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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.
There are 3 ways you can make this craft:
- Print on paper and glue around toilet paper tubes (or cut paper towel or wrapping paper tubes)
- Print on card stock, cut, and staple into a tube
- Print on paper and staple into a tube. They won’t be super sturdy but it will still work.
Supplies Needed To Make This Resurrection Set:
- TP tubes, card stock, or paper
- 1 empty tissue box
- Glue or a stapler
- Something to color 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.
You can see here how the arms cut loose and it wraps around the toilet paper tube.
And here is Jesus from the front.
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 its side. This makes a tomb you can actually place Jesus in.
- Risen Jesus
- St. Mary Magdalen
- Mary the mother of John
- St. Peter, 2 Angels
- a Tomb with a rock
- Linen cloths
- 2 Roman soldiers.
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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 in Color!
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The black and white set is free for Catholic Icing Weekly Newsletter Subscribers!
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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!
Do you prefer to just buy the Resurrection set instead? The paid version has the resurrection set in color!
You can purchase it right now for just $3.00. There will be an immediate download pop-up, as well as an email with a link to download that will arrive just a bit after your purchase.
I also have a printable resurrection peg doll set, so be sure to check that out, too!
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Make it about the lamb, not the bunny!
Thanks so much for sharing your time and talents with us Lacy! You rock!
this is the cutest thing…
this is sooo great! thank you!
I love this. I will probably end up making it tonight. I have been looking to make something like this for th last couple of weeks. Thank you for making it so easy.
This is wonderful, as usual, Lacy! We have a set in Fontanini, but this would be wonderful for each boy to have his own. And for my next year's retreat I'm already bookmarking! Perfect!!!!!! Thank you!!!!
I absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this! You did such a fantastic job and I can't wait to make this with my kids!
This is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this with us.
Lacy, you've wowed me again! Thank you so very much for ministering to all of us moms in such a great and meaningful way! We will DEFINITELY be making this.
This is so amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this with us. God bless you.
You amaze me. This is awesome! Thanks for sharing; I know what we are crafting during Holy Week! I can't wait to share this… I am such a Catholic Icing junkie.
This is a great set. Thanks for sharing your creativity with us by providing the templates
Thank you!! This is AWESOME!!! I admit sometimes your blog overwhelms me because I lack your organizational abilities, but your ideas are fabulous!!! You seriously should compile a book for Catholics!!
I can't draw for my life-you sharing your gift with me so that I can minister to my kids is only the start of the ripple effect. I am so glad to have found you because you make it easy and fun for me to share our faith with my kids and with others. I tell everyone about you!! Keep up your amazing ministry!!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!!!! I am going to print this one off and get my boys to help me make it. They have been very interested in learning about the Ressurection this year!
This is so cute and educational too! You go girl!!!
((hugs))
Thanks Lacy! I love this! Once again you have out done yourself!
~Stacy
Wow, Lacy,
This is a beautiful set. Thanks so much for sharing! I love the detail and the use of the rolls and the kleenex box. Great work!
Is anyone having trouble printing this? I can pull it up but everytime I go to print I get an error?
Thanks for any help!
~stacy
Your blog is wonderful! Thanks for sharing your talents!
Peace~ Allison
LOVE IT! Thank you so much, I can't wait to do this with the kids during the Octave. (This will give me just enough time to save up some toilet paper rolls :). Blessings, Lisa
These are wonderful! I agree with you that resurrection sets should be more popular. It's great to have something to kids (and adults) to see the story. Thank you so much for sharing.
I LOVE this idea and mentioned it in an article on Holy Week celebrations on my blog. I linked back here, and also to your Last Supper craft. Would love it if you come say hello over at Joyful Mama's Place sometime!
Absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!!! Thank you so very much!!!
This is the best thing EVER!
Thank you so much for the download!
Beautiful!! Great tool for Easter Sunday Lacy!! I just post it about it in my blog!! Have a blessed Holy Week!
Thank you. Thank you thank you thank you!
I just finished making this for my daughter. Thank you. Thank you. I just posted about it.
Ahh! Lacy!!! You have got to make the coolest stuff ever!!! Thank you so much for posting all of your time, talent, and treasure. We Catholic families are benefiting from your stewardship!
God Bless and may you have a wonderful Holy Week!!!
