The Stations of the Resurrection – Great Focus for the Easter Season

May 9, 2011 By

Have you heard of the Resurrection? They’re also know as “Via Lucis“, “Stations of Light“, or “The Way of the Light“. There are 14 stations, and they the counterpart to the Stations of the Cross. Every station is something that happened between Easter and Pentecost. Here they are:

Stations of the Resurrection (Via Lucis)
1. Jesus Rises From the Dead (Matthew 28:1-10)
2. The Finding of the Empty Tomb (John 20:1-10)
3. The Risen Lord Appears to Mary Magdalene (John 20:11-18)
4. Jesus Appears on the Road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-27)
5. Jesus is Known at the Breaking of Bread (Luke 24:28-35)
6. Jesus Appears to His Disciples in Jerusalem (Luke 24:36-43)
7. Jesus Gives the Disciples the Power to Forgive Sins (John 20:19-23)
8. Jesus Strengthens the Faith of Thomas (John 20:24-29)
9. Jesus Appears by the Sea of Tiberias (John 21:1-14)
10. Jesus Tell Peter to Feed His Sheep (Primacy of Peter) (John 21:15-17, 19b)
11. Jesus Commissions the Disciples on the Mountain (Matthew 28:16-20)
12. Jesus Ascends into Heaven (Acts 1:6-12a)
13. Mary and the Disciples Wait in Prayer (Acts 1:12-14)
14. The Holy Spirit Descends at Pentecost (Acts 2:1-13)

You can go through with prayers for each station (just like
the stations of the cross) and this site has a great set you can
read from for children, and another for teens.
Also, here’s a pdf you can print to go through the stations
(although this one isn’t specifically for kids).
Family at Feast and Feria made a printable set of the

 

On Bookworm you can download some printable
for making a box with symbols for each station!
These could be used in SO MANY WAYS! :-)

 

Remember, it’s still the Easter season until Pentecost! We observed lent for 40 days- we may as well celebrate for all 50 days of the Easter season as well! :-)

I found all these links via 4 Real Forums. Thanks for the great resources, ladies!

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Religious Easter Ideas for Kids- Focusing on the True Meaning of Easter

April 18, 2011 By

We all know that Easter is the most important religious day for Christians, so how do we keep Jesus from getting lost in the Easter bunny shuffle? Or as Amanda says,

How do you make Easter about 
‘The Lamb’ and not ‘The Bunny’?

Here are some ways that we’ve kept Easter religious in a fun way!

Make a Resurrection Set (with free printables!)
Make an Easter Candle with Kids.

 Print my Resurrection Napkin Rings!
Each one includes a piece of the Resurrection
Story to be read by your table guests before eating.

Try these no-bake and easy-to-assemble
empty tomb treats for kids!

More Meaningful Easter Posts:

 The Jelly Bean Prayer Activities and Printables

Now it’s your turn! Use the linky below to link up your Easter posts and share with all of us! :-)

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Religious Easter Craft for Kids — Make a Resurrection Set! {It’s Printable!}

April 15, 2011 By

I’ve been working on something that I’ve had in my head since last Easter, and I’m very excited to reveal it to you today- my new Printable Resurrection Set!

We all put nativity sets out at Christmas time, and I’m not sure why resurrection sets aren’t more popular. So I made a printable version that’s the counterpart to my printable nativity set.

What you need to make your own resurrection set:

  • 10 cardboard tissue tubes (or about 4 paper towel tubes, or like 1 wrapping paper tube)
  • 1 empty (square) tissue box
  • Glue or a stapler
  • Something to color them with (optional)
  • Resurrection Set Printables
  • Scissors

All you do is print the pages provided from this post, color them, cut them out, and glue them around toilet paper tubes.  The cutting is very easy… if you want it to be. For the most part, just cut around the outside lines. If you want something to stick out from the sides (like Jesus’ arms or the angels’ wings) you can cut them out around the edges and let them flap free from the sides of the tubes.

The tomb is cut out and glued to the top of a tissue box. This part could actually stand alone as an empty tomb craft for Easter. The rock and tomb print on the same page. I used a brad to attach our rock so that we can swing it open or closed. I found brads in the scrapbooking section of our craft store. Cut the hole out of the middle of the tomb and glue it over the open hole in your tissue box, and turn it on it’s side. This makes a tomb you can actually place Jesus in.

The cross definitely needs to be cut free, so on that one I provided dotted lines to cut on.

