’s a small thing but the kind of thing that costs you half an ink cartridge if you don’t catch it on the test print. Landscape. Check the orientation. You’re welcome.

Faith Paper Junk Journal Kit – Background Papers for Mixed-Media Crafts

This is the one I grabbed for my eight-year-old specifically, and then used at the craft station because it turns out kids ages 7-10 go completely feral for junk journaling. Faith-themed background papers, patterned sheets, textures with subtle scripture references — print a set, cut them into strips, let kids collage onto a cardstock base. It’s a legitimately fun craft that doesn’t require much instruction.

Fair warning: this is a kit for mixed-media crafting, not a simple coloring page. It takes more setup time and more materials — scissors, glue sticks, cardstock base sheets. If your station has five minutes per rotation, this is not your file. If you have twenty minutes and kids who like making things, it’s the best option on this list.

Fear Not Trendy Christian PNG – Bold Statement for Older Kids

“Fear Not” is a message that lands across age groups, but this design runs modern — clean sans-serif lettering, high contrast, the kind of thing that would look at home on a tote bag or a water bottle. I used it as a printable for our middle-grade VBS group, who responded much better to this than to anything with soft watercolor florals. They have opinions.

The file exports with good contrast, which means it prints well in grayscale too — useful if your color ink is running low by Wednesday of VBS week, which mine always is. Black-and-white version looks intentional, not like a failed color print. That adaptability is what keeps this one in my regular rotation.

My First Bible Stories Coloring Book – Starter Set for Preschool Station

This coloring book is specifically calibrated for kids who are still learning to stay inside a line — and sometimes choosing not to. Pages are simple. Characters are large. There are no intricate details that require a fine-tip marker. My three-year-old completed an entire page with a single purple crayon and was extremely proud. I was also proud. We both needed a win that day.

Print double-sided and staple or bind with binder clips for an instant take-home booklet. The Bible story sequence gives you a loose narrative structure if you want to walk through it with the group. One honest caveat: the file is a download so you’re assembling and printing — account for that in your prep time, especially if you need 25+ sets.

A Lot Can Happen in 3 Days Easter PNG – Resurrection Week Craft Visual

This phrase gets a laugh from the adults and goes straight over most four-year-olds’ heads, which is fine because the design still works as a bold, readable craft visual for any age. I used it for our resurrection week VBS station and printed it large — 11×14 as a station anchor print — and smaller as individual take-homes. Both worked.

The design is high-contrast with clear text, which means it scales well in both directions. The only issue I ran into was that the file dimensions assume a 4×5 ratio, so if you’re printing on standard 8.5×11 you’ll get white bars top and bottom unless you select “fit to page” in your print settings. Small thing, easy fix, but it looks sloppy if you miss it.

A Few Last Thoughts

The thing about VBS crafts is that the bar is not perfection. It is controlled chaos with a Bible verse attached. My three-year-old once handed back a finished coloring page upside down and told me it was a boat. Fine. He’s not wrong about Noah.

What actually matters is that the files download cleanly, print without turning everything pink when the cyan runs out, and give kids something to bring home that starts a conversation. The “God Is Good” designs work for that. The nativity bundle works for that. Even the junk journal papers — which my eight-year-old immediately claimed for her own journaling — work for that.

If you’re planning VBS stations, I’d suggest grabbing two or three of these now and running test prints before the week hits. Check that your PNG exports are at least 300 DPI before you commit to printing 30 copies. Most of these are, but zoom in on the preview before you buy — some files look great on a screen and go soft on paper. That’s the one honest warning I can give you. Print one sheet. Then print the rest.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What VBS craft printables work best for a Christian Vacation Bible School?

The favorites are simple, fast crafts that a big group of kids can finish in one session, tied to the day's Bible theme. Templates with short supply lists keep volunteer prep realistic during a busy VBS week. Crafts kids can take home help the message travel beyond the church doors.

How do I prep VBS crafts for a large group of kids?

Print the templates in bulk ahead of time, on cardstock where pieces need to hold a shape, and pre-cut tricky parts so stations move quickly. Batching supplies into per-kid kits the night before saves chaos. Always print extra since VBS attendance can swell day to day.

Are these crafts suitable for mixed-age VBS groups?

Most suit a broad preschool-through-elementary range, with more assembly for older kids and pre-cut pieces for the youngest. In mixed stations you can simplify the steps as needed. Check the preview so the craft fits the group you are leading.