Thank you Lacy!
GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR.LOS NIÑOS DISFRUTAN MUCHO AL VER QUE HACEN COSAS COMO OTROS QUE COMPARTEN NUESTRA MISMA FE A MUCHOS KILOMETROS.ES UNA FORMA DE HERMANAR NUESTRAS FAMILIAS.
I love this! I'm planning on doing the prep work and having the kids in our nursery rooms do this on Sunday. Thanks so much for sharing your talent with us! 🙂
I just completed this craft with our 8 & 5 year old — the 8-year-old was wanting to conduct one of the occasional "sacrifice classes" he conducts for the family & this was the perfect craft. Thank you also for the idea about clear contact paper. The set-up looks terrific. Especially in the watercolors.
Thank you for this wonderful craft! I laminated the set for longevity and found that the plastic is sturdy enough to stand on its own without a paper roll – they also look lovely when the light shines through them.
Lacy,
In your spare time, you could be a children's book illustrator. Beautiful!
Mireya
This is remarkable. What an adorable little project. I will be doing this tomorrow with my kindergardener. How sweet. It is so nice of you to make and offer this to all of us for free. What a blessing!
Have a blessed Easter week!
Lora
Thank you, thank you for sharing your talents and ideas with all of us, who just mooch off your awesomeness. 🙂 Happy Triduum!
Once again, you've created a wonderful and beautiful tool. Thank you so much for sharing your talents with us. God has given you a great gift and I think that we are all blessed that you share so as to build up His Church.
It's a rainy day here in NY, so we are coloring our eggs and these pages! Thank you so much, my 8, 5, and 2 year old are so excited for this!
We really enjoyed this activity. Thanks! Happy Easter!
This is exactly what I was hoping to find to retell the Easter story and have it on display in the homes of the families of the children in our Faith Formation program.
It is awesome and reinforces what we teach about Easter.
Happy Easter season!
Alleluia!!!
Thank you for sharing your wonderful, God-given talents with the rest of us.
God Bless.
This is such a cool activity and a welcome addition to any Catholic (or Christian) home.
Thank you!!! We prepared a set of "characters" as part of our Good Friday activities. We made a tomb last year out of chicken wire and paper mache (wow, was that an undertaking!) and this was the perfect project to compliment that. It would be great if you could add more people for next year. The kids like acting out the whole story. You could go nuts – Mary the Mother of God, Pilate, Caiaphas and the missing apostles would be excellent. Thanks so much for sharing your talents!
We also made the resurrection rolls and had the napkin holders at breakfast – you really were the icing on our Catholic cake! 🙂
this is just the perfect activity for my third grade kids 🙂
im plaaning to make a 3D poster with the cut outs during our class!
Thank you!!
Thank you so much! This will be perfect for my class!
Léa
You did a great job on this, I love it!
OH my GOSH!! This toilet paper roll resurrection scene is sooo cute! I’ll definitely be making this for easter. Thought I’d even make Jesus using the bigger type of paper roll (the kitchen one) and perhaps put a few led lights behind the tomb opening to boost the effect of it all.
Thank you so much for your heavenly ideas. I’ll most definitely be catholicicing very soon.
Lacy, just wanted to say “well done”!! My five year old son has to complete an Easter Craft project and present it to the class. I googled “Easter craft for kids” and let him look through all the images that came up to pick his project……. I was knocked for a six, when he chose your Resurrection Scene, based upon the image of Jesus on the Cross!! It is a beautiful project for him to complete and I have printed the story for his teacher to read to the children as well. I am really proud of him for choosing something with the true Easter meaning! It is 1.30pm on a Saturday and he is in the kitchen colouring in his “people” – thank you Lacy, I will be passing your website details onto his teacher.
Janine
Hi, I tried to download the colored templates, but when I click the subscribe button, it directed to page error. Could you please help me. Thanks a lot, I can’t wait to print this out for my students.
Hi again, I managed to print the colored ones. Sorry for this.
*Greetings from Myanmar*
Lol! No problem! 😉
Found you via pintrest and just love this project! Thank you so much for sharing your time and your talent!!
Ya, I love Pinterest. 🙂
I love this take on the resurrection set. Thank you for sharing your gifting with others. We love these kind of printable crafts.
Blessings,
~Ruthie~
Thank you so much for sharing! Just finished preparing them and looking forward to do the display in class.
Yes thank you! Had the best time talking about the empty tomb with 4 year-olds this morning as we colored and assembled # 8 here in Florida.
Dear Lacy: Thanks soooo much for the Resurrection Set! I love it…especially the painted one…the colours are soft and gentle. What a good idea! why not have a Resurrection Set just as we have nativity Sets. I am an Anglican priest and plan to use this on Easter Morning to tell the children the story. Then they can make their own! Thanks for this and for all your wonderful creative, easy and fun ideas! it makes me smile!
Thank you so much for this … the exact thing I was looking for!!! My Yr 3/4 catechist class will love it when I produce this coloured set and tell them the story with it : ) You’re a very talented artist!
Lacy, this is marvelous as always!! Thank you so much for this wonderful Resurrection Set. I especially appreciate the color version. Since my kids don’t love coloring, like I thought all kids did, that is frequently where our crafts get stalled. I recommend your crafts to EVERYONE, Catholic or not.
Thankful that God has led me to such an awesome idea! It is hard to find a good Easter activity to do with my AWANA group that is based on the real reason for the season and not the bunny stuff! Thanks sister in Christ!
Aw, so sweet! Glad you found the Resurrection set. 🙂
Thanks SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much. This is an awesome teaching tool for young children.
Thanks for this. I’ve been looking for something “good” and think this is great!
Dear Lacy,
Thanks so much for this resource. I am a Methodist minister in New Zealand, and plan to use this to speak with the children in my church on Easter Sunday. We also have a daycare centre for pre-school children, and I have used a Christmas nativity set with them before, so I know they will love this Resurrection set. It is so helpful to have something tangible to help the children understand and also remember what Easter is really about.
I love this set you’ve created and am so thankful to have it as a visual for my 4 year old! But, I need help with page 7 …… I don’t know what to do with the cloth with the imprinted face nor how to make the cement slab/bench stand up like you show in your picture.
You just fold yourself a flap at the bottom and tape it. Nothing complicated. 🙂
Okay I need help, please ma’am. 🙂 I subscribed last year, but can’t find how to print these in color. I tried to resubscribe and it wouldn’t let me. Can you help me? I’m sure I am just missing something…
If you’re subscribed by email, every email you get with a new post has a link at the bottom to the subscriber bonus page.
Love your crafts. Thank you so much for sharing them! Any chance for some masculine angels?
So many projects, so little time. Doubt I’ll be “re-doing” this one anytime soon. 😉
Having so much fun with the stations of the cross and the resurrection cut outs! Your reward in heaven will be great for helping to teach little ones about God!
Thank you,
Christine
I subscribed and have the link for the colored Resurrection set, but it just says error every time. Is there anyway you can send me the links. I would love to do them with my kids. They loved doing the nativity on at Christmas. Great ideas!!!!!!
Thanks,
Candi
Just fixed it. Sorry for the trouble! 🙂
Hello!
Thank you very, very much for your wonderful crafts. I started to make the resurrection set yesterday to take to church but ran out of time so will be taking it today. Thank you so very, very much for sharing your wonderful things.
Rosemary.
You have such great ideas. I happen to be new to your site. I just printed out the Easter Ressurection Set earlier in the week and put it together last night. Through reading scripture from Mark’s gospel I saw in Mary 15:25 that Jesus was crucifed in the third hour. And if you look a little further Mark 15:33 it states “At the sixth hour darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour” So, based on scripture, Jesus was cruicified at 9:00 AM and was taken down from the cross at 3:00. I bring this up because I think its vital that we teach our children what is based in the Bible. Also I noted that you have 2 female angles in your set, however in the bible it clearly states in Mark 16:5 ” As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side and they were not alaramed.” Adding a male angle to your set would be a great addition. I just wanted to point these two things out to you in hopes that you may consider these things in future posts. God bless
In Christ’s love
Amy
It is very traditional for Catholics to be somber from the hours of noon to 3 on Good Friday. You can read about it here: http://www.fisheaters.com/customslent14.html Hours weren’t as established back then as they are now, but observing these hours of Jesus suffering on the cross is certainly a beautiful thing to do with your family. Certainly feel free to observe whichever hours you like. Also, it is harder to paint a “masculine” angel than you might think. Trust me when I say I’m doing my best! 🙂
I have also wondered why we have nativity play sets for kids, Noah’s Ark sets & such, and nothing for Easter!!!!! I was wanting to make my own set for the past years, but did manage to buy one for cheap to display only…… But watching how my son is so involved in PLAYING with our wooden nativity set, I just was overjoyed when I found your printable one! I used your printable nativity for my sunday school class too– kids from unchurched, single-parent families who’ve never had nativity sets available to them. Just a priceless resource!!!!!!!!!! An answer to my prayers. I’ve wanted to have my son be able to “relive” Holy Week and this will make it possible! (Now all I need…… is a TRAVELING Mary & Joseph since I have them travel the house & arrive at the manger scene Christmas Eve (my son waking up in the morning to discover Jesus is born!!!. Also need a “Triumphant Entry” Jesus on a donkey/colt too…. maybe you have one I didn’t see yet…..). THANK YOU & THANKS BE TO GOD!!!
