I’ve been working on a craft here, and I’m so excited to share it with all of you today! It’s a Last Supper craft for Holy Thursday, and it’s based on the famous Leonardo da Vinci Last Supperpainting. Here’s a picture of the completed project:
Now, here’s the beauty- this is super easy to do, and I’m going to tell you how to make one yourself! All you need are my printables (provided below) and 2 egg cartons! Well, I guess you also need crayons, scissors, and glue 
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How to make your own:
1. Take 2 egg cartons, and cut off the lids.
2. Snip slits in one carton just before the last 2 cups.
3. Overlap 2 sets of cups and fit together with the slits.
4. When you’re sure you have them fitting right, secure them with glue.
This will leave you with “one” long egg carton with 11 cups across.
5. Print, color, and cut out my downloads (scroll down for downloads).
6. Glue one person to each upside down egg carton cup. You may have to cut them a little shorter than I drew them depending on the egg cartons you’re using. Glue them all across the front side of the back row, and make sure the 2 tall ones go on the ends. See the picture:
Need to know what order to glue them in? If you want them to match the da Vinci painting, match their names from the coloring pages to the order he painted them in:
7. Color and cut out the table from my printables (scroll down for downloads) and fold them in half along the dotted line. Adjust the length needed for your egg cartons, and glue the “table” on across the tops and front of the egg carton cups. The table will print in 2 pieces- you have to piece them together.
This would also be a great craft to go with a first communion lesson, and we all know first communion is coming up! - The apostles are all reacting, but Christ is the calm in the midst of the storm.
- There are many symbols of the trinity in the painting- 3 windows behind Jesus, Jesus’ arms make him the shape of a triangle, and the apostles are all seated in groups of 3.
- In the first group of 3, the apostles all seem surprised- Andrew to the point that his hands are in a “stop” gesture. Bartholomew has stood up so quickly his legs are still crossed.
- Peter is holding a knife, foreshadowing his upcoming violence at the garden of Gethsemane.
- Judas is holding a bag- symbolizing the bag of silver he will betray Jesus for. His face is utter shock at Jesus’ knowledge of his plan.
- John seems to be “swooning”. The most asked picture about this painting is “Why does John look that way?”
- Doubting Thomas, with his finger in the air, indeed looks doubtful!
- James the greater seems stunned with his arms in the air, while Philip seems to request an explination.
- Matthew and Jude both look to Simon for an explanation, while he seems unable to provide one.
To learn more about this painting (either for your own knowledge or a more in-debth lesson) go here.
Lacy, you are amazing!!! Thanks for another great project!
Oh, my gosh! This is WONDERFUL!!!!!!!
I'm always so impressed by your projects.
Seton's Art 1 for Young Catholics provides the same craft only with a different table. We have done this craft almost every year, using some wood purchased from Joanns for the table. A picture of Seton's figures can be seen here.
Wow!
I know it's a fabulous project when my children beg to do it NOW!
My son is out looking for egg cartons now
This is adorable. I'm sure my 8 year old will want to do this craft!
I love this craft and the combined art lesson. All three of my girls can help with this. Thanks for sharing:)
Oh my goodness!! This is incredible!
I want to be like Lacy when I grow up! 
What a great idea! I think we'll be seeing you in the bookstores someday. Good stuff.
Your completed project is fabulous. Super idea!
Thanks so much! I will save this to use as part of Da Vinci artist study.
This is a WONDERFUL Holy Thursday craft … thanks!
I saw this idea in a book somewhere and thought it would be a great writing project to add to this craft: Have your child make themselves to add to the Last Supper table and then write about what they would have said, felt, thought, done, etc.
Thank you so much for your great ideas! I used your Pretzel Card with my students today. They colored them while the pretzels were baking. It's a great keepsake for Lent!
Thank you for this great craft! I now know why I have been saving egg cartons all month! Our picture study this month is The Last Supper….I love when everything "works".
Happy and Holy Triduum and Easter!
Lynn
Did this Today and my kids loved it, I posted with a link thanks for all you do!
Lacy, I thought this would make a good craft for the feast of St. Pius X, who is known as the Pope of the Eucharist. Unfortunately, it is listed as part of the Scribd Archive, so I have to pay a fee to download and print it. Any chance you can send it to me?
Scribd is now charging for downloads. (That stinks.) Any possibility you could send these to me or move them to another free site.
I use HSlaunch.com, a file sharing site especially for homeschoolers. It is totally free to use and to download from.
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I love this project and would love to do it, but have been unable to download the pictures of the apostles. When i click the link, it takes me to another page where I am unable to access the images. I would gladly pay for them, if I could figure out how! Any way you can email them to me? My class is next Monday and I already have my egg cartons
Thank you! Carolan
I did this project with my 8 year old step-daughter. We loved it and the project gave a us a perfect chance to talk about what was happening at the time the picture was 'taken'. What was this one or that one saying when Our Lord said someone was to betray him??
