Summary of Easter resources
Here are some Lent and Easter resources to share with you, pulled together by Jane. Grab some new ideas or store away for another year:
BRF Lent and Easter resources
- Easter Family Time – An Easter minibook gift to give to Messy Church families. Multiple copies offer.
- Creative Ideas for Lent and Easter – 80 seasonal ideas for children which can easily be adapted for people of all ages
- Celebrating Festivals – Readings, reflections, crafts and prayer activities for 20 major church festivals
- Family Fun for Easter PDF download – 30 Lent and Easter activities for families to share
- Lent reading – A selection of books suitable for reading during Lent – as gifts? For Messy teams?
Messy downloads £0.99 each
- New life in Jesus (Easter) – Unit 11 Messy Church 1
- Lent – Unit 6 Messy Church 2
- Spring festivals – Unit 7 Messy Church 2
Free Messy downloads
Stories from our website
- Mardi Gras fun
- Who moved the egg?
- Easter family journey
- The first Falklands Easter Messy Church
- Messy treasure hunt
- Easter journey in Suffolk
- Messy Maundy
Celebration time ideas from the BRF Children and Families website
- Lent – Cross (1) The Ash Wednesday Cross
- Decision time
- Jesus’ temptations – a reflective story
- Messy Church in Lent
- Temptations rap
- Easter presentation through punctuation marks
- Easter presentation through noughts and crosses
- Palms for Holy Week
- Lots more great ideas – Make a big pot of tea! There are so many more great ideas here!
Faith in Homes
- Making a pattern of your year in your home
- BRF Faith in Homes Lent and Easter ideas
Messy Church logos to download
Pinterest ideas
- BRF Messy Church Pinterest – Lent and Easter board with over 60 pins
- Kids Friendly NZ – Lent and Easter
Miscellaneous resources and links
- Going For Growth Lent and Easter crafts
- Friends and Heroes ‘Remember Me’ Easter song video
- The Big Pancake Party
- Baker Ross Easter activities including Holy Week crafts. Remember your Voucher Code BRF15 for 15% discount!
- Lent Event (Aus)
- 40acts challenge (UK)
- The Children’s Society The Story of Lent
- WaterAid Lent Appeal 2017
Video clips
- Lent in Two Minutes
- Bible Society Easter Story Animations