Oh– one other comment, maybe already made here before… I didn’t do the work to put these on toilet paper rolls– I found it MUCH easier to just print these on CARD STOCK paper!!!
What a WONDERFUL idea – a Resurrection set! I’m going to tell my friends about this and about your website! I’m so glad I clicked on the bloggerhood link on Webkinz News/Parenthood Club. Thank you!! Have a blessed Resurrection Sunday!
My 4YO LDS (Mormon) Primary class really liked this. I pre-cut the figures, then asked the class to color them. I stapled them into the tube-like figures, and used them to tell the events of the first Easter. The children were excited for the puppet show with the puppets they helped create.
Thank you for sharing this!
Lacy,
Can’t seem to get safari to let me print. I can get the b&w to view but when I try to print it yells at me! Any one else have this problem? Hoping to do a mass week with LO this week.
Thanks,
Sara
Maybe try another browser. Not sure what’s wrong.
I am trying to print the crucifix Jesus for my Catholic ABCs craft; every time I click the link it sends me to a Google documents sign in page. I don’t remember having to sign in there when I printed it last Easter. Do I have to sign up with Google documents to get the print outs?
That is so weird! Try my new easy printing page for Catholic ABC’s: http://www.catholicicing.com/easy-printing/
I love this and have been waiting eagerly (and rather impatiently) for a new post so I can get the link to print the beautiful colored version. Thanks so much for this!
I love this site. It’s very resourceful.
Just love this. I was wondering how you place the bed in the tomb and what to do with the face on the same page?
I just taped it in. You can also place the shroud in the tomb however you want.
I cannot thank you enough for all of the wonderful printables! I spent last night printing everything needed for the Resurrection Story and your ebook of Saints. My students are so excited too!!! I am so happy to have found your blog. You are so creative and generous for sharing everything. I placed your button on my blog so I will always have easy access. Thank you again!!!!!!!
Darleen
Third Grade Love
THANK YOU VERY MUCH – it`s really great
This is so cool! I am going to use this with my class this Easter. Thank you for sharing your creativity that God gave you! My class will absolutely love it! Thank you again and have a Blessed Easter!
You have made my Easter season. This handout it adorable and a wonderful reminder of the greatest thing that happened on this year. You are most generous to share this. I will be using this in my 6-7 year old class on Sunday and it has been displayed for two weeks on my mantelpiece. Everyone who comes in comments on how sweet it is. You are touching the lives of many. Again, thanks.
Found this on pinterest a few days ago. Just printed it out and hope to have time to get it colored and ready for my kids for Easter and to use with the 5 year olds I teach on Sundays. So wonderful to see something non-bunny for Easter! I may try mounting them on cardstock or something as well since I don’t know if we’ll go through enough TP this coming week 🙂 Thanks for sharing these for all of us who are trying to keep the focus of Easter where it belongs – on Christ 🙂
Fabulous resource! My kids loved the story and colouring project! God bless you and thanks for sharing your gifts! 🙂
Thank you for this fun printable. I love your Nativity set as well, but I could’t save enough toilet paper rolls in time 🙂 My 5 year old loved doing this, and now we will keep it on display in our living room.
You can see how she colored them here: torresfamilyadventures.blogspot.com/2013/04/easter.html
They are the first and last pictures in my Easter post.
Muchas gracias desde México. Nosotros somos un centro de catecismo, y buscando algo para que a los niños y niñas se les haga más fácil comprender el tema de la Resurrección, encontramos esto, que hasta a nosotros nos llamó gratamente la atención. Muchas felicidades a la persona o personas que lo realizaron, Dios les ha bendecido con una gran habilidad, ingenio e inteligencia; es maravilloso que los pongan al servicio de los hermanos. El Señor Resucitado les siga bendiciendo día con día.
Thank you for the printable! This is my 2nd grade class’s Resurrection Set: http://hid-tan.kreativcuccok.hu/2013/04/09/mennek-az-asszonyok/
God bless!
Janka from Hungary
Since I am a terrible planner and had no tubing or empty tissue boxes I used card stock to make all of these and it worked wonderfully. God bless you for all you do!
I love this. Always wished you could get an Easter Nativity. I downloaded it to work on this week with my kids but page number 5 with the soldiers was blank. No picture. I would love to have them and thought you might like to now.
Just click “download” and then open in Adobe reader. They are there. 🙂
I am going to make the clay tomb with my kindergarten
Sunday school and use the Jesus and angel figure to go with it.
Thank you for these great ideas.
Great idea!
3 years later and it’s still sought after! 🙂 This is such a wonderful thing to add to our Easter weekend. We will start today on Good Friday by having the kids cut and color, then we’ll laminate. I am going to add a little twist by having them take a branch off of our thorny bush outside, so we can make a crown, and we will use actual fabric pieces for the tomb.
Thank you so very much for sharing your talents and creating such a great craft for Jesus’ death and resurrection!
Wishing you a blessed Easter,
From,
Not a Catholic, but a Christian follower of Christ
These are fabulous! Thank you!
I just want to say thank-you for all of the children’s hearts that you touch in this ministry. It is obvious that God is using you and your gifts to help children understand the meaning of His Word. I am truly blessed by your website and so are the many children who attend Windwood Presbyterian Church.
Happy to hear it! God bless. 🙂
This is an absolutely great thing I am going to use in my classroom!
Lots of thanks from Romania!
God help us all!
very nice…thank you for the colored version. The solider’s knees shaking is a great touch. Love it. The boys will also. Thank you so very much
I’m using your Easter Resurrection set this time for my own kids and my kindergarten religious ed class. I printed it on card stock and just stapled them without the tp.roll. It’s so cute and everyone is going to love it. Thank you again!
Hi Lacy, I have subscribed and hit the Subscriber bonus page, but it still won’t allow me to gain access to the free Printable Resurrection Set in color. Are you able to send it to me via email in order to download it?
Done. 🙂
Thank you for the colored printables. I am excited to use them to tell the Easter story in the play time group I help run in our local community. We have usually around a dozen families from the local community come along with their children aged from birth to 4 years old each week. Am glad I found your website and thanks again.
Yay! So happy you found it helpful. God bless!
What a great idea! I also want to thank you for all your free ideas and printables. I teach religious education and I use my own money to inspire the kids with religious trinkets like medals, bracelets and arts and crafts etc. I have used many of your ideas. Thank you for allowing me to spread The faith in an affordable way.
Hey Lacy,
I love your materials. I’m trying to download the colored version of the Resurrection set even after subscribing, but I cannot access it. Is there a way you can email it directly to me?
Thanks for your help.
Stay Healthy!
Hi Jeannine –
Only the black and white version is free for subscribers now. If you would like the color version, you can get it here: https://shop.catholicicing.com/product/resurrection-set-color/ (that link is also in the post, but it could be easy to overlook it so I wanted to include it here for you as well)
Angie, Catholic Icing Project Manager
Cannot find any big pink arrow nor way to print the resurrection set (tube version). Please help!
Lisa –
Here is information about how to access the subscriber page: https://www.catholicicing.com/how-to-access-the-catholic-icing-subscriber-bonus-page/
Angie, Catholic Icing Project Manager
Hi
I’ve just found this page it’s fab
I have subscribed and got the password
I was able to print the nativity scene at Christmas love it Thank You but I don’t seem to be able to print off the resurrection set at all
Can you help please
thanks
Jacquie
Hi Jacquie –
You’ll need to get that set on the subscriber page. Just look for the picture of it there and you’ll find seven links for it – one for each page.
Angie, Catholic Icing Project Manager