Thank you! This is a one-hit wonder! I thought no-one would have a Davinci Last Supper craft, and this is the first thing that came up and it's wonderful! My davinci fan 3rd grader is psyched. Being a Presbyterian church educator, I haven't run into your site before, but I'm a Catholic crafts fan now! Thanks a lot–this is a worthwhile craft that will interest and teach at many levels.
I forgot about this craft. I save all my egg cartons, and with a Lenten/Holy Week homeschool retreat I'm planning, this might be one of my crafts!
This is a great craft! Thank you so much for sharing this.
Thank You! I used your idea with my 3-rd graders, and it was awesome!
Hi Lacy: I'm Cecy from Los Angeles, I'm catechist in St Clare Parish, I would like to share the Last Supper craft with my children but i have problems with the downloads. Could you please send me the downloads? Thank you so much and God Bless You. Email: cecibravo22@hotmail.com
I would love to make this project with my 2nd grade First Communion class. But I can't get the pictures to download. Can anyone help! Thank you
Cathy- send me an email to lacy {at} catholicicing {dot} com and I'll email you the files.
Thank you! We will definitely be doing this next week.
You inspired me!! I created a Easter Story scene for the empty tomb. Come see what we are doing! http://www.holiday-kids-crafts.com/EasterStoryPrintables.html
Lacy, you rock! I know that if I need something Liturgical, I can always come here and you have the right thing for me to use with the kids!
So I wanted to share what happened to me, lol, with my dear 6 year old. I tried doing this craft but he decided to challenge daVinci, lol….I blogged about it because it really was very cute (his thinking)…I just love the simplicity that children bring to the faith… Here is the post: http://raisinglittlesaints.blogspot.com/2011/04/six-year-olds-take-on-da-vincis-last.html
Again, thank you for sharing with us! Blessings, Erika
GOODAY!
I am from Australia and a scripture teacher. Thankyou for this inspirational idea. Keep up the blessed work.
This is awesome! I am using it as a craft in for my teacher in Sunday School – thank you so much for sharing! I am also going to use it with my kids at home….love these creative ideas!
Thank you so much. I’m from Fiji teaching Catechism in Dubai, this is great. Keep it up! God bless x
This is amazing! Thank you so much for providing this easy to do learning session for my students.
This is amazing! You are very talenented.
A friend introduced me to your site and I now follow it in my blogger feed.
I am now teaching Faith Formation at my church to preschool/kindergarteners. Your site has made my lesson planning so easy and fun for the kids! I really appreciate all you do!
THANK YOU! and GOD BLESS!
Just completed the Last Supper craft with my kindergarten class. It turned out great! Easy enough for the students and we completed it one class period. Thanks!
Thank you so much for sharing this! I am a teacher in the UK and was desperately looking for something fun to do with my 8-10 year olds about the Last supper! Your craft is awesome!!!! Really looking forward to doing it tomorrow!
We are doing this for 120 students that will be having their First Communion in April. We are having a retreat for them at church this Saturday the 24th. Along with a skit of the Last Supper where we will be sharing bread and wine with the students and their parents …thank you for sharing this with our director and I shared it with my friends on Face book.
Even a non-Catholic like me is just blown away by your projects. Your crafts are not only fun and super cool, but really teach the kids – something that is not always done with Christian crafts. I am bookmarking!
Lacy,
I wanted to do the Last Supper with my Second Graders but I can’t find the copies I had. I also can’t print them out from the website. Can you help?
I just tried the download links and they are working. Maybe try again?
Great! I made up this wonderful piece of art with my catechism pupil, they loved it, and in the end they were able to remember the names of ALL the apostles. Thank you!!!
love, love, love!!!!!!
I blogged about you craft @ my blog
http://funwithlearning44.blogspot.com/
check it out.
You’re so sweet! Thanks for linking!
Thanks so much for all your great stuff!
Our family had SO much fun doing this craft! We finally figured out how to print the downloads (saving as a PDF file first), and even though we had a bit of trouble with the sizing it turned out beautifully. All four of our girls worked together–without arguing!–at the dining room table while I cooked the unleavened bread in the kitchen. This undoubtedly will become a yearly Holy Thursday tradition in our home. THANK YOU!
Hopefully just fixed the download problems. So glad you had a good time with this!
Thank you for this outstanding project. I teach two grade levels of CCD . This will be a great project for our lessons on the Mass and the Triduum. Thank you so much. Blessings:)
So creative – added a link to this in my blog (hope you don’t mind!). I focused on creating a menu similar to what Jesus and his disciples *could* likely have eaten at the Last Supper. Our parish does Holy Thursday dinners, and we will be using this antiqued menu project as our inspiration! http://enterundermyroof.blogspot.com/2013/03/activity-create-take-home-last-supper.html