On the cross page, I also provide a Jesus that can go on the cross. The way you use this is to have your children tape Jesus onto the cross on Good Friday at noon. Then at 3, take Him down, place his body in the tomb, and close the stone. On Easter morning, replace Jesus’ body with the empty linen cloths. 
 

The linen cloths can just be folded to stand up and placed inside the tissue box.

I wanted my Resurrection Set to hold up a little longer than our nativity set did, so I painted them with watercolor paints, laminated them from the top with contact paper, and then cut them out. I didn’t laminate them on the backs because they just glued around the cardboard tubes anyway. It would have been easier to attach them in the back with a stapler, but I couldn’t find mine, so I used glue and held them in place with clothes pins until they dried. Now, here are the printables so you can make your own resurrection set!

Free Printable Resurrection Set 
in Black and White
My printable resurrection set includes Risen Jesus, St. Mary Magdalen, Mary the mother of John, St. Peter, 2 Angels, a Tomb with a rock, Linen cloths, 2 Roman soldiers, a Cross, and Crucified Jesus.

Use this set to teach your kids about the Resurrection
You can use this set as an interactive way to teach your kids the story of the Resurrection! If you’d like to use this as a religious Montessori activity for kids, I made a printable resurrection story for kids that you can use. Read the story aloud to your kids while you act it out with the pieces. I have included all the pieces you need for this biblical story. When you’re done teaching with it, use it as a religious Easter mantle display! ;-)

You can also print this Resurrection set for free in Color! 

 I painted this Resurrection sets with watercolors, and scanned them again so I could offer them to all of you already in color as well! (It’s pretty cute to have your kids color them, but sometimes it’s nice to have this option as well.)

The colored set is available on my new special page for those who are subscribers of Catholic Icing! If you’ve already made yourself a friend of Catholic Icing by subscribing, just look to the bottom of this post in your reader or email, and you’ll find a link to the “Subscriber Bonus Page”. If you’d like to print the colored Resurrection set for free, but are not yet a subscriber, no problem! Subscribe here, or by entering your email address into the box below. After entering your email address, an email will be rushed to your inbox with access to the Subscriber bonus page!

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These pages are my own artwork and are free for any not-for-profit use by individuals, families, or educational organizations. Copies may not be sold, reproduced for profit, or published by anyone but me. If you’d like to post this calendar for others to find, I would ask that you link to my post and rather than my individual downloads because their location may change. When printing or running copies, please do not remove my website from the bottom of the page. Thanks!

Linking this up at Tatertots and Jello and A Holy Experience.
 

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Craft an Easter Candle with Kids

April 13, 2011 By

Making an Easter candle (also known as a Paschal Candle) to use at home can be a great religious Easter tradition for your family! The ones we made were made were super easy to do, and I used candles from the Dollar Tree, so this project seriously only cost us $1.

 

These are so much easier to make than it first appears! 

  1. Scratch your design onto the candle with a dull pencil.
  2. Let you kids paint on it however they see fit.
  3. Wipe the candle with a baby wipe.
  4. Your design is complete! :-)

Easter candles can have all kinds of symbols. It seems they mostly commonly have a cross with the year written around it. We also have a Paschal lamb on the back of ours. Some other things you could try would be an alpha and omega, wheat and grapes… all kinds of stuff really!

 
Also, poke some holes in each end of the cross and one in the middle to insert cloves. I actually had real cloves this year, but last year I didn’t so we just stuck in some grains of brown rice. The cloves are inserted like nails, and there are 5 of them to represent the 5 wounds of Christ.
I actually love the color variation this painting technique creates!

I was trying to come up with a religious Easter craft to use with my preschool class, and thought that making Paschal candles would be perfect! It went even better than I thought it would! I scratched the design into their candles ahead of time, poked the holes for the cloves, and they took it from there. (We used washable tempera paints).

 Didn’t they come out nice? The kids in my class
are only 2 years old!

When to light your Easter Candle at home:
The Catholic church lights the Paschal candle through the whole season of Easter (so from Easter Sunday through Pentecost Sunday), and also at baptisms and funerals. We plan on lighting ours at dinner each night during the Easter season.- all 50 days! :-)
Don’t Miss a Chance to Teach your Kids!
After making your Easter candle, take it to mass and have the priest bless it for you! Also, take them to the front of the church and show them the really big Easter candle there. Easter is almost here! :